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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:12390 Sunnyview Rd SE historic name:Geer, R C, Farmhouse
Salem vcty, Marion County current/other names:R C Geer Fruit Farm; Geercrest
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:7S 1W 21
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):2.0 total elig resources:2 total inelig resources:5
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:c.1848 second date:c.1900 date indiv listed:02/12/1980
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:site includes house and multiple outbuildings
second orig use:
primary style: Federal prim style comments:w/Classical Revival influence
secondary style: Vernacular sec style comments:
primary siding: Horizontal Board siding comments:
secondary siding: Wood:Other/Undefined
plan type: Central Passage architect:Dunbar, Rice (Attr)
builder:Unknown
comments/notes:
Rear Addition.Rear addition, some exterior alterations.
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Settlement-era Dwellings, Barns & Farm Groups the the Willamette Valley, Oregon Survey & Inventory Project 2013
   Women's History Sites Thematic Grouping 2012
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 02/12/1980
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date: 02/12/2013
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
Refer to scanned documents links.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
Throughout it's history the Geer farm has been a gathering place for many community women to discuss all topics of the time, providing a meeting place for women of the age where they could voice their concerns and ideas in a safe environment. Undoubtedly suffrage talks took place in the still standing century farmhouse. The Willard Women's Club met for the first time in the kitchen of the farm house in 1913 and continued to use it as one of its gathering places until 2008. Musa Geer, the first woman to climb Mt. Jackson and active among the first WA and OR women entrepreneurs, was born there in 1873.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
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