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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:900 State St historic name:Lausanne Hall
Salem, Marion County current/other names:
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr:Willamette University twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:7S 3W 27
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):3.0 total elig resources: total inelig resources:
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status:
prim constr date:1920 second date: date indiv listed:
primary orig use: Education-Related orig use comments:
second orig use:
primary style: Late Gothic Revival prim style comments:
secondary style: sec style comments:
primary siding: Brick:Other/Undefined siding comments:
secondary siding: Stone:Other/Undefined
plan type: School Block architect:Legge, Fred A
builder:
comments/notes:
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Not associated with any surveys or groupings.
Farmstead/Cluster Name:Willamette University
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)
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)
The present-day Lausanne Hall stands on the site of another earlier Willa-mette University building also called Lausanne Hall, it was originally the home of Chloe Clark Willson, an early Methodist teacher, and was moved to the Willamette campus. There it served as the main building for women's studies when Willamette was divided into men's and women's schools between 1888 and 1919. The old wooden building was razed in 1919 and the present-day Lausanne Hall built for a new women's dormitory. A major fund-raising effort raised the money for its construction; instrumental in that campaign was Professor Earnest C. Richards, a former Methodist minister with many acquaintances interested in the development of Willamette University.
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 Inventory, 1987; Gatke, "Chronicles of Willamette"; City of Salem Context Statement, 1992; architects renderings located at Willamette University physical plant; State Historic Preservation Office files