Pomeroy Building Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Pomeroy Building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Salem Downtown State Street-Commercial Street Historic District. The following information has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 100002368
- Date Listed
- September 28, 2001
- Name
- Salem Downtown State Street-Commercial Street Historic District
- Other Names
- Salem Downtown Historic District
- Address
- Roughly bounded by Ferry, High, Chemeketa, and Fronts Sts.
- City/Town
- Salem
- County
- Marion
- State
- Oregon
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; COMMERCE; SOCIAL HISTORY; ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION
Description
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379-383 State Street Classification: Historic Contributing (Listed as a Local Landmark) Historic Name: Pomeroy Building Current Name: MaValise/Coiffeure Year ofConstruction: c. 1860/1926 Legal Description: 073W27AB06400; Salem Addition from Lot 4 in Block 33 Owner: Charles Zawell
This is a two-story unreinforced brick building covered with stucco, scored to simulate stone. The primary facade (south-facing) has three medallions equally spaced across the facade. The second-story fenestration is comprised of two window bays, each with two one-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows. Each window bay is surmounted with a bas-relief arch that continues into bay surrounds. Within each bay is a pilaster with rope ornamentation that separates the two windows.
Multiple arched transom windows provide illumination for ground-floor spaces. The ground floor is divided into two equal shop spaces, each with a central recessed door. Display windows trimmed in marble and ornate woodwork date from a 1926 remodeling. This building retains its historic integrity and contributes to the downtown district.
History
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Pomeroy Building contributes to an understanding and appreciation of the evolving history of commercial developments in the downtown historic district. It has retained substantial architectural integrity since its 1926 remodel and is associated with the lives of several tenants who contributed to legal developments in the capital city. When originally built around 1860 (according to the Oregon Inventory of Historic Properties, 1993), this building served as a rooming house.
In 1925 Charles T. Pomeroy (a jeweler) and A.A. Keene purchased this property. A Portland carpenter and cabinetmaker remodeled the facade in accordance with plans prepared by Pomeroy and Keene, transforming the architectural style into Commercial. As of June 1993, Pomeroy's daughter, Audrey, was managing the jewelry store.
Earlier tenants in the building included Miller Hayden of the Real Silk Hosiery Company (he later became a lawyer and state district judge); Fred Binyon, insurance agent and notary public (later to serve as an assistant attorney general attached to the Oregon State Insurance Department for seventeen years); and attorney C.F. Gillette (also city attorney for Monmouth, Oregon).
