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Inventory Form

LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:885 Summer St NE historic name:McGilchrist House
Salem, Marion County current/other names:
assoc addresses:695 Summer St NE
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:7S 3W 23
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):2.5 total elig resources: total inelig resources:
elig evaluation: eligible/contributing NR Status:
prim constr date:c.1917 second date: date indiv listed:
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:
second orig use:
primary style: Foursquare (Type) prim style comments:
secondary style: sec style comments:
primary siding: Horizontal Board siding comments:
secondary siding: Wood:Other/Undefined
plan type: architect:
builder:
comments/notes:
moved from 695 Summer St NE c.2003; This house has been moved to North Capitol Mall Heritage Park south of Mill Creek near D Street. It remains a State Office Building. (V Green 2009)
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   North Mall Heritage Park Other (rehab project) 2010
   Salem -- Moved Capitol Mall Buildings Thematic Grouping 2010
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: N/A
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
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)
Original house - Wieder, Van, House - demolished c.2003?? To make way for another house to be moved onto this lot.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
This house was built for William McGilchrist Jr. and wife Eva c.1917. Mr. McGilchrist was associated with the Imperial Furniture Company and the Royale Cafeteria; he also had interests in the insurance business. After her husband's death in the mid-1940s, Mrs. McGilchrist continued to reside in the house until 1955. The State of Oregon bought the property in 1957; it was occupied by Governor and Mrs. Robert Holmes from January 1957 through January 1959. It now serves as office space for the Oregon State Board of Optometry.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
City Directories Building Permits State Library
Local Library: University Library:
Historical Society: Other Respository:
Bibliography:
Salem City Directories; Oregon Blue Book; Marion County tax assessor records; General Services Office; Ticor Title Company