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Notes on the names and histories of some of Medford's downtown buildings, past and present. Listings with National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) numbers are (mostly) extant buildings bearing names assigned in the 1998 NRHP survey of the Medford Downtown Historic District. Other listings are either vanished buildings, buildings outside the downtown historic district, or historic aliases. Street addresses shift back and forth slightly over time; a business listed at 219 West Main in one directory might be at 221 in the next—without moving. Please note that many "quotes" below have been considerably condensed. City directory occupancies reported below are only roughly accurate. Walter W. Abbey Building NRHP #327.0 Photo: 1937 227 East Ninth, corner of Ninth and Bartlett Ground was broken Wednesday morning in construction of the new garage and sales room to be erected by Walter W. Abbey. MN5/28/1937p2 About 3,500 persons last night attended the formal opening of the new Walter W. Abbey sales and service building at Ninth and Bartlett streets. MT9/3/1937p13 In June 1937, work was commenced on the $35,000 structure housing Walter W. Abbey, Inc., Nash-LaFayette dealers, at Bartlett and Ninth streets. Constructed entirely of white concrete, the building is 100 by 100 feet, one story tall, and one of the most beautiful structures in southern Oregon. Especially beautiful is the spacious sales and show room fronting Ninth Street. Concrete floor space, 100 by 35 feet, is blocked off with huge orange and black checks. Walls and ceiling are of a cream tan finish. MT1/2/1938p6 Acme Hardware Building NRHP #193.0 Photo: 1949 1 East Sixth Acme Hardware Building II Photo: 1958 245 South Central Adkins Building I 204 East Main, southeast corner Main and Central Subsequently moved to 29 South Central, then 301 South Grape Dr. Adkins and Webb Bros. are putting up a new store building for business in the hardware and grocery line. AT6/13/1884p3 Adkins & Webb's frame building has been removed, and work on their new three-story brick has been commenced. DT8/30/1888p3 The building was moved to approximately 29 South Central, where it first served as a fire hose house, then as fruit storage. Moved in 1911 to 301 South Grape. The frame building now standing on South Central between Main and Eighth is being moved to the northwest corner of Tenth and Grape, where it will be fitted up for business purposes. MT9/19/1911p2 Burned October 22, 1912. JP10/26/1912p4 A proposition was read from B. F. Webb, offering to rent one-half of old store room, on C Street, for use of hose cart, hose, etc. for $48. On motion the proposition was accepted, it being the best and cheapest place offered. MM2/4/1892p3 W. H. Meeker & Co. are figuring on having an extension built on their store building, to extend back to the alley—not enough room in their present quarters. MM11/6/1896p7 Adkins Building II Photos: 1889 1910-11 1935 204 East Main, southeast corner Main and Central aka Althea Hall (upstairs) Adkins & Webb have let the contract for erecting a two-story brick building to S. Childers on the site of their present business place. DT9/23/1887p3 Work has been commenced on Adkins & Webb's new brick building. DT10/21/1887p2 Work on Adkins & Webb's big brick building will soon be commenced. DT2/17/1888p2 The stone foundation for Adkins & Webb's new brick building is now being cut. DT8/9/1888p3 Adkins & Webb have moved their stock of hardware into Childers' new brick building, and the carpenters are already at work moving the old building out of the way preparatory to the erection of their new three-story brick store. AT8/10/1888p3 The foundation for Adkins & Webb's new three-story brick is completed, and the brick masons are at work. AT9/14/1888p3 Adkins & Webb are now busy moving into their fine new building. It is one of the finest buildings in the county. AT3/15/1889p3 Medford boasts the only full three-story brick business block in the county—that of Adkins & Webb. Angle & Plymale's building adjacent to it will be of the same height. AT5/24/1889p2 The foundation of the Webb & Adkins new building is nearly completed, and the brick work will begin Monday. AT8/2/1889p3 In the matter of a place to hold meetings of the town board, proposition from Adkins & Webb offering room in their brick building for one year for $42, payable quarterly in town warrants. On motion the proposition was accepted. MM2/4/1892p3 T. E. Daniels is fitting up the Adkins building formerly occupied by the Clean Grocery, and will open about September 1st, with a complete stock of clothing, men's furnishings, etc. MM8/16/1907p2 From all appearances the building seems to be on the verge of collapse; several cracks in the front of the building appear to be widening slowly. A bulging wall on the Central side forced an investigation a few years ago, but it was decided that the wall had been built out of plumb. Now that a portion of this wall has been torn away to make way for a modern front, the building seems to be sagging. MT6/30/1911p1 It bears no evidence of having a penny spent upon it since its erection. The walls in front and on the side for 20 feet were removed; structural iron posts and beams were used to replace the brick taken out. MT6/30/1911p4 Among the business changes of location about to be made are T. E. Daniels to the Adkins block, corner Central Avenue and Main Street. MT7/23/1911pB1 Weatonka Council No. 20 will be at home in the Odd Fellows old hall, now known as the Eagle Hall, corner Main and Central, third floor. MT3/1/1911p3 For many years the IOOF lodge met in the old Adkins building at the corner of Main and Central, in the upper room now known as Althea Hall. MT5/19/1929p4 In 1936-37 the Adkins Building was consolidated with the Angle Opera House into the Fluhrer Building (q.v.). Adkins-Childers Building NRHP #319.0 Photos: circa 1901 circa 1905 circa 1908 226 East Main aka Lamport's Building, Adkins-Deuel Block, F. K. Deuel Building The Leak Advertising Co. painted a wall sign for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine on the Webb-Adkins building's outside east wall in the summer of 1891. The sign is now visible inside the Adkins-Childers Building. A new brick block is soon to be erected between I. A. Webb's and W. H. Meeker & Co.'s stores, and will be built by Dr. B. F. Adkins and Mrs. Dennison, who each own a twenty-five-foot lot. The block will be 50x100 feet, two stories high and of brick. The first floor, of Mrs. Dennison's half, will be occupied by Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. and J. W. Lawton's harness shop, each taking twelve feet of the twenty-five. MM9/27/1895p4 The Mail was this week shown the plans for the Adkins and Childers block, as prepared by architect Bennet. Over each store front will be formed a large, substantially built, brick arch, the ends of each resting upon the center and side pillars. On the second floor there will be room sufficient for three sets of offices and one suite of living rooms—over each store. The entire west wall is already built, Dr. Adkins owning one-half interest in the wall erected by I. A. Webb. The principal part of the east wall is also built, a similar state of ownership existing as with Messrs. Adkins and Webb. MM10/11/1895p5 F. M. Poe has the center foundation wall of the Adkins-Childers block built and is now working on the front walls. MM10/18/1895p5 The Adkins-Childers block is being rapidly pushed upward. There is but the front center and part of one side to build, there being no time lost in its construction. MM11/8/1895p5 Drs. Keene & Burnett have rented a couple or three additional office rooms in the Adkins-Deuel Block and are fitting them up for the use of Mr. Burnett, who is a mechanic as well as an operating dentist. MM10/21/1898p7 Architect Palmer is at work on plans for the remodeling of merchant F. K. Deuel's building, on Seventh Street, the one formerly occupied by Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company. The floor is to be lowered eight inches, bringing it on a level with the sidewalk, a new front of French plate glass is to be put in, and various changes will be made in the interior. A cement walk will be put down in front, and new counters and shelving will be put in preparatory to occupancy by F. K. Deuel & Co.'s dry goods establishment about December 1st. MM8/10/1900p7 Contractor Perry Stewart is at work on a 22x50-foot store house for merchant F. K. Deuel, the same being put up at the rear of his store building. MM8/24/1900p6 Weeks Bros. have been awarded the contract for putting the shelving and counters in the F. K. Deuel building. The work will require about two months' time. MM9/28/1900p6 Perry Stewart:—"How do you like that store front? Isn't it a beauty? If you don't like it I'll tear it out. Well, if it suits you I guess it will suit Mr. Deuel. But, candidly, I want to tell you that that is the most up-to-'datest' store front in Medford." MM12/7/1900p2 The new store is 140 feet in length, well lighted from both front and rear as well as from a large skylight. Altogether Messrs. Deuel & Co. have as pleasant and well appointed business as could be wished for. MM1/4/1901p7 The Medford Mercantile (M.M.) Department Company, formerly W. H. Meeker and Co., has leased the Deuel building. This company now occupies the Adkins Building, one door west, but a demand for more room has made a new location imperative. MT11/2/1912p2 Deuel and Kentner was located at 230 E. Main St.. The building is still owned by the Deuel family. It was most recently occupied by Karl's Shoe Store and is now undergoing a remodeling program in preparation for a new tenant. MT3/19/1967pB2 Althea Hall See Adkins Building II American Fruit Growers Packing House South Fir Construction of a new two-story packing plant has been started by American Fruit Growers on the site of the old packing plant. MN4/7/1944p1 American Laundry Building NRHP #11.0 Photo: 1927 130 South Central Built 1927. American Legion Hall Various locations At a meeting of the American Legion last night, the post voted to establish permanent quarters in the old Masonic Hall in the M.F.&H. building. MT9/16/1920p5 The local post of the American Legion will use its new hall for the first time Tuesday night; Mr. Swem has just finished the interior decorations. MT10/18/1920p7 Amy & Pottenger Building See Moore Annex-Pottenger Building Anderson & Green Building See Valley Auto Co. Anderson Warehouse Photo: 1913 Location unknown--possibly the Medford Realty and Improvement Warehouse. The new $50,000 bonded warehouse, built by George M. Anderson, the moving picture magnate, is open for business, having been completed last April to accommodate the increasing wholesale trade. OR6/22/1913p60 Andrews Building See Medford Business College Block Angle & Plymale Building Location unknown Angle & Plymale talk of putting up a one-story brick at Medford, as a precaution against fire. Insurance rates are quite high in that place. DT10/16/1885p3 Angle & Plymale, of Medford, have bought of D. W. Matthews the lot adjacent to their store property, and intend to put up a two-story brick building. AT10/23/1885p3 Angle & Plymale will soon move to their new brick when they will also increase their already large stock. OS12/26/1885p3 Angle Opera House Photos: 1889 circa 1911 1910-11 1914 208 East Main aka Angle Block In the 1889 photo the Angle Block is the three-story building just east of the Adkins Building. Angle & Plymale have their brick building ready for the joists, the first story having been completed. AT3/15/1889p3 Work on the new opera house will soon begin in earnest. The brick are being hauled, and everything will be gotten ready before the brick laying begins. AT5/24/1889p2 The brick work on the opera house has reached the top of the third story, and the carpenters are now engaged framing the crosses for the roof. AT8/2/1889p3 The opera house being erected by Angle & Plymale is nearing completion and adds largely to the fine appearance of Main Street. MM9/7/1889p3 The plastering is being put on the lower story of the new opera house, which is to be occupied by Staver & Walker. AT10/25/1889p2 On account of not being properly ventilated the floor in the Dr. Adkins brick building occupied by the Henry Smith store has become rotted and will have to be replaced with a new one before Cranfill & Hutchison open up their new stock of goods. MM6/16/1893p3 Weatonka Tribe, I.O.R.M., has leased the Workmen hall in the Angle block for a term of years and is having it fixed up in elegant shape for a meeting place. MM2/17/1905p3 -
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remodeling of the front of the Angle
building marks the removal of one of the historic stores in Medford. It
was Mr. George W. Williams who built
the Angle opera house brick. MM11/22/1907p5It was in June 1884 that Angle & Plymale opened a general merchandise store on this site. Later in 1889 a brick building was erected, and for many years William Angle and the late Francis Plymale engaged in general merchandise there. The other half was occupied by Charles Strang as a drug store. Later still, F. L. Cranfill occupied the room and for over 12 years sold goods there. The store front is unique from the fact that the old-fashioned iron doors, such as were in universal use a quarter century ago, are still in place, but are to be removed. Also the window shades still bear the insignia "Angle & Plymale, General Merchandise," a decade or more after the firm passed out of existence. The changes in the front of the old building will make some of the original customers of the store guess as to their probable location in Medford. The room is being fitted up for a moving-picture theater [the Isis Theater], and Mr. Cranfill has transferred his stock of goods to his residence on South Central Avenue. MT5/12/1910p8 Carpenters have begun the work of remodeling the building formerly occupied by the Isis Theater, for occupancy by Jonas Wold and Martin Reddy. MT8/4/1914p2 William Angle built the block where the Medford Pharmacy and Economy Meat Market now stand. AT2/19/1917p5 Larry Schade's new jewelry shop, next to the entrance of the Craterian, has been fashioned along Old English lines. The outside has been finished to simulate a weather-worn front; an old iron lantern at the entrance and an antique wrought iron sign will add the finishing touches. MT7/31/1927p3 In 1936-37 the Angle Opera House was consolidated with the Adkins Building into the Fluhrer Building (q.v.). Apostolic Church Photo: 1949 Corner Third and Central Armory I Photo: circa 1925 Northeast corner Third and Bartlett The new armory has a frontage of 128 feet on Bartlett and 190 feet on Third, cost $80,000 and is one of the finest in the state. Architect Hinsacker of Eugene drew the plans. MT11/26/1923p8 The building is T-shaped with offices, club rooms, etc. in the front and the auditorium in the rear. The building is of reinforced concrete with a full cement basement. The drill hall is a large room 82 by 121 feet, all finished with a fine maple floor. Above this is a balcony and at end a large stage. Over three thousand people can be seated, and state conventions or other large gatherings can be accommodated. MT11/28/1923p3 The city will pay between $200 and $300 a week for the rental of the armory, which will house the courthouse when the county seat is moved to Medford on July 1. MT6/17/1927p6 No longer will spectators have to watch wrestling through a haze of cigarette smoke. Beginning Monday the smoke will be lifted through the roof by ventilators now being installed at each end of the armory auditorium. MT6/4/1936p3 Fire gutted the auditorium of the Medford armory early today. All the structure except the offices and meeting rooms in the front appeared to be a complete loss. MT9/27/1950p1 What to do about the fire-gutted Medford armory? Where should a new one be located? These were the questions discussed at a meeting in the city hall last night. This morning National Guard officers took out a permit to demolish a portion of the fire-damaged structure. MT1/8/1952p1 Armory II 1701 South Pacific Highway The new armory will probably be finished some time late next year. It will have some 37,000 square feet; the building will be largely of reinforced concrete construction, with wood and plaster used also. MT12/14/1954p1 Construction of the new Medford armory is assured. The low combined bids were in the $385,000 to $400,000 range. The new armory is a joint city-county-state-federal project, and will replace the old building largely destroyed by fire several years ago. MT3/29/1956 About 3,000 persons heard Gov. Robert D. Holmes speak at the dedication of Medford's newly completed armory Saturday night. MT5/27/1957p1 The $1 million renovation of the armory added 8,700 square feet. Another 2,200 square feet was altered to make room for a new unit that is assigned to the armory. MT10/28/1991p3 The newly remodeled and renamed Medford Veterans Memorial Armory was officially rededicated Saturday, November 3. MT11/3/1991p3 Armstrong Garage Photo: 1934 101 South Riverside A garage building was completed during the past year for the Armstrong Motor Company, located on Riverside Avenue. The building is of concrete and is modern in every way. MT9/14/1927pC3 The old Western Auto store has been partially demolished to make room for construction of the 8th St. bridge. MT8/26/1959p11 Arthur Arms Apartments Photo: 1930 330 North Holly The Arthur Arms Apartments, formerly owned by L. J. Adams, have been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bringle. MT3/9/1931p3 B Apartments 412 North Ivy B.P.O.E. Lodge #1158 NRHP #297.0 Photos: 1913 2009 200 North Central, northeast corner Fifth and Central aka Elks Temple The Elks commissioned lodge brother Frank Clark to design their Beaux Arts home in 1913, but it took two more years before they could afford to build it. With its huge flight of steps, two-story porch, and classical style, the Elks Lodge has long been one of Medford’s most attractive buildings. Built after the end of the Orchard Boom, the Elks Lodge was greeted with enthusiasm as 1500 people attended its dedication. A dining room addition was added in 1921. The local lodge of the B.P.O.E. will hold their annual election of officers in the new hall in the I.O.O.F. building, upon which the order has secured a lease for a year. MT3/2/1911p1 F. C. Clark has prepared plans for the temple the Elks intend building at North Central and Fourth. It will be two stories high with a basement 85x85 feet in size, and will cost about $50,000 when completed and furnished. MT7/2/1913p2 The local lodge of Elks has abandoned its plan of leasing the Medford Furniture & Hardware Co.'s building and will build on its own property. OR7/6/1913p50 At a meeting of the Elks last night it was decided to build a $75,000 clubhouse at Central and Fifth. It will have bachelor apartments, plunge and shower baths, a ballroom and banquet hall, in addition to restaurant service. OR12/8/1912p50 Steps toward build the Elks' club rooms are under way, Ray Toft purchasing the dwelling thereon and moving it to a lot on Boardman Street. MT10/30/1913p4 This afternoon the Elks will march in a body from the Elks hall to throw the first dirt for the excavation. It has been decided to at least put in the big concrete basement this fall. MT11/4/1913p6 The rafters in the roof of the new Elks building are being put in shape. MT8/26/1914p2 The roof is being put on the Elks temple. MT9/11/1914p2 The Elks building committee will let the contract this week for interior work and windows for their new building. They expect to hold sessions in the new lodge rooms early in November. The formal dedication will be in the spring. MT10/15/1914p2 Medford Elks are preparing to entertain several hundred members of the order Thursday and Friday, when the new clubhouse will be dedicated. OR9/20/1915p11 The new dining room of the Medford Elks, costing $10,000, will be ready for occupancy early in June. MT5/30/1921p6 The Elks Temple was listed at a cost of $35,000 in the building permit issued Dec. 17, 1913. The construction at that time was to include 12 rooms. Frank C. Clark was the architect. Another permit was issued in 1921 to the lodge, calling for additional construction on North Central at a cost of $10,000. MT3/26/1967pD1 Bank of America Building [St. Marks Building Site] NRHP #122.0 Photo: 1979 222 West Main, northeast corner Main and Holly Baptist Church See First Baptist Church, Mid-Baptist Church Clara Barkdull Building NRHP #42.0 Photo: 1979 119 North Central Construction on the building is scheduled to commence this week opposite the Groceteria by Mrs. Clara Barkdull, at an approximate cost of $20,000. The contract has been awarded to Elmer Childers. The property was acquired by Mrs. Barkdull in 1883; a dwelling was constructed upon the site in 1884. The dwelling, one of the oldest in Medford, is the home of Mrs. Barkdull; it will be razed to make way for the new building. MT1/1/1928pD6 Barneburg Block Photo: circa 1915 129 East Main aka Rosenthal Building Built in 1895 for pioneer Medford haberdasher Simeon Rosenthal; designed by W. J. Bennet and built by contractors Childers, Shawver & Nicholson and Butler & Green. S. Rosenthal has closed a contract with S. Childers to put up his new brick store building, work on the same to begin in early springtime. The building will be 25x80 feet in size and will be two stories high. Rock for the foundation is now being put on the ground. The wood building now occupied by Mr. Rosenthal will be moved. MM4/20/1894p3 The Rosenthal building will be sold by the administrator at private sale after Dec. 1st. It is one of the finest structures in our city. DT10/31/1901p2 After Rosenthal's death, the building sold to Fred Barneburg for $6950. MM12/20/1901p7 Ivan Humason has rented the Rosenthal building from Mr. Barneburg and will open his drug store therein. MM2/14/1902p5 Monroe & Grousbeck are in Medford with one of Edison's entertainment outfits. They have rented the Rosenthal building and are taking in nickels. MM2/14/1902p7 On Tuesday the Medford Drug Store opened its doors in the Barneburg building, formerly occupied by S. Rosenthal. MM4/11/1902p6 In 1911 W. F. Isaacs moved The Toggery "to the Barneburg building, near the Medford National Bank." MT7/23/1911pB1 Barnum Building I 317 East Main See McAndrews-Barnum Block (E) Messrs. Nicholson Bros. have moved their stock of implements from C Street to the Barnum brick building on Seventh Street. SOM2/3/1893p3 W. J. Sturges:—"You were mixed a little on my having rented those rooms in the Barnum building I recently bought." MM11/30/1900p2 Wm. Ferguson, all the same Bill Nye, has purchased the Barnum Building, corner Seventh and South [sic] A streets. He expects to rent it for a second hand store in February, when Mr. Chessmore's lease expires. MM11/15/1901p6 R. M. Harrison has opened a second-hand store in the Barnum block, on Seventh Street near the bridge. MM4/12/1907p5 W. H. Barnum is improving his property on East Main Street by having modern fronts put in. MT3/27/1912p2 Barnum Building II South Riverside W. S. Barnum is building a good-sized addition to his brick building on South A Street. It is being erected in order to give room for a new cider mill which Mr. Barnum will put in shortly, and which will turn out ten or fifteen barrels of cider a day. The dimensions of the addition are 20x30 feet. MM4/28/1899p7 Barnum Buildings Photos: 1914 1914 1925 126 and 134 North Front W. S. Barnum has let a contract for the erection of a 25x75-foot, one-story brick store room on North Front Street, nearly opposite the Southern Pacific depot. It will probably be used as a second-hand store when completed. MT10/28/1912p2 A concrete foundation was started Saturday morning by S. Childers for a new brick store building on North Front Street. The building is being put up by W. S. Barnum. It will be 25x75 feet in size and one story high, and will be an exact counterpart of the building recently erected by Mr. Barnum on a lot just south of this site. MT12/14/1912p4 Will H. Wilson, who has conducted a store at 106 N. Front, has leased the new brick store building at 128 N. Front. MT12/20/1912p5 Barnum Garage Photo: 1961 Probably 116 North Front The Barnum garage on North Front Street is about completed. Electrician Paul is wiring it. MT3/16/1916p2 An addition to the Park and Shop parking system is the building formerly the Keith Schulz garage. MT5/18/1961pD8 Barnum Hotel [Grand Hotel] NRHP #49.0 Photos: circa 1930 circa 2009 Northeast corner Fifth and Front aka Grand Hotel, Hotel Austin William S. Barnum, after selling the five-mile-long Rogue River Valley Railroad between Medford and Jacksonville, commissioned Frank Clark to design this $75,000 four-story structure in 1914, opening it the following year. In 1925 the building was sold, and the new owners christened it the “Grand Hotel.” Primarily a residential hotel long overshadowed by the more stylish Hotel Medford, the Grand was in poor condition before it was listed on the National Register in 1983 and now provides subsidized housing following a major rehabilitation effort. J. C. Barnum is to erect a four-story building on the corner of Front and Fifth streets if his plans do not miscarry. MT8/10/1910p1 J. C. Barnum has started the construction of a hotel on Front Street. The hotel will have 40 rooms, will be three stories high and will cater to the commercial trade particularly. OR7/12/1914p54 Work on the Barnum Hotel, delayed by the non-arrival of foundation lumber, is now in full swing. MT9/11/1914p2 In June 1914 W. S. Barnum was granted permission to build a brick hotel of 42 rooms on North Front, estimated cost $20,000. It is known today as the Grand Hotel. MT3/26/1967pD1 The new Barnum Hotel was formally opened to the public Tuesday evening. JP5/6/1916p3 After June 6 the building formerly known as the Hotel Barnum will be known as the Hotel Austin. [signed] A. Austin Chisholm, Lessee and Proprietor. MS6/7/1916p2 The Hotel Barnum has changed its name to Hotel Austin. MS6/8/1916p2 Fire gutted the Barnum Hotel this morning, causing a damage of $50,000. The fire was confined to the fourth floor and the walls of the structure, but heavy damage was caused by water, making a total loss. MT10/4/1921p1 Fire, which had been smoldering on the second floor, broke out again last night. MT10/5/1921p1 The Barnum Hotel and apartments on North Front Street was sold today by W. S. Barnum to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Goswick for a consideration made public at $65,000. The new owners will make improvements with the purpose of eventually changing the apartment house into a hotel, for which it was originally constructed. The house contains 67 rooms, divided into 27 apartments. MT9/12/1927p1 The name of the Barnum apartments was changed yesterday to Hotel Grand. A large electric sign is going over the top of the building announcing the name. MT10/15/1927p8 Probably the most conspicuous new electrical sign is that on top of the Hotel Grand, formerly the Barnum apartments. MT1/3/1928p3 In addition to redecoration, a number of the rooms which formerly had connecting doors have vanished and been walled completely. MDN1/22/1931p3 Bashford Building South Fir Prof. Barton has moved his rustic chair factory to the Bashford building on F Street, south of the Clarenden. MM3/9/1894p3 James W. Bass House NRHP #176.2 229 North Ivy James W. Bass Rental 1 NRHP #175.0 235 North Ivy James W. Bass Rental 2 NRHP #178.0 203 North Ivy Bates Barber Shop NRHP #65.0 126 West Main Bates Candy Warehouse NRHP #184.0 160 North Fir Bathmat Building See First National Bank Building II Beck Apartments NRHP #114.0 24 South Grape aka Butler Apartments Beck's Bakery 1414 North Riverside, southeast corner Riverside and McAndrews One of the latest additions to Berrydale is Beck's bakery, located in a large new concrete building, built by J. J. Osenbrugge for Michael Beck,. The bakery does a big wholesale business all over the valley and in Medford and employs 8 to 10 people. MT7/30/1927p3 Merritt Bellinger House NRHP #145.0 147 North Holly Berben Apartments Photo: 1911 10 North Quince, corner Quince and Main Designed by Power, Reeves & West; built late 1911 by Roger S. Bennett. The Medford Sash & Door factory are turning out the work for the Berber [sic] apartment house on Peach. MT7/2/1911p8 Just being completed, modern furnished apartments. Hot water heat, Holmes disappearing beds, buffet kitchens, private baths, large porches. MT10/2/1911p6 Bickler Building NRHP #273.0 128 North Bartlett Razed May 2011. Big Bend Milling/Lindley Block NRHP #312.0 Photos: circa 1920 1927 1928 1954 14 North Central aka Mann Building Two buildings are incorporated in this NRHP listing, the Big Bend Milling building on North Central (pictured) and the Lindley Block on East Main. The first work for the foundation of a large brick building was commenced Saturday by the Jackson County Bank on C Street, just north of their new bank building. The new brick is to be 50x100, two story. It is expected to have the building ready for occupancy by the first of next May. MM12/14/1906p5 The Big Bend Milling Co. will commence next week to excavate for the foundation of another brick building. This building will be located on C Street adjoining the Jackson County Bank building, will be 75x75 feet in size and at least two stories in height. MM6/21/1907p5 The outside work on the Big Bend Milling Co.'s building on C Street is being completed this week, and the inside work will be finished as rapidly as possible. MM10/11/1907p5 The Baker-Hutchason Co. are now located in their new room next to the Jackson County Bank building. MM11/22/1907p1 The Baker-Hutchason firm has leased the store room joining their present quarters. The partition between the two rooms is being removed, and they expect to occupy both these rooms the first of the week. This will give them a floor space of 50x75 feet, and there will be two entrances to the store. MM1/31/1908p5 The Medford Pharmacy will move to new quarters in the Jackson County Bank building next door to the Baker-Hutchason Co., where more room can be had for their extensive and growing stock. MM2/21/1908p9 Mann's "has been enlarged, now having both a Main Street and Central Avenue entrance." MT9/24/1920p8 Dust from the collapse of the east wall of Mann's department store and the west wall of the Scott Davis building adjoining covered the stock of the Mann store, forcing the closing of the store for further business until Wednesday. MT2/11/1935p1 The largest single business expansion was made by Mann's Department Store, which was completely remodeled inside and out at a building cost of $12,000. MT1/3/1936p1 Mann's will close Saturday night for a $250,000 renovation program. It will reopen in August under the name of "Miller's." MT5/20/1966p1 Big Bend Milling Co. Building See Davis Building Big Pines Lumber Co. Building Photos: 1911 circa 1919 1930s 1965 1973 Northeast corner Sixth and Fir Big Y Super Market Photos: 1940 1940 1953 1960s North Pacific Highway and Crater Lake Highway Medford's newest super market will open tomorrow, April 12. Located at the intersection of the North Pacific Highway and the Midway and Airport road, the market covers 12,000 square feet of floor space. The entire front is opened or closed as desired, with great windows that may be raised. More than an acre of parking space will be provided. There is a spacious lounge, with plenty of current magazines and reading material. MN4/11/1940pB1 Billings Building See Unknown/Concrete Building Bingham-Lawson House NRHP #181.0 236 North Oakdale William H. Bishop Apartments 14 South Bartlett, second floor of the Hoover-Cooper Building Boyden Building 216 East Main Merchant H. E. Boyden has commenced work on his new brick store room. The building will be 46x80 in size and two stories high. S. Childers has the contract. MM5/12/1905p5 The Medford Furniture Co. removed their undertaking parlors this week to the new quarters in the Boyden brick, recently finished, just back of the store. They also have the second floor of the building, beside half of the lower floor, and will use the latter for storing extra stock of their large and complete line. The goods will be transported from the lower to the upper story by means a large freight elevator, the first apparatus of the kind ever used in this city. MM9/1/1905p5 H. E. Boyden will soon commence the entire remodeling of his building on Main Street now occupied by the Medford Hardware Company by tearing out the old front and replacing it with one up to date, using granite. MT2/22/1910p2 The woodwork for the modern front to be placed in the Medford Hardware store was destroyed by the fire that burned the Phoenix mill Wednesday, thus delaying the completion and necessitating a continuance of the "open front." MT7/14/1910p5 Oregon Granite has started work erecting a granite front on H. E. Boyden's store building on Main, which houses the Medford Hardware Company. MT7/17/1910p5 Quite the neatest front that Medford has seen has just been finished by J. M. Lyon for Medford Hardware. The interior is finished in panels of veneered oak, with solid oak beamed and paneled ceilings and veneered oak floors. MT8/14/1910p11 We are now located in the Boyden Warehouse, on paved alley, between South Central and South Bartlett. B. Klum, Electric Signs. MT1/6/1913 Brenneman Building See Palm-Niedermeyer Building Brommer Apartments 1205 East Main aka Cook Apartments Brophy Building Photo: 1957 Northeast corner of East Main and Central See Jackson County Bank Building, Vawter-Brophy Building Consolidated from the Jackson County Bank Building and the Vawter-Brophy Building (q.v.), both originally built in 1906-07. Remodeling of the Brophy building has been completed, according to Leland Brophy, owner. The first story has been finished in ceramic tile; the second story has been finished in stucco and aluminum. Stores included on the first floor are McLain's Drug Center, Johnston and Stewart shoe store, Brophy's Jewelers, Junior Boot Shop, and Dr. Frank A. Freeburger and Robert L. Harland, optometrists. Architect for the modernization was Robert J. Keeney, and Batzer Construction Company was general contractor. MT9/29/1957p12 Brown Apartments 14 North Front Brownell Motel See Cascade Inn Budge-McHugh Plumbing Warehouse NRHP #54.0 125 North Fir F. F. Burk Tent and Awning Works NRHP #32.0 142 North Front Burnham Apartments 604 West Tenth Burnham Court 610 West Tenth Burroughs Building See McAndrews-Barnum Block [W] Busy Corner Motor Co. Building NRHP #365.0 407-409 East Main The home of Cupp's Furniture Exchange, 407 East Main, was destroyed by fire and reconstructed during the fall season. MT1/2/1938p6 Butler Apartments See Beck Apartments Byers' Hall See Nash Hotel Building Cargill Court Apartments Photo: 1965 325 West Sixth, southeast corner Sixth and Ivy aka Medford Sanitarium Dr. Porter plans the erection immediately upon the site of a private sanitarium and hospital to cost $15,000. JP4/7/1917p1 The foundation of the structure has been completed, and work will be hurried on the superstructure. MS7/17/1917 The sanitarium will be ready by October 1, furnished and fully equipped. The walls are now rapidly being completed. MS8/10/1917 Dr. E. H. Porter's new hospital near the Medford Hotel is nearing completion. The X-ray machine was installed yesterday, and the hospital beds have arrived. MS10/5/1917 The new brick and stone hospital building, which has just been completed, will probably not be formally opened for two weeks. Dr. Porter has decided to have the institution known as the Medford Sanitarium. MS10/25/1917 Although the sanitarium has been doing business for the past two weeks, the formal opening will be Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. MS12/5/1917 Additions to the Cargill Apartment House, Sixth and Ivy streets, are close to completion at a cost of $25,000, Col. Stuart, contractor, Dr. E. H. Porter, builder. They will be ready for occupancy at an early date. MT5/30/1921p6 In 1917, a permit was issued to Dr. E. H. Porter for construction of a four-story brick building of 20 rooms on West Sixth Street, at an estimated cost of $15,000. In 1921 his name appeared again as an applicant for more building at the West Sixth Street location. The permit called for addition of 24 rooms at a cost of $12,000. The construction is now known as Cargill Court Apartments. MT3/26/1967pD1 Workers are starting to tear out the crumbling wood and plaster from the Cargill Court building. By gutting the building and reducing it to a naked shell, potential buyers can get a better idea of its structural soundness. MT2/17/1985p3 Carnegie Library NRHP #164.0 Photos: 1926 1958 circa 2009 2011 413 West Main In 1910, women of Medford’s library association began petitioning Andrew Carnegie for funding to build a permanent home for the city library and agitating for a serial levy to operate it. When a letter arrived from Carnegie on January 19, 1911 offering the association $20,000, John A. McIntosh was hired to design the building, which was erected on the second of the city’s park blocks. The $19,360 structure opened February 8, 1912. The Library was expanded to the rear in 1951. By the early 1980s, it was considered outdated and too small, but plans to raze the building were met with public outcry. After being listed on the National Register, it was thoroughly renovated. Its days as a library finally came to an end in 2004 with construction of Medford’s Central Library downtown. Today the Carnegie is slated for conversion to a new life as a public meeting space. Medford Sash & Door is turning out the work for the Carnegie library. MT7/2/1911p8 Wednesday will be the last opportunity to draw books from the city library until the new building is occupied; the work of moving will start soon. MT1/23/1912p6 Preliminary plans for the library addition have been approved. The addition, which will provide about 50 percent more floor space, will be of modern-type architecture designed to blend in with a civic center development. MT6/11/1950p13 The Medford library building has served a useful life, but there is no way it can be repaired. MT1/10/1978p1 Carpenters' Hall See Smith's Hall Cascade Inn Motel 816 North Riverside aka Brownell Motel In December 1951 the twelve cottages of the Brownell Motel were moved to Medford from Gold Hill, reopening on February 1, 1952. MT5/20/2012p2 Castle Hall See Moore Annex-Pottenger Building Catholic Church I 414 N. Front, corner Third and Front aka Oregon Rooming House Mr. Dahack has converted the old Catholic church house on North D Street into a modern rooming house, so his new sign reads. MM2/12/1909p8 The Oregon Rooming House was a two-story frame and was originally built and used for the Catholic Church. Later it was remodeled into a rooming house. MT6/28/1918p6 Fire at Medford early Friday destroyed the Oregon Rooming House and three shacks at the corner of Front and Third streets. They were owned by Irvin Dahack. JP6/29/1928p3 Catholic Church II Photo: 1909 Southwest corner Tenth and Oakdale Archbishop Christie returned from Medford, where he completed the purchase of a lot on which the erection of a church will be begun immediately. OR10/18/1907p11 The Catholics have completed a school building costing $30,000 and are now building a church. OR11/2/1908p12 Catholic Church III Photo: 1930s Southwest corner Tenth and Oakdale Included among the larger structures completed this last year was the new Catholic Church on the corner of Tenth Street and Oakdale Avenue, constructed at an approximate cost of $45,000. MT12/31/1928pC7 Central Apartments 301 South Central Cedar Lodge Motel Photo: 1960 518 North Riverside Central Fire Hall See Medford Central Fire Hall Century Building See Medford Community Hospital Chamber of Commerce Building See Exhibit Building Chamber of Commerce Building II Southwest corner Tenth and Central Bids for demolition of a structure at Central and Tenth St. are expected to make way for construction of a new home for the Medford Chamber of Commerce. MT3/25/1960p1 Childers Apartments 803 West Eleventh Childers Block See Johnson-Childers Building Childers Building I Photo: 1901 Northwest corner East Main and Central aka Phipps Block Childers & Son have commenced hauling stone for the foundation of their new brick building on Seventh Street. DT3/2/1888p2 Childers & Son have commenced operations on the fine brick building they propose putting up on Seventh Street, adjoining S. Rosenthal's place of business. DT3/30/1888p2 Spence Childers is building a two-story brick on the corner of Main and C. The ground floor is for store rooms, the second floor for offices. AT5/18/1888p3 There will be a dance in Childers' new brick building at night. Come, everybody, and have a good time. AT6/1/1888p3 Adkins & Webb are occupying Childers' new brick, and will be there until their new building is completed. DT8/30/1888p3 M. E. Beatty & Co., the real estate agents, have removed their offices to Childers' building, upstairs. So have Dr. Minnis and S. S. Pentz, Esq. DT10/25/1888p3 We learn that H. H. Wolters of the Monarch Saloon will occupy Childers' building as soon as Adkins & Webb vacate it. DT3/14/1889p3 J. O. Johnson and S. Childers, Sr., now own the brick building in this place formerly owned by A. Childers & Son. DT9/5/1889p2 Julius Goldsmith, the popular grocer, has rented the lower story of Childers' brick building. DT10/3/1889p3 Dr. J. W. Odgers' office is in the Phipps block, opposite Jackson County Bank. MM5/28/1897p3 The demolition of the old brick building at the northwest corner of 7th and C streets was commenced Monday of this week. The building was purchased by the Medford Bank with a view to ultimately building a permanent home for the bank upon the site. MM3/2/1906p5 Childers Building II NRHP #352.0 Photo: 1971 406 East Main The Childers Building was constructed in 1926 by Elmer Childers, a prominent Medford contractor. The multi-storefront design was highlighted by the triangle-shaped parapet decoration. The recessed entries each had a tall transom band of narrow vertical panels. Piggly-Wiggly occupied the building in the 1920s. Occupants in the 1940s included Franett's Military Store, Victory Cleaners (later Valley Cleaners) and Larson-May Appliance Co. By the mid-1960s Larson's expanded to fill the entire building before moving to a larger location at Main and Fir. In the 1970s the IOOF lodge shared the building with small retail concerns. In 1985 a substantial renovation by John Nelson created a new interior room arrangement that yielded eight small shops, collectively known as the Main Street Market. Historically derived stairways and transom panels in natural wood were installed, similar to the original design. The Childers Building has been blended with the adjacent Jerome-Vawter Building, and more recently with the Mohr Rental Building, to form a unified appearance. Childers Building/Dreamland NRHP #364.0 Photo: 1979 417 East Main aka Walker Building Built in 1928; construction began in May. MT 5/18/1928p1 Angled to follow the street, this building was used as a boxing arena and as the home of the Dreamland Ballroom, the Isis Theater (Medford's last silent movie theater), a bowling alley and Santo's Agate Shop. 421 East Main was for a time site of the Everlast Neon Sales Corp. and factory. MT6/8/1929pB4 Dense clouds of smoke poured out of the doorway leading downstairs to the old Medford bowling alley when the fire broke out in an area under the street about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The fire, burning in trash and old lumber, never got about ground level. MT1/20/1958p1 Childers Hall See Johnson-Childers Building Childers Homes Photo: 1907-10 East Main The building of Mr. Childers' residence on the east side of Bear Creek has laid the foundation for East Medford. We are told seven other residences will be built on that side of the creek during the present season. SOT3/27/1888 The neat brick dwelling which A. Childers, Sr., is building on his ranch east of town is rapidly assuming proportions. DT12/5/1889p3 Spence Childers is building an addition to his residence on East Main. MM3/3/1893p3 Last week we spoke of the new brick residence to be built by S. Childers, Jr. This building will be quite unique in design, the verandas and porticoes being also of brick. It will be a two-story building with six rooms below and three above. The sitting room, parlor and dining room will be connected by folding doors and can all three be thrown into one room when required. The foundation for this building will be commenced within a few few days. The cost of the structure will be about $2000. W. J. Bennet, architect. MM9/27/1895p4 Architect I. A. Palmer is now preparing plans and specifications for a fine brick residence for Spencer Childers, to be erected in East Medford—just across the bridge. The building will be a two-story brick, with nine rooms, and an attic which will be used as a billiard hall. When completed the building will cost in the neighborhood of $4,000, and will be without a doubt the handsomest residence in Southern Oregon. MM9/11/1896p7 S. Childers last week closed a deal with H. Doubleday whereby the latter becomes the owner of the neat little cottage in East Medford where Mr. Childers now lives. The price paid was $2300. MM11/5/1908p5 Christian Science Church 214 North Oakdale Clark & Foster have just finished plans for the new Christian Science Church. The church is to be a frame structure, costing $3500. MT9/14/1910pB1 The chapel will cost $5000. The building will be 33x75 feet in size and will stand at the rear of the property, the front of which is to be parked and beautified. MT9/20/1910p8 The auditorium will seat 200 people. There will be rooms for the first reader, second reader, and a large reading room. The edifice will cost $9000. OR1/4/1911p15 Construction is under way on the first "bungalow" church in the Northwest, First Church of Christ, Scientist, now being constructed on North Oakdale. The church resembles a country club more than a religious edifice. MT1/1/1911p3 Clarenden Hotel Photo: circa 1890 Southwest corner West Main and Fir aka Clarendon Hotel, Western Hotel, Commercial Hotel Construction on "Dickison's large hotel" is now under way. PO7/24/1888p6 The Clarenden Hotel will open in a few days. It is to be a strictly first-class house. AT9/21/1888 George Justus has leased the Clarenden Hotel and is now renovating the building from foundation to garret. He proposes to put the hotel in such shape as to make it a first-class hostelry. MM3/2/1894p3 Mrs. Emma Barker has bought out the interests of Geo. Justus in the Clarenden Hotel and is in possession of the same. The lady has secured the services of Harry Angle as clerk. MM4/20/1894p3 A new sign has swung itself to the exhilarant zephyrs—at the front of the erstwhile Clarenden Hotel, and instead of reading "Clarenden" it is "Western Hotel." MM10/4/1895p5 The name of the Western Hotel has been changed to Commercial, under its new management. MM1/29/1897p7 H. C. Knackstedt has taken charge of the Commercial Hotel, on the west side, and will thoroughly renovate the building. DT7/21/1898p3 The Commercial Hotel caught fire from a flue Saturday morning and would have been totally destroyed but for the prompt action of the fire department. It was badly damaged although the frame still stands. DT8/22/1898p3 It is said that the hotel on the west side of the S.P. track will be rebuilt as soon as the title is perfected. DT3/20/1899p3 The building apparently stood until 1900 or 1901, when it was razed to make room for the Moore Mercantile Buildings. Clauss Motors NRHP #293.0 275 East Fifth Clay Building See Hoover-Cooper Building Clemens-Brandon House NRHP #177.0 211 North Ivy The Coffee Pot Drive-In Photo: circa 1948 North Riverside College Building See Medford Business College Block Colonial Flats 217 South Riverside FOR SALE--Largest light housekeeping apartment house in Medford, situated on Pacific Highway, 2 blocks from Main St. Has 30 apartments, fully furnished for light housekeeping: building is absolutely modern. Gas, electric lights, steam heated. Some private baths, two public bathrooms on each floor. Has monthly rental of $350 when running full. Write manager, Colonial Flats, 217 South Riverside, Medford, Or. OR9/14/1916p20 Colonial Garage Building NRHP #166.0 Photos: 1927 1965 405 West Sixth, southwest corner Sixth and Holly Commercial Club Building See Exhibit Building Commercial Hotel See Clarenden Hotel Guy Conner Warehouse Southeast corner Eleventh and Evergreen This week the Guy W. Conner property came into the possession of the C&E Fruit Company. The property consists of a concrete warehouse, 100 by 100 feet. Work has started on the enlargement of the plant. Chicago Packer 5/12/1928p18 The history of the Myron E. Root Company began in 1932 when it became an incorporated concern and started operating in the old C. and E. warehouse at 11th and Fir sts. This building was the first warehouse constructed in Medford and was built prior to 1908. MN6/9/1950p1 Conger Funeral Home West Main Among the buildings which aided in making the month's construction program so large is the Conger funeral home on West Main Street. MT3/31/1928p2 Cook Apartments See Brommer Apartments Cooley Building See Cooley Building/Craterian Theater or Cooley-Neff Building Cooley Building/Craterian Theater NRHP #321.0 Photos: circa 1926 1926 1953 23 South Central aka Cooley Theater Building, Craterian Building The film "Young April" (on the marquee in the 1926 photo) played the Craterian December 20-21, 1926. Cooley Theater Building See Cooley Building/Craterian Theater Cooley-Neff Building NRHP #40.0 Photos: 1926 1937 101 North Central, northwest corner Sixth and Central aka Cooley Building $25,000 damage resulted yesterday when fire swept through the basement of the Cooley Building, causing stocks of the Adrienne Steward shop, McPherson's Clothing and Porter's Millinery to be damaged by smoke, flames and water. Only smoke entered the Diamond Cafe. MT2/14/1927p1 When it opened in 1926 it housed McPherson's Men's Store, Adrienne Steward's Ladies' Shop, Porter Millinery and the Diamond Cafe. MT12/20/1927p4 Cooley-Neff Warehouse Southeast corner Third and Fir Built 1924; wholesale grocer Mason, Ehrman & Co. was its first tenant in December 1924. MT12/2/1924p8 Cooper Building See Hoover-Cooper Building Copco Building See St. Mark's Block Copco Office and Shops Photo: 1960 925 South Grape, 1006 South Grape The California Oregon Power Company plans to erect an office building near the corner of Grape and Stewart Ave., it was reported this week. MT12/8/1958p1 Among building permits issued since Jan. 1 was one for some of the California Oregon Power Company's shop facility construction at Grape and Stewart. The development was started last year with construction of a shop and storage space. Space is provided for a future office building. MT5/29/1960p10 Ida A. Coppin Apartments 344 South Central Cornwall Davis Garage See Davis-Cornwall Building Cranfill & Hutchison Building See Lindley Building Crater Building Photos: 1901 1908-09 Built on Main near Front, moved to northeast corner East Main and Central, then 36 North Central D. I. Waldroop put up a frame building, covered with corrugated iron and tin and christened his little palace "The Crater," in honor of that beautiful Crater Lake painting which was painted by Mr. Corson. This picture will be placed over the new store. The interior has been beautifully papered and painted and presents a fine appearance. MM8/23/1895p5 Waldroop & Karnes have had their Crater moved to the vacant lots on the corner of C and Seventh Street and are now open for business. MM2/19/1897p7 The Crater handles all of the substantials and delicacies of the market. Choice fruits and confectionery, cigars and tobacco, ice cream and soda with pure fruit flavors are served in an appetizing and tasty manner. MM5/28/1897p3 The building was presumably razed prior to construction of the Cuthbert Building. Crater Lake Automotive NRHP #345.0 Photo: 1989 123 South Riverside Named in error. Crater Lake Automotive was located at 103 South Riverside. Around 1952 Medford Service Station moved the current location at the southeast corner of Riverside and Eighth Streets. The building was renamed the Furnas Building, and the business became Medford Tire Service. MT3/23/1989pB15 Crater Lake Automotive I Photo: 1926 103 South Riverside aka Furnas Building The new building is a real addition to Medford's list of attractive business structures. The section which will house the Paige-Jewett distributors has 5000 square feet of floor space. The entire building will be occupied by both the Crater Lake Automotive Company and Armstrong Motors, Inc., Hudson-Essex and Hupmobile dealers. MT10/31/1926p4 Crater Lake Ford See C. A. Winetrout Building Crater Lake Ford [American Cancer Society] NRHP #195.0 Photo: 1965 31 West Sixth Crater Lake Ford [Scan Design] NRHP #194.0 50 North Fir Crater Lake Garage NRHP #14.0 Photos: 1911 2008 123 South Front aka Eads Transfer Company Building Construction of the building began on February 24, 1911. What will be one of the most up-to-date garages in Medford is in course of construction just back of the Davis flour mill. Scott V. Davis, agent for Stoddard-Dayton cars, is erecting it. It will be occupied by the Crater Lake Garage, of which J. C. Neff is manager. MT3/19/1911pB3 A blaze blamed on faulty construction and a defective old flue damaged Eads Transfer and Storage, 123 South Front St., late yesterday afternoon. MT1/25/1955p1 Crater Lake Hardware Warehouse South Front The Swartley Brothers, contractors of Corvallis, have leased the newly constructed warehouse of the Crater Lake Hardware Co. to store their equipment. MT7/21/1927p2 During the past year a warehouse was constructed by the Crater Lake Hardware Company on South Front Street to provide added stock storage space. MT9/14/1927pC3 Crater Lake Laundry Building 603 North Central The formation of a new laundry is rapidly reaching its final goal. The boiler and engine will be in place as soon as the foundations are complete. MT4/24/1910p2 All machinery is here and is being placed in the big building in the rear of 603 North Central Avenue. MT6/5/1910p8 Crater Lake Motor Car Building 16-18 South Fir aka Palm Building Apparently incorporated into the Kay Building (q.v.). Sunday Court Hall will leave for Portland, where he will make arrangements for the building of a Cadillac garage to be built in this city. It is to be one of the most up-to-date garages in southern Oregon. MT10/24/1913p6 Contractors Priddy and O'Brien are making rapid progress on the Cadillac garage on South Fir Street, being built for Court Hall by Charles Palm. The building will be a two-story structure and one of the finest garages in the city. MT12/18/1913p6 In November 1913, C. W. Palm received a permit to build a garage on South Fir Street between Main and Eighth streets at a cost of $3,000. MT3/26/1967pD1 Crater Lake Motor Car Co. will be open for business in their new garage at 16-18 South Fir Street on Monday, Feb. 9. We are agents for the world's standard Cadillac. MT2/7/1914pB8 Fire last night extensively damaged the Palm Building, which housed Tri-County Office Supply and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's service truck storage. MT7/24/1957p1 Crater Lake Motors Building See C. A. Winetrout Building Crater Lake Motors Shop NRHP #197.0 East Eighth Crater National Bank Building NRHP #19.0 Northeast corner Eighth and Front, 101 East Eighth Current home of the Medford/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Craterian Building See Cooley Building Cudahy Packing Co. Warehouse Photo: 1914 Northwest corner Sixth and Evergreen Identified only as "Wholesale Gro[cery]" in the 1907 Sanborn maps; the Cudahy name first appears on the 1911 map. Photo at right taken August 1914. Cummins of Medford 909 East McAndrews Cuthbert Building NRHP #304.0 Photos: 1928 2011 38 North Central, southeast corner Sixth and Central aka Davis Building Built for George F. Cuthbert's furniture store; plans announced January 14, 1910. Subsequently home of Rardon & Co., then the Golden Rule, then Penneys, then Newberry’s. On the lot beyond the post office building and to the north, the Jackson County Bank will soon commence the construction of a three-story office building of brick and stone. MM4/23/1909p3 This will be a modern business block of pressed brick, steam heated and equipped with an electric elevator, and will be 90x100 feet and eventually five stories high, although but three stories will be built now. OR1/23/1910p48 A. A. Davis announces that he is almost ready to let the contract for his business block on the corner of Central and Sixth. This building, which is to cost $40,000, will be modern in every respect. MT2/22/1910p2 Power & Reeves report that the A. A. Davis building, which is being erected on North C Street for the Big Bend Milling company at the cost of $45,000, will be completed with the next two months. The furniture store of Cuthbert & Co. will occupy the entire two floors of this building, which has dimensions of 90x180 feet. MT9/4/1910pB1 Our new building is promised positively for the 15th of November. MT10/23/1910p2 The Davis building at the corner of Central Avenue and Sixth Street is a handsome building of white brick. It is two stories in height and cost $40,000. MT7/2/1911pB1 Power & Reeves report that the building being erected on North C Street for the Big Bend Milling Company at the cost of $45,000 will be completed within the next two months. The furniture store of Cuthbert & Co. will occupy the entire two floors of this building, which has the dimensions of 90x180 feet. The first story of this structure is extra high, having a mezzanine or balcony for storing goods. MT9/4/1910pB1 W. H. Rardon & Co. is the name of a new corporation which has just leased the south 45x100 feet in the new building now under the course of construction by the Big Bend Milling Company. MT9/26/1910p8 Too much cannot be said of the enterprise of W. H. Rardon & Co., whose new grocery store at 36 and 38 North Central Avenue would do credit to a Seattle or a San Francisco. MT12/1/1910 J. C. Penney has bought the Golden Rule Store, including "the two-story building with 100-foot frontage on North Central and 90 feet on 6th, all of which is occupied by the Golden Rule, except the corner occupied by Jarmin & Woods drug store." MT6/5/1927p8 Dahack Garage North Riverside Eli Dahack has purchased a lot on Riverside opposite the Natatorium for $4,500. He intends to erect a two-story business block. MT3/30/1911p5 The work of excavating for the new Dahack garage on North Riverside Avenue began Thursday, and will be rushed to completion. MT2/19/1915p2 In May 1915, Eli Dahack was recipient of a permit to construct a garage on North Riverside between Fifth and Sixth streets at a cost of $4,000. MT3/26/1967pD1 Grand opening ball at Dahack Garage, opposite Natatorium from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. on evenings of 8, 9, and 10th, this week. Everybody welcome. Tickets 50c. Refreshments will be served in basement. MT9/6/1915p5 Public dance at Dahack Garage Friday eve., Oct. 8. Everyone welcome. Music will be directed by Prof. H. H. Howell. MT10/7/1915p3 Dairy Queen Photo: 1948 450 South Central Damon Building See Tayler Building Davis Building NRHP #305.0 Photo: 1908-09 32 North Central aka Big Bend Milling Building See also Cuthbert Building The first floor of the Davis Building was Medford’s first “communications center,” housing the Medford Post Office; the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company occupied the southern half. Upstairs, the Odell Furnished Rooms was a rooming house. The Davis family that built this structure were Medford pioneers, operating the flour mill and helping to organize the Jackson County Bank. The design uses sandstone along the alley, one of the few remaining examples of bearing masonry in southern Oregon. The façade, originally with an arched central entryway, was substantially remodeled in 1954. C. E. Collins, the architect and builder, has been appointed to superintend all construction work on the new post office and telephone office building and is now in charge of that work. MM2/1/1907p5 Mrs. F. E. Brown, daughter of our good townsman, B. N. Butler, has leased the entire second story of the new post office and telephone building on North C Street and will occupy the same as a rooming house when completed. There will be nineteen rooms, and these will be fitted up with all modern conveniences and will be elaborately furnished throughout. MM4/5/1907p5 Excavation was commenced this week for the foundation of the new brick to be erected by the Big Bend Milling Co., and the building will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. MM6/28/1907p5 Saturday afternoon postmaster Woodford received telegraphic instructions to move into his new quarters in the Big Bend Milling Co. building on North C Street, and Saturday night the work of moving was accomplished. MM7/26/1907p1 The telephone central is soon to be moved from the rear of the drug store of Charles Strang to their new quarters in the post office building. MM3/13/1908p5 W. I. Vawter, who owns the building now occupied by the post office, has announced that the upper floor, now used as a rooming house, will be turned over to office purposes. MM4/23/1909p3 Davis-Cornwall Building [N] NRHP #252.1 127 South Bartlett Davis-Cornwall Building [S] NRHP #252.2 132 South Riverside The Davis building, which was recently completed, is to occupied this week by the Chrysler garage. MT6/5/1927p3 The Fitch Motor Co. finished moving yesterday from 123 to 127 South Riverside into the new Davis building. They will occupy the whole building, half of which faces on Bartlett and the other half on South Riverside. MT6/9/1927p2 The completion of the Cornwall Davis garage building on South Riverside Avenue took place several months ago and is now occupied by Fitch Motor Co. MT9/14/1927pC3 The one-story concrete building located on South Riverside has been sold to J. J. Osenbrugge, who has occupied it for several years. The new owner plans improvements and modernizing of the building within the next few months. MT5/16/1935p5 Davis Grain Warehouse Photo: 1901 Evergreen between West Main and Eighth Built sometime previous to the 1888 Sanborn map; removed sometime between the 1911 and 1927 maps. A. A. Davis' warehouse, which collapsed recently, will not be rebuilt until the grain in it is sold or used. DT10/3/1901p1 The Davis warehouse, occupied by J. C. Schmidt, feed dealer, is to be torn down or removed from the railroad right of way. MW4/17/1913p3 Davis-Johnson Building Photo: circa 1931 111-115 North Central aka Frideger Building Scott V. Davis and John W. Johnson started construction today on a new building at 109 N. Central. MT12/8/1930p1 Announcement is made that a Pay 'n Takit store would be opened soon in the new Davis and Johnson building on Central. MT2/17/1931p7 The store occupies a building 50 by 100 feet with a 25-foot open front with accordion doors, providing additional light and air. MT2/21/1931p3 C. A. Whillock, owner of the Golden Rule store, has leased 113 N. Central, just vacated by Safeway store No. 41. The store is 50 by 100 feet; it has a basement 25 by 40 feet which will be used for storage. MT6/2/1936p1 Davis Opera House See Medford Opera House I Davis Storage Warehouse NRHP #70.0 Photo: 2011 31 South Grape Dean & Taylor Pontiac Photos: 1957 1959 Northeast corner Sixth and Grape Completed early 1957. Derick's Cafeteria NRHP #358.0 Photos: 1979 2011 17 South Riverside Restaurateur Hubert Derick hired architect Frank Clark to design this building as Medford’s first roadside eatery, opening in 1924. In 1934 John B. Cox bought the building and opened The Spot, an “artistically arranged beer parlor and sandwich shop.” He installed a 25-foot-long bar and private booths “for the special benefit of ladies and men who wish a suitable place for their friends and families.” The Spot operated, under successive ownerships, in this location for over sixty years. Deuel Building See Kentner Building, Hoover-Cooper Building, Adkins-Childers Building Deuel & Kentner Building See Kentner Building DeVoe's Confectionery NRHP #170.0 Photo: 1965 426 West Main, northeast corner Main and Oakdale Designed by Frank Clark; built 1916. MT2/24/1916p1 A. S. Rosenbaum and Clarence Reames are building a one story business block at Main and Oakdale. The building will be 25x70 and constructed of red brick. The building will cost about $2500. Ground was broken this morning; L. Childers is the contractor. The building will be occupied by the DeVoe grocery and confectionery. MT6/16/1916p3 Domestic Laundry Building I See Elite Laundry Building Domestic Laundry Building II Photo: 1938 28-30 North Riverside aka Dumas Laundry Mrs. Carrie Johnson is having a substantial concrete building, 50x100 feet in size, constructed on her lot adjoining the Sparta block. S. Childers is the contractor. MT5/4/1914p2 Following a fire which completely destroyed the Domestic Laundry and Zoric Cleaners, located on North Riverside, a new, modern building was erected late in 1937 with an opening celebration December 13th. MT1/2/1938p6 Fire early this morning extensively damaged the laundry area of Dumas Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners, 30 North Riverside Ave. MT7/8/1960p1 Dow Hospital Apple, Fifth and Riverside Ground has been broken for a rooming house at the junction of Apple and Fifth streets and Riverside Avenue. The house will contain 20 rooms or more. MT12/3/1909p2 Drs. Dow & Dow are fitting up a building of 18 rooms at Medford and will move their hospital from Central Point about April 1st. JP3/16/1918p3 Dumas Laundry See Domestic Laundry Building Durell Court Apartments 329-333 North Holly Eads Second Hand Photo: 1909 South Fir Eads Transfer Company Building See Crater Lake Garage Eads Warehouses North Central During the past year, two warehouses were constructed by the Eads Transfer Company on North Central. MT9/14/1927pC3 Eagles Hall Third floor Adkins Building (1911-16 directories) Eagles Hall 217-219 West Main Arrangements for the grand opening of the new Eagles Hall at 217 West Main will be made at the meeting of Crater Lake Aerie No. 2093 Thursday at 8 p.m. MT4/12/1944p7 The Eagles lodge is planning a party to mark the opening of the new lodge hall on West Main across from the California Oregon Power building. The lodge hall was destroyed by fire several months ago. MN4/14/1944p1 Pictured are members of Crater Lake Aerie 2093 burning the mortgage on their home 219 West Main Street. MT6/15/1945p1 Earhart House Photo: 1960 900 block South Riverside Reportedly built 1853; purchased 1886 by Samuel Earhart. Razed 1960 for construction of the Thunderbird Lodge and Sambo's Restaurant. June Earhart House Photo: 1940s 945 S. Riverside Remodeled into the Lodge Motel after her death in 1937. Earl Packing Plant See Page Warehouse East Main Dental Building 924 East Main Completed August 1957. MT9/29/1957p12 East Main Dental Buildings Photo: 1957 Northwest corner East Main and Geneva Construction started yesterday on two connected dental buildings on East Main. Both will be of equal size and connected with a covered walkway. Construction is being done by Meyers B. Jones; architect is Paul Kirk of Seattle, Wash. MT1/24/1958p1 East Main Medical Buildings Photo: 1957 East Side Market 606-612 East Main Medford Building Permit No. 1 called for construction of a frame store building at a cost of approximately $600 on the south side of East Main Street between Almond and Tripp streets. It housed a bakery originally; three more buildings were added to it to form a complex occupied by a grocery, a cleaning establishment and a shoe shop. All were later demolished, and what is now the East Side Market building was constructed in their place. MT3/26/1967pD1 East Side Union Service Photo: 1957 618 East Main See Duke Fountain Shell Station Built 1957. MT9/29/1957p12 Eck Office Building NRHP #7.0 218 South Central Edgerton TV Building Photo: 1953 2739 North Pacific Highway Elder Building East Main and Bartlett—identification uncertain Ed. Wilkinson will move his market to the Elder building, corner B and Seventh streets, which he will occupy until the new structure is completed. MM8/23/1895p5 Electric Building Photo: 1910 218 West Main aka Ray Building Built 1910 for the Rogue River Valley Electric Company; razed 1971 along with the St. Mark's Block. Building stone from the Gold Ray quarry is being used in the new Ray building, under construction. MT5/12/1910p4 The first floor of the Rogue River Valley Electric building, on West Main Street, is already occupied by the company owning it. The second and third floors have been divided by the architect, McIntosh, into 30 offices. There will be a cafe in the basement connected by the elevator with a roof garden on top of the building. MT9/4/1910pB1 September will witness the completion of the three-story concrete building erected by the Ray brothers. MT9/10/1910pB1 A big 24-foot electric sign was received here last week for installation by the California-Oregon Power Co. MDN7/3/1927p5 The sign is brilliantly lighted, the border alone having 352 sockets which are wired for a high-speed flashing effect. MT7/3/1927p2 A capacity crowd gave vociferous approval to the entertainment at yesterday's dedication of the new USO Center under direction of the Salvation Army at 218 West Main. MT1/25/1943p6 Elite Laundry Building Photo: circa 1907 400 block East Main aka Domestic Laundry Building I The Peil Laundry Company has purchased a lot on the north side of Seventh Street, near the Bear Creek bridge, and a contract has been let for the erection of a 28x60-foot building thereon. It will be two stories high and the first story, or basement, will be of concrete and the second story will be of brick. MM6/21/1907p5 Peil's Elite Laundry is now established in its new quarters on 7th Street near the bridge. The building is one story and a basement; the lower floor is cement—floors and walls—and will be devoted to the preliminary stages of the laundering. From this floor an elevator will transport the laundered clothes to the ironing and finishing room, where the latest and best machinery in that line will be installed. MM9/13/1907p1 George E. Hart has purchased the Medford Domestic Laundry property, on the northwest bank of Bear Creek, for $12,500. With the completion of the new bridge this property will be on the main thoroughfare between the east and west sides of the city. OR10/27/1912p56 Elks Temple See B.P.O.E. Lodge #1158 Ellis Building Location unknown. Built in 1915. MT12/31/1925p6 Elwood Building Photo: 1901 East Main E. D. Elwood has leased the ground where McCauley's tamale stand stood and will immediately put up a neat brick building. He has already torn away the frame structure. DT4/18/1901p7 Excavation for E. D. Elwood's new jewelry store, on Seventh Street, is under way this week, and the building will be hurried to completion. S. Childers & Sons will do the brick work. MM4/19/1901p2 A. C. Nicholson, the contractor and builder, has men at work on Elwood's new brick jewelry store. MM5/3/1901p6 Mr. Elwood's new brick building, which has just been finished, was built under his supervision and according to his own ideas of a well-appointed jewelry store. MM5/24/1901p7 Of the present tenants of the future site of the Palm-Bodge Block, Mr. Elwood will remain where he is, as the brick building that he is in will be incorporated into the new block. MM7/25/1902p3 E. D. & Lucy Elwood House NRHP #333.0 Photo: 1920s 135 South Central The small building was Medford's first school house. It was built in the spring of 1884 by W. F. Williamson, the first teacher. The building was 16x20 feet in size and had a capacity of thirty pupils. The building was built on South C and is now owned by Mrs. Smith, and is the residence in which Druggist C. C. Chitwood resides. It was built in '84 as a place of worship as well as school purposes. MM3/6/1896p1 Jeweler Elwood is engaged in making some extensive and substantial improvements in his pleasant South C Street home. An addition to the residence will be built on the south side. MM3/22/1901p7 Medford's first school was 16x30 and had a capacity of 30 pupils. The building was erected on the east side of Central Avenue, between Eighth and Ninth streets. MM4/16/1909p6 The first school was taught in the Lee Jacobs house, which still stands on South Central Avenue. The same building was used for church when a minister happened along. PO4/28/1934 Ely Building Central Avenue Mr. Ely is having a one-story 25x26 brick built just off 7th Street on C, which will be occupied by a butcher shop we understand as soon as completed. SOM5/13/1892p3 Brophy & Mathes, the new butcher firm of Medford, will be moved to the brick on C Street back of Slover's Drug Store as soon as it is ready for occupancy. SOM7/29/1892p3 Emerick Building I Bartlett Street aka Merrick Block The Emerick building on B Street is being finished inside and will be ready for occupancy in a short time. MM7/5/1907p5 The Crater Lake Garage is moving into new quarters on Bartlett Street in the Emerick Building, adjoining the Pacific Highway Garage. MT9/20/1912p6 Emerick Building II See Merino Building Emerick Building III South Front--possibly not built Messrs. M. J. and V. J. Emerick . . . own the Ivy Leaf Saloon property on South D Street, and upon the ground where now stands an old wooden building they will erect in the spring a two-story brick. MM12/21/1906p5 Emerick Warehouse 110 South Bartlett Work has begun on the erection of a large warehouse for the Medford Furniture Company on B Street, between Eighth and Ninth streets. The building will be 50x150 feet, one story. J. C. Emerick is erecting the building and will lease it to the furniture company. MM8/20/1909p5 Empire Hotel Photo: 1888 Northeast corner East Main and Central Episcopalian Block See St. Mark's Block Esco Building Photo: 1951 716 South Grape Built 1951. Estes Building South Front A shooting gallery is to be located on South Front between the Estes building and the Warnock lunch stand. MT7/15/1927p3 Exchange Saloon See Turf Exchange Saloon Exhibit Building Photos: 1905 circa 1912 Northwest corner West Main and Front aka Chamber of Commerce Building, Commercial Club Building The building destined to contain a permanent exhibit of the products and resources of Jackson County will soon be in place. The foundation is being laid this week. The building will be 26x48 feet overall. MM2/24/1905p1 The exhibit building will be opened Saturday morning. MM5/12/1905p5 The large display windows have been lighted, floored with oak, and given an attractive paneled backing. The Chamber has purchased a Tellite illuminated bulletin. PRH11/6/1930p2 They are tearing down the old Chamber of Commerce building on Main Street in Medford, which has stood there beside the tracks ever since we came to this county nearly forty years ago. CPA4/5/1945p1 Evelyn Apartments NRHP #171.0 107 North Ivy, northwest corner Sixth and Ivy Everett Court Apartments 920 West Eleventh Faber Building See Western States Grocery Far West Bank Building Photo: 1974 Southeast corner Hawthorne & Jackson Built 1974 for Far West Federal Savings and Loan. Farmer Building Central Trading a 100-acre ranch in the Applegate country with Jerry Peters, W. E. Thomas is now the owner of the new concrete Farmer Building on South Central, with a front of 50 feet and a depth of 100 feet. MT6/17/1927p5 The W. A. Farmer concrete garage building on North Central, which was purchased recently by Eugene Thomas, was sold last week to Gus Guddat. The structure was built last year. MT6/27/1927p2 Farmers and Fruitgrowers Bank Building 208 West Main, northwest corner Main and Grape aka Syndicate Building, Fruitgrowers Bank Building, Palm-Amy-Corey-Orth-Hargreaves Building, Orth & Getchell Building A contract has been signed up by the Medford Brick Company for the erection of a two-story brick building at the northwest corner of West Main and G streets. The gentlemen who are having the building erected are J. S. Orth, Dr. Hargrave, Frank Amy, C. W. Palm and C. H. Corey. It will have a frontage of 92 feet on Main Street and 62 feet on G Street. The first floor will be used for store purposes and the second for offices. Work will commence just as soon as the weather will permit, and it is given out that all the store rooms will be occupied just as soon as ready. MM2/26/1909p5 The Palm-Amy-Corey-Orth-Hargreaves Building, which has already been described in The Morning Mail, will contain four store rooms and will be modern in every way, including steam heat. MM3/12/1909p1 In the lot recently purchased by Delroy Getchell, the excavations are progressing satisfactorily for the erection of a two-story brick, having a frontage of 96 feet on Main Street and being 62 feet deep. E. O. Power is the architect. MM4/23/1909p1 The concrete foundation for the Syndicate building is all in, and the brick and stone work will soon commence. MM5/21/1909p5 The Syndicate building is growing rapidly. The first floor joists are in place, and the brick walls have been started. MM6/18/1909p2 The walls of the Syndicate block are finished to the fire walls and are awaiting the collar and roof joists. There will be a new feature to this building new in Medford, in that all glass used in both the first and second stories will be plate. MM8/20/1909p6 E. C. Ireland and I. W. Antle have leased the west room of the Syndicate block and will put in a line of the finest tobacco and cigars. The place will be fitted up very nice and will be a gentleman's club or retreat [the Smoke House]. MM9/17/1909p2 The staining of the woodwork in the Syndicate block has been let to Walter Pollard. MT12/3/1909p5 Federal Building Photos: 1963 1965 1966 333 West Eighth See U.S. Post Office and Courthouse; Gates Building The old houses on the federal building site were being prepared for removal or destruction Saturday. One house on the corner of Eighth and Holly had blocks under it, apparently for removal. MT6/14/1964p1 This week will be moving week for many federal agencies, which will be going to quarter in the new federal building on Eighth Street. MT2/27/1966p1 Tomorrow will be the last day for the public to receive postal service at the Medford Post Office on Sixth Street. MT3/8/1966p1 Construction of the building, for which Robert J. Keeney and Wilmsen, Endicott and Unthank were architects, was started in July 1964 by Todd Building Co. of Roseburg. The four-story federal office section looms 69 feet to the top of the elevator penthouse. MT3/10/1966p1 The former federal building is being dismantled to make way for a Jackson County health center. A major materials order is scheduled for delivery in early July, so the county is hoping to have permits well before then. MT4/17/2013p1 Fehl Building NRHP #150.0 Photo: 1965 332 West Sixth See Pacific Record Herald Building Completed February 1929. MT2/8/1929p5 Fichtner's Garage Photos: 1929 circa 1930 104-106 West Sixth, northwest corner Sixth and Grape aka Medford Vulcanizing Works Findley Apartments Photo: 1929 505-515 South Holly Built 1929. Among the buildings which aided in making the month's construction program so large is the Finley apartment house. MT3/31/1928p2 Fire Stations See "Medford Central Fire Hall" and "Medford Fire Station" Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Photo: 1933 206 South Riverside, southwest corner Ninth and Riverside First Baptist Church Photo: circa 1910 Southeast corner Fifth and Central See also Mid-Baptist Church Medford is soon to have a brick Baptist Church. A. Childers and son have contracted with the proper authorities to furnish 60,000 bricks for the building. AT9/24/1886p3 Work upon the foundation of the Baptist Church has commenced. OS3/19/1887p3 Childers & Son are finishing the brick foundation for the Baptist Church. The contract for doing the carpenter work will soon be let. DT4/29/1887p2 Webb & Zimmerman, who have the contract for doing the carpenter work on the Baptist Church, will soon commence operations. DT7/1/1887p2 Lumber for the new Baptist Church parsonage has been ordered, and as soon as brick can be procured work on the foundation will begin. MM7/14/1893p3 The very neat Baptist parsonage, on North C Street, is fast nearing completion. It will be a one-story cottage. MM8/11/1893p3 Rev. Stephens has moved to the beautiful new Baptist parsonage. MM12/1/1893p5 The present church home on Fifth Street and North Central Avenue will be put on the market for sale, and when disposed of it is planned to erect a large and modern church building on the location just purchased. MT4/15/1910 First Christian Church Photo: 1912 Southeast corner Ninth and Oakdale The first building, built in 1889 at Sixth and Ivy streets, served until 1912 when the "bungalow" style building at Ninth and Oakdale Avenue was completed. MT11/21/1969 The Rau-Mohr Co. closed a deal today to become owners of the Christian Church property at Sixth and Ivy. The company will at once commence the construction of a building; the church will be permitted to occupy the remainder of the quarter block until a new site is selected. MT8/3/1911p1 The building will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000, of the latest modified English design. Power & West are preparing the plans. MS1/3/1912p5 The church have commenced excavating; the church will be 40x82 feet in size and will be built of brick and stone. It will have a seating capacity of about 500. MT4/16/1912p2 The contractor in charge of erection of the Christian Church has been notified that he must discontinue his blasting operations or at least cover the shots so they will not hurl dirt and rock over nearby premises. MT5/18/1912p2 First Interstate Drive-Up NRHP #38.0 North Front First Methodist Church I Photo: circa 1910 Southeast corner Fourth and Bartlett The new M.E. Church is being rapidly pushed to completion, and will be ready for the plasterers in the near future. AT5/24/1889p2 First Methodist Church II Photo: 1965 Southwest corner West Main and Laurel First National Bank Building [I] Photos: 1907 circa 1908 1909 1909 1909 120 East Main See Howard Block The Medford Book Store vacated the First National Bank building on Seventh Street Monday, and is now located in the Tayler building, next door to the Green Front cigar store. MM6/8/1906p5 The contract for the reconstruction of the old J. S. Howard block by the First National Bank has been awarded to Perry Stewart and G. W. Priddy. Mr. Stewart will do the carpenter work and Mr. Priddy the masonry. Work has already been commenced—the floors and front having been removed. MM6/29/1906p5 The plans for this building have been prepared by Mr. L. A. Palmer, the well-known local architect. Like the other two bank buildings, this one will also use pressed brick as chief material. The west wall, with considerable alterations, will be used for the new building, but the whole front will be completely new. MDT6/29/1906p1 Where three days ago stood a building there is now but a pile of bricks. By the end of the week the new home of the bank will be under way. MT5/18/1911p2 First National Bank Building [II] NRHP #21.0 Photos: 1911 1912 1912 1912 1912 1930 120 East Main aka Bathmat Building Under today's modern “bathmat” exterior is a bank building dating from 1911-12. The structure was designed by Besser Brothers, Seattle architects, as First National Bank of Medford. Huge, fluted ionic columns of polished granite created a “Temple Front.” The interior included counters of breccia opal from Italy, black and gold marble from Abyssinia, veined marble from Knoxville, Tennessee and African mahogany from the Congo Free State. By 1936 it was out of date, and the bank was remodeled twice within five years. After World War II, the building was sold and the new owners found the granite front old-fashioned, had the columns removed, and installed a modern sheet metal façade—originally painted a bright pink. Medford's "Million Dollar Bank," the First National, is planning to increase the size of their present quarters on Main Street by building on the strip of ground which constitutes the alley between the bank building and the Hotel Nash. MT9/6/1910p1 Where three days ago stood a building there is now but a pile of bricks. By the end of the week the new home of the bank will be under way. MT5/18/1911p2 First National Bank, having outgrown its old quarters, has had its old building torn down and has let a contract for a new building which will have a stone front and cost $50,000. It will be well finished inside, the marble to be used costing over $10,000. MT7/2/1911pB1 Five cars of limestone from Bedford, Ind. arrived yesterday for the First National Bank building. OR7/14/1911p3 Contractor Beezer reported the new building would be ready for occupancy March 1. MT1/10/1912p6 The doors of the new First National Bank were thrown open to the public for the first time Saturday. MT3/2/1912p1 First National Bank Building [III] NRHP #192.0 Photos: 1953 1979 1 East Main Construction of the new "ultramodern" $300,000 First National Bank at Main and Front is scheduled to begin Jan. 2. The structure will be 63 by 150 feet, two stories high of reinforced concrete with a brick veneer finish and dark granite trim on the front. MT12/20/1953p1 Fluhrer Apartments 216 East Main See Haskins drug store Fluhrer Bakery Building NRHP #155.0 Photos: 1934 2009 2011 29 North Holly William “Heinie” Fluhrer operated his successful bakery from a series of buildings, and in 1933 he hired Frank Clark to design the first, central portion of this building facing Holly Street. In 1941, Clark designed a matching addition, and the small L-shaped gas station on the north, facing Sixth Street, was also remodeled. Fluhrer died in 1948 when his plane crashed into Lake of the Woods, and his widow Margaret continued to operate the bakery until 1962. Williams Inc., of Eugene, made bread there until 1972. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and restored in 1982. Paint removal in 2004 revealed the Fluhrer’s Bread “ghost sign” on the west side of the building, which was repainted in faded hues. Fluhrer's fine new bakery is now under construction. MT6/21/1933p5 Fluhrer Building Photo: circa 1937 circa 1947 1958 5 South Central, southeast corner East Main and Central-- Vogel Plaza site Remodeled 1936-37 from the former Angle Opera House and Adkins Building II; destroyed by fire February 10, 1969. One of the outstanding projects of 1937 was the rebuilding of the old building at Main and Central by William H. Fluhrer, completed last fall. Modern in every detail, the new Fluhrer Building is occupied on the ground floor by Reinhart and Barker's men's store, the Medford Pharmacy, Piggly Wiggly, Larry Schade's jewelry establishment, Mode O'Day women's ready-to-wear store, Buster Brown shoe store, Lewis ready-to-wear store and Biden's shoe shop. MT1/2/1938p6 Fluhrer Pastry Plant NRHP #56.0 125 West Fourth Foresters Hall Location unknown A dancing party was given Monday evening in Foresters Hall, and a very pleasant time was enjoyed. MM9/14/1900p6 Fountain Inn See Pickel House H. H. "Duke" Fountain Shell Station Photo: 1948 East Main and Tripp See East Side Union Station Grand opening May 29, 1948. MT5/28/1948p13 Franklin Building NRHP #330.0 125 South Central Fredenburg House Photo: 1910 Northeast corner Tenth and Holly C. Frideger Building NRHP #41.0 113-115 North Central This name was erroneously given in the National Register survey to the Davis-Johnson Building (q.v.). Among the first new building projects to be undertaken during the coming year will be a brick structure to be put up by C. Frideger on what is known as the Simmons property, on North Central Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets. Mr. Frideger became the owner of this property a few months ago, and just as soon as he can have plans perfected he will commence excavating for the building. The building will be brick and stone, 25 by 40 feet in size, and while it will be only one story high the foundation and walls will be put in sufficiently heavy to carry it four stories, should Mr. Frideger decide later to add the other stories. MT1/9/1912p2 W. Frideger, who recently put in a foundation for a new brick block on North Central, has decided to put the building up two stories instead of one. MT2/1/1912p2 The Frideger Building was apparently removed sometime between publication of the 1927 Sanborn Fire Insurance map and construction of the Davis-Johnson Building in 1930. Front Street Drinking Fountain Northwest corner West Main and Front Work will be begun within a few days on the erection of a drinking fountain just east of the Chamber of Commerce building and the Front Street curb, to be built jointly by the city Water Commission and the Chamber. MT7/27/1927p3 Concrete has been poured and is rapidly hardening; the fountain is approximately half completed, cedar posts having yet to be set for the wooden canopy. MT8/2/1927p2 Put partly into operation yesterday, the new city fountain is already being well patronized by thirsty local citizens and tourists. When completed the fountain, which at present has only one stream of water, will have four. MT8//9/1927p2 Fruitgrowers Bank Building See Farmers and Fruitgrowers Bank Building Furnas Building See Crater Lake Automotive, 123 South Riverside Gagnon Lumber Mill West Medford J. T. Gagnon has arrived back in Medford from Portland, where he purchased machinery for the new saw mill he is erecting on the site of the mill which burned in Medford several weeks ago. The new mill, which will be ready by fall, will be larger than the one burned down. The foundations for it are being laid. MT8/12/1919p8 The new sawmill and box factory in Medford of J. T. Gagnon has been completed and will start operating next Tuesday or Wednesday. MS11/9/1919p6 Garnett-Corey Hardware Building NRHP #113.0 Photos: 1910 1911 1940 2009 201 West Main, southwest corner Main and Grape aka Liberty Building, Leverette Building, Park Place Building Garnett-Corey Hardware Company completed construction of Medford’s first “skyscraper,” at four stories, in 1910. It’s still the second tallest building in downtown. Architects Power & Reeves MT1/2/1910pB7—not Frank Clark—designed the structure with red brick walls and stringcourse bands of locally quarried granite. In 1921, the year a basement fire forced Liberty Building 2009“Shortie” Garnett to close his business, the upstairs offices housed medical, dental and legal offices, as well as the U.S. Weather Bureau. Flags flown from the roof alerted residents to the region’s weather forecast (see Kentner Building, below). By WWII the second floor housed government offices, including a maternity clinic for wives of Camp White soldiers. In 1977, near condemnation, the building was listed on the National Register and modernized for use as office space. The Garnett-Corey Co. have under construction a 50x100-foot building, three stories and basement. The foundation is now about complete. MT12/12/1909p2 The walls for the second story are going up. Extensions for a four-story building are contemplated. MT3/11/1910p5 H. B. Reed was a pioneer of Medford and states that he once traded the lots where the Garnett-Corey building is being erected for a team of horses. MT3/14/1910p5 Yesterday Mr. Garnett purchased from T. H. Moore a 50x140-foot building site at the southwest corner of West Main and G streets, and will commence work at once on an elegant two-story and basement building. MM2/12/1909p1 Excavations have begun for the wholesale and retail hardware establishment of H. C. Garnett and his associates. This will be one of the largest and best constructed buildings on the street. MM4/23/1909p1 The building, four stories high, will cost $58,250 when completed. The first floor will be occupied by the Garnett-Corey Hardware Company, while the upper three floors will be divided into 60 offices. Power & Reeves are the architects for this building. MT9/4/1910pB1 Excavation work was commenced yesterday for the basement of the Garnett & Corey building, which is to be put up on the southwest corner of West Main and Grape streets. G. L. Schermerhorn has the contract for the excavating work. MM9/17/1909p3 The Medford Brick Company has secured the contract for the construction of the Garnett-Corey Hardware Company's new wholesale and retail building, which is to be erected at the southwest corner of West Main and Grape streets. Work on the basement will start just as soon as the excavating work is completed, which will be within a few few days. MM10/22/1909p1 "I am thinking of starting a natatorium," says Shortie, when he is asked about the water in his newly excavated basement. MT11/28/1909p23 After 22 months of hard work it is ready. The two large store rooms on the first floor and basement will be used by Garnett-Corey Hardware Co.; the three upper floors contain suites of offices, 60 in number, each fitted with steam heat, hot and cold water. MT12/11/1910p15 The Garnett-Corey Hardware Company has at last moved into its large four-story brick building, fifty by 140 feet, at the corner of Main and Grape streets. Yesterday was given over to celebrating the event, and the grand opening was attended by several thousand persons, many coming from out of town. The three upper stories contain suites of offices. The whole building is fitted with steam heat; hot and cold water and electric light. The first floor and the basement will be the home of the Garnett-Corey company. A ten-passenger elevator is used as means of transportation to and from the upper floors, which contain sixty suites of offices. MS12/18/1910p1 The large passenger elevator just installed is the first of its kind in the city. OR12/16/1910p8 The new office of the county pathologist and entomologist, and also of the United States Weather bureau, in the Garnett-Corey building was opened today. Just as soon as the weather forecasting apparatus arrives from Washington, D.C., it will be installed on the roof of the Garnett-Corey building, and the weather signals will from now on be flown form the mast on the top of that structure. MT3/1/1911 A new neon sign has been installed by Alexander's Grocery and the Liberty Market, located in the Liberty Building. The Model Bakery is also in the location. MT9/23/1934p14 Gates Ford Building Photo: 1922 1926 Southwest corner East Sixth and Riverside aka USO Building, Federal Building Built for Charles E. "Pop" Gates' Ford dealership in 1920; addition of a second story began in November 1926. Used as a USO during World War II. In 1916 Gates was granted a permit to construct brick shops on North Riverside between East Main and Sixth streets. In 1920, he received permits to construct a concrete building on Riverside Avenue between East Main and Sixth streets at a cost of $25,000. MT3/26/1967pD1 The Gates Auto Company addition is nearly completed. MT1/2/1927pD2 With the recent completion of the second story of the Gates Auto Co., the firm has one of the most up-to-date Ford service station and display rooms on the coast. The new addition gives them over 30,000 feet of floor space in the two stories. The upper floor is used for overhauling cars, tractors and trucks, a welding department and a complete radiator repair department. The lower floor is given over to the office, parts department, two show rooms. MT3/6/1927pB3 A second story was added onto the C. E. Gates Auto Co. building during the past year in order to provide added floor space for storage and repair work. MT9/14/1927pC3 The old federal building at Sixth and Riverside may be declared surplus by the government in the near future. If the city is given an opportunity to purchase the land, the building would be torn down and a parking lot constructed on the property. MT12/21/1962p1 GeBauer Apartments See Schuler Apartments General Tire Service Photo: 1961 1112 Court Getchell Building NRHP #76.0 115 West Main, southwest corner Main and Fir Designed by Frank Clark, built 1916 for owners E. B. Pickel, Reginald Parsons, L. Niedermeyer and Delroy Getchell. MT2/24/1916p1, MS2/25/1916p2 Gus the Tailor, Ed. Binns the meat merchant, and the Electric Kitchen, on the quarter block to be cleaned up for the new business structure, will enjoy a vacation of two months while the building is being constructed. MT3/11/1916p2 Interior frame work for the new business block at Main and Fir is being rapidly placed. Good progress is being made on the building. MT4/21/1916p2 The work of installing the tile front of the new business block at Main and Fir is completed, and adds an attractive appearance to that part of the city. MS6/2/1916p2 The new business block at Fir and Main is fast nearing completion. The equipment of some of the stores that will occupy the building is being put in place. MS6/23/1916p2 J. F. Lawrence will move his jewelry store to the new building corner of Main and Fir about August first. MT7/28/1916p2 Girls Community Club I 229 North Bartlett The clubhouse, originally a large residence, was purchased in 1920 by the Young Women's Christian Association. MT9/23/1956pB6 Reconditioned with new paint and furnishings, the Y.W.C.A. presents a fine appearance. The reception hall, 24x24 feet, is also for the use of the Delphian Club, American Legion Auxiliary, and any other women's organizations. JCN9/10/1926p1 Girls Community Club II NRHP #294.0 Photo: 1957 229 North Bartlett aka Mary Phipps Center Plans for a new two-story clubhouse for the Girls Community Club were announced yesterday. It will be erected on the site of the present clubhouse, and construction will begin about December 1. MT9/23/1956pB6 To be completed Aug. 1, the new Girls Community Club will house 22 young employed girls and accompany more than 200 in the main club room. MT5/31/1957p1 The two-story red brick building is being converted into an off-campus educational center for SOSC. The twin beds have been removed, the upstairs kitchen turned into a computer lab, and the house mother's apartment into a suite of offices. PO11/29/1984 Gloria-Pan Apartments 375 South Central Goldy Building See Palm Building I Gore House Photo: 1890 2922 South Pacific Highway Grand Hotel See Barnum Hotel Grand Theater Building See Hubbard Brothers Hardware/Woods Block Florence Graves House NRHP #180.0 220 North Oakdale Groceteria No. 1 Northeast corner Sixth and Central aka Neff Building Built 1923; razed 1947 to make way for the J. C. Penney Building. W. E. Thomas last night purchased from Porter J. Neff the one-story business house for $42,500. The store rooms are occupied by the Groceteria and Gus the Tailor, with a frontage of 100 feet on Sixth Street and 125 feet on North Central. MT6/3/1927p5 The Neff concrete building was last week repurchased by Mr. Neff. MT6/21/1927p3 Grossman Building 317-319 East Main—block 3, lot 15 J. G. Grossman, the well-known wheelwright, has let the contract for putting up a brick building on his lots in the eastern portion of town. DT5/23/1889p3 J. G. Grossman, the well-known wheelwright, is occupying his fine brick building on Seventh Street. DT7/25/1889p3 Judge Hanna has decided that the deed to property in Medford given by the late J. G. Grossman to J. W. Miller is valid. Relatives of the man sought to set it aside. DT5/8/1902p5 Hadley Hardware Building East Main--lot 11, block 13 S. B. Hadley has a good assortment of merchandise and will put up a good, permanent building, 25x40. AT1/25/1884p4 Edgar Hafer House NRHP #172.0 Photos: 1920 1920 2009 426 West Sixth Built for the owner of Medford's Iowa Box Company, this grand Colonial Revival house was a funeral parlor from 1920 until 2000, when it was purchased by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Halley Block NRHP #20.0 Photos: 1927 2003 Northwest corner Eighth and Central, 26-38 South Central (1911-12 directories: 36-40 South Central) aka Hogan Building Constructed in sections 1893-1927. The upstairs floor was the Palace Hotel 1890s-1939, Crater Hotel 1939-1972. The location of R. H. Halley's brick building will be on the present site of this gentleman's wooden structure on C Street between Seventh and Eighth streets. The new block will be 60x46 7/8 feet in size and two stories high. The first floor will be divided into two store rooms, one of which will be occupied by Mr. Halley, and the other for rent. The second story will be fitted up for living purposes or offices. MM3/17/1893p2 G. W. Priddy has been given the contract for furnishing the brick for the new Halley Block, on C Street. MM3/31/1893p3 G. W. Priddy is now engaged in making brick for the new Halley Block. Mr. Priddy will also do the brick work. Messrs. Shawver & Nicholson will do the wood work. MM5/26/1893p5 R. H. Halley has commenced tearing away the old buildings and making ready generally for his new brick. The brick for this structure are now being made, the stone for the foundation are being delivered as is also lumber for the wood work. MM6/23/1893p3 Work on Halley's block is well under way, and it goes without saying that Medford is going to have an addition to her business houses of no mean proportions. DT6/30/1893p2 R. H. Halley has wisely decided to lengthen out his new brick fifteen feet—making it seventy-five instead of sixty as was first talked. MM7/21/1893p3 G. L. Webb has leased the north half of the Halley brick block—ground floor, and about October first the Racket will move to its new abode. MM7/28/1893p3 The Halley brick block, on C Street, will be ready for occupancy in a few weeks. The brick work is expected to be finished next week. MM8/11/1893p3 Being Built Sept. 93 Notation on the northern third of the current building, 1893 Sanborn map, page 2 Messrs. Shawver & Nicholson are now engaged in fitting up the new Halley block on C Street. MM10/27/1893p3 The Mail will move to its new quarters in the Halley block tomorrow. MM11/10/1893p3 G. W. Priddy within a few days will commence the manufacture of brick for the new Halley block. MM2/23/1900p7 G. W. Priddy will shortly commence the manufacture of brick for the new Halley block, which he has the contract for constructing. DT3/5/1900p3 R. H. Halley is at work on the second story of his new brick block. The front piers were put in with brick and stone; the first floor will be the new home of The Mail. W. L. Halley is superintending the carpenter work, and G. W. Priddy is doing the brick work. MM6/8/1900p6 R. H. Halley is pushing to completion a two-story brick, 50x50 feet, the lower part to be used by the Medford Mail; the upper part to be used by Mr. Halley in connection with his boarding house. OR6/8/1900p3 R. H. Halley's new brick, the front of which is one of the prettiest in the city, is completed. MT7/20/1900p2 The glass front is being put in the Halley block, and masons are putting on the plastering. The building is expected to be ready for occupancy by the middle of September. MM8/31/1900p7 W. L. Halley is this week finishing the second story of the new Halley block. MM10/5/1900p7 See Wilson Building II, below. The foundation work for the hotel building at Eighth and Central is nearing completion, and will be finished within a few days. MT12/30/1909p2 W. H. Meeker & Co. are moving today to their new quarters in the Halley building. The rooms have been entirely renovated and a modern front of plate glass put in. MT4/4/1910p8 Mr. John R. Keithley was in charge of the floor laying of the new Halley building under construction on South Central and which is to be complete in three or four weeks. Mrs. Keithley is a niece of Mrs. Halley. MT6/30/1927p2 The Halley building on South Central Avenue is a new structure of brick, occupies the former site of a one-story brick building and is two stories high. It was recently completed and is now occupied by Shield's dry goods store and Taylor Millinery Shop [42-44 S. Central]. MT9/14/1927pC3 During the past year, Mrs. Halley razed a section of the Halley Block and herself planned the modern unit, 45x100, that provides fine store rooms with modern second-story hotel rooms. "I intend to rebuild the north section next year," states Mrs. Halley. MT1/1/1928 The Crater Hotel fire started in a trash container in the northwest corner of the building, owned by M. N. (Mel) Hogan. Damage will run into the thousands of dollars. MT5/14/1957p1 Hamlin Block NRHP #23.1, 23.2 Photos: circa 1887 1950 1963 circa 1970 circa 1980 126-128 East Main aka Williams Block, Williams' Hall, Miles Block. See also Hamlin-Rostel Block. Completed early 1886 by George W. Williams, who traded it that August to James Hamlin for 190 acres of farmland south of town. The attached Howard Block was simultaneously built in the same style. The upstairs was originally a meeting hall, but was soon converted to legal and medical offices. A suite on the alley was for decades a photo studio; a skylight admitted the light necessary for portrait photography. That suite in the 1930s became offices for architect Frank Clark, who designed the stucco remodel. Mr. Williams of Medford will build a brick building and it will be 50x90. OS1/17/1885p3 G. W. Williams has let the contract for the brickwork on his proposed two-story building at that place to Childers & Son, and will do the carpentering himself. DT5/8/1885p3 Mr. Williams will arrange the upper story of his building so that it can be used for lodge purposes, with the two rooms in front for offices. OS5/9/1885p3 The brick work has been begun on the three large brick stores that are being erected by Messrs. Howard, O'Neil and Williamson. OS6/27/1885p3 The brick building of G. W. Williams is now being plastered and will soon be ready for occupancy. DT11/27/1885p3 Geo. Williams of Medford has traded off his brick block at that place to James Hamlin for 190 acres of land in Eden precinct. OS8/21/1886p3 Porch and awning in front of Howard and Hamlin blocks on Seventh Street declared and nuisance and same ordered removed within thirty days. MM3/9/1894p3 The work of tearing down the awning in front of the Hamlin and Howard blocks was commenced Wednesday. MM3/16/1894p3 New awnings are being put up; they are to be covered with corrugated iron, with two-inch galvanized piping for supports. The entire awning is on hinges and can be swung down in case of fire. MM6/29/1894p3 Attorneys Snell & Hartson have moved their law office from the Hamlin block. MM6/28/1901p7 The Hamlin building, which was sold by Sheriff Orme Saturday under a decree of foreclosure, was bought by Ed. Wilkinson, who bid $2,600, a big bargain. It is occupied by the Palm-Whitman Cigar Co. at present. DT3/27/1902p4 Within the next few weeks Miller & Ewbank, cash grocers with headquarters in the Miles Block, will move into new quarters in the Mission Block. MDT1/13/1909p1 A new front is soon to be put in the west store room in the Miles Block, recently vacated by Miller & Ewbank. Mrs. Miles may decide to put a new front in the room joining on the east, now occupied by Shorty Garnett. MM2/5/1909p6 Samuel T. Richardson has become the owner of "the west half of the Miles Building at 126 East Main St., the lower floor of which is occupied by the Model Clothing Co. store, and the upper floor by the Klein tailoring establishment." MT3/25/1920p8 In 1934 Jackson County Federal moved its offices into the building. MT1/2/1963p1 The purchase of the former JCFS&L building by Edson & Pappas, architects, was announced this week. They plan to remodel the building to include small shops on the ground floor, served by an arcade. MT1/2/1963p1 Hamlin-Rostel Block Photo: 1970 25-31 South Front aka Nurmi Building, Pastell Building The photo shows the Hamlin Block sometime after demolition of the Rostel Block, formerly just to the north of it. Lumber is on the ground for the wood work in the Hamlin-Rostel brick block, on South D Street. MM7/31/1896p7 Contractors Brand & Campbell resumed carpenter work on the Hamlin-Rostel block Wednesday. MM9/18/1896p7 The plasterers are at work on C. B. Rostel's new brick this week and will soon have it ready for occupancy. Jas. Coeti will use it for his saloon. Rumor has it that the fourth meat market is soon to be opened in one of Geo. Hamlin's new brick store rooms, south of Hotel Nash. MM11/6/1896p6 The second story of the Hamlin-Rostel brick is being put up this week. MM10/2/1896p7 The finishing work on the Hamlin building, which has been so long delayed on account of their inability to obtain the requisite material, is now nearly completed and the building will soon be ready for occupancy. Contractor Brand has been doing the work. MM12/25/1896p7 G. H. Hamlin has leased one of his new brick store rooms on Front Street to Owings and Dutches, who are fitting it up for a temperance billiard hall. MM1/22/1897p7 C. B. Rostel is making preparations to open a barber shop and variety store in his brick building in Medford. DT2/14/1898p3 R. Nurmi of the Nurmi Bakery has purchased the Seattle Rooming House structure on S. Front, in which he will install a $4000 baking plant and machinery. The structure will be remodeled and repainted and a new front installed. MT5/31/1916p6 The workmen rebuilding the front of the Pastell [sic] Building for the Nurmi Baking Co. came across a bottle of whiskey, wrapped in paper dated August 1896. The whiskey was used to christen the building and was placed in a pocket between two bricks. The sad part of the story is they broke the bottle and lost the twenty-year-old rye. MS8/25/1916p2 J. F. Hittson has located his Templar, Velie and Allen car dealership "in the building recently purchased by H. O. Nordwick on South Front Street, the Nurmi Building." MT3/3/1920p8 J. G. Hoffman will occupy the south room with Exide batteries and auto electrical supplies. MT3/4/1920p5 Will Hansen Building See Stewart Building Hansen Building Photos: circa 1922 1922 1955 1956 Southwest corner Sixth and Bartlett aka Medford Furniture and Hardware Co. Building Built 1922 by J. P. Hansen; upper floor burned 1955. Razed 1963. An important 1937 construction project was the remodeling of the Hansen building at Sixth and Bartlett sts., marking an expansion of Hansen Hardware. MT1/2/1938p6 Reconstruction of the Hansen building, which housed Medford Furniture until a fire gutted the building last July 8, began yesterday. The present walls will be reinforced with steel and used for the remodeled interior. MT11/15/1955p1 Work on repair and renovation of the Medford Furniture building is nearly complete. MT4/2/1956p1 Haskins Block See Haskins Drug Store Haskins Drug Store NRHP #317.0 Photos: 1891 1910-11 1979 214 East Main aka Haskins Block, Fluhrer Apartments Mayor Haskins:—"It is quite probable my new brick store building will be commenced at once. I have let the contract for the brick work to Mr. Childers, and Messrs. Shawver & Nicholson will have charge of the wood work. There will be only the two end walls to put up, as the adjoining ones will be my side walls—and in which I have a part ownership. The building will be two stories high—the second story to be fitted for office purposes. The building ought to be in readiness inside of three months." MM4/20/1894p2 Haskins will begin the erection of his building as soon as the old building is removed, which has been sold to C. W. Palm and will be moved across the track and placed fronting to the east and adjoining the distillery office. MM4/20/1894p3 No sooner does Palm get the Haskins building moved across the street than it was leased by John Morris, who expects to move in with a stock of crockery and glassware. MM4/27/1894p3 D. Brooks, the tinner, is engaged in putting the roof on Mayor Haskins' new brick. MM5/18/1894p3 The Haskins new brick drug store is nearly ready for the plasterers. MM6/1/1894p3 G. H. Haskins is having a one-story addition built at the rear of his drug store. It will be 22x25 feet in size and will be used as a store room by druggist Leon B. Haskins. MM2/9/1906p5 Leon Haskins is having material placed on the ground with which to replace the old front in his drug store with a new one. The entire front will be torn out and the material used in replacing it will be white pressed brick with red tucked joints, and at the crest there will be two cement acorns, this being the only cement work used. The store front will be of large plate glass. The entire front will be modern in every particular—and there'll not be a prettier one in the city. Contractor L. J. Rinehart will do the work. MM6/21/1907p5 I am having Weeks Brothers make my shelving and counters, and they are promised for about June first. Drs. Pickel and Geary will have offices over the store. Dr. Pickel will occupy the south front rooms and Dr. Geary the north front two rooms. Back of these will be a fairly good-sized hall—large enough for lodge hall for secret societies. MM6/22/1894p2 The front of the Haskins building is now complete, and is one of the handsomest in the city. The entrance lobby is floored with cement, and the large plate glass on each side with the handsome woodwork inside and the cement base in granite effect make a combination that is handsome in the extreme. MM8/16/1907p5 Haskins Drug was the first exclusive drug store in Medford and was established in the present location in 1884 by George H. Haskins, father of Leon B., who operated it until 1903 when it was taken charge of by Leon. The present brick structure was erected in 1894 and remodeled to meet increased demands in 1907. MT7/21/1924p6 Haymarket Square Southwest corner West Main and Front After the Southern Pacific Railroad depot was moved from the site in 1910 the vacant lot became a venue for buskers, public speakers and rallies informally known as Haymarket Square--probably a jocular reference to Chicago's 1886 Haymarket riot. Hazelrigg Opera House See Medford Opera House I and Medford Opera House II Helms Building South Front Street A. D. Helms will this week let the contract for building a 25x60-foot brick saloon building on his lot, south of Hotel Nash. The building will be one story high and will probably be built by G. W. Priddy. MM3/2/1900p7 The foundations are being laid this week for A. M. Helms' saloon building. The building will be 25x60, one story high, of brick. G. W. Priddy is doing the mason work. MM5/25/1900p7 A. M. Helms is building a store room, 25x100 feet. OR6/8/1900p3 A. M. Helms has his saloon so far along as to ensure its completion by Saturday, upon which date he will have an opening. His is the finest sample room in the city, and he has had his fixtures painted and burnished to be in keeping with the surroundings. MM6/29/1900p7 Henry's Drive-In Building Photo: 1940s North Riverside Higgins Building North Front J. Wright, recently from Grants Pass, has leased S. A. D. Higgins' building, on North Front Street, for saloon purposes. MM4/13/1894p3 J. Wright opened his place of business on Front Street Monday morning. MM4/20/1894p3 Hight Realty NRHP #47.0 221 North Central Hilarity Hall Photo: 1928 Fifth and Fourth and Fir and Grape The whole block between Fifth and Fourth and Fir and Grape was leased by A. W. Walker, who will remodel and rebuild the building on the grounds into a large dance pavilion. The floor will be 50x162 feet; the section formerly used for repair of logging trucks will be leveled and made into a large parking ground. MDN5/22/1927p7 Hillcrest Memorial Park Chapel North Phoenix Road A new innovation in funeral services will be introduced about June 1 when construction is completed at Hillcrest Memorial Park. The chapel will be of frame construction with cedar siding and a white crushed rock roof. MT3/1/1959p8 L. B. Hogan Building Main We have leased the L. B. Hogan Building on 7th Street, and will move our stock of groceries to same on or about Dec. 1, 1905. Crystal & Talent, The Busy Grocers. MM12/8/1905p4 Hogan Building See Halley Block Holiday Inn Biddle Road Prominent on the drawing boards are plans for the 128-unit Holiday Inn near the north freeway interchange. MT1/14/1968pB1 Holland Hotel See Hotel Holland Holly Apartments NRHP #146.0 135 North Holly Holly Court Apartments NRHP #137.0 240 North Holly Holly Theatre Building NRHP #126.0 Photos: 1930 2006 226 West Sixth Medford’s most elaborate movie “palace” was designed by Frank Clark. Notorious county commissioner Earl Fehl was the contractor. Construction began in November 1929; the theater opened August 29, 1930. Home Telephone & Telegraph Company Building NRHP #125.0 218 West Sixth Work on the plans and specifications of the building are already under way, and active construction will be under way by January 15. MT11/18/1909p1 Work of excavating the building has been commenced. It will be 25x65 feet in size, of brick, and two stories high. Medford Brick Co. has the contract. MT2/4/1910p2 Built in 1910 for the Home Telephone Company, this structure was used as “The Outpost,” the officers’ USO, during WWII. Later it became the University Club, a social gathering spot. The second story was added or extended in 1912. MT10/28/1912p3 A recreational hall for servicemen will be opened in the very near future in the old telephone building on Sixth Street. The lower floor will be devoted to recreation and the second floor will be converted into offices for WPA recreational staff. MN7/3/1942p3 Hoover-Cooper Building NRHP #320.0 Photo: circa 1908 232 East Main, southwest corner Main and Bartlett aka Clay Building, Cooper Building, Deuel Building, Main & Winchester Building, Meeker Building, Music Center Building Built in 1890 for saddler W. G. Cooper & Sons after a December 7, 1889 fire destroyed their wooden building on the site. W. G. Cooper last week made application to the town council for leave to erect a temporary wooden building on the site of his burned business house, until such time as he can build a brick structure. DT12/19/1889p3 Among the brick buildings contemplated in Medford during the coming season are a 25x76-foot two-story business house on the corner of Seventh and B streets, to be erected by W. G. Cooper, work on which has already begun. DT4/10/1890p2 Cooper's brick is almost ready for occupancy. It is now being plastered. DT11/21/1890p2 F. Hubbard's sons have rented Cooper's brick building on 7th Street and will stock it with agricultural implements and machinery of all kinds. DT5/8/1891p2 Ladies, call at New York Cheap Cash Store on the 4th of July and get a fan free of charge. Note the address, Cooper brick. SOM7/8/1892p3 White, Harbaugh & Co. have purchased of Main & Winchester of San Francisco the two-story brick building situated opposite the Bank of Medford. They intend to thoroughly renovate it soon. DT2/11/1900p3 T. J. Kenney has made arrangements to have Main & Winchester's brick building, on the corner of 7th and B streets, repaired. DT4/5/1900p3 The poultry show will be held in the old Meeker building on the corner of Seventh and B streets. MM12/28/1900p7 The case of Main & Winchester vs. Hulda Hoover, et al. to quiet title to the building situated on the southwest corner of Seventh and B streets, which was decided in favor of the plaintiff by Judge Hanna, has been appealed to the supreme court. DT4/3/1902p1 F. K. Deuel has had a foundation put in on the alley between Seventh and Eighth streets—on the property he recently purchased from Mrs. McKee. The building to be put on the foundation will be 32x50 feet in size and will be used as a warehouse, in connection with Mr. Deuel's storeroom, now occupied by Messrs. Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. MM4/20/1900p7 A new business concern in this city is the Model Clothing Co., located at the corner of Seventh and B streets, in the building formerly occupied by Nicholson & Platt. The interior of the building has been renovated, and is very attractive. MM4/12/1907p5 Merchant F. K. Deuel is having a second story built over the rear of the present salesroom of Deuel & Kentner. The room which this added story will make will be 25x50 feet in size, and when completed will be used exclusively for ladies' suits and ladies' ready-to-wear garments. MM6/7/1907p5 W. S. Clay is preparing to build an addition to his building, corner of 7th and B streets, and make other alterations to it, which will make it one of the most desirable locations in that vicinity. The building will be extended back to the alley, making it 110 feet long inside. The front in the lower floor, occupied by the Model Clothing Co., will be replaced by a model plate glass front. MM7/5/1907p1 The two-story extension of the Clay building, corner of B and 7th streets, is being rapidly pushed to completion. MM8/9/1907p5 Sam Richardson:—"Yes, I fancy we will have a good building when completed. The building will be 130 feet in length and 25 feet wide and from this we will take off 24 feet at the rear for a wareroom. When we get our store front made over with plate glass and pressed brick I fancy there will be no better or prettier store of the kind on the coast." MM7/19/1907p1 The photograph gallery which has been fitted up by Dewitt Goodpasture in the Clay building, over the Model Clothing Company's store, is now ready for use. MM10/11/1907p5 The Model Clothing Co. will occupy the building now occupied by the Medford Furniture Co. one door west [sic] from their present location. A new and modern front will be put in, new floors will be put down and the walls kalsomined. MT7/21/1911p8 The Medford Mercantile (M.M.) Department Company, formerly W. H. Meeker and Co., has leased the Deuel building and will move thereto on January 1st. A new and modern front will be put in, and the interior will be repainted and repapered throughout. MT11/2/1912p2 Palmer Piano House has rented the building formerly occupied by the Model Clothing Co., 234 East Main, and will move in about June 1st. MT5/31/1919p2 Crater Lake Hardware will move into the Deuel Building August 1st. MS7/20/1919p2 A mezzanine floor will be added, window display space enlarged in front by the removal of the stairway, and show windows installed along the Bartlett Street side. The entire interior will be altered and renovated. MT7/19/1927p1 A permit was issued yesterday to Henry F. Fluhrer for the alteration of the Palmer music store on East Main, at a cost of $5000. MT7/26/1927p2 Work is in progress on the remodeling of the Palmer Music House, giving it greater show window display space and more floor space. Display windows will be installed on the Bartlett Street side of the building, taking the place of a bare brick wall. MT9/14/1927pC3 The walls and ceilings of the Music Center Building are a study in blended tans and creams, designed by John H. Lock, painting contractor. About ten feet from the west wall are a series of three arches, draped off for special demonstration rooms. MT10/4/1927p8 The Deuel building, gutted by fired several years ago, promises to be in good condition for the Diamond Jubilee early in June. MT4/26/1934p7 Workers are busy at the temporary USO center on Main and Bartlett streets, which will be opened soon. MT5/29/1942p10 City directory listings: 1935-37--not listed (apparently vacant); 1939-41--Leonard’s Beauty College; 1942-43--Medford Military Tailors; 1946-55--Anders Photo Shop. Current site of Lawrence's Jewelers. Hoover Elementary School Photo: 1958 Hotel Austin See Barnum Hotel Hotel Holland Building Photo: 1912 circa 1915 1978 Southwest corner Sixth and Fir aka Neff Building, Neff & Westerlund Apartments Formally opened December 28, 1911; razed February 1978. Porter J. Neff plans to erect a building two stories in height as a home for the Mail Tribune. Work on this started this morning. Next to this, J. A. Westerlund will erect an office building 40x100, and then Mr. Neff and Mr. Westerlund will erect on the corner a building 50x100, which will be fitted for bachelor apartments. When completed the building will form one block. MT9/2/1910p1 The hotel will be 88 by 146 feet, with basement. It will be equipped with a steam heating plant and telephones and electric lights, elevator system and modern grill. MT9/11/1910pB1 Matters are moving along well on the building to be erected on the Enyart corner on [North] Fir Street. The ground floor will arranged for two store rooms. The two upper floors will be constructed for sleeping apartments, each with private bath. MS12/31/1910p1 Work will be started this week on the apartment house to be erected at the corner of Fir and Sixth streets. Johns & Turner are architects and contractors. MT4/3/1911p5 The Medford Sash & Door factory are turning out the work for the Neff and Westerlund apartment house. MT7/2/1911p8 Claude Ponting of Medford has invented an electric heater for large office buildings. It has been installed in the Holland Hotel here. OR11/1/1913p17 A 7-year lease to the Holland Hotel, held by Ben F. Decious, was tentatively sold Thursday night to C. L. Reynolds, for a sum in the neighborhood of $25,000. The building is owned by the John A. Westerlund estate. MT6/3/1927p5 Hotel Jackson Photos: 1926 1942 circa 1953 108 South Central, southwest corner Eighth and Central aka Terminal Hotel Built as the Terminal Hotel in 1926; the name changed to Hotel Jackson January 1, 1928. Closed its doors in 1961. Demolished 1968. MT12/19/1967p1 The completion of the Stage Terminal Hotel was the outstanding accomplishment of the year. Constructed of reinforced concrete, it is four stories high and contains approximately 72 rooms, in addition to a dining room and a stage waiting room. MT1/2/1927pD2 The Stage Terminal Hotel was completed at a cost of $125,000. The hotel was opened one year ago today, September 14. It is one of a chain operating in Salem, Eugene, Roseburg and this city, where, at the latter place, the largest hotel is located. MT9/14/1927pC3 A number of new electric signs have been installed lately, including the one on top of the Hotel Jackson, formerly known as the Terminal Hotel. MT1/3/1928p3 Hotel Medford [Rebuilt] NRHP #168.0 Photos: circa 1940 1942 1978 406 West Main, northwest corner Main and Ivy Opened September 19, 1911 at five stories; a sixth was added in the mid-1920s. It burned to the ground the night of August 8, 1988. The replica currently on the site was built the following year. Work is to start on a six-story hotel building on the Coleman property. The building is to be erected by the Medford Hotel Company, a syndicate of local men. MT6/26/1910p1 The contract for excavation has been let to Shaska & Ament, and they will at once install excavating machinery, and the dirt will commence to fly next week. MT7/10/1910p1 Ground is being broken today for Medford's new hotel. The contractors have put a large force of men and teams to excavating for the basement, which will be 75x140 feet. OR7/14/1910p7 The Medford Hotel has its basement excavation finished. The Medford Hotel will be six stories high and will contain 110 guest rooms and six sample rooms, besides a dining room and appurtenances, parlors, a lounging room for men, a store, a barber shop and a billiard room. The building will be pressed brick, costing $80,000. MT9/4/1910pB1 Construction is well under way on the six-story Medford Hotel. MT9/10/1910pB1 As soon as the plans can be completed work is to start on the erection of a six-story hotel building at Main and Ivy, commonly known as the Coleman property. The building is to be erected by the Medford Hotel Company and will cost $150,000. MT6/26/1910p1 Small boys having "the time of their lives" ice skating in the Hotel Medford basement, "the only part of the building completed." MT1/15/1911p8 Brick for Hotel Medford is arriving from the Ray plant at Tolo. These bricks are what are known as select common and will be used for the main walls. MS2/8/1911p1 The second floor is complete, and the brick laid halfway up the third story. The laying of the white brick facing for the first floor is almost completed. MT3/30/1911p3 The framework for the fifth story of the new Medford Hotel was just in place two days ago and in honor of the occasion a flag was raised over the structure and a broom was nailed to the framework. MT4/2/1911 Next Sunday will be inspection day at the new Hotel Medford. The hotel will be opened for business next Thursday. MT9/13/1911p5 The work of tearing down the wireless plant on the roof of the Medford Hotel will start soon. MT7/29/1912p2 Efforts to keep the Hotel Medford open for business despite fire code compliance problems will reach the point of decision today. MT1/5/1978p1 Hotel Medford Sample Rooms NRHP #167.0 23 North Ivy The Rau-Mohr Co. closed a deal today to become owners of the Christian Church property at Sixth and Ivy. The company will at once commence the construction of a building which will be 100 feet deep with a frontage of 50 feet on Ivy. This building will be used for sample rooms for commercial men, sleeping apartments for the hotel help and a garage for stabling the hotel bus and for the accommodation of guests. MT8/3/1911p1 It will be decided whether the plans will be altered to call for a two-story building with a garage on the first floor and the sample room on the second. In that event the Dyer & Searle Motor Home will be housed in the new building. MT8/6/1911p8 The brick work on the new annex to the Medford Hotel is up to the second floor, and joists will be put on for the second story today. MT9/30/1911p2 Hotel Moore Buildings Photo: 1907 Southwest corner West Main and Fir See also Moore Mercantile Buildings At left in the photo. Built 1906; razed March 1916 to make way for the Getchell Building. T. H. Moore has commenced laying the foundation for his three new brick buildings on the west side. MM8/18/1905p5 T. H. Moore has men at work putting in a foundation for a 40x70-foot brick building, on South G Street. This building will be two stories high and will form the stable part of the livery barn which he is building on Seventh Street. The barn when completed will have a frontage of thirty feet on Seventh Street, by seventy-five feet deep, while at the rear it will connect with the stable above referred to. MM8/26/1905p5 T. H. Moore has completed the brick work on his new livery stable, and masons are now putting up the second stories of his other buildings. MM11/24/1905p5 T. H. Moore has broken ground on a lot which he owns opposite his new structures, on West Seventh. It is to be of brick and will be for business use. He is also preparing to erect a one-story brick addition east from the rear of his new hotel to F Street. This is to be used as a store room for the hotel. MM5/11/1906p5 Here stands a three-story brick, erected to meet the demands of a modern hostelry. It has a 42-foot frontage, which is divided between dining room and office. The brick work on this building is all completed, and three carpenters are now at work rushing the interior finish. Mr. Moore expects to have the building ready for occupancy in September. MDT6/29/1906p1 The big, three-story Moore Hotel building, although it was commenced in 1905, was not finished until this summer. MM10/12/1906p1 Delroy Getchell, Medford banker, received a permit in 1916 for construction of a cement business building on the south side of West Main Street between Fir and Grape. The $10,000 cost included the wrecking of two upper stories of the Moore Hotel building where social life had centered. MT3/26/1967pD1 LeRoy & Mattie House Apartments 215 North Ivy J. S. Howard Block Photo: circa 1887 See First National Bank Building Built by J. S. Howard in 1886; the attached Hamlin Block was simultaneously built in the same style. Replaced by First National Bank (q.v.) in 1906, what remained of the 1886 building was razed in 1911 with construction of the bank's second building on the site. J. S. Howard intends to put up a handsome two-story structure. DT6/12/1885p3 Our old friend Howard of Medford is building a two-story brick store, and says he will have a grand parlor in the upper story for his lady customers, and will have a brass band to play on the plaza in front every evening. OS6/20/1885p3 Williams' fine brick building at Medford will soon be ready for occupancy. DT11/13/1885p3 The shelving is being put in J. S. Howard's new brick, and he intends moving by the first of next month. AT1/22/1886p3 Porch and awning in front of Howard and Hamlin blocks on Seventh Street declared a nuisance and same ordered removed within thirty days. MM3/9/1894p3 The work of tearing down the awning in front of the Hamlin and Howard blocks was commenced Wednesday. MM3/16/1894p3 New awnings are being put up; they are to be covered with corrugated iron, with two-inch galvanized piping for supports. The entire awning is on hinges and can be swung down in case of fire. MM6/29/1894p3 White & Jacobs are removing to J. S. Howard's storeroom on Seventh Street. DT9/8/1898p3 The contract for the reconstruction of the old J. S. Howard block by the First National Bank has been awarded to Perry Stewart and G. W. Priddy. Work has already been commenced—the floors and front having been removed. MM6/29/1906p5 Howard (Brothers) Block See Medford Furniture and Hardware Building Howard Hall Upstairs floor of the Howard Block In 1888, "Howard's Hall," located where the First National Bank now stands, was rented for Sunday school and church services. MT12/7/1923p4 Howard School Photo: 1927 286 Mace Road Howell Rentals NRHP #182.0 244 South Oakdale Hubbard Brothers Hardware/Woods Block NRHP #270.1 Photos: 1908-1911 1939 1955 335 East Main, northwest corner Main and Riverside aka Wallace Woods Room, Grand Theater Building In 1883, Fortunatus Hubbard began selling farm implements in Jacksonville, relocating his company to the fledgling town of Medford when the railroad arrived in the valley the next year. Eight years later he turned the business over to two of his sons, who in 1906 tore down the wooden building on this corner and built a modern brick one. By 1934, grandsons Chester and Roland Hubbard were in charge of the family business; they bought the building next door and remodeled both in the latest Art Deco style. A 1954 remodel brought Hubbard’s to its present exterior appearance. If you look closely, you can still see pieces of the 1934 remodel (the ribbed columns at the corners) and even the original 1906 design (the granite blocks at the bases of the columns and the stone stringcourse just below the second floor windows). The building took the place of the Mitchell Bros. Building (q.v.). Wallace Woods has purchased from E. C. Boeck the Mitchell & Boeck blacksmith shop and ground upon which it stands. The lot is 25x140 feet in size, and just as soon as the lease of the present occupants expires, which, however, will not be for nearly a year, Mr. Woods will erect a two-story brick building thereon. MM1/26/1906p5 Messrs. Hubbard Bros. have plans drawn for the erection of a fine two-story brick and stone building on their present business location, corner of Seventh and A streets. The building will cover the entire lot and will have a frontage of thirty feet on Seventh Street, and 140 feet on A Street, and will be fifty feet across the back. The foundation will be of stone with cross walls in plentiful number to well support the enormous weight they will have to carry. The front will be of brick and cement, while the side walls will be of brick, seventeen inches thick. The first floor will be used for a show room and for storing the heavier farm implements and wagons, while the second story, which will be reached with an elevator, will be used as a storage and show room for hacks and carriages. The plans were made by architect I. A. Palmer. Work will be commenced on the building in early spring. MM1/26/1906p5 Hubbard Bros. Tuesday of this week commenced moving their stock of implements, etc., to the rooms adjoining Cook & Whiteside's harness shop, preparatory to tearing down their old building and constructing a brick in its place. The work of tearing down the old building has been commenced, and construction work will be commenced next week. Childers Bros. have the contract for the brick work. MM7/13/1906p5 The Fouts Grocery stock has been moved from the Dr. Page building [q.v.], on East Main Street, to the Wallace Woods room, nearly opposite on the same street. MM3/5/1909p6 C. H. Symcox testified yesterday to his faith in Medford by purchasing the Wallace Woods Building on East Main Street. The structure, which was formerly known as the Grand Theater Building, was sold by White & Trowbridge. MM4/30/1909p2 In 1906, the Hubbard Bros. building at the corner of Main and Riverside was erected. The contractor was Spencer Childers. In those days brick were furnished and laid for $10 per 1000. Wallace Woods built half the building. MN11/11/1949p1 Hubbard Warehouse/Pierce-Allen Motor Co. NRHP #251.0 112 South Riverside On Nov. 19, 1913 a permit was issued to F. and A. C. Hubbard for construction of a livery stable on the east side of South Riverside between Eighth and Ninth streets at a cost of $6,000. MT3/26/1967pD1 Hubbard-Wray Implement Co. NRHP #359.0 Photo: 1948 25 South Riverside Fast progress is being made in erecting an attractive new building which will house the Hubbard-Wray Co. MT5/27/1948p7 Prizes will be given away at the grand opening of the new Western Auto store at 25 South Riverside. MT8/26/1959p11 Huber Confectionery NRHP #363.0 Photo: 1979 413 East Main Huggins & Robinson Building NRHP #323.0 Photo: 1927 40 South Bartlett, northwest corner Eighth and Bartlett aka Johnson Building. Last week a crew was put to work breaking ground for the building to be erected by John W. Johnson. The building will be reinforced concrete with a glass double front on both Eighth and Bartlett. The new structure will be occupied by Huggins & Robinson, distributors for the Oldsmobile. JCN4/17/1925p1 The Huggins & Robinson Motor Co. has moved from Eighth and Bartlett to 123 and 127 South Riverside. They will keep the building west of their former location for used cars, paint department and car washing. MT10/16/1927pB6 The state-owned liquor store will be opened in about two weeks in the Johnson building on Eighth and South Bartlett, which formerly housed a miniature golf course. It offers ample space for the store, a space 35 by 40 feet having been leased. MT2/9/1934p1 Other newspaper stories about the store are contradictory about its location. One says it's "across from White's Machinery on South Bartlett." (White's was at 20 South Riverside.) The 1935 Polk's directory places the liquor store at 208 East Eighth—the northeast corner of the Leverette Block. Humphrey Motors Building See P. T. Young/Humphrey Motors Building Hunter Apartments 51 North Oakdale Hutchison Building See Lindley Building Hutchison-Lumsden Building See Lindley Building I.O.O.F. Building Photos: 1911 1965 219 West Sixth (1911-30 directories) Medford Lodge No. 83, I.O.O.F., has purchased 50x80 feet on Sixth Street, near Holly, and will put up a building of at least two stories, and perhaps four, for commercial and lodge purposes. MT12/3/1909p2 The local lodge of the I.O.O.F. held the first meeting in the new $30,000 building recently erected by them last night. MT2/28/1911 The local lodge of the B.P.O.E. will hold their annual election of officers in the new hall in the I.O.O.F. building, upon which the order has secured a lease for a year. MT3/2/1911p1 Independent Warehouse See Perry & Cox Warehouse Insurance Office NRHP #134.0 234 West Fifth Irom Building 32 South Bartlett The Irom Building in the rear of the Model Clothing store is being fitted up by the Medford Furniture Company for use as undertaking parlors. MM10/29/1908p5 The funeral services for Mrs. C. C. Bateman will be held at the Medford Furniture Company's chapel, on South Bartlett Street, today at 2:30 o'clock. MM6/18/1909p2 Ish-Baker House NRHP #93000924 Photos: circa 1900 2007 701 Western, at Jackson and McAndrews Designed by W. J. Bennet; construction begun August 1895. Ivy Street North Apartments NRHP #143.0 220 North Ivy J.C. Penneys [SOHS History Center] NRHP #299.0 Photo: 1979 102 North Central, northeast corner Sixth and Central J.C. Penney first opened in Medford in 1927, in the Cuthbert Building just on the other side of Sixth Street. After World War II, Penney’s arranged the purchase of this corner lot and demolished the old Groceteria. They opened their spacious new building, designed in the “California Style,” in 1948. The new building is constructed of stucco and was designed to dramatize the corner entrance with a spacious terrazzo floor. Penney’s remained a downtown fixture until 1986, when the store moved to the new Rogue Valley Mall. Three years later the building was purchased by the Southern Oregon Historical Society and transformed into the History Center. Jackson County Abstract Building NRHP #39.0 Photo: 1950s 121 East Sixth Jack A. Edson, Medford architect, has given the building a modern appearance. Prior to this time, very few changes had been made to the structure since it was first occupied by the company in 1924. MT6/27/1957 Jackson County Bank Building NRHP #315.0 Photos: circa 1906 1907 circa 1908 1909 circa 1920 circa 1930 2 North Central, northeast corner East Main and Central See Brophy Building W. T. York closed a real estate deal this week which is of no little importance to our town, the same being that of selling to the Big Bend Milling Company a business property, situated on Seventh Street, adjoining the Lindley brick, and now occupied by F. M. Wilson, the baker. A conclusion naturally arrived at is that the principal part of the first floor will be for banking purposes--and its occupants the Jackson County Bank. MM6/23/1899p7 Directors of the Jackson County Bank expect to commence work on their new bank building soon after the first of next month. MM9/8/1905p5 Plans are being prepared by Whiden & Lewis, of Portland, for a new home for the Jackson County Bank. MM7/28/1905p1 The Jackson County Bank will be two stories high, 36 feet on Seventh Street and 66 and a half feet on C Street, pressed brick throughout, with trimmings of terra cotta. The firm of Whidden & Lewis of Portland are the architects. L. L. Litherland has the brick and excavation contract, and Augel & Son the carpenter and interior finish part of the work. Excavation is now going on for the eight-foot-deep basement, in which the furnace for heating the building will be placed. MDT6/29/1906p1 The work of excavating for the foundation of the Jackson County Bank building was commenced Tuesday morning. MM6/29/1906p5 This building stands on the northeast corner of C and Seventh streets, having a frontage on the former of thirty-five and on the latter sixty-six feet, and is two stories high, with a basement. The exterior walls are terra cotta brick, resting on a granite base, with concrete foundation, the latter rising to the level of the street. The cornices and other finishing work are also of terra cotta. MM3/22/1907p1 In 1906 the building now occupied by the bank was constructed. Believing that Jackson County is on the threshold of a very rapid advancement, early last spring the directors of the bank decided to complete remodel the banking rooms, installing new fixtures and vaults and doubling the space occupied. The new vaults are of the latest approved construction, being 18 inches of double-reinforced concrete and lined with a half-inch of steel boiler plate. There are nine tons of reinforcing steel also used in the construction. The new vault door for the safe deposit department measures 11 inches in thickness overall and weighs approximately 12,000 pounds. The banking room floor was originally three feet from the sidewalk and has now been lowered to grade. Four new entrances provide easy ingress and egress. The floor of the main lobby is of gray Knox Tennessee marble, while the marble for the counters is of St. Genevieve golden-veined marble. This marble is especially imported from the Swiss Alps, and this installation is the only one of its kind in the West. It is rich in color, being of a beautiful soft brown, streaked with yellow and gold. The wicket fixtures are of hand-chased cast bronze. The decorations have been handled with exceptional taste. The color scheme, consisting of tiffany blue coiling with old ivory leaf work on the cornice and soft tan sidewalls, which in conjunction with the elaborate lighting fixtures produces an effect of subdued elegance. The woodwork throughout is of genuine Honduras mahogany. The cages, six in number, are equipped with all the latest devices and appurtenances necessary for each department. The P. T. Ainge Company of Portland designed the work, and manufactured the fixtures. The bank will be open for inspection Saturday afternoon and evening from four until nine. MT12/21/1923p2 "Remodeling of the old Jackson County Bank building by Littrell-Moty, Inc., at a cost of $3,000," was completed in 1935. MT1/3/1936p1 Jackson County Courthouse NRHP #86002921 Photo: circa 1932 See also Medford City Hall Oakdale between West Main and Eighth, 10 South Oakdale An election in 1926 moved county government from Jacksonville to Medford, which offered the County free use of its newly completed city hall on the corner of Fifth and Central. Architect John G. Link was selected to design a new Jackson County Courthouse, and the building opened in 1932. Jackson County soon became embroiled in one of the worst political fights in Oregon’s history, complete with stolen ballots, some of which were found burned in the courthouse’s incinerator, some floating in the Rogue River. Jackson County received adverse national attention, and armed thugs and state policemen patrolled the streets. Found to be involved in the ballot theft, Judge Earl Fehl was arrested; when Constable George Prescott attempted to arrest newspaper publisher Llewellyn Banks on similar charges, Banks shot him dead. For its valiant reporting of what is called the “Jackson County Rebellion,” the Medford Mail Tribune was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1933. Finishing touches are being applied to the new courthouse with the usual vexatious delays. The roof is finished and the jail equipment installation nearly so. The stone work on the first floor was washed down yesterday and looks good. MT6/23/1932p7 Jackson County Creamery Photos: 1927 1953 Northwest corner Fourth and Fir aka Southern Oregon Brewing, Ice and Cold Storage Company The Southern Oregon Brewing, Ice and Cold Storage Company building has a frontage of thirty-two feet, the depth being eighty-six feet, and the height being thirty-eight feet. It is operated by steam of fifty horsepower, and has a daily capacity of five tons of ice and six tons of cold storage. H. K. Hines, 1893p450 Jackson County Creamery has leased the Weinhard beer and ice depot and will install a modern creamery when the state goes dry. OR5/23/1915p9 S. A. Kroschel was formerly the Weinhard Brewery agent in Medford, and when the state went dry he transformed his plant into a creamery. OR1/11/1918p7 A $10,000 addition is to be made to the Southern Oregon Brewing Co.'s plant on North Fir. When the addition is completed the company's aging tanks will have a capacity of 1,600,000 ten-cent glasses of beer. MT11/1/1935p7 The 1950 Sanborn maps show the structures occupied by Crystal Distributing & Cold Storage Co. Jackson County Federal [Key Bank] NRHP #198.0 Photo: 1979 3 East Main, southwest corner Main and Front Completed December 1960. Jackson County Justice Building Photos: 1978 1978 100 South Oakdale; southwest corner Eighth and Oakdale aka Jackson County Justice Center Workers arrived this morning to begin moving district court records to the new Jackson County Justice Building. The dedication ceremony will begin at 11:15 a.m. The facility has been in the planning stages since 1973. Todd Building Co., Roseburg, was awarded the construction contract on Dec. 29, 1976, and work started Feb. 15, 1977. MT12/7/1978p1 Jackson Hotel See Hotel Jackson Jackson School Photos: 1912 1914 West Jackson Built 1911; razed 2008. Work on the Jackson Boulevard school building is being rushed; the foundation and much of the brick work has been completed. MT4/24/1911p6 Sam Jennings Building NRHP #282.0 229 North Riverside The Medford Auto Wrecking Company is operated under the direction of "Scotty" and "Mac" Matheny. A new building at 229 North Riverside houses this firm. MT1/2/1927pE1 With extensive remodeling and expansion at the F. E. Samson feed company's store and warehouse a private office has been constructed at the rear of the main store. Elevated floors and balconies for feed were installed in the warehouse. MT2/13/1936p2 Jerome Building [Eastside Pharmacy] NRHP #354.1 and 354.2 Photos: 1942 1954 3 South Riverside, southeast corner East Main and Riverside Reportedly built 1925 by E. C. Jerome for the Auto Supply & Parts Co. The old structures which have occupied the corner since Medford was first started are being torn down. MT12/5/1909p16 The Page Theater corner, Riverside Avenue and Main Street, where a hotel was once planned, was entirely built up with modern concrete structures, all of which are now tenanted, with the exception of two in the course of construction. MT12/31/1925p6 Jerry Jerome this week purchased from Dr. Page two store buildings with frontage of 28 feet on Riverside and 66 feet on Main. He now owns the corner from the Automotive Supply on Riverside to the Williams and Parkhurst realty office on Main. JCN9/10/1926p1 The biggest clock in the state is to be erected on top of the East Side Pharmacy. The face will be 14 feet in diameter, and hands seven feet long. MT10/4/1927p3, MT10/7/1927p6 Jerome-Vawter Building NRHP #353.0 404 East Main Construction of this single-story concrete building began in June 1925, an element in the redevelopment of this area following the fire that destroyed the Page Theater. The developer was E. C. Jerome. The first tenant was Modern Sheet Metal and Plumbing Co., which was founded in 1920 and was originally located in the Sparta Building across Main. In 1925 Vernon Vawter purchased a half-interest in the property from Jerome. Five years later, probably as an element of the Vawters' divorce, the ownership of the building was consolidated under Aletha E. Vawter, who owned the property for many years, leasing it to various tenants. By 1942, this building was occupied by Nu-Way Cleaners, Modern Plumbing having relocated to 410 East Main. In 1978 the building was occupied by Ebert's Art Center. In 1981, after doing a complete renovation of the building, Alice McGee opened McGee on Main, a women's clothing store, at this location. In 1982 she purchased the building. McGee on Main remained here until moving next door to 406 East Main. More recent tenants have been Osprey Brew Pub, The Boneyard and, currently, Shenanigan's Bar and Grill. Johnson Building See Huggins & Robinson Building Johnson-Childers Building NRHP #257.0 Photos: 1909 1920s 1930s 1979 318 East Main aka Knights of Pythias Block, Childers Block, Page Building Completed in 1899, the characteristic bay windows on the second floor were added later, sometime after 1913. Location of the notorious Royal Rooms. J. H. Redden this week sold to J. O. Johnson his property on East Seventh Street, who will immediately erect a twenty-five-foot-front brick building on each of the two lots. The buildings are to be of the best workmanship and latest design and will be used for store purposes. MM7/3/1896p7 Work on the J. O. Johnson brick block was resumed Wednesday. MM10/2/1896p7 B. F. Crouch has been awarded the contract for doing the second-story woodwork on J. O. Johnson's brick block. MM10/16/1896p7 Work will be resumed on the J. O. Johnson brick building in a short time. MM11/6/1896p6 Childers Bros. have commenced a kiln of 300,000 brick, which will be used to finish the J. O. Johnson building. DT2/20/1899p3 The Childers brick building which is now about completed has been leased and will soon be occupied by a gentleman from Fairhaven, Wash. We understand his stock will consist of carpets, upholstering, furniture, etc. EYE10/26/1899p3 A dance was given last Saturday evening in Childers hall. Some twenty-odd couples were in attendance, and a very pleasant time was had. MM11/30/1900p7 Santa Claus headquarters at Gurnea's racket store, Childers block. MM12/7/1900p7 Childers & Co. have sold their brick building, situated at the eastern end of Seventh Street, to Medford's lodge of the Knights of Pythias for $3250. DT4/4/1901p5 Monday evening the Knights of Pythias moved their goods and chattels to their new hall, which they recently purchased from Guy Childers. They will use both rooms on the second floor—one for a lodge room and the other for a banquet hall. MM5/17/1901p7 Smith & Molony will open up a boot and shoe business in the rooms formerly occupied by J. Beek, in the K. of P. block. MM4/28/1905p4 Smith & Molony have leased their former quarters in the old K. of P. building on Seventh Street to French & Co., who will establish a grocery and feed store. MM6/22/1906p5 About three years ago Talisman Lodge, K. of P. sold their two-story building on 7th Street between A and B to J. C. Smith for $4000. MM8/23/1907p1 The Page Building, corner East Seventh and Bartlett streets, is being made over into several small store rooms. Mrs. Gilbert has moved her stock of notions to one of them. Mr. Goode will open a chicken market in another, and a Mr. McMahon will occupy a third with tamale parlors. MM10/9/1908p5 The Fouts Grocery stock has been moved from the Dr. Page building, on East Main Street, to the Wallace Woods room, nearly opposite on the same street. MM3/5/1909p6 (In 1910 Fouts Grocery was located at 327 E. Main.) Contractor L. M. Lyon has men at work putting new fronts in the Dr. Page block, on East Main Street. New iron lintels are being put in place, and the fronts will be of plate glass. Both the fronts will have fine, large show windows and will be modern in every particular. A brick annex, 44x50 feet, is being built at the rear of the building. MT3/14/1912p5 E. H. Lamport of the Medford Harness Co. has leased from F. C. Page the store on West Main, which is now being remodeled. He will have a room 25x100 feet; a new, modern front is being put in. MT3/19/1912p2 Johnson's Market/Groceteria NRHP #124.0 Photo: 1927 101 North Grape, northwest corner Sixth and Grape The building is of reinforced concrete, one story high, with a frontage of 100 feet on both streets. There are two large entrances on Grape Street and three on Sixth; the structure was especially built for a market, the interior being one large room with wide aisles between the different departments. Elmer N. Childers was the architecture and builder, and the structure is a credit to his ability. MT6/3/1927pB8 One of the most important new business structures on Sixth Street, the railroad crossing of which was recently opened, is the Johnson Market building, constructed by Edgar Johnson at an approximate cost of $20,000. It was constructed of reinforced concrete. It houses eight different business establishments, including the Johnson fruit and vegetable market, Alexander's Reliable Grocery, People's Meat Market, Franklin Bakery, E. C. Silliman Candy Shop, Lovicia Waymack lunch counter, Ruth G. Tetherow's Easy Washer Shop salesroom and the Malone Fish and Poultry Market. MT9/14/1927pC3 Jorgensen's Dairy Photo: 1949 1723 North Riverside Karnes & Ritter-Kelly Building See Rialto Building Duff G. Karnes Building 36 South Grape Architect Palmer has made plans and specifications for a building to be erected by D. G. Karnes on part of his residence property, on South G Street. The building will be 26x64 feet in size, two stories high and built of lumber. The first story will be for store purposes and the second story will be used as a rooming house. MM10/4/1907p2 Friday afternoon and evening, at the D. G. Karnes building on G Street between 7th and 8th, the Ladies' Aid Society will serve to the generous public another of their popular suppers. MM3/20/1908p4 D. G. Karnes was for many years a partner of the late John Ritter in the cigar and confectionery business in this city. At the time of his death he was conducting a rooming house on South Grape Street. MT3/23/1914p2 Katherine Court Apartments 825 West Eleventh Kay Building NRHP #74.0 Photos: 1940 1979 34 South Fir aka Crater Lake Motor Car Building, Schermerhorn Building, Schermerhorn & Palm Building Apparently consolidated from the Crater Lake Motor Car Building and the Schermerhorn Building in 1940. The new building will be merged under one architectural style with the present Kay-Marshall structure. The new building, situated at 22-34 South Fir, will be 100 by 100 feet and two stories high. MT1/25/1940p5 Kentner Building Photos: 1909 1912 1928 1934 1979 308 East Main, southeast corner Main and Bartlett aka Deuel Building, Deuel & Kentner Building, Mission Building, Neff & Frohnmayer/Cooley Building Deuel & Kentner let the contract for their new building on July 4, 1908; it replaced the Union Livery Stable on the site. The partnership dissolved late 1909 or early 1910, H. C. Kentner continuing the business. Russell's occupied the building when it was gutted by fire in the fall of 1929; it stood as a shell until IGA opened their grocery store there in August 1934. There was "a recreation hall for Negro troops" in the building (probably upstairs) in 1942 and likely into 1943. Marshall-Wells Hardware joined Luman Brothers Grocery in the building in September 1945. The building wasn't streamlined until after WWII; it was occupied by Burelson's Ready to Wear in the 1950s and Gates Furniture subsequent to that. The building suffered a structural failure and collapsed the night of July 15, 1983. Just so soon as weather will permit in the spring F. K. Deuel will commence the construction of a three-story building. The building will cover the entire corner and when completed will be occupied by Messrs. Deuel & Kentner. MM12/7/1906p1 Work was started yesterday to tear out the buildings for the large new store belonging to Deuel & Kentner. MM7/17/1908p8 The concrete foundation for the new department store of Deuel & Kentner is nearly all laid. MM8/14/1908p4 The roof is being put on the fine new store of Deuel & Kentner, corner of Bartlett and Seventh streets. MM10/29/1908p5 A two-story brick and stone building, 75x130 feet, for a department store is being erected by Deuel & Kentner, at a cost of $40,000. OR11/2/1908p12 Within the next few weeks Miller & Ewbank, cash grocers with headquarters in the Miles Block, will move into new quarters in the Mission Block. MDT1/13/1909p1 The Commercial Club is hoisting weather signals daily from the top of the Deuel & Kentner building for the benefit of orchardists and the public. The daily predictions are received by wire and can be obtained by phoning the Commercial Club. MDT4/7/1909p3 Now that the season of the year when danger from frost is at its maximum, great interest has been displayed by the local fruit men in regard to the weather signals that are daily flown from the flagpole on the Deuel & Kentner building. In order that there be no mistake in reading the signals the following is a list of the flags and their interpretations as sent out by the United States Weather Bureau. The flags adopted by the bureau are five in number. The first is a white square flag, which indicates clear or fair weather. The second is a blue square flag and indicates rain or snow. The third is a square flag half white and half blue and indicates possible showers. The fourth flag is a black triangular flag and indicates the temperature. When it is displayed above the first, second or third flag it indicates that it will be warmer; when below, it indicates colder weather. When not displayed it indicates that the temperature is expected to remain about stationary. When fifth flag contains a small black square in the center of a large square of white. When an orchardman sees this displayed it is time for him to look out, for it is used to indicate anticipated frosts. MDT4/13/1909p1 Kentner's was moved in 1908 to the large Deuel building which still occupies the corner at East Main and Bartlett, home of Burelson's, owned by Miller's, a subsidiary of P. N. Hirsch & Co. During the intervening years the store underwent many changes in growth and management, but the buildings always remained Deuel's. Kentner bought out Deuel and changed the name to H. C. Kentner Company during one period. In 1914, Deuel assumed the store again and became affiliated with May Company in a partnership. Deuel took over the May interests preparatory to the return from World War I of his two sons, H. S. (Hob) Deuel and the late Luther Deuel. In 1923 the store was sold to J. B. Russell and became known as "Russell's." Several fires occurred during the Russell ownership, and in 1929 the building was completely gutted, ending the Russell regime. In 1933 the Deuel building was remodeled and became the grocery store and meat market of Luman Brothers. In 1941, it went through still another complete renovation and reconstruction. It became Burelson's, purchased by Mrs. Nunya Lizberg and moved from North Central. It was Mrs. Lizberg who sold to Miller's. MT3/19/1967pB2 Kidd Building See Rialto Building Kids Unlimited Building See Medford Bowling Lanes Kimball Fruit Company NRHP #185.0 Photo: 1929 220 North Fir Built 1929. Kinsman Building See Nash Livery & Feed Building C. A. Knight Packing Co. Southwest corner Thirteenth and Front The cost of packing plant construction, for which a permit was issued to Knight Packing Company, was $1,500 for the building to be located on South Front Street between 13th and Boyd streets. MT3/26/1967pD1 Knight has just completed a new packing shed of modern construction. MT7/31/1927pB3 Knights of Pythias Block See Johnson-Childers Building Knights of Pythias Hall 123 East Main (1911-16 directories) Korinek Building North Fir Former home of the Korinek Veterinary Remedy Co. "The Tomlin Box Factory, which has been operating in the old Korinek building on North Fir . . ." MS11/17/1918p6 Kurtz Cigar Factory Photo: circa 1898 East Main, between Turf Exchange Saloon and Elwood Building Frank Wilson is neatly fitting up the building formerly occupied by George Kurtz, and situated opposite Hotel Nash, for a candy kitchen. DT11/28/1901p5 Geo. Coulter has opened a lunch counter in the building formerly occupied by Geo. Kurtz and F. M. Wilson. DT1/16/1902p4 M. F. McCown and J. Eaton are conducting an excellent lunch counter and restaurant in the building formerly occupied by Geo. Kurtz and F. M. Wilson. DT1/23/1902p5 The Palm-York Company has fitted up office rooms in the rooms formerly occupied by George Kurtz' cigar factory. MM3/28/1902p6 The row of wooden buildings have all been torn down except the building occupied by the Postal Telegraph Company. DT8/14/1902p2 Labor Temple Third floor, 204 East Main (1930 directory) LaFonda Rooms See John F. White Building 1930 directory: Dorothy Marwick, manager Lamport Apartments 228 East Main Lamport's Building See Adkins-Childers Building Lawton Building 28-36 North Bartlett, southeast corner East Sixth and North Bartlett D. T. Lawton has purchased a couple of lots on the corner of B and Sixth streets, for $300, and will erect a brick building thereon, to be used by Mitchell, Lewis, Staver & Co., as a farm implement and carriage establishment. DT4/24/1899p3 Rock is being placed on the ground for the foundation for D. T. Lawton's new brick building. DT4/20/1900p6 Work on D. T. Lawton's new brick is going ahead with a swift pace. MM6/8/1900p6 D. T. Lawton has under construction a fine building 50x75 feet, to be used for a carriage and implement house. OR6/8/1900p3 D. T. Lawton, agent for the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co., has about completed moving into his new building, which is 50x75 feet in size, of brick and is on North B Street. An office is to be partitioned off in one corner of the building and the whole interior will be ceiled and painted. MM7/27/1900p7 Work has been delayed while Childers Bros. were burning a kiln of brick, but now that the kiln is opened the front on the Lawton building will be finished. MM8/17/1900p7 The brick front on the D. T. Lawton block is being put on this week. MM8/31/1900p7 D. T. Lawton is erecting a 20x30-foot implement shed at the rear of his building on North B Street. MM4/19/1901p2 Apparently replaced in 1921. MT1/10/1964p1 Le Moss Service Station Jackson and Riverside The new Le Moss service station will be open for business tomorrow. The station is all-steel construction and consists of the station proper and super buildings in the rear. MT3/30/1928pB8 Leever Motor Company NRHP #285.0 Photo: 1954 315 East Fifth Built 1947. Leverette Block NRHP #329.1 Photo: 1930 117 South Central, southeast corner Eighth and Central aka Montgomery Ward Building, Wards Building See also Garnett-Corey Building Some time ago Mr. Roy negotiated a lease for the State Theater in one of the rooms in the Leverette building, which is being constructed at the corner of South Riverside and Eighth Street, and which is to be the home of Montgomery Ward & Co. MT7/20/1928 Another large building constructed last year was the Walter Leverette business structure on South Central Avenue, completed at a cost of over $20,000, and now occupied by the Montgomery Ward, Burelson's and State Theater establishments. MT12/31/1928pC7 Early in 1937 Montgomery Ward remodeled and occupied the entire structure, "making this a complete shopping center under one roof." MT1/2/1938p6 Leonard's Super Service Photo: 1934 Sixth and Grape Leverette Building See Garnett-Corey Building, Leverette Block W. L. Lewis Super Service NRHP #13.0 Photos: 1927 1935 130 East Eighth, southeast corner Eighth and Front The greater part of the cement has been poured for the W. L. Lewis garage on Front. MT1/2/1927pD2 The new building is complete in every detail, and its 12,500 square feet accommodate a complete general automobile repair shop. A complete line of tires and tubes is carried while four visible gasoline pumps of the latest style will serve automobilists. Gus Guddat, well-known local contractor, supervised construction with Sydney B. Hastings as consulting architect. MT4/3/1927p3 The Lewis Super Service Station, which was completed this year by W. L. Lewis at an approximate cost of $25,000, gives Medford one of the largest and most up-to-date service stations in Oregon. A garage is also operated in connection with the station, which is located directly west of the Terminal Hotel on East Eighth Street. MT9/14/1927pC3 Liberty Building See Garnett-Corey Building Library Park [Alba Park] NRHP #157.0 West Main and Holly streets; the block bounded by Main, Eighth, Holly and Ivy In 1904 the city developed the present design with diagonal pathways; a bronze fountain was added to its center in 1905. In 1935, Callie Palm replaced the original fountain in memory of her husband, Charles, with a statue depicting a “youth, strong, happy and hopeful” along with two dogs, “his loving companions.” The Palms were early Medford land owners, who developed much of downtown during its first fifty years. In 1985 library park was rededicated as “Alba Park,” in honor of Medford’s Italian sister city. Lincoln School Photos: 1906 1907 circa 1911 aka North School Named North School when completed in January 1907; renamed Lincoln School by a vote of the students in November 1910. Lindley Building NRHP #312.0 Photo: circa 1908 215 East Main aka Cranfill & Hutchison Building, George Lindley Building, Scott Davis Building, Hutchison Building, Hutchison-Lumsden Building See Big Bend Milling/Lindley Block New shelving and counters, as well as a new floor, are being put into the Cranfill & Hutchison building on Seventh Street. MM9/8/1893p3 Bricklaying was commenced on the Lindley building Tuesday. MM7/31/1896p7 Wednesday marked the completion of G. P. Lindley's fine new brick, or rather the first floor, which is to be occupied by Cranfill & Hutchison. The main store room is just an even hundred feet in length, with a forty-foot store room in the rear and is furnished with fine counters and shelving made to glisten like glass by the artistic touch of the brush wielded by painter J. W. Ling. The windows are of fine French plate glass. The second floor is partitioned off for office rooms. It cost, complete, about $6000. MM11/13/1896p7 Attorneys White & Jeffrey, Dr. E. Kirchgessner and architect I. A. Palmer have each leased double office rooms in G. P. Lindley's new brick—which will be occupied as soon as they are completed. MM11/13/1896p7 W. Estill Phipps, the clever young attorney, has handsomely fitted up the entire front of the second story of Lindley's building. DT1/7/1903p1 The board of directors of the Medford Commercial Club held a meeting in the club rooms in the Hutchison & Lumsden block Thursday evening, and on Thursday the main reception room was thrown open to the use of the members of the club. This is the only room that has been fully completed. MM1/13/1905p14 Weather Bureau forecast service was initiated July 30, 1908; "flags have been sent and a pole will be erected on the Hutchison & Lumsden building, from which the different flags will fly"; see Kentner Building. MM7/31/1908p4 Among those planning new fronts are Van Dyke's, who are already tearing out the old windows, the Medford Hardware Company, Hutchison & Lumsden, The Toggery, the Oregon Orchards Syndicate, which is remodeling the old butcher shop in the Nash, and a score of others. MDT4/1/1909p1 Dr. R. J. Conroy has moved his office to the Hutchison & Lumsden building. These offices were formerly occupied by the Commercial Club. MT12/21/1912p2 During excavation of a new basement, the rear roof of the building collapsed late one night in 1935, "burying the steam shovel in the basement and tearing part of the wall from the storeroom in the rear of Swem's." MT2/10/1935p1 The wall adjoining the alley on the north side of the Hutchison building will be removed as a safety measure. The wall between the Mann and Hutchison buildings was to be removed anyway. MT2/11/1935p1 The largest single business expansion was made by Mann's Department Store, which was completely remodeled inside and out at a building cost of $12,000. MT1/3/1936p1 Lions Eye Center NRHP #136.0 226 North Holly Lithia Dodge NRHP #278.0 129 North Riverside Lithia Service NRHP #290.0 224 North Bartlett Loder House Photo: 1910 Southeast corner Eighth and Front Mrs. Loder will commence the erection of her new residence next week. It will be located on the corner of D and Eighth streets, and will be 30x30 feet in size and two stories high. A. W. Bish will do the carpenter work. MM7/19/1901p7 Mrs. A. M. Loder has her large new residence nearly completed. The structure is a credit to the part of town in which it stands and is a monument to the thrift of this honest and industrious widow lady. MM9/20/1901p7 S. T. Sanders, the expert shoemaker, is located in Mrs. Loder's building on Front Street. He does the best work at reasonable rates. DT1/16/1902p4 Presumably razed for the construction of Lewis Super Service in 1927. Loring Court Apartments 821 West Eleventh Luman Grocery Store NRHP #52.0 Photo: circa 1980 236 North Front Lutheran Church Location uncertain The Lutheran Church is about completed, and the congregation will be able to occupy it in a short time. It is a neat and comfortable edifice. DT1/3/1898p3 Lutheran Church West Fourth Work will start in a few days on the new Lutheran Church, the plans of which Frank Clark drew, to be a modern structure to cost $16,000. MT5/22/1927p3 Lydia Apartments 806 West Main Lyon Building South Front, between East Main and Eighth The building on D Street known as the Lyon building is being plastered and put into shape for a photograph gallery. PO3/27/1888p3 D. C. Herrin and family have located at this place. Mr. H. has opened a photograph gallery in Lyon's building. DT3/30/1888p2 Messrs. Eli Hogan and D. Brooks were last week engaged in putting a new tin roof on the Lyon Building, on Front Street. MM11/3/1893p3 Damaged in March 3, 1894 fire: "S. H. Lyon, north side partially burned, damage $200; no insurance." MM3/9/1894p2 J. K. Darnell and B. F. Crouch are repairing damage to the Lyon building. MM3/9/1894p3 Fred Lutkemeier on Tuesday moved his family to the second story of the Lyon building on Front Street. He expects to occupy the first floor with his saloon. MM3/16/1894p3 Main & Winchester Building See Hoover-Cooper Building Mann Building See Big Bend Milling/Lindley Block Mann Truck Body Co. Photo: 1947 1314 Court Street One of Medford's new industries is the E. H. Mann truck and auto body builders. The new building, finished outside with aluminum, is 100 feet wide and has 23,000 feet of floor space. MN9/12/1947p1 Masonic Building See St. Mark's Block Masonic Hall Various locations: Medford National Bank Building (1911-14 directories) See Medford Furniture and Hardware Building (1916 directory) The local Masonic lodge has moved to new quarters in the M.F.&H. building, where they have been provided with very commodious quarters. MT2/18/1915p2 The Medford lodge F. and A.M. has decided to purchase the St. Marks' building, and have issued 20-year bonds to the sum of $30,000. MT4/24/1920p6 Masonic Temple Photo: 1911 East Main Never built. At a cost of $40,000, the Masons will erect a four-story brick temple. Work will begin soon. The first two floors will be used for commercial purposes and the third and fourth by the lodge. OR7/16/1911p7 McAndrews Buildings East Main Street See McAndrews-Barnum Blocks E and W, Warner, Wortman & Gore Building, Grossman Building Thos. McAndrews' new building on Main Street has been completed and is already occupied by Mingus and Harris. They have the largest stock of machinery, etc. of any house in Southern Oregon. AT6/7/1889p3 Thos. McAndrews' new brick building is rapidly assuming proportions, and will be ready for occupancy before many weeks. DT8/8/1890p3 Carpenters are at work on the roof of McAndrews' new brick building, which will soon be ready for occupancy. DT8/29/1890p3 S. C. Wilson has opened his stock of groceries in the McAndrews building, on East Seventh Street, and is now prepared to supply the wants of all who desire the very freshest of goods in this line. MM4/27/1894p3 Newman Fisher, a former Jacksonville merchant, has leased the McAndrews new brick, on Seventh Street, and will soon put in a stock of goods. MM9/21/1894p3 Thos. McAndrews will soon commence the construction of his new brick block, on East Seventh Street. The wooden buildings now occupied by Hardin's barber shop and Davis' store room will be moved away, and the new brick will take their place. The building will be 25x80 feet in size and one story high—possibly two stories high—Mr. McAndrews has not fully decided this point as yet. Childers Bros. will put the building up. MM4/20/1900p7 T. McAndrews will build a store room 25x125 feet. OR6/8/1900p3 Work was resumed on the McAndrews block this week. MM8/17/1900p7 McAndrews-Barnum Block [E] NRHP #269.0 317-323 East Main On November 5, 1891 William S. Barnum bought lot 15, block 3 in Medford (323 East Main) for $1200. T. McAndrews and W. S. Barnum are figuring on soon beginning work on their new brick buildings on Seventh Street. These buildings are to be put up someplace on the north side between A and B streets, but who owns which lot and what lots they are going to build on is more than we can satisfactorily arrive at. MM3/30/1894p3 L. M. Lyon—"I have secured the contract for the wood work on the McAndrews new brick building. Mr. Childers will furnish the brick and will do all mason work." MM4/6/1894p2 F. J. Wilson has leased the McAndrews building on Seventh Street and will open up a grocery and gents' furnishing store therein. MM4/13/1894p2 The McAndrews and Barnum buildings, on East Seventh Street, are being moved to the rear of the lots to make room for the two new bricks. MM4/27/1894p3 The brick blocks of Barnum and McAndrews have been commenced, and the brick work is being pushed ahead at a rapid rate. MM5/18/1894p3 Work on the Barnum and McAndrews brick buildings is at a standstill for a few weeks owing to lack of brick. It was only figured that these buildings would go one story high, but now the owners have decided to go up two stories and also put the second story on the building now occupied by Redfield Bros. MM6/8/1894p3 Thos. McAndrew has decided to erect a 40-foot brick addition to the store room he owns on East Main Street. The adjoining buildings, owned by Mr. Barnum, are also having a 40-foot extension made to them. MT4/30/1912p2 Shapleigh Hardware has leased 323 East Main, now occupied by the Star Meat Market. The building will be enlarged by building it back to the alley and putting a gallery in the rear of the building about fifty feet long. A new front will be put in. MT3/12/1913p2 City directory listings for 317 East Main: 1935—Littrell Parts; 1937-39—John Cupp Furniture; 1946—Building Specialty & Appliances; 1950-53—Barnard's Floor Coverings; 1955-73—The Toy House; 1974—Medford Pet Supply; 1975—The Shoe Inn; 1976-81—Country Mouse women's clothing; 1983-88—Country Bride; 1989-91—Bobbio's Pizza; 1993—Vacant; 1995-96—Fatty’s Pizza; 1997—Gerald’s Grinders & Dips City directory listings for 323 East Main: 1935—Brown's Log Cabin Inn; 1937-39 John Cupp Furniture; 1942—Jarmin's Penny-Wise Drugs; 1946—John W. Taylor Drugs; 1950—Mack's Penny-Wise; 1951—Hall's Penny-Wise; 1953-56—Penny-Wise Sundries; 1957-74; Bell's Homewares; 1975-76—Hubbard's Home Center; 1977-81—Hubbard's Gift Shop; 1983-89—Medford Floors & Interiors; 1990-93—Medford Interiors/Country Bride; 1995-96—Medford Interiors/Bridal Mart by Shirley; 1997—Medford Interiors/Valley Art Gallery McAndrews-Barnum Block [W] NRHP #268.0 315 East Main aka Burroughs Building On October 8, 1888 Thomas J. McAndrew bought lots 11-13, block 3 in Medford (lot 13 is 315 East Main) for $375 from the Oregon & Transcontinental Co. The new front of the Wonder Store [315 E. Main] is expected to be completed this week. MT8/6/1912p2 Home to W. A. Kinney Furniture December 2, 1924 into 1929. MT5/10/1929p4 City directory listings for 315 East Main: 1935-42—Littrell Parts; 1946-50—Frank J. Runtz Paint; 1951-59—Frake & Smith Paints; 1960-66—Colorama Paint Center; 1968-72—House of Wool; 1973—Colonial Bouquet; 1974-97—Evangel Book & Bible McCallum Opera House See Medford Opera House II McLoughlin Junior High School See Medford High School II Daniel L. McNary House NRHP #174.0 243 North Ivy Mealy Building North Grape W. P. Mealy is having a brick business building erected on his lot on North Grape Street, near West Main. MT1/27/1913p2 Among the buildings nearing completion is the Mealy building, costing $6000. OR2/9/1913p56 Medco Headquarters Building Photos: 1926 circa 1928 circa 1950 Intersection Highways 99 and 62 aka "The White House" Built 1926 for the Owen-Oregon Lumber Co. Disassembled 1999; reassembled as a private residence in Sams Valley. Medford Airport Hangar Photo: circa 1930 A combination hangar and administration building has been constructed, the hangar proper being 110 ft. by 100 ft., with an opening 100 ft. by 20 ft. The hangar is of wood construction, with a lamella-type roof and concrete floor. The administration building, which is a part of the hangar building, contains a waiting room, rest rooms, restaurant and kitchen, pilots' quarters, administrative office, mail room, emergency hospital, Weather Bureau quarters, and a room which will be used for school purposes. PRH7/31/1930p8 Medford Auto Clinic NRHP #296.0 232 North Central Medford Auto Company Building NRHP #367.0 40 North Riverside The Medford Auto Company, Buick agency, is now located at its new display room at 38 and 40 North Riverside in a reinforced concrete building just constructed for the purpose by John Dennison, president of the company. The new building is painted white on the outside, and the interior is beautifully tinted. It is exceptionally well lighted, having full plate glass front and skylight with indirect incandescent light for night and dark days. MT10/10/1926p3 Medford Bank Building See Medford National Bank Building, Stewart Building Medford Bowling Lanes 821 North Riverside aka Kids Unlimited Proprietor Fred Anderson announced construction of an addition to the building is under way. The 116x65-foot reinforced concrete structure will house 10 new alleys and a nursery, giving the establishment a total of 22 lanes. MT9/21/1956p1 Medford Building See Medford Furniture and Hardware Building Medford Business College Block I Location unknown The construction of the Medford Business College is now assured. The building is to be a frame 40x60, two stories high and set on a brick foundation four feet high. MM2/24/1893p3 The foundation for the Medford Business College was laid this week. MM5/12/1893p3 Medford Business College Block II 27-33 North Grape aka College Building There will be erected this spring a two-story brick building to be known as the College Building and used exclusive by Medford Business College. MT4/9/1911pC3 J. M. Culpeper purchased a lot on North Grape, a half block north of Main today for $8000. He will erect a two-story brick building, 70 by 100 feet, for the Medford Business College. OR4/11/1911p7 The Medford Sash & Door factory are turning out the work for the new business college being erected on Grape Street. MT7/2/1911p8 "Partially gutted" in a fire June 4, 1925; tenants at the time, in addition to the college, were "Valley Candy Co., Radio Battery and Electric Shop, J. B. Andrews' office and the meeting place of the Glad Tidings Mission." The proprietors of the candy company, Mr. and Mrs. GeBauer, also lived in the building. ADT6/5/1925p1 Medford Cement Brick & Block Works Tenth and Fir Work has been started on the large building for the hydraulic brick factory established by H. A. Jansen of Chicago. He will manufacture brick, building blocks, caps, arches, chimneys and fancy designs of all kinds. MT4/24/1912p5 Medford Center Building See Medford Furniture and Hardware Building Medford Central Fire Hall NRHP #28.0 Photos: 1908 1909 1909 circa 1910 2009 110 East Sixth, southeast corner Sixth and Front In 1907 the city commissioned architect John A. McIntosh to design its first city-owned offices. The Central Fire Hall, with the council chambers and town library upstairs, had large doors for “Skinny and Rastus” and the city’s horse-drawn engine. The grooves in the sidewalk were no longer needed for the horses’ traction when the department was mechanized in 1912. By 1915, city government had outgrown the building, but it wasn’t until 1921 that the matching addition to the south was built. In 1932 Medford government moved and Central Fire Hall was rented out; the upper floor became offices for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Four years later the old fire doors were removed and the corner entry built to make the building more attractive for retail uses. In 1944 the city sold the building. Bids for the erection of the new city hall were opened, the lowest bid being that of A. S. Moyer. It was accepted by the council, the bid being $8140.25 for the erection of a two-story brick building 25 feet in width by 100 feet in length, according to specifications drawn by Architect McIntosh. Work on this building will be commenced at once, and when completed it will be one of the most substantial brick buildings in the city. MDT10/11/1907p1 G. W. Priddy & Co. have the brick work on the new city hall building. Mr. Moyer is the contractor who was awarded the entire contract on the construction of the building, but the cement and brick work will be done by Mr. Priddy and his associates, they having placed a bid on the work to be included in the Moyer contract, and also put up a certified check with his bid. Mr. Priddy's bid on brick and cement work complete is $4569.50. MDT10/15/1907p1 Material is being placed on the ground for the new city hall, and the old jail is being torn down this week. The plans provide for offices for the executive officials, council chamber, police court room, fire house and a jail. MM10/25/1907p5 Mayor Canon has instructed F. C. Clark to start preparing plans for an addition to the city hall. It is planned to build on the vacant lot next to the present structure. MT1/23/1912p6 The Furniture Exchange today announced plans to make improvements in the old city hall, purchased from the city this week by John O. Cupp and L. R. Saxbury. A ramp will be constructed from the first floor to the second, which will be utilized for storage. New awnings will be put up and the front of the building finished in stucco. MT4/7/1944p3 Medford Central Fire Hall II Photos: 1929 1929 Northeast corner Third and Front Built 1929. Medford Central Market NRHP #43.0 127 North Central Medford Cigar Factory West Medford, location unknown The brick block occupied by the Medford cigar factory, and belonging to G. W. Hamlin, was sold at sheriff's sale last Saturday to Ed. Wilkinson for $2675. MM3/28/1902p6 Geo. Coulter—"I have secured the old cigar factory on the West Side for a paint shop and am up to my eyes in work." MM4/25/1902p6 Medford City Band Stand Carnegie Library grounds The concrete foundation for the new band stand in the city park has been put in and work on the structure will commence soon. MT8/7/1911p2 Medford City Hall Photo: 1927 201 North Central, northwest corner Fifth and Riverside aka Jackson County Courthouse A bond issue of $50,000 to build a new city hall, which will be loaned to the county as a courthouse if the county seat is moved from Jacksonville to Medford, also carried in the election of October 8. "Water Supply Source Is Voted," The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, October 13, 1925, page 6 Excavations have begun on the basement and will be completed by a week from Tuesday. MDN5/27/1927p1 R. I. Stuart has won the contract for the new city hall. Bids total $2,935.28 in excess of the $60,000 bond issue recently voted by the people. MT6/16/1927p1 The Albany contractors whose bid was the lowest, and who were not awarded the contract, is in consultation today with a law firm. MT6/17/1927p6 Work on the city hall-courthouse was started this week, with a small crew looking after finishing touches getting the foundation, which was dug some time ago, in shape for the pouring of concrete. MT6/21/1927p2 Work is progressing fast, the pouring of the concrete foundations having been done last week. Pouring the concrete for the first story will probably be completed by the end of the week. MT6/26/1927p2 Tomorrow the pouring of the concrete for the first floor of the new city hall, which has been held up for some time through the non-arrival of reinforcing steel, will be begun. MT7/10/1927p2 Among the outstanding buildings of the year is the new city hall and temporary courthouse on North Central Avenue, which is now under construction at a cost exceeding $75,000. It is expected to be ready for occupancy during November, when the county offices will be moved from temporary quarters in the Armory building, where they have been located since last July following the county election which changed the seat of county government from Jacksonville to this city. MT9/14/1927pD2 Work is progressing ahead of schedule. Plastering has been completed on the first and second floors, and is under way on the third floor. According to Mayor O. O. Alenderfer, the building will be ready for occupancy by November 1. MT9/27/1927p3 Medford City Hall II West Eighth The model of the city hall to be voted on Nov. 3 will be on display at the League of Women Voters candidates' meeting Oct. 13 in the Medford High School cafeteria. MT10/12/1964p1 Medford City Jail Approximately 114 East Sixth Work on the new city jail is progressing finely. Mr. Priddy has finished the brick work, and contractor Crouch is now at work putting in the inside cribbing. The outer walls are of brick, roof of corrugated iron, and the floor of cement. It will be 14x22 feet in size and will have two apartments. MM4/22/1898p7 Medford Clinic Building Photo: 1957 1025 East Main Completed summer 1957. MT9/29/1957p12 Medford Community Hospital Photo: circa 1930 East Main Opened in a converted home (at left in photo) at 843 E. Main on Sept. 5, 1922. The addition, the core of today's Century Building, was opened in January 1927. This month a permit, for $20,000, was issued the Community Hospital, which will build a three-story concrete hospital, 48x60 feet, on East Main Street between Crater Lake and Geneva. JCN7/2/1926p1 The $40,000 Community Hospital annex on East Main Street is rapidly nearing completion and will triple the capacity of the institution which was established here some time ago. MT1/2/1927pD2 The old section of the hospital is being remodeled, and six new rooms for patients are under construction. MT11/4/1930p2 Medford Creamery 134 North Riverside The building just completed, is a neat, commodious frame structure, with large, airy offices and receiving rooms on the main floor, and ample space in the basement to accommodate the vats, boiler, engine and other machinery necessary for the manufacture of first-class butter. Salem Daily Journal, 5/1/1903p3 Medford Distilling & Refining Company Southeast corner Jackson and Central The building is 40x170 feet, and about sixty-five feet high, with a storage capacity of 30,000 bushels of grain. Much of the interior fixtures are very fine, especially the still, which is of Mr. Medynski's own design and construction. H. K. Hines, 1893p1148 Medford Fire Station #2 Photo: 1952 Southeast corner Eighth and Lincoln Completed December 1951. RRT12/30/1951 Medford Fire Station #3 Photo: 1956 530 Highland Drive, southwest corner Siskiyou and Highland Completed June 1956. MT6/4/1956p1 Medford Fire Station #4 Table Rock and Berrydale Medford Fire Station #5 Roberts Road and North Keene Way Medford Fire Station #6 East Barnett and North Phoenix Road Medford Furniture and Hardware Building NRHP #27.0 Photo: 1911 29-39 North Central, southwest corner Sixth and Central aka Medical Center Building, Medford Center Building, Howard Block, Woolworth’s Building, Medford Building See also Hansen Building Johns and Turner designed and built this four-story structure for a furniture company, which lost the building with the collapse of the Orchard Boom soon after construction. The building was initially referred to as the "Howard Block," after the brothers (Rev. John Howard, Horace Howard and S. T. Howard Jr.) who financed construction. The original cost was estimated at over $100,000. In 1922 the M.M. Department Store moved in; the offices on the upper floors were long the hub of Medford’s medical community. The F. W. Woolworth Co., the national five and dime, occupied leased space in 1937; when they left town in the late 1980s they occupied the entire ground floor. In 1949 the original windows and cornice were removed, the elevator tower added, and the building’s exterior was modernized with glazed terra cotta tile. The letters on the façade that today read “Woolworth Building” are resin reproductions; some of the red and silver banner on which they reside is original. The five-story Howard building will be Medford's largest business block. The first two stories will be occupied by a department store, consisting of an amalgamation of the Medford Furniture Company and Nicholson Hardware Company. Johns & Turner, the architects, have divided the upper three floors into 70 offices. The building will cost $85,000 and will be completed by the first of the year. MT9/4/1910pB1 September sees construction well under way on the Howard brothers' four-story reinforced concrete block, costing $100,000. MT9/10/1910pB1 The concrete work on the new Howard block has been completed, and finishing is soon to begin. MT12/22/1910p7 The Medford Miracle Concrete Company have made arrangements with Z. Cameron and E. A. Hicks, who own a marble quarry on the Applegate; much of the stone will be used in terrazzo work on the Medford Furniture & Hardware Company's building. MT5/8/1911p2 The Medford Furniture Company will move to their new home in the Howard Block, as will also the Nicholson Hardware Company, which is now a part of the Medford Furniture Company. MT7/23/1911pB1 Saturday will be opening day of the new Medford Furniture & Hardware store on North Central. Appropriate souvenirs will be given away and there will be music. MT10/19/1911p6 Work is progressing nicely on remodeling of the Medford Center building. New ceilings are being put in the second story; partitions and back stairways are being taken out of the first floor. MT7/24/1922p6 Chair railings, moldings, baseboards, doors and casings are enlivened with a gay, glossy green finish. The wainscoting is a warm tan, which blends into the buff of the side walls and cream of the ceilings. The floors are to be finished in tan, with borders of orange. Sanded boards are placed over the corners near the elevator for striking matches. JCN5/21/1927p4 Work started last week remodeling the building, which on November 1 will become the new home of the F. W. Woolworth Company. MT9/12/1937p12 Medford Garage Southwest corner Sixth and Ivy Medford Gospel Mission Photo: 1964 Northwest corner Third and Front Construction started this morning on the $28,000 Medford Gospel Mission building at Third and Front streets. MT3/4/1964p1 The mission, a one-story structure of concrete block, was built with donated labor and materials at an actual cost of less than $10,000. MT10/12/1964p9 Medford Grocery Co. Photos: 1911 1911 Southwest corner Tenth and Front The Southern Pacific Company has the rails in the yards here and will soon commence putting in a spur on the east side of their main line, just south of Tenth Street, which will be for the convenience of the wholesale grocery house to be erected on the southwest corner of Tenth and Front streets in the near future. MM5/21/1909p5 The spur track for the Medford Wholesale Grocery Company's use, south of the depot, is about completed. MM6/18/1909p2 The dwelling formerly on the property was moved off this week. Mr. Welch of the Medford Grocery Company assures us that the building will be under construction at the earliest possible time in the spring. MT12/1/1909p5 During the past week the contract for the new brick warehouse of the Medford Grocery Co. was let. This building will stand three blocks south of the depot and will be large enough to house this concern, which is the largest wholesale grocery company in the state outside of Portland. MT2/22/1910p2 A very fine new warehouse has been erected by the Medford Grocery Company, just south of the present Southern Pacific depot, at a cost of $40,000. MT9/4/1910pB1 Medford High School I Photos: 1908 1909 circa 1910 circa 1912 1912 1913 Southeast corner Fifth and Bartlett Cost: $40,000. Dedicated April 9, 1909; razed 1931. A bond issue of $40,000 for the high school was authorized by a vote of 173 to 104. OR2/12/1908p5 The board of school directors have decided to accept the plans for the new school house submitted by Charles Burggraf, of Albany. The cost of erection according to the plans will be in the neighborhood of $27,000. MM3/27/1908p1 The school board has accepted the bid of the Medford Brick Company for the construction of the new high school building, the figures being $29,872. MM5/22/1908p1 The cement foundation for the new high school building is completed and about July 1 brickwork will commence. MM6/26/1908p5 R. W. Gray: "The new high school building is keeping most of my carpenters busy these days." MM8/21/1908p5 Medford High School II Photo: circa 1932 North Holly Street aka McLoughlin Junior High School Built 1926; cost $185,000. Medford's ballpark at Second and North Holly will soon be but a memory; efforts will be made to sell the land to the board of education for a new high school building. MT9/6/1919p4 Fire destroyed the attic and roof of the entire south wing of the school before it was brought under control at 2:24 a.m. today. MT7/1/1964p1 Medford High School III Photo: 1942 1980s 815 South Oakdale Built 1931 at a cost of $191,207.74. Concrete has been granted preference over brick for the new building to take the place of the junior high school. MT12/9/1930p2 The $265,000 bond issue and acceptance of the school building program carried by a 904-to-128 vote. MT12/17/1930p1 Frank C. Clark has been assigned by the school board to draw plans for the new high school. MT12/18/1930p1 Bids for construction of the new Medford high school building will be received at the meeting of the school board Saturday night. MT2/26/1931p6 The seats which are being taken from the Rialto will be rebuilt and upholstered for the auditorium of Medford's new senior high school. MT8/19/1931p8 The contract for renovation and an addition to Medford High School was awarded Friday. The project will create at least 15 more classrooms, including shop rooms, construction of which was started earlier this year. MT7/13/1958p1 Medford Hotel See Hotel Medford Medford Ice & Storage Co. Photo: 1927 535 South Fir The Medford Ice & Storage Co.'s plant promises to be one of Medford's leading business concerns. The building which the company is now working on will be 58x68 feet in size and two stories high. In this building they will install a fifteen-ton-per-day modern ice manufacturing plant. They will have an ice storage room with a capacity of 300 tons. MM6/7/1907p5 The ice plant has been doubled in capacity, representing in the past two years about $50,000 in improvements. OR11/2/1908p12 All fruit cars loaded between Central Point and Phoenix will now be iced in Medford. "In order to be able to handle the work promptly a two-decked platform is being erected all along the railroad side of the building, 153 feet long and nine feet wide. The factory is already supplied with elevators, and the ice will be taken to the top platform and from there placed on the cars as they are run alongside on the sidetrack." MT8/13/1909p4 The Medford Ice & Cold Storage Company is building a cold storage plant costing $25,000. JCN7/2/1926p1 A $25,000 cold storage plant on South Fir Street was added to the Medford Ice and Storage Company's plant and was in operation for the 1926 fruit crop. MT1/2/1927pD2 Medford Mail Tribune Apartments Photo: circa 1920 29 North Fir Medford Mail Tribune Building Photo: circa 1920 25-29 North Fir Porter J. Neff plans to erect a building two stories in height, 40x100, as a home for the Mail Tribune. Work on this started this morning, Johns & Turner having the contract. Next to this, J. E. Westerlund will erect an office building 40x100, and then Mr. Neff and Mr. Westerlund will erect on the corner a building 50x100, which will be fitted for bachelor apartments. When completed they will form one block. MT9/2/1910p1 Porter J. Neff and J. A. Westerlund have started work upon a business block 100x130, where the residence of J. E. Enyart stands on the corner of Sixth and Fir. This building is to be the new home of the Mail Tribune. MT9/4/1910pB1 The Mail Tribune has moved into its new quarters on Fir Street, near Sixth, but is as yet operating under difficulties; a chaotic condition existed this morning. MT11/25/1910p1 W. T. York & Co. have removed to the Mail Tribune Block, ground floor, first door north of Mail Tribune office. MT5/1/1911p5 The Mail Tribune block has been completed and is a handsome two-story building of reinforced concrete with a white plaster finish. The building cost $25,000. MT7/2/1911pB1 The building has been outlined with electric globes—the first in Medford to be so illumined. Two hundred globes blaze with a white light, revealing the graceful outlines of the building. Above them is the glare of the big Mail Tribune sign. MT7/23/1911p2 Medford Mail Tribune Building NRHP #57.0 111 North Fir Medford Mail Tribune Print Shop NRHP #61.0 33 North Fir Medford Memorial Mausoleum Photos: 1925 1948 Eastwood Cemetery The Medford Memorial Mausoleum, construction of which commenced May 20, now stands practically completed. Fifteen hundred cubic yards of sand and gravel were used in the concrete, and nearly 50 tons of Alaskan marble were used in the floor and 300 crypts. The building is 25 feet high and 102 feet long. The walls are 18 inches thick, while the roof is nine inches thick and covered with two tons of asphaltum. MT11/11/1925p8 Medford Millwork Photo: 1948 1105 Court Street Medford National Bank Building Photos: 1907 1909 circa 1910 circa 1920 1920s 133 East Main, northwest corner Main and Central The demolition of the old brick building at the northwest corner of 7th and C streets was commenced Monday of this week. The building was purchased nearly a year ago by the Medford Bank with a view to ultimately building a permanent home for the bank upon the site. MM3/2/1906p5 Work has been commenced on the three-story brick addition to the building of the Medford National. The Pacific Banker, Portland, Oregon, August 6, 1910, page 7 The interior of the Medford National Bank, with its new coat of cream and grey paint, is a sight for the sore eyes of the tenants within. MT7/27/1927p2 Medford Opera House I 120 East Eighth aka Wilson Opera House, Davis Opera House, Hazelrigg Opera House J. R. Wilson is having rock hauled for the foundation to his new assembly hall, on Eighth Street. MM4/4/1902p7 Work began today on J. R. Wilson's new opera house, in this city. The structure is of wood. The main auditorium is 40x80 feet, with a 40x12-foot gallery, and a 50x35-foot stage. OR5/9/1902p4 J. R. Wilson has stone masons at work on the foundation for his new opera house. The stage will be 24x50 feet in size and the audience room 40x76 feet. There will be a gallery about 14x40 feet in size. The main audience room will be seated with chairs. The posts will be 16½ in height, and the ceiling will be arched. MM4/18/1902p7 Medford Opera House II Photos: 1910 1912 Near southwest corner Eighth and Central aka Hazelrigg Opera House, McCallum Opera House Plans have been drawn for a commodious and well-appointed structure at the corner of 8th and C Street, embracing the quarter block, part of which is now occupied by the present opera house. The plans contemplate the giving up of almost the entire ground space occupied by the present house for stage and dressing rooms. MM11/29/1907p1 The Medford Opera House is being enlarged and otherwise improved at a cost of about $6000. OR11/2/1908p12 That a firebug started the blaze which destroyed the Medford theatre Friday afternoon is the belief of Walter McCallum, manager of the house, and the authorities who have been making a quiet investigation of the affair. MT10/12/1912p1 Medford Pre-Cooling and Storage Southwest corner Eleventh and Front aka Pinnacle Packing warehouse, Pinnacle Plant No. 4 The Medford pre-cooling and storage plant contract has been awarded to W. H. Merritt for the erection of a packing house, 160 by 70 feet, at Eleventh and Front Street, for the use of the American Fruit Growers. Chicago Packer 6/26/1926p17 The largest single project of 1935 was the remodeling of the building on Front Street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets into a modern cold storage unit of the Pinnacle Packing Company. MT1/3/1936p1 The 1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, page 20, show this building as part of Pinnacle Packing Co. Flames roared into an enclosed conveyor chain between the Pinnacle plant on Fir St. and the Pinnacle Plant No. 4 at 11th and Front sts. MT12/10/1954p1 A decade after fire destroyed the derelict four-story 80-year-old Pinnacle Packing warehouse between Front Street and the tracks, Sherm's Thunderbird plans to construct a cold storage building. MT8/16/2012p10 Medford Photo Gallery 13 North Bartlett F. M. and C. A. Baker have fitted up the photograph gallery, on North B Street, and about the first of November they expect to be able to open. MM10/25/1895p8 The Medford Gallery, on North B Street, formerly occupied by Baker Bros., has been reopened with H. L. Miser at its helm. MM7/3/1896p8 The old photograph gallery being used by F. W. Wait as a marble shop will probably be removed to the west side of the track. MM2/23/1900p7 Medford Public Market Photo: circa 1912 33 South Riverside Mayor Canon has instructed architect F. C. Clark to start work preparing plans for a building to be occupied by a public market. MT1/23/1912p6 The framework for the new public market was started Monday morning, the concrete foundation having been put in last week. MT4/23/1912p2 The opening of the public market will take place today. The building is 50x100 feet, concrete floor, well-lighted, cool and sanitary. Every booth is connected with city water; every stall is accessible from the exterior by a door. MS5/2/1912 The city council voted last night to lease the public market building for three years at $100 a month. The market has long been a thorn in the side of the council and a year or more ago, because of a lack of patronage, they decided to longer pay the salary of a marketmaster. Since then the market has been operated in a haphazard manner. MT5/6/1931p6 The public market, long since practically defunct, was voted out of existence as such by the city council last night. MT6/3/1931p5 Medford Realty and Improvement Warehouse Corner of Twelfth and South Front See Anderson Warehouse A three-story $30,000 jobbing and storage house will be built by Medford Realty & Improvement Co. Ground will be broken tomorrow at the corner of Front Street and Twelfth. The building will be of brick; it is expected to use the first floor for a jobbing house and the two upper floors for storage. OR10/27/1912p56 The new warehouse on Front Street will be practically four stories in height, a high basement being provided. Huge elevators will be installed and all modern conveniences built for the handling of freight. The Medford Realty and Improvement Co. already has applications for the space, according to Charles S. Lebo, manager. JP11/2/1912p1 The concrete foundation and basement floor are nearly completed. The basement walls are all to be built of concrete four feet above the street. W. H. Maultby has the concrete work contract. The building is 70x100 feet in size and will be four stories high, including the basement. The three above-ground stories are to be of brick with granite trimmings. S. Childers has the brick work contract. MT12/14/1912p6 Medford Roller Mills Photos: circa 1895 1910 1916 1918 Northeast corner Ninth and Front Built 1889 for Davis & France; burned the night of November 26, 1924. Medford Sanitarium See Cargill Court Apartments Medford School Photo: 1888 1909 Southwest corner West Main and Oakdale, 517 West Tenth In the summer of 1884 the Medford School was built. There were two rooms with a seating capacity of 80 pupils. In 1886 this building was remodeled into a four-room building. It is now, having been remodeled beyond recognition, the residence owned and occupied by A. A. Davis. MM4/16/1909p6 A. A. Davis has sold his residence on Tenth Street to parties living in Alameda County, Cal. MT12/3/1913p2 Medford Service Station Photo: 1920s Southwest corner Main and Riverside Medford Tire Service, Inc., was started by C. C. Furnas, just prior to 1920, at the southwest corner of Main and Riverside, as Medford Service Station and remained there until approximately 1952. MT3/23/1989pB15 Medford Sheet Iron Works 19 North Fir Contractors Priddy and O'Brien recently finished the home of the Medford sheet iron works on North Fir. MT12/18/1913p6 Medford Shopping Center East Jackson Grading on the site of a big new shopping center off East Jackson will resume this week. The center will include a big Sears store, a Safeway store, and several others. Total cost will be in the neighborhood of $1½ million. MT5/11/1958p1 Medford Skating Rink Southeast corner Tenth and Front The rink will have a skating surface 100x48 feet in size, and the floor will be of selected lumber and will be the best in Southern Oregon. L. M. Lyon, the well-known contractor, is in charge of the construction work. MM1/17/1908p1 The 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show the skating rink, labeled "cheap lodgings." Medford Truck Station Photo: 1949 2390 North Pacific Highway A grand opening will be held at the new Medford Truck Station, located on the Pacific Highway at the north city limits of Medford. MT4/7/1949p14 Medford Vulcanizing Works See Fichtner's Garage Medical Center Building See Medford Furniture and Hardware Building Medical-Dental Building Photo: 1957 832 East Main Built 1954. MT9/29/1957p12 Medynski Building See Palmer-Medynski Building Meeker Apartments 216 East Main Meeker Building See Hoover-Cooper Building, Meeker-Strang Building Meeker-Strang Building NRHP #309.0 Photo: 1979 231 East Main aka Meeker Building Horace Nicholson has purchased a complete stock of hardware and leased the building on Main Street formerly occupied by W. H. Meeker & Co. MM2/15/1901p7 Druggist Chas. Strang has purchased, from Hon. J. H. Stewart, lot No. 17, in block No. 13, original townsite of Medford. The consideration was $65.00. Upon this lot is situated the two-story brick store building, the first floor of which is occupied by W. H. Meeker & Co., and the second floor by Dr. Jones. The purchase, we understand, was made by Mr. Strang as an investment, and, incidentally, for his own use should he at any time in the future need it. MM1/5/1906p5 Chas. Strang, who owns the building occupied by W. H. Meeker & Co., has built a 14x25-foot warehouse at the rear of this building. MM1/4/1907p5 Merino Building Photo: circa 1957 30 North Front aka Emerick Building, Merrick Block Built 1907; razed circa 1957. The notorious Imperial Rooms were upstairs. The vacant space between the Office Saloon building and the Nash Stable will be occupied by a substantial structure. MM11/17/1905p1 Real estate agent W. T. York this week reports the sale of two lots on North Front Street to Vernon and M. J. Emerick. The lots are each 25x100 feet in size, and it is the intention of the purchasers to erect a brick building thereon. They are situated between the Nash Livery Stables and the Office saloon and were formerly owned by W. Jurst. The price paid was $1300. MM10/12/1906p5 Architect Palmer has plans and specifications drawn for the Emerick building on North D Street, near the Nash Livery Stable. The contract for the erection of the building has already been let to L. J. Reinhart, and will be built of brick. The building will be 50x90 feet in size, two stories high, and will cost $13,000. The first floor will be used for a restaurant and the second story will be conveniently arranged for a rooming house. MM12/21/1906p5 Mr. Reinhardt is pushing foundation work on the Merrick block. MM2/1/1907p4 Hotel Emerick is to be the name of a new hostelry in the Emerick Building on D Street. The south half of the lower floor will be used as a dining room, in which there will also be a lunch counter. There are twenty-one rooms upstairs, well lighted and ventilated, and the furnishings will be second to none. MM9/27/1907p5 Mrs. Scudder, from Eagle Point, last week purchased the rooming house over the Emerick Cafe from Harry Messler. MM12/11/1908p5 Workmen tore down one of Medford's old buildings along Front St. last week to make room for the U.S. National Bank parking lot. MT6/25/1961 Merrick Block See Natatorium, Merino Building Merritt Apartments 246 South Riverside Methodist Church, South Photo: circa 1915 Northwest corner West Main and Oakdale Methodist Church, South II Photo: 1920s Northwest corner West Main and Oakdale Alfred Ivey has been awarded a contract for the basement of the new Methodist Episcopal Church, which is to be erected this summer at a cost of $30,000. MT4/12/1911p5 Dismantling of the old stone structure has started to make way for a $20,000 market for the Safeway Stores. MN1/23/1942p1 Methodist Church, South III Northwest corner West Main and Oakdale The South Methodists are building a new church on their property at Oakdale and main streets. MT9/23/1920p8 Four congregations will participate in the opening of the auditorium of the M.E. Church South tonight. The church has been painted and the auditorium redecorated. MT9/5/1937p5 Mid-Baptist Church Photo: 1920s Southeast corner East Fifth and Central See First Baptist Church Miksche & Schmidt Building See Palm-Slewing Building Miksche Building See Monarch Warehouse Miles Building See Hamlin Block D. H. Miller Building Front Street A mass meeting was held Monday in the old D. H. Miller building on Front St. for the purpose of organizing a tariff reform club. MM1/7/1892p3 Mission Building See Kentner Building Mitchell Bros. Building Northwest corner East Main and Riverside H. H. Mitchell and F. M. Denton have built a 24x30-foot frame blacksmith shop, adjoining the old Elliott shop, corner South A and Seventh street. MM5/25/1900p7 Mitchell Bros. have contracted with Childers Bros. for the erection of a 25x84 blacksmith shop on the lot where their shop now stands. MM9/13/1901p6 Wallace Woods has purchased the Mitchell & Boeck blacksmith shop and ground upon which it stands. The price paid was $2300. The lot is 25x140 feet in size, and just as soon as the lease of the present occupants expires, which will not be for nearly a year, Mr. Woods will erect a two-story brick building thereon. MT1/26/1906p5 Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building 28-32 North Bartlett M. Purdin is erecting a 30x36-foot blacksmith shop near his residence on North B Street, opposite Mitchell, Lewis & Staver's implement house. He expects to be at work therein by July 1st. MM6/21/1901p6 Jas. R. Cook and Ed. Whiteside will open up a harness and saddlery shop in the Purdin Building on B Street, opposite the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building. MM2/10/1905p5 Coulter's Paint Shop is "now located in the Purdin Building, opposite Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co.'s on North B Street." MM5/28/1905p4 Mobil Service Station Photo: 1940 East Fourth and Riverside Mobil Service Station Northeast corner West Main and Ivy
The
"Fountain Inn," at the corner of Main and Ivy streets is being wrecked
to make way for a service station. The giant oak and
magnolia trees in the yard, all more than 35 years old, will not be
destroyed. MT11/3/1933p1
A circa 1940 photo of Hotel Medford shows the station labeled "Pruitt's Service." Modern Furniture Building Photo: 1950 1953 1222 South Riverside Modern Tile Building Photo: 1962 730 South Grape Built 1962. Modern Upholstered Furniture Building Photo: 1949 1222 South Riverside Mohr Rental Building NRHP #351.0 410 East Main This single-story building with full basement has three walls of poured concrete. The eastern elevation is brick, a remaining wall from the Page Theater, destroyed by a spectacular fire in 1923. In 1924 C. A. and Cora Knight, the developers of the area, sold the western portion of the Page site to Emil Mohr, who completed this building in 1926. Early occupants of the building were the Pioneer Paint Co., the Snedicor Shop (an interior decorating firm, and The Delicatessen Cafe. In 1935 the property was purchased by H. C. Williamson and J. F. Erickson, owners of the Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal Co., previously located at 404 East Main. By 1948 Grabow's Jewelry was located here. In the 1960s the building site was re-consolidated with the rest of the Page Theater site under the ownership of Matt Frey, who operated Rare Earth, using the old theater basement for parking. In 1985 the property was purchased by John Nelson and was substantially renovated and incorporated into an element of the Main Street Market. Since then, occupants have been Cycle Analysis, a coffee shop, Sambuca Martini Bar, Sloe, and currently Shenanigan's on Main. Modern Plumbing & Sheet Metal has purchased the Emil Mohr building at 410 East Main Street, during the past few years occupied by the Cadwell Cafe. MT10/29/1935p10 Monarch Seed & Feed Photo: 1979 East Fifth Monarch Warehouse Southeast corner of Tenth and South Fir aka Miksche Building Tomorrow the new warehouse built by Leo J. Miksche will be opened. With a total floor space of 17,000 square feet, which warehouse will be occupied partially by the Monarch Seed & Feed Co., of which Mr. Miksche is proprietor. Modern mixing and milling machinery will be installed; the poultry feed mixing plant will be of the most modern style. MT2/22/1927p5 During the past year, the Monarch Seed and Feed Company constructed a new warehouse of reinforced concrete on South Fir Street. In it, the company operates considerable mill machinery for the manufacture of feeds, etc., and in addition has a great amount of storage floor space. It is one of the largest warehouses in the city. MT9/14/1927pC3 Montgomery Ward Building See Leverette Building Moore Annex-Pottenger Building NRHP #69.0 Photos: 1907 1930 123-125 West Main aka Amy & Pottenger Building, Moore Building, Pottenger & Cox Building, Castle Hall At right in the top photo. Built in 1906 in conjunction with the Hotel Moore (q.v.) immediately to the east; the annex was connected to the hotel by a bridge over the alley. On the ground floor were "two store rooms 25x100, with sleeping rooms in the second story." MM3/23/1906p1 T. H. Moore plans to build a three-story hotel on the corner where, in days agone, stood the old wooden structure, the "Clarenden" hotel. MT8/4/1905p1 Across the alley Mr. Moore has erected another brick of two stories,with a front of 50 feet, the whole floor devoted to two store rooms, and the upper to be used as an annex to the hotel, with which it will be connected by a covered passage between the second stories. MDT6/29/1906p1 T. H. Moore has sold the Moore Hotel annex to T. E. Pottenger and F. M. Amy for a consideration of $24,000. MT1/12/1910p1 Carpenters are busy tearing out the partitions in the Amy & Pottenger building that will be occupied by Seventh Company as headquarters and drill rooms this winter. MT8/23/1915p2 The entire upper floor of the building has been leased for a Medford armory. The quarters consist of eight large rooms; the drill hall will seat about 500 people comfortably. MT8/16/1915p2, MT9/29/1915p3 Swenson and Peebler, furniture merchants of Ashland, secured a long-term lease of the Pottenger and Cox building, formerly occupied by the Walker Auto Co. The building will be completely remodeled, with a new front and a balcony within. MT7/18/1927p1 Moore Building See Moore Annex, Hotel Moore Moore Hotel See Hotel Moore Moore Mercantile Buildings Photo: 1901 West Main between Fir and Grape See also Hotel Moore Buildings This October 1901 photo shows Moore's frame buildings in the foreground, just beyond the small brick building. T. H. Moore is having lumber hauled on the ground to erect a 16x40-foot frame building, with corrugated covering, the same to be used for mercantile purposes. MM7/13/1900p7 T. H. Moore has his store building on the west side completed and ready for occupancy, and within the next couple or three weeks he expects to open for business with a stock of groceries, provisions and mill feed. MM8/3/1900p7 N. B. Bradbury's planing mill is putting in counters and shelving for T. H. Moore's new store. MM8/10/1900p7 T. H. Moore commenced the erection of a new frame building on his lots on the west side, formerly the site of the old Clarenden Hotel. It will be twenty by thirty-two feet in size. MM3/22/1901p6 T. H. Moore had a partition removed, double doors put in, also a glass front. MM8/2/1901p7 Weeks & Baker are fitting up one of the Moore buildings on West Seventh Street for undertaking parlors. MM2/10/1905p5 The Medford Brick Company has commenced laying brick on a building for T. H. Moore. This building is being put up at the rear of Hussey's cash store, is to be two stories high and 30x50 feet in size. The first story will be used for commercial travelers' sample rooms, and the second story for a storage room. MM3/12/1909p8 On Grape Street, near Main, a novelty in the way of house moving is being carried on. The brick residence which was formerly used as a sample room by the Moore Hotel is being dismantled to the extent of having the brick walls and foundation removed, and the roof propped up. A frame wall will take the place of the brick one, and the building will be removed to a lot three blocks south. This is to make room for a two-story brick building to be erected on the corner by the Garnett-Corey Hardware Company. MM5/14/1909p1 Moore Steel Building Photo: 1949 741 South Grape Moose Hall Various locations: Elaborate ceremonies, a live program and a rollicking good dance were features of the dedication of the new Moose Hall, in the Miksche and Smith [Palm-Slewing] Building, last night. MS9/8/1911p1 Attention to all citizens of good, loyal and moral character in Medford and surrounding towns, this will be the last call to join the selected Moose herd, the charter closing Tuesday evening, September 19, 1911, at the charter fee of five dollars at 217½ West Main Street, Slewing Building. After that date fees will be $25. MT9/15/1911p2 219 West Main (1914 directory) North Front (1916 directory)—Young & Hall Building (q.v.) Morton Milling Company 10 West Jackson A $400,000 fire Friday gutted Morton Milling Co.'s plant. The three-story building was built as a flour mill in Central Point in the 1890s. Oliver Morton transferred it here as part of his plant in the mid-1920s. MT8/30/1959p1 Music Center Building See Hoover-Cooper Building Nash Hotel Building Photos: 1890 1902 1907 circa 1907 1978 Southeast corner East Main and Front See Robinson's Department Store aka Byers' Hall, Grand Central Hotel, Medford Hotel, Allen Hotel, Robinson Hotel The first floor was originally built early 1884, Medford's first year, by John Byers and James Guerin. In June 1884 it became the Gem Saloon. The upstairs soon became the Riddle House hotel (1886), subsequently renamed Grand Central Hotel (1888), Medford Hotel (1893), Nash Hotel (1895), Allen Hotel (circa 1930), Robinson Hotel (1956). Burned 1978, Robinson's department store was built on the site, which was subsequently remodeled into today's Prestige Plaza. Work on the foundations of the two brick buildings of Byers & Jacobs at Medford is now in progress. Messrs. Byers and Steadman are doing the work. AT2/29/1884p3 Mr. Byers has begun laying brick for the second brick building of Byers & Jacobs at Medford. It will be two stories high. AT3/21/1884p3 The contract for the new Medford hotel was let to Childers & Son for $4369, this being the lowest bid. The hotel is to be built on Front Street on Naylor & Hamlin's lots, and is to be 100 feet in depth and two stories high. The object is to begin work at once. AT7/3/1885p3 Byers & Co. intend to put another story on their brick building at Medford, which will probably be used as a hotel. DT8/14/1885p3 Wm. Ulrich of Medford informs us that work on the second story of Byers & Co.'s brick building is progressing rapidly. DT9/18/1885p3 The brick buildings of Byers & Jacobs at Medford are now being plastered and will soon be ready for occupancy. DT11/27/1885p3 Residents found a good-sized blaze in progress on D or Front Street, alongside the Grand Central Hotel. AT3/5/1894 What is now Hotel Medford will be known as Hotel Nash when the process of reconstruction will have been completed. The new name is given the house in honor of its present owner Capt. J. T. C. Nash, and a fitting tribute to the gentleman it is. MM1/11/1895p4 The foundations are being laid this week for the Hotel Nash annex. The Nash annex will be 25x100 feet in size and one story high. MM5/25/1900p7 Captain Nash is building a store room, 25x100 feet. OR6/8/1900p3 The list of construction projects this year includes the additional story to Hotel Nash. MM10/12/1906p1 Two large plate glass windows have been put in on the north side of the lobby at Hotel Nash, adding greatly to the light for the large room and also to the beauty of the building. MM4/5/1907p5 Among those planning new fronts are Van Dyke's, who are already tearing out the old windows, the Medford Hardware Company, Hutchison & Lumsden, The Toggery, the Oregon Orchards Syndicate, which is remodeling the old butcher shop in the Nash, and a score of others. MDT4/1/1909p1 The exterior painting of the Nash Hotel has been completed. MT5/5/1915p2 The Swenson brothers have opened "Leonard's," a short order place, at South Front and East Main in the Nash Hotel building. MT11/3/1930p4 An important 1937 construction project was the extensive modernization of the Hotel Allen at Main and Front streets. MT1/2/1938p6 A spectacular fire destroyed Robinson's clothing store, a landmark Medford business, yesterday. MT5/18/1978p1 Nash Livery & Feed Stable/VFW Lodge NRHP #29.0 Photos: circa 1900 circa 1950 1979 40 North Front aka Kinsman Building, Oriental Livery Stable The Nash Livery Stable was built in 1896. The business changed locations in November 1912, shortly before the building underwent major reconstruction. In 1946 the VFW bought the building and remodeled it again for use as their lodge rooms. The top photo at right is of the original stable on the North Front site; center is circa 1955, bottom is June 1979. The brick stables are closed and used for storage, all business being done at the Union barns. MM10/4/1901p7 The Union Livery Stables have a crew at work putting new flooring in the Nash Livery Stable. On the 15th they will open this barn and run it in connection with their other stables. MM4/4/1902p6 Mrs. M. B. Kinsman has purchased the brick building formerly occupied as the Nash Livery Stable from S. R. Lane. The consideration was $6000. MT11/23/1912p2 Work of razing the Nash Livery Stables is under way. A new building is to be erected on the site. MT12/31/1912p2 Give us a trial and be convinced. New U.S. Cafe, 40 N. Front, Kinsman Building. MT3/7/1914p2 As workmen tore down the wall of one of Medford's old buildings along Front St. last week to make room for the U.S. National Bank parking lot, a sign reading "Nash Livery Stable" was revealed. MT6/25/1961 Nash-Packard Garage 126 South Riverside A new electric sign was added to the Nash-Packard garage yesterday. The Davis building [132 S. Riverside], which was recently completed and which adjoins the Nash-Packard building, is to occupied this week by the Chrysler garage. MT6/5/1927p3 Natatorium Photos: 1911 1911 1910-12 1912 circa 1912 1913 circa 1924 1956 120 North Riverside, North Riverside at the foot of Sixth Street Today the site of the Red Lion. Built 1910; razed 1956. Four scraper teams of four horses each have started work on the excavation for the Medford natatorium. MT3/6/1910p14 Neff & Frohnmayer/Cooley Building See Kentner Building Neff & Westerlund Apartments See Hotel Holland Neff Building See Hotel Holland, Groceteria No. 1 Niedermeyer Building Photo: 1965 Northwest corner Eighth and Fir L. Niedermeyer has purchased three lots on South Fir and will begin work immediately upon the erection of a modern livery stable. The building will be brick and stone and will be modern in every particular. MT5/21/1912p1 The Medford Brick Company has been awarded the contract for the erection of the new brick livery stable at the corner of Fir and Eighth streets which is to be occupied by A. W. Walker. The building will be two stories in height and will be 75 by 100 feet in size. It is being erected by Lewis Niedermeyer. MT6/27/1912p2 A restraining order has been issued stopping erection of the Niedermeyer building, as the building is so close to the Rogue River Valley Railroad. MT7/22/1912p1 The corner was angled to allow clearance for the cars of the Rogue River Valley Railway, tracks of which turned at that place from the middle of Eighth Street to parallel the Southern Pacific tracks. MT7/22/1912p1 The two-story brick building L. Niedermeyer is having constructed will be ready for occupancy in a short time. It will be rented for a livery stable by A. W. Walker. MT9/30/1912p2 The building which A. W. Walker now occupies is 75x100 feet in size and two stories. The first floor is used for general garage purposes while the second floor, which is reached by a large freight elevator, is used for a repair shop and automobile storage. MT7/22/1916p2 Mr. Walker is agent for the Chalmers, Saxon and Grant automobiles. MS7/23/1916p4 Noland & Ulrich Saloon See Turf Exchange Saloon North School See Lincoln School Nurmi Building See Hamlin-Rostel Block Nye Apartments 1005 West Main O&CRR Depot I Photos: 1888 circa 1895 1900 Middle of Main Street Built in 1884 for the Oregon & California Railroad; in 1887 the Southern Pacific assumed control. Rails are here for the temporary track to the old depot for the purpose of removing that structure. MM5/25/1900p7 The old depot was placed on three flatcars Sunday and Monday, and yesterday it was taken to Talent, where it will resume its work as a station house. MM6/15/1900p7 Odd Fellows Building Photos: 1911 1965 West Sixth between Grape and Holly The I.O.O.F. held the first meeting in the new building last night. The building, when finished, will be one of the most substantial in the city. MT2-28-1911p4 Dedicated April 26, 1911. MT4/25/1911p1 Weeks & McGowan has leased all of the ground floor of the Odd Fellows block and have fitted up the two rooms for a chapel and undertaking rooms. MT8/4/1911p4 Office Building NRHP #153.0 142 North Ivy Office Building [Big Pines Site] NRHP #183.0 24 West Sixth The Office Saloon Building North Front The site of this one-story brick building is now occupied by the entrance ramp to U.S. Bank's underground parking. For several years in the early 1900s the building was occupied by John Harrington's The Office saloon. The building's south wall still survives, and cigar advertising painted on its exterior is visible inside the adjacent Young & Hall building, which enclosed it six years later. Offutt's Machine Shop 404 East Fourth, southeast corner Fourth and Apple Offutt's Machine Shop is operating now in the building which was recently erected just off North Riverside Avenue at Fourth Street. MT1/2/1927pE1 OK Market Photo: circa 1948 1202 North Riverside Opera Block See Angle Opera House Oregon Granite Company I Photo: 1925 102 North Front, northeast corner Sixth and Front Oregon Granite Company II Photo: 1965 302 North Front, northeast corner Fourth and Front Oregon Rooming House See Catholic Church I Oriental Livery Stable See Nash Livery & Feed Stable Orth & Getchell Building See Farmers & Fruitgrowers Bank Building Pacific Greyhound Bus Depot NRHP #292.0 Photo: circa 1950 212 North Bartlett, northeast corner Fifth and Bartlett Built in 1949. Robert J. Keeney, successor to Frank Clark, designed this modernistic building as Medford’s main bus terminal. Razed 2012. A portal commemorating the former Greyhound bus station should be torn down, the MURA board suggested Thursday. MT11/30/2012p1 Pacific Seed & Feed NRHP #186.0 17 West Fourth Pacific Power & Light Building [Copco Site] NRHP #121.0 216 West Main, northeast corner Main and Holly Pacific Record Herald Building NRHP #149.0 Photo: 1965 324 West Sixth The building formerly belonging to Earl H. Fehl and Electa Fehl, in which the Pacific Record Herald was published, has been formally taken over by Ted Hiemroth and J. T. Thomas, mortgagees. MN4/27/1934p1 Pacific Telephone Building I NRHP #301.0 131 North Bartlett, southwest corner Fifth and Bartlett Installation of equipment is now completed and the building is ready for use. Constructed of brick, 54 feet wide by 55 feet long, it is so designed that it may be extended whenever growth dictates expansion. Pressed brick and terra cotta make up the exterior surface of the building, which is of a pleasing modern design. The building cost $45,000 to construct. MT3/19/1927p1 Pacific Telephone Building II Photo: 1944 502 North Central, southeast corner Jackson and Central Built 1944. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Building NRHP #302.0 Photos: 1926 1979 145 North Bartlett Designed by Frank Clark. With its multi-colored polychrome decoration, this terra cotta-clad building has one of Medford’s more elaborate façades. At a cost of $45,000, the Home Telephone Company of southern Oregon will construct a new home 54x55 feet in size, of one story and basement, on Bartlett Street between Fifth and Sixth. Excavation work on the structure is now under way. JCN5/28/1926p1 Over $46,000 was expended on the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company building on North Bartlett Street, where it was completed last fall. MT1/2/1927pD2 The Pacific Telephone Company moved into its new quarters during the past year on North Bartlett Street, where an attractive brick building was constructed at a cost of nearly $60,000. Entirely new equipment was installed in the building at a cost which exceeded $150,000 in keeping with the importance of the station, which is one of the few that the company maintains on the Pacific coast. MT9/14/1927pC3 Page Building See Johnson-Childers Building Page Hotel Photo: 1911 Southeast corner East Main and Riverside Despite many newspaper articles about this building in Medford newspapers 1910-1911, only the foundation was ever completed. The Page hotel has its basement excavation finished. Within the next week contracts will be let for the building proper. MT9/4/1910pB1 The Page property consists of a frontage of 100 feet on Riverside and 165 feet on Main, with the basement excavated and a concrete foundation constructed. MT6/29/1911p1 The Page Theater corner, Riverside Avenue and Main Street, where a hotel was once planned, was entirely built up with modern concrete structures in 1925. MT12/31/1925p6 Page Theater Photos: 1913 1913 East Main at Bear Creek Opened May 19, 1913; burned December 30, 1923. The new building will be fireproof and will seat 1200. The stage will be large enough to handle all the larger companies on the road. MT10/14/1912p1 Construction work on the new theater began Monday morning under the superintendency of contractor Fifer, the building being built by Dr. F. C. Page, with Power and West the architects. JP1/11/1913p2 The slope of the main floor, the orchestra pit, and the stage are all built now except for the final flooring. MT1/24/1913p6 Never had the society of Rogue River Valley so universally turned out for an occasion as on Monday night for the opening of the Page Theater. The orchestra circle boxes were filled with ladies in beautiful evening gowns and men in dress suits. MS5/20/1913p1 The Edison Kinetophone, or talking pictures, appeared at the Page Theater last night to a packed house, and constitute one of the most worthy entertainments that will appear at that place of amusement in many a day. MT9/2/1913p2 As a result of a spectacular fire, the Page Theater was completely gutted Sunday, and volunteer fireman Amos R. Willits was instantly killed and Fire Chief Roy Elliott was badly injured. MT12/31/1923p1 The Page Theater has been a problem to the city since it was gutted by fire in December 1923. Methods of disposing of the building and objections to letting it stand have been introduced to the city council at frequent intervals. MDN10/30/1929p1 The old Page Theater ruins will be but a memory within a week's time as Elmer Childers has obtained the contract to tear down the structure and erect a building on the site. The council granted Childers a delay last night in order that he can study whether he can incorporate a part of the structure in the Roxy Theater building he is think of erecting. MT8/6/1930p1 We have condemned and salvaged the old Page Theater, which has stood as a gaping monument of rebuke to progressive Medford for the past eight years; may it be said to the credit of the owners of this property that it has been converted into a modern and attractive business block. MT1/7/1931p5 Page Warehouse Middle of Eighth Street at Evergreen aka Earl Packing Plant, Producers Fruit Company warehouse, Steinhardt & Kelly Fruit Packing House Page & Son began building a shipping and packing warehouse here today. The building is 50x100 feet, and is intended to receive the apple crop, harvesting of which will begin about October 1. OR9/17/1902p4 Page & Son, among the most prominent commission merchants of the Pacific Northwest, will immediately commence the construction of a large warehouse in Medford. DT9/18/1902p1 Work is progressing on the Union Meat Company's new warehouse, on the railroad land just south of the Page warehouse. MM4/30/1909p2 The warehouse appears on page 18 of the 1911 Medford Sanborn Fire Insurance maps as the "Producers Fruit Company" warehouse. The warehouse near Main on the railroad tracks, known as the Earl Packing Plant and controlled by the C.&E. Company, has been leased to Steinhardt & Kelly. Chicago Packer 5/12/1928p18 Palm-Bodge Block See Palm Building I Palm Building See also Crater Lake Motor Car Building Palm Building I NRHP #31.0 Photos: circa 1910 circa 1914 1979 2011 107 East Main, northeast corner Main and Front aka Goldy Building, Palm Block, Palm-Bodge Building, Palm and Niedermeyer Block, Palmer Building Geo. E. Neuber and T. J. Kenney have purchased of Chas. F. Wall of Honolulu the property on the corner occupied by Nelson's saloon, Macaulay's tamale stand and Butler's watchmaker's shop. The consideration was $4200. A handsome brick building will be built on it in the course of time. DT4/27/1899p3 C. W. Palm and J. E. Bodge have bought the property on Seventh and D streets. This is unquestionably one of the best business locations in the city, it being central and on a corner where there is a great amount of travel. MM3/29/1901p7 Medford is to have another fine business block. It is to be put up by C. W. Palm and J. E. Bodge and will add much to the appearance of the railroad front. The block is to be 50x100 feet, two stories high, to be built of brick with Oregon granite trimmings. I. A. Palmer prepared the plans, and Childers and Priddy are to do the brick work, and the Oregon Granite Co. will do the stone work. MM6/27/1902p6 Palm & Bodge have let the contract for a two-story brick block to cost $10,000. Work will commence about August 1. OR7/3/1902p4 Active building operations have commenced on the Palm-Bodge Block. Priddy & Childers are getting their material on the ground ready to begin operations August 1st, and the Medford Planing Mill Company is getting the lumber delivered from Olsen's saw mill as soon as the brick work is advanced enough. Of the present tenants, Mr. Elwood will remain where he is, as the brick building that he is in will be incorporated into the new block. MM7/25/1902p3 The style of architecture is a combination of Romanesque and Norman. The two fronts will have projecting pilasters of brick and cut stone, and each provided with two Romanesque capitals, one at center and the other at top. The second story has a central hall extending the entire length of building, and also a central cross hall, cutting at right angles, together with other smaller halls leading to various rooms. There are fifteen office rooms in the second story, and a large fuel room. MM8/1/1902p2 Priddy & Childers will have the stone foundation about completed this week, and next week they will begin work on the walls. A carload of iron girders arrived some days ago for the building. There will be five store rooms on the lower floor; the second story will be devoted to offices, of which there will be fifteen. DT8/14/1902p2 Fred Luy has engaged one of the rooms in the Palm-Bodge brick block, and will open first-class tonsorial parlors in it about the 1st of December. DT10/2/1902p1 J. C. Hall is making preparations for the opening of a handsome saloon in Palm & Bodge's brick block. DT10/16/1902p2 The first business place to open its doors to the public in the new Palm-Bodge block was "The Medford" saloon, Young & Hall proprietors. MM12/12/1902p2 Dr. W. L. Cameron has rented six rooms in the Palm-Bodge block and will establish a first-class hospital at once. DT1/28/1903p3 Messrs. Palm & York have moved their real estate office to the Palm-Bodge Building. Their office is the corner room on the second floor—unquestionably the best office location in the city. MM2/13/1903p7 Saturday last W. F. Isaacs opened his new gentleman's furnishing store, "The Toggery," in the Palm-Bodge Block. MM3/13/1903p6 N. L. Niedermeyer, of Jacksonville, today purchased J. E. Bodge's interest in the Palm-Bodge brick block here. The consideration was $11,000. OR10/7/1904p4 The general offices of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad have been established in the corner room upstairs in the Palm-Niedermeyer block, corner 7th and D streets. MM7/5/1907p1 In 1916 Frank Clark drew up plans for a remodel, but it isn't clear if they were carried out. Surviving photos suggest this may be when the corner tower was removed. MT2/24/1916p1 The Southern Oregon Art Assn. has opened a real art studio and clubroom at 107 Main Street (room 3 over Brown's, approachable by the Main Street stairway). MT1/2/1936p10 The exterior of Brown's Cafe is being completely changed, a tile facing being used. The exterior will be bordered in neon light, with a large electric sign. MT12/14/1941p16 The building was purchased by Mark Goldy in May of 1944. In 1946 Goldy began a major rebuild and consolidated the original Palm Block with the Young & Hall Building to the north of it. Palm Building II Photo: 1903 Northwest corner West Main and Fir The first Palm Building on the West Main site. C. W. Palm has closed a deal with L. M. Lyon for the erection of a 24x55-foot store building just north of the Clarenden Hotel. The building will be occupied by Mr. Palm as a store and residence. MM2/23/1894p3 The Palm building is well under way and will probably be finished within a very short time. MM3/16/1894p3 C. A. Zahn has rented C. W. Palm's store building on Seventh Street and will soon begin the manufacture of confectionery for both wholesale and retail trade. MM3/23/1894p3 W. H. McGowan has leased the Palm Building, north from the Clarenden Hotel, and will soon open therein a China bazaar. MM9/21/1894p3 Later Mr. Palm built a small frame structure on the corner of Main and Fir sts. When it was erected, it was the only building west of the Southern Pacific railway tracks. MT10/16/1960p9 Palm Building III Photos: 1938 1970 Northwest corner West Main and Fir aka Rialto Theater Building The second—and possibly third—Palm Building on this site. C. W. Palm has had plans drawn for a new brick building, which he expects to erect on a lot east of and adjoining the Weeks & Baker Furniture Building, on West Seventh Street. The building will be 25x76 feet in size and one story high. MM6/22/1906p5 Mr. C. W. Palm intends to erect a one-story brick on his property adjoining the Weeks & Baker furniture store. MDT6/30/1906p1 S. Childers is putting up the brick walls of the Palm Building. MM2/1/1907p4 The real estate firm of W. T. York & Co. has leased the C. W. Palm building, just west from J. A. Perry's warehouse on Seventh Street. MM1/29/1909p7 Work on the Palm Building on E Street is rapidly progressing. MT11/28/1909p23 Nicely furnished rooms at the Palms, new brick building, corner Grape and Main streets. MT1/2/1910pB5 The new Palm building is among those recently designed by C. O. Power and R. R. Reeves. MT1/2/1910pB7 Workmen have begun laying the foundation for the new Palm building on Fir Street, formerly occupied by the fish market that was burned out last summer. MT10/9/1913p2 The first project will be that of C. W. Palm. The structure will be on the corner of Main and North Fir. The ground, which is 50x100 feet, is now covered by frame buildings. These will be removed, and in their place will be built a one-story structure of steel with marble facing. There will be two business fronts on Main, one on the corner and either three or four fronting on Fir Street. Frank C. Clark is making plans for the new building. MT1/17/1914p1 The Rialto Theater building, at a cost of $25,000, will soon be ready for use. MS8/10/1917 C. W. Palm, owner of the site at the corner of Main Street and Fir Street, has asked for figures on the construction of new buildings, but is undecided just what he will build and whether it will be this year or next spring. MT5/30/1921p6 Mr. Palm plans remodeling his property on Fir, with a 50-foot front on Main, in the spring. "I have built nine brick buildings in this city, and have saved the corner of Main and Fir for a structure I could feel proud to stand in front of." MT9/2/1921p8 Dan's Restaurant is opening in the new Palm Building on the corner of Main and Fir Streets. MT1/3/1924p5 The new building at Main and Fir, which now houses the Porter Millinery Shop, also is the home of Cleo's News Stand and Confectionery, George's Barber Shop, and the Medford Shoe Hospital. MT6/8/1927p3 The lobby of the Rialto Theater is located in the Palm building and the auditorium in the Weeks and Orr building. CPA1/1/1953p1 This building burned May 24, 1970. Palm-Bodge Block See Palm Building I Palm Garage I Photos: 1907 circa 1910 North Fir Built in 1906 as an auto garage, the 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows this building occupied by a second-hand store, separated from the Mail Tribune building by a 20-foot alley. C. W. Palm let a contract this week for the erection of an automobile garage, to be occupied by Messrs. Hodson and Myrick. The building will be located on F Street, between the Day planing mill and Weeks & Baker's undertaking parlors. It will be 25x100 feet in size and one story high. G. W. Priddy has the contract, which calls for the completion of the structure within thirty days. MM10/5/1906p5 The store room on North Fir and the alley, formerly used by W. M. Hodson as a garage and later by Mordorff as a second-hand store, has been leased by R. H. Bradshaw for livery stable purposes. Merchants in the vicinity have raised a fund to fight its installation as a public nuisance. MT7/7/1911p6 Palm Garage II 6 South Fir The Medford Brick Company yesterday commenced the erection of a one-story brick building, 40x50 feet, in the rear of Hotel Moore, for C. W. Palm. The building is being built for an automobile garage and has been leased to California parties. MM11/13/1908p1 Palm Garage III South Fir C. W. Palm is having the frame buildings on his lots on South Fir removed and will have a brick garage built there for J. C. Hall & Son. MT11/11/1913p2 Palm-Amy-Corey-Orth-Hargreaves Building See Farmers and Fruitgrowers Bank Building Palm and Niedermeyer Block See Palm Building I Palm-Niedermeyer Building NRHP #64.0 Photo: 1974 132 West Main, northeast corner Main and Grape aka Brenneman Building West of Weeks & Baker will be erected by Messrs. Palm and Niedermeyer another two-story brick for stores and offices. The plans for this structure have as yet not been completed. It is likely, however, that this building will cover the two lots and thus have a frontage also on G Street. The corner is owned by Mr. Palm alone. MDT6/30/1906p1 The foundation for the Palm-Niedermeyer building is complete, and material is on the ground to be used in construction work as soon as the cement is sufficiently set. MM4/23/1909p1 The brick walls of the Palm-Niedermeyer building are fast climbing second-storyward. MM5/21/1909p5 The large steel lintels and pillars for the new Palm-Niedermeyer building were put on the grounds yesterday and will be put in place today. These are the largest lintels ever put in in Medford. MM6/4/1909p2 The Palm-Niedermeyer block is up two stories and the collar joists are now being put in, and when this is completed the fire walls will be put up and the roof put on. This is a wonderfully pretty building—and a large one, being 50x140 feet in size. MM6/18/1909p2 The plate glass front is being put in the Palm-Niedermeyer block, and the interior finish will be started the first of the week. MM8/20/1909p6 The Hotel Moore "has leased 26 rooms and four baths in the new Palm-Niedermeyer block, these to be furnished and put to use as soon as that building is completed, which will be within a couple of weeks." MM7/30/1909p1 The Palm-Niedermeyer block is nearly ready for occupancy. MM9/17/1909p3 Palm Real Estate Office South Front The vacant building standing about 100 feet north of Main and near the Clarenden Hotel is to be moved to the corner of Seventh and Front for a real estate office by Hamilton & Palm. SOM1/27/1893p3 Hamilton & Palm have let the contract for remodeling their new real estate building to contractor Lyon. MM1/17/1893p3 Wilmer McPherson took his stump puller and moved the building owned by C. W. Palm opposite the Clarenden. It is the boss thing to move buildings. MM2/24/1893p1 Hamilton & Palm are fitting up a neat real estate office on Front Street, near The Medford. MM3/3/1893p3 Palm Rental Building NRHP #75.0 20 South Fir Fire last night extensively damaged the Palm building, 16 South Fir, which housed Tri-County Office Supply and Pacific Telephone's service truck storage. MT7/24/1957p1 Palm-Slewing Building [Eagles Lodge] NRHP #110.0 Photo: circa 1980 221 West Main aka Miksche & Schmidt Building, Slewing Building A. C. Tayler, the shoe man, has sold two business lots on West Seventh Street, adjoining the Presbyterian church. One of these was sold to I. W. Thomas and the other to R. Slewing, the west side merchant tailor. The price paid was $1100 for each lot. The lots are 25x140 feet in size, and both of the purchasers will erect brick business buildings thereon. MM12/7/1906p5 Robert Slewing is having erected on Seventh Street near the B&C Cash Store a new one-story brick building 50x110. Hale and Flemming have the contract, and the work of excavating commenced Thursday morning. Dixie & Schmidt will complete the 25-foot room adjoining. MT12/8/1910p3 A two-story brick block is to be erected on the unoccupied space between the West Side Market and the B and C Cash Store, the work of excavating having already started, and will be rushed with great speed. The builders are Robert R. Slewing and Miksche and Schmidt. The ground space is forty-five by 140 feet. The east twenty feet belong to Charles W. Palm, who has leased the ground for a term of years to Miksche and Schmidt. Mr. Slewing owns the west twenty-five feet. The building is to be put up jointly by the lessors and Mr. Slewing. The lessors' portion will extend back only seventy feet, whereas that of Mr. Slewing will go back 120 feet. There are party walls on both the north and south sides, so that the amount of brick work to be done is at a minimum. The front will be plate glass and iron posts for the first story. There will be much glass in the second story front and otherwise the front will consist of handsome white pressed brick. There will be a party wall between the two sections of the building. It is not announced as yet the nature of the businesses to occupy the first floor, but Miksche and Schimdt will occupy their portion of the building below. Mr. Slewing will have offices in his portion above, but below has not yet made definite arrangements as yet. The building will cost something less than $10,000. The contractors are Fleming and Hale. The architects are Clark and Foster. MS12/16/1910p1 Elaborate ceremonies were features of the dedication of the new Moose hall in the Miksche and Schmidt building last night. MS9/8/1911p1 Palmer Apartments 14 South Bartlett, upstairs floor of the Hoover-Cooper Building Palmer Building See Palm Building I Palmer-Medynski Building NRHP #25.0 Photos: 1941 1950 22 South Central, southwest corner East Main and Central aka Roberts & O'Neil Building, Stanley Building, Medynski Building Begun 1884 by brickmasons John Byers and Abraham S. Jacobs. City directory dates: Woods Drug ’35; Young’s Drug ’37, ’39, ’40-1, ’42-3; Hunter’s Drug ’46, ’48; Central Drug ’50, ’51-2, ’53-4, ’55. The early history of this building is confused. Stories about the construction of a one-story brick building in March 1884 and May 1885 both seem to refer to the same building: Work on the foundations of the two brick buildings of Byers & Jacobs at Medford is now in progress. Messrs. Byers and Steadman are doing the work. AT2/29/1884p3 The walls of Byers & Jacobs' smaller building are up ready for the joist. AT3/21/1884p3 Baruch Fisher will open a store in one of Byers & Jacobs' brick buildings at Medford. AT5/23/1884p3 Roberts & Neil have let the contract for building a brick store in Medford. Mr. Childers has the job. AT2/13/1885p3 Work on Roberts & O'Neil's brick building is progressing rapidly. DT5/1/1885p3 Roberts & O'Neil will erect a one-story brick. DT6/12/1885p3 A. L. Johnson, the land agent, has purchased Roberts & O'Neil's unfinished brick building at Medford, and proposes establishing a private bank in it when completed. DT7/24/1885p3 A. L. Johnson of Medford has put a vault in his new business quarters. DT9/11/1885p3 A. L. Johnson has moved into his new brick building in Medford, which will be neatly fitted up for a bank. DT10/30/1885p3 It is reported that a bank will soon be opened in the brick building formerly occupied by A. L. Johnson. DT9/16/1887p2 Mr. Butler, who intends opening a bank here, has rented Mrs. Stanley's brick building. DT1/27/1888p3 C. W. Skeel has commenced remodeling Johnson's bank building for the use of Mr. Butler, who has returned from San Francisco. DT2/3/1888p2 It is rumored that Mr. Butler, our would-be banker, has left this section suddenly, without settling for the work done on the bank building by his orders. DT3/2/1888p2 Prof. Vawter of Eugene City and Mr. Bentley, lately from the eastern states, have rented Mrs. Stanley's brick building and will soon open a bank there. DT7/13/1888p3 Mrs. Harriet B. Stanley has let the contract for the erection of a brick building on her lot in the rear of the bank building. It will be 25x40 feet, one story high, fronting on C Street. G. W. Connell has the contract. AT6/7/1889p3 Jeweler E. L. Brown has vacated the Stanley brick on C Street. SOM11/4/1892p3 L. E. Bender has opened a tobacco and confectionery store in the brick building on C Street. MM5/12/1893p3 G. L. Davis has opened an office in the Stanley brick building on C Street. His business is that of buying poultry and eggs. MM8/18/1893p3 J. Tressler has his contract of grading and graveling that portion of C Street in front of Mrs. Stanley's bank property completed. He has also finished putting down an eight-foot sidewalk in front of the same property. MM6/8/1894p3 New floors are to be put into the rear rooms of the Jackson County Bank building. The framework under the rear floors is almost entirely rotted away, and has partially let the floors down. MM5/12/1899p6 Mrs. Eliza Palmer, mother of Mrs. F. V. Medynski, has purchased the McKee property, corner Seventh and South C Streets, from Mrs. McKee for $5000. MM11/30/1900p7 The brick buildings occupied by the Jackson County Bank, J. R. Hardin and D. T. Pritchard, and the ground upon which they stand, were sold last week by Mrs. Harriet McKee to Mrs. Eliza Palmer for $5000. DT12/6/1900p3 F. V. Medynski is now having plans drawn for a store building which he proposes erecting upon the vacant part of his lot on South C Street, at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. The building will be 25x50 feet in size and one story high. The buildings now occupied by the Jackson County Bank and Wortman & Gore's meat market, located one on each end of the lot, will not be disturbed by the new structure. The new building will be of brick and stone and when completed will be for rent. MM8/18/1905p5 Deward & Nichols will this week move their meat market to the Medynski building, corner Central Avenue South and Main Street. MM4/9/1909p5 First National Bank has purchased the Fred V. Medynski corner, paying $35,000, or $1400 a front foot. It is reported the bank will erect a large business block. MT12/20/1910p1 Pantorium Building I Photo: circa 1910 5 North Fir C. W. Palm yesterday began clearing away sheds and having brick and other material placed on the ground in the rear of York & Co.'s office for a one-story brick building of 50 feet fronting on Fir Street and some 70 feet in depth. It is understood that this new building is for the Pantorium company. MT10/22/1909p1 When a fire started at the Rogue River Fish Co. on N. Fir, "there were possibilities for a good-sized fire, as the Hodson garage adjoins the building, with its stock of oil and gasoline, and with the exception of the partially finished brick being built for the Pantorium, the whole half block is a row of wooden shacks." MT1/10/1910p8 Pantorium Building II Southeast corner West Sixth and Holly Plans for a new Pantorium, to be run in connection with the establishment next to the Holland Hotel on Fir, are being effected through the purchase of a 55x91-foot lot on Sixth and Holly. MDN5/22/1927p6 The building will be one story high, will have a frontage of 90 feet on Holly Street and 55 feet on 6th Street. The Pantorium will occupy the structure excepting a store room 16x40 feet next to the Odd Fellows Building. MT5/22/1927p3 The building permit for the new Pantorium Dye Works building on Holly was issued today to D. R. Terrett. The cost of construction was given at $17,000, and the concrete building will contain eight rooms. MT6/10/1927p2 Construction of the new Pantorium building is rapidly nearing completion. Lathers are now at work in the interior and the exterior is practically finished. MT8/8/1927p2 The Pantorium building on West Sixth Street is an outstanding business structure of the past seven months and gives the Pantorium Cleaning and Dyeing Works greatly added floor space and a basement, which the company did not have at their former quarters on North Fir Street. The cleaning plant was moved to its new location early this month. MT9/14/1927pC3 Park Place Building See Garnett-Corey Building Parker Building Location unknown The plate glass fronts in the office rooms to be occupied by John D. Olwell were being placed in position on Thursday. MT4/6/1911p6 John Olwell's office occupied the "Parker Building" en route from the Exhibit Building to the Hotel Medford. MS8/27/1911p4 Parkview Hotel 119-121 South Holly W. E. Goode is constructing a three-story frame building on Holly which he purposes using for a store, restaurant and rooming house. The building will be 42x70 feet in size, the lower floor occupied by a grocery store and restaurant. MT1/19/1910p4 Parsons Warehouse(s) Photos: 1954 445 South Fir, Twelfth and Fir aka Pinnacle Packing Co. The extensive cold-storage structure being erected by R. H. Parsons is being rushed to completion at a cost of $30,000. MS8/10/1917 Mr. Childers has as evidence of his excellent work such buildings as the new W.O.W. hall and the new Parsons warehouse. MT10/31/1926p4 The Parsons warehouse at Twelfth and Fir, built by R. H. Parsons in 1917, will house the Pinnacle Packing Company. It is of tile construction with recently remodeled cold storage and pre-cooling facilities. MT7/11/1927p3 Among the buildings which aided in making the month's construction program so large is the addition of the Pinnacle packing house on South Fir. MT3/31/1928p2 Fire swept through Pinnacle Orchard and Packing Company early today. The building, owned by the Parsons Warehouse Company, appeared to be a total loss. The building was of wood interior construction with masonry walls. MT12/10/1954p1 Pastell Building See Hamlin-Rostel Block Peerless Bakery Building NRHP #355.0 7 South Riverside Peil Laundry Building 421 East Main The Peil Laundry has purchased a lot on the north side of Seventh Street, and a contract has been let for the erection of a 28x60-foot building thereon, and into which the laundry will move as soon as it is ready. It will be two stories high and the first story, or basement, will be of concrete and the second story will be of brick. G. W. Priddy will do the work—and furnish the material. MM6/21/1907p5 The 1911 Sanborn maps show the building occupied by Medford Steam Laundry. People's Electric Building 208 West Main Perry & Cox Warehouses Photos: 1910 1912 18 West Main aka Independent Warehouse True Cox and others are building a large, first-class warehouse at Medford, in which farmers can store their wheat at a reasonable figure. DT7/31/1899p3 The warehouse built by Cox & Co. is proving a great boon to the people of the valley. Nearly 100,000 bushels of wheat are already stored there. DT9/21/1899p1 It will have a frontage on Seventh Street and will be close enough to the railroad siding to permit the loading of cars from a platform on the east side. MM3/9/1900p7 True Cox and J. A. Perry have leased ground from the railroad just west of the old depot and will erect a warehouse 40x100 feet in size. DT3/12/1900p3 A. C. Nicholson has secured the contract for the Cox-Perry warehouse. The building will be 36x100 feet. MM3/23/1900p7 The fine, large warehouse being built will be of great convenience. It will be used for storing produce of all kinds. MT5/14/1900p3 A second warehouse for Medford is nearing completion, under direction of Cox & Perry, who will use it for a general storage depot and handling fruit. It is 36x100 feet, and besides offices for the proprietors will contain rooms for Wells-Fargo Express Company. OR5/17/1900p4 Cox & Perry, of the new warehouse, have commenced to take in wheat. DT7/30/1900p3 Between 7000 and 8000 bushels of wheat were saved from the fire which destroyed the Cox & Perry warehouse. It is not likely that the building will be put up this season. DT7/25/1901p7, OR7/19/1901p4 The Rogue River Fruitgrower's Union has leased J. A. Perry's big warehouse and fitted it up for a packing and shipping room. DJ9/1/1903p3 Phipps Building I Photos: circa 1904 1912 \Northeast corner East Main and Bartlett See also Childers Building, Tayler-Phipps Building Mrs. L. J. Sears, the milliner, has rented the Phipps building. Contractor E. W. Starr will put in a large show window on the west side at the corner, and the front will be generally overhauled. MM4/4/1902p7 The First National Bank of Medford opened its doors for business Thursday morning in the Phipps Building, corner of B and Seventh streets, which will be the temporary home of the bank for some months at least. MM6/16/1905p4 R. A. Gray & Son yesterday moved their Kozy Kitchen lunch counter from the old Phipps building, which is to be torn down to make room for the new brick building soon to be erected. MM4/9/1909p2 The First National Bank was organized in 1905 and was located in the building on the northwest corner of Main and Bartlett streets, occupied by Dr. Goble and F. O. Burgess & Co.'s land office. MS5/13/1911p1 The 1905 photo shows the Phipps Building in 1912, when it was occupied by optician Dr. Judson G. Goble. It was still standing as late as 1924. Phipps Building II Central Avenue Work was commenced on the M. C. Phipps brick on C Street this week. A. Childers & Son are doing the work. SOM7/1/1892p3 Mary Phipps Center See Girls' Community Club Phipps House Photos: circa 1910 circa 1910 1964 Northeast corner East Main and Crater Lake Avenue Built 1907 for Charles H. Pierce. Pickel House Photo: 1920s 316 West Main aka Fountain Inn Dr. E. B. Pickel is seriously contemplating the erection this season of a new residence on his property on West Seventh Street. MM3/30/1900p6 Painter Milton Maule is making a beauty spot pleasant to look upon out of Dr. Pickel's Seventh Street residence. MM4/27/1900p3 Dr. E. B. Pickel is making many improvements about his pretty West Seventh Street home. The house is being raised about two feet, new foundation put in, basement built for a furnace, and the entire dwelling will be piped for hot air heating. A new and much larger porch is also being built. MT8/23/1907p5 Hon. W. I. Vawter and Dr. E. B. Pickel have laid plans for some beautiful landscape gardening about their homes on West Seventh Street. All the fences and hedges will be removed, and on the property line at the rear of the houses will be erected a fine barn for the use of both. A Portland landscape gardener is now working on a design. MT5/29/1908p5
The
"Fountain Inn," at the corner of Main and Ivy streets, across from the
Hotel Medford, is being wrecked to make way for a service station. MT11/3/1933p1
Pickel Rental House NRHP #82001507 Photo: circa 2010 815 West Main Dr. Pickel's new residence in West Medford is fast nearing completion. It is one of the prettiest and most imposing dwellings in the town and is a credit to our city of 2100 and over population. E. W. Starr is doing the carpenter work, and to him is due credit for much of its artistic appearance. The dwelling will be for rent. MM2/22/1901p7 Merchant John Norris has rented Dr. Pickel's beautiful new residence, on West Seventh Street, and as soon as completed he will move thereto. MM4/12/1901p6 The cottage built by Dr. Pickel in the western part of town for renting purposes is a beauty. It is not rented yet, but will be in demand later. MM6/27/1901p5 John A. Lucus has rented Dr. Pickel's new residence, on West Seventh. This is one of the prettiest dwellings in the city and is very nicely finished. MM10/25/1901p7 Dr. Pickel has finished setting out nearly sixty black walnut trees on West Seventh Street, where he erected the handsome residence now occupied by John C. Lucus and family. He will also seed the grounds about the house to grass for a lawn. MM1/10/1902p7 Dr. Cameron and his family have begun housekeeping in Dr. Pickel's new residence, on West Seventh Street. DT10/16/1902p2 Pinnacle Packing Co. See Parsons Warehouse Pinnacle Packing Warehouse See Medford Pre-Cooling and Storage Pinnacle Plant No. 4 See Medford Pre-Cooling and Storage L. G. Porter House Photos: circa 1906 1909 1974 2008 619 East Main Built 1906 for capitalist and timber baron Luther Goodwyn Porter. L. G. Porter is preparing to erect a dwelling on his property in East Medford, which he intends shall not be surpassed in beauty or convenience by any residence in Medford. It will be a nine-room, two-story structure, with bath connected. D. W. Hazel has the contract for the work. MM8/31/1906p5 The first floor embraces a roomy vestibule. Five bedrooms, with roomy closets and bath, complete the appointments of this comfortable and quietly elegant home. D. W. Hazel, the contractor, expects to have the building in readiness for occupancy by November 5th. The approximate cost of the building alone will be about $2500 to $3000. MT10/26/1906p1 Post Office Annex NRHP #148.0 333 West Sixth Post Office Locations 130 East Main, Hamlin Block east (1888 Sanborn maps p1) 120 East Main, Howard Block (1890 Sanborn maps p1, 1893 Sanborns p2) 28 South Central, Halley Block north (1898 Sanborn maps p6, 1907 Sanborns p9) 32 or 34 North Central, Davis Bldg. north (1911 Sanborn map p16; 1911-14 directories) Federal Building, 6th & Holly (MT3/14/1916, 1916 directory) Federal Building, 8th & Holly (MT3/16/1966) See U.S. Post Office and Courthouse Post Office Super Service Southwest corner Sixth and Holly See Colonial Garage The Colonial Bakery, owned by John A. Fluhrer and William H. Fluhrer, purchased from Mrs. Ellis Vawter the quarter block, 110 feet by 90 feet, occupied by the Post Office Super-Service Station. MT5/16/1930p1 Workmen are dismantling the old Post Office Super-Service station. Construction will begin immediately on a cement tile building, approximately 70 by 25, for the wash and lubrication racks, tire sales and service department. Gilmore gasoline and oils will be exclusively featured. MT6/21/1933p5 Postal Telegraph Building Photo: 1901 East Main, one door east of the Turf Exchange Saloon Miss Carrie George, the postal telegraph operator, has leased building room adjoining the T. G. Kinney property corner of Seventh and D streets, on which is being erected a building for use as a telegraph office. She expects to handle cigars and perhaps confectionery in connection therewith. MM2/1/1901p6 The Postal Telegraph office building, which is a small building on the site of the Palm-Bodge Block, under construction, will probably be removed across D Street, where Miss George will hold forth until the new block is completed. MM7/25/1902p3 Pottenger & Cox Building See Moore Annex-Pottenger Building Powell Building Location unknown Maxcy has moved his [soda fountain] into the Powell Building, just vacated by the City Restaurant. SOM8/19/1892p3 Presbyterian Church I Photo: circa 1900 Southeast corner West Main and Holly Designed by W. J. Bennet; built 1896. Razed circa 1927. Work on the addition to the Presbyterian Church is being rapidly pushed. The brick walls are nearly completed. MT8/6/1912p2 Remodeling will be completed next week. The audience room has been doubled in size, an alcove for the pipe organ and a choice box added, a gas kitchen and modern plumbing and lighting installed. MT9/21/1912p6 Presbyterian Church II NRHP #115.0 Photo: 1927 85 South Holly The new First Presbyterian Church was constructed in 1926. Portland architect F. Manson White first presented designs with lavish detailing completely covering the exterior, but the final design was trimmed to the elaborate door and window surrounds that now accent the plain stucco walls. As the congregation has grown, they’ve added onto the building with a classroom addition (1951) and a bell tower (1983), while always respecting the character of White’s original design. More than 2000 people were present yesterday at the dedication of the new $60,000 Presbyterian Church on the lot in the rear of the former church building. MDN4/12/1927p6 The Presbyterian Church, constructed at a cost of $75,000, was also dedicated this year on South Holly Street. It is of a new and pleasing type of church architecture and will have an attractively landscaped yard. MT9/14/1927pC3 Prestige Plaza See Robinson's Department Store Producers Fruit Company Warehouse See Page Warehouse Professional Center Photo: 1957 836 and 842 East Main Built 1956-57. MT9/29/1957p12 Pruitt Apartments 119 North Central Purdin Building 31-33 North Bartlett M. Purdin is erecting a 30x36-foot blacksmith shop near his residence on North B Street, opposite Mitchell, Lewis & Staver's implement house. He expects to be at work therein by July 1st. MM6/21/1901p6 Jas. R. Cook and Ed. Whiteside will open up a harness and saddlery shop in the Purdin Building on B Street, opposite the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building. MM2/10/1905p5 Coulter's Paint Shop is "now located in the Purdin Building, opposite Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co.'s on North B Street." MM5/28/1905p4 Radovan Fruit Dryer North Central F. M. Radovan is building an addition 50x50 feet to his evaporating plant on North Central. This plant was built last year at a cost of $10,000. MT7/24/1919p8 Railroad Saloon See Turf Exchange Saloon Railroad Exchange Saloon See Turf Exchange Saloon Ray Apartments 51 North Oakdale Ray Building See Electric Building Red Lion North Riverside Prominent on the drawing boards are plans for the 130-unit Red Lion in the downtown area. MT1/14/1968pB1 James A. Redden Federal Courthouse See U.S. Post Office and Courthouse Reddy & Allen Building Unidentified corner at Eighth and Central--possibly Wilson Building II The winter rains have interfered somewhat with construction work on the Reddy & Allen block on the corner of Eighth and Central Avenue. MT11/28/1909p23 Reddy House Photo: 2011 122 Oregon Terrace Redmen's Hall I Southeast corner East Main and Central (1911-12 directories) Redmen's Hall II 231 Apple (1914-30 directories) The Redmen's two-story brick "wigwam" on Apple "near the high school" was built in 1912 at a cost of about $3000. MT8/16/1912p8, MT9/12/1912p3, MT10/3/1912p3 Rialto Building Photo: circa 1910 123 East Main aka Karnes & Ritter-Kelly Building, Kidd Building Apparently named after the Rialto Confectionery; the name predates the Rialto Theater on West Main. Messrs. Karnes & Ritter intend building a two-story brick building on their lot, on Seventh Street, now occupied by F. M. Wilson and W. W. Eifert. The second story will be partitioned off into large office rooms in front while at the rear will be the K. of P. lodge room and banquet hall. The lodge room will be 28x45 feet in size and the banquet hall 16x36. A wide stairway will be put in the center of the building. The front will be put up of brick and cut stone. MM7/14/1905p5 Friday morning the tearing down of the wooden buildings on Seventh Street, upon the site of which the Karnes & Ritter-Kelly building will be erected, was commenced. MM7/21/1905p5 The stone foundation for the Karnes & Ritter brick on Seventh Street is being laid this week. The construction of this building and the tearing down of the old wooden structures which it is to replace will eliminate a source of danger from a disastrous fire in the main business part of town. MM8/4/1905p5 G. W. Priddy has been awarded the contract for doing the mason work on the Karnes-Ritter & Kelly block. Mr. Priddy will furnish the brick, about 130,000, and aside from laying them, he will also do the stone masonry, but will not furnish the stone. The front of the building is to be of pressed brick with granite capping. MM8/11/1905p5 Messrs. J. G. Van Dyke & Co. have leased, for a term of years, the new brick building, which is being put up by Joseph F. Kelly, just two doors west from their present location. MM9/15/1905p8 Karnes & Ritter are engaged this week in fitting up their new quarters in the Rialto building. MM11/17/1905p5 Dr. Carter has moved his dental parlors from over the Van Dyke store to the new office rooms in the Karnes & Ritter-Kelly building—and again over the Van Dyke store, the firm of J. G. Van Dyke & Co. having also moved to the new block. MM1/5/1906p5 Talisman Lodge K. of P. have moved into their new lodge room in the Karnes & Ritter-Kelly building and the members of the lodge are congratulating themselves and the order over having one of the nicest lodge rooms in Southern Oregon. The main lodge room occupies the full width of the rear of the upper floor of the building and is twenty-eight feet wide by forty-five feet long. MM1/12/1906p5 Messrs. Karnes & Ritter, the enterprising confectioners and cigar men, have made their new establishment more resplendent and attractive by installing a 2000-candlepower arc light at the entrance. MM4/6/1906p5 If you haven't seen that new soda fountain which Ritter & Dunlap have put in you have overlooked the prettiest piece of store furniture in this city. The back is fully twelve feet high, surrounded with large globes of colored glass, and at the top and on the inside of these are large electric light globes. The woodwork is of solid mahogany, in which are large plate glass mirrors. MM9/6/1907p5 "Within a day or two J. G. Van Dyke's entire store front will be torn out, and in its place there will be put in a modern and up-to-date front, of the Mission style." Van Dyke was located in the eastern half of the building. MM3/12/1909p8 J. F. Kelly is having his brick building on Main Street extended to the alley to furnish more room for Moe & Co. G. W. Priddy has the contract. MT5/13/1914p2 The first permit signed by M. L. Alford as city recorder was issued Aug. 2, 1917. It was to the F. W. Woolworth Company and provided for the remodeling of a store building on the north side of East Main Street between Front and Central at a cost of $1,000. J. F. Morrill was named as the building owner. MT3/26/1967pD1 Rialto Theater Building See Palm Building III Richfield Station NRHP #45.0 Photo: 1979 145 North Central Riverside Apartments 217 South Riverside Roberts & O'Neil Building See Palmer-Medynski Building Robinson & Meyer Auto Repair Photo: 1927 29-33 South Bartlett The building will be 70x75 feet in size, with heavy concrete foundation. MT4/13/1912p8 Berdan & Sons commenced work moving the old dwelling south of Kentner's store to South Riverside. Excavating will commence on the vacated lots by S. Childers for a large brick garage, which will be owned by Mr. Childers and the Emerick brothers. MT4/23/1912p2 The brick walls of the large garage on South Bartlett Street are fast nearing completion. MT5/24/1912p2 Robinson's Department Store NRHP #17.0 Photos: 1978 1979 100 East Main aka Prestige Plaza Completed 1979 on the site of the burned Nash Hotel (q.v.). Later remodeled into the Prestige Plaza office complex. Robinson's will build a new retail facility at 114 E. Main, the site where the longtime clothing outlet was destroyed by fire earlier this year. The new store will have just under 13,000 square feet of retail space. A mezzanine level will add another 6,000 square feet. MT7/18/1978p1 Rogue River Commission Co. Warehouse Eleventh and Front Two-story brick warehouse with basement; planned completion "before winter" 1912. MT8/26/1912p2 Rogue River Fruit & Produce Assn. Cold Storage Photos: 1913 1914 The Rogue River Fruit & Produce Assn. recently decided to appropriate $40,000 for the construction of a central storage plant in Medford to accommodate from 100 to 150 cars of fruit. OR2/13/1913p15 Ground was broken this week for the cold storage warehouse of the Rogue River Valley Fruit and Produce Association at Crater Lake Junction, near the Southern Pacific right of way. It will be 100 by 80 feet, two stories high, and will accommodate 100 cars of fruit. OR6/15/1913p9 The new plant is a finely appointed building of concrete and tile and has a cold storage capacity of 50 cars. It has been completed in about 8 weeks from the time ground was broken and will cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. MT8/25/1913p6 Rogue River Fruit & Produce Assn. Packing House Approx. 138 South Evergreen Built by J. A. Perry for his own fruit-packing business. J. A. Perry, secretary and manager of the Rogue River Fruit Growers' Union, is having a neat office constructed in the front of his packing house on the west side. MM3/8/1907p5 Rogue River Valley Canning Co. Northeast corner Thirteenth and Front Building permit No. 94 was issued Feb. 16, 1921 to Rogue River Valley Canning Company. It was for construction of a two-story building between 11th and 13th streets. The six-room construction was estimated to cost $15,000. MT3/26/1967pD1 Rogue River Valley Railroad Depot I Photo: circa 1900 Northeast corner Sixth and Evergreen The old depot of the Rogue River Valley Railroad, which has stood for 18 years near the Southern Pacific tracks on Sixth Street, has been moved to a lot on North D Street. MM5/29/1908p2 Rogue River Valley Railroad Depot II Photo: 1912 West Main The new depot of the road has been completed and is a credit to the town. MM5/29/1908p2 Space let for depot purposes only has been sublet for mercantile purposes until the depot is almost lost in the popcorn and red lemonade. MT7/23/1911p4 Rogue Valley Ballroom Photo: 1957 South Pacific Highway Workmen are speeding the task of completing Herman Burgoyne's new "recreation center" near the fairgrounds, with a large dancing floor, 20 spacious booths and 30 tables. The main building is 40 feet by 100 feet in size. MT10/21/1937p5 Razed in 1957. Rogue Valley Feed Co. Photo: 1949 22 West Second; corner of Second and Fir Rogue Valley Mall Photos: 1978 1986 North Riverside and Highway 62 The developers of a $35 million shopping center at the north freeway interchange cleared another hurdle Thursday when they gained Planning Commission approval of their planned unit development. MT3/24/1978p1 When the Rogue Valley Mall opened its doors on Oct. 15, 1986, it boasted 65 stores and 500,000 square feet of selling space. MT12/31/1999p49 Rogue Valley Manor Photo: circa 1961 Barneburg Hill, southeast Medford Built 1961. The board of trustees for Rogue Valley Manor last night authorized John W. Maloney to complete plans for the $5½ million retirement home here. MT7/9/1958p1 Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital Photo: 1955 East Barnett Road The new Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital is scheduled to open on May 1. The building is an 80-bed hospital, with facilities for 20 bassinets. MT3/26/1958p1 Rogue Valley State Bank Photo: 1954 1109 Court Rollarena Photo: 1960 South Pacific Hwy. Built 1960. Roosevelt School Photo: 1910 Built 1911; razed 2008. Plans for a new school on the East Side have been completed. The building will be of the mission style and will contain 11 rooms. OR5/18/1910p5 Work on the Queen Anne school building is being rushed; the foundation and much of the brick work has been completed. MT4/24/1911p6 Root-Banks House [Burns Building] Photo: 1933 11 North Peach, northwest corner West Main and Peach Built 1915; remodeled 1922. “Jackson County Rebellion” leader Llewellyn Banks shot and killed Constable George Prescott at the front door of this house in 1933. Root Company Building Eighth and South Fir Removed in 1958 to extend Eighth Street across the railroad tracks. Three men have purchased the Myron Root Company building on the Eighth St. right-of-way at South Fir. They expect to remove the roof from the building and have the walls down shortly afterwards. MT2/21/1958p1 Root-Slover House NRHP #141.0 203 North Holly Rosenthal Building See Barneburg Building Rosewood Apartments 249 South Riverside Rostel Building See Hamlin-Rostel Block Roxy Ann Lanes 2375 South Pacific Highway Plans for a recreation and sports center, including a roller skating rink, bowling alley, and possibly a swimming pool, tennis courts and a dance hall were announced today. Construction is planned as soon as pear trees are removed from the site. MT12/17/1958p1 Roxy Theater Building 249 South Riverside The old Page Theater ruins will be but a memory within a week's time as Elmer Childers has obtained the contract to tear down the structure and erect a building on the site. The council granted Childers a delay last night in order that he can study whether he can incorporate a part of the structure in the building he is think of erecting. MT8/6/1930p1 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Childers announce the opening of their new theatre, the Roxy, on East Main Street, Medford, on Friday, June 24. CPA6/23/1932p1 Oregon-California Theaters, Inc. announces that following extensive remodeling, Medford's Roxy Theater will be renamed "The Esquire." MT1/31/1947p1 Russ' Feed Mill Photo: 1910 East Main, later 133 South Riverside Ed Russ built it back in 1888 on a site near where the Sacred Heart Hospital now stands. Around 1900 the mill was put on skids and moved to its present site, intact, exactly as it stands today except for a few additions. MDN6/15/1927p3 Work having been begun more than a week ago, the razing of the old Russ mill on South Riverside is practically completed. MT6/26/1927p2 S.O. Gas Building NRHP #109.0 Photos: 1936 1979 219 West Main, southeast corner Main and Holly S.P.R.R. Depot II Photos: 1900 1902 Southwest corner West Main and Front Built 1900. Upon construction of Depot III in 1910 the structure was moved south almost to Tenth Street to serve as a freight depot. Work on the new depot has commenced. Its location is not a sightly one, by any means. DT1/4/1900p3 The new S.P. depot at Medford was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on Saturday last. DT4/12/1900p2 S.P.R.R. Passenger Depot III NRHP #187.1 Photos: 1910 1910 circa 1915 2006 147 North Front aka Porter's Restaurant Edward Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, visited Medford in 1909 and was so impressed by the bustling city, then at the height of the Orchard Boom, that he decided to build a depot to match the city’s aspirations. In 1910 plans for the new depot were underway; Medford, a city of under 6,000, was to have a depot designed for a population of 25,000. The depot was soon completed, but the boom went bust, and Medford didn’t reach that population until the 1960s. After several stops and starts, rail passenger service ceased for the last time in 1955. When Southern Pacific finally sold the line in 1995 the Medford depot was in poor shape. Purchased by a local contractor, the building was soon listed on the National Register and underwent a complete restoration. Directors of the project were careful to retain the numerous penciled graffiti on the track side of the building that display the names of bored travelers, the monikers of hoboes and, more poignantly, the ranks and units of GIs waiting to ship out during World War II. Formal announcement was made by the S.P. of the construction of a $40,000 passenger depot, to be located on the site of the section house, two blocks north. MT11/3/1909p1 The foundation of the new S.P. depot has been completed. Contractor Bigham has arrived with a crew of bricklayers, and a large crew is getting out granite for the building. OR4/16/1910p12 Medford's fine new $50,000 depot, which is the most expensive structure built by the Southern Pacific between Portland and Sacramento, will become the permanent abode of the Harriman officials on the first of next month. The new depot resembles in every detail the one recently constructed at Walla Walla, a town of 30,000 people. MT9/4/1910pB1 Sacred Heart Church See Catholic Church Sacred Heart Hospital Photos: 1912 1913 circa 1915 Nob Hill Razed 1966. Plans for the new building are on exhibition at Haskins Drug Store. MT6/2/1911p6 It will take approximately 1,000,000 brick to build the hospital. Contractor F. L. Litherland and architect R. F. Tegen of Portland pronounce the Medford Brick Co.'s product of sand mold brick the equal of or superior of any other in Oregon. MT6/8/1911p3 The Medford Sash & Door factory has just been awarded the contract for the mill work in the Sacred Heart Hospital, which will amount to more than $10,000. MT7/2/1911p8 The contract price for its erection was $120,000. It will contain 100 rooms and will be five stories in height. Business men of Medford raised $10,000 by popular subscription, purchased a lot and tendered it to the sisters as a bonus. MT7/2/1911pB1 Cornerstone ceremonies will be "put off until the building is completed. The cornerstone will be laid and the dedication of the new building held at the same time." MT8/16/1911p2 The work of finishing Sacred Heart Hospital is well under way; all of the outside work is completed and the marble for interior decorative purposes will be put in place within the next two weeks. MT12/1/1911p1 Sacred Heart Hospital was opened last night, and 10 patients were moved there from the old hospital at 344 South Central. MT1/4/1912p4 Safeway/Littrell Auto Parts Store NRHP #275.0 Photos: 1936 circa 1938 circa 1980 313 East Sixth, northeast corner Sixth and Bartlett Razed May 2011. Safeway Store No. 41 has moved to its new building at Bartlett and Sixth. MT6/2/1936p1 The store has been undergoing alterations for the past month. All the wall shelves have been changed to carry a larger stock; the interior is white with black trimming, and the exterior is yellow and red. New shopping buggies will be here this week. MT5/20/1940p5 Safeway Store II Northwest corner West Main and Oakdale The sale of the old Southern Methodist church by Safeway Stores was announced today. Buildings on the property include the parsonage and the old church, both of which will be razed. MT7/10/1941p1 The market, designed by Robert J. Keeney, will have 50-foot frontage on West Main and will be 172 feet in depth. A spacious parking lot will be located along Oakdale. MN1/23/1942p1 Safeway Store III NRHP #272.0 Photo: 1979 130 North Bartlett Safeway has purchased the site formerly occupied by the old high school, and will construct a $2,000 food market on the location. MN2/6/1942p3 Razed May 2011. Safeway Store IV Photo: 1959 East Jackson, Medford Shopping Center Here at this new Safeway you will shop in air-conditioned comfort the year round. Doors open for you automatically. You will never again have to worry about parking. MT8/27/1959pC5 Safeway Store V Photo: 1963 1101 West Main aka Jackson County Elections Office The new $216,000 Safeway supermarket at West Main and Hamilton sts. is nearing completion. The market will have an interior floor space of 22,440 square feet. Contractors are Graff and James, Medford. Architect is Robert J. Keeney and structural engineer is Walt Marquess. MT7/17/1963p1 Salvation Army Headquarters Photo: 1962 Corner Edwards and Beatty F. E. Samson Building Photos: 1955 circa 1965 Northwest corner Fourth and Front The F. E. Samson seed and feed company announced construction of a new building will be started Monday. MT3/10/1940p10 Hubert Santo Naval Reserve Center 701 North Columbus See Victory Housing Project The Jackson County Housing Authority project will be liquidated this year. It will make way for a military reserve armory and a 10-acre recreational area. MT1/10/1957p1 Schermerhorn Building 24 South Fir aka Schermerhorn & Palm Building Incorporated into the Kay Building (q.v.). The officers of Crater Lake National Forest have been moved to the second floor of the Schermerhorn Building, just completed on South Fir. MT8/1/1911p6 Schuler Apartment Building NRHP #165.0 Photo: 2006 38 North Oakdale, southeast corner Sixth and Oakdale aka GeBauer Apartments Max GeBauer of the Valley Candy Co. today exchanged ranch and city property with I. E. Schuler for the three-story Schuler apartment house. The building was completed in April of 1926 and in addition to its three stories also has a complete basement and the latest conveniences in all of its 25 apartments. MT4/12/1928p1 Scott Davis Building See Lindley Building Seventh Day Adventists Church The Seven Day Adventists have just completed a new church. OR11/2/1908p12 Severson Shoe Repair Building 137 North Central North Central between Sixth and Fifth is being improved with construction of a small building that will house the shoe repair shop of Walt Severson. MN5/21/1937p1 Sgobel & Day Fruit Packing House Northwest corner Ninth and Evergreen Sgobel & Day have built an addition on their plant to handle a much larger amount of fruit. The addition is 46x104 feet, and cost $4,500. MT7/31/1927pB3 Shell Station Jackson and Riverside The station building, which is all steel, is painted cream with yellow and red trim. Wide windows afford instant vision from the salesroom, and large floodlights will give the station a daylight appearance at night. MT2/4/1940p3 Sherm's Thunderbird Cold Storage Southwest corner Eleventh and Front Sherm's Thunderbird has submitted plans for an 18,052-square-foot cold storage building on the southwest corner of Front and 11th streets. MT8/16/2012p10 Shults Body & Fender Works NRHP #291.0 220 North Bartlett Simmons Building Probably 113-115 North Central Succeeded by the Frideger Building (q.v.). Taylor, the Medford harness maker, who sold out some time ago and went to California, has returned and gone into business again in the old Simmons building. DT6/27/1901p5 Among the first new building projects to be undertaken during the coming year will be a brick structure to be put up by C. Frideger on what is known as the Simmons property, on North Central Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets. MT1/9/1912p2 Sixth Street Super Service Photo: 1933 Southeast corner Sixth and Fir The station will have no grease pits, hydraulic lifts taking place of this type of service, and gasoline pumps will be operated electrically. The building will be constructed of steel, embodying the latest design. MT7/18/1927p1 Work, begun last week, is progressing rapidly. The building will be of sectional steel, following the latest architectural design. MT9/25/1927p3 Richfield gasoline and motor oils will make their debut in southern Oregon at the service station being constructed at Sixth and Fir by Fred J. Scheffel and Val J. Fischer. MT10/16/1927p7 Sixth Street West Plaza NRHP #58.0 North Grape Skinner's Garage NRHP #346.0 Photo: 1927 143 South Riverside R. A. Skinner has been engaged in Buick repair work here since 1912. In 1924 Mr. Skinner moved into his new Riverside location. MT1/2/1927pE1 Slewing Building, Slewing Block, Slewing Hall See Palm-Slewing Building, Moose Hall Smith Apartments Photo: 1911 217 South Riverside Built 1911. Smith Apartment House / Thirty Completely Furnished Apartments for Families / Gas Ranges and Lights / Free Telephone / Speaking Tubes, Call Bells / Private Baths / New, Clean and Sanitary / W. M. Smith, Prop. MT4/20/1911p5 Tennessee Smith believes his water rent is too high. He pays 50 cents per family a month, there being 30 families housed in the building. MT12/19/1911p1 Smith Building I South Front Street F. M. Judd has leased a window in the old Smith building, on D Street, and will open a jewelry repair shop. MM3/9/1894p3 E. Smith, son of Henry Smith, deceased, is going to open a jewelry store in the old Smith building. There is also to be a photographer's gallery in the same building. MM3/16/1894p3 W. T. Crane and Gabe Plymale have opened a roller skating rink in one of the Smith buildings, south of Hotel Nash. MM11/20/1896p7 Smith Building II East Main Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Anderson have opened a restaurant in the Smith block, East Seventh Street. MM11/17/1905p5 Hoswell & France have opened a grocery, flour and feed store in the Smith building, on Seventh Street, in the rooms formerly occupied by Smith & Molony. They will carry a full line of staple and fancy groceries, and make a specialty of goods suitable for camping trips. MM7/13/1906p5 Smith's Hall 126 North Grape aka (probably) Unity Hall, Socialists' Hall, Carpenters' Hall Painters' union meetings will be held every Thursday evening in the Socialists' hall, over Smith's tin shop. MM5/21/1909p1 In 1911 the plumber's union met at "Smith's Hall, N. Grape St., Fridays at 8 p.m." Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters Journal, October 1911, page 59 Numerous archery contests have been held in Carpenters' Hall on North Grape Street, where John Beeson has arranged targets for the general convenience of the public. MT6/5/1927p2 There will be a meeting at 128 North Grape for the purpose of forming an archery club. MT7/11/1927p3 Snider Dairy Building Photo: 1923 28-36 North Bartlett Reportedly built in 1921; razed 1964. MT1/10/1964p1 The Snider Dairy is undergoing extensive remodeling and repair. MT1/20/1935p3 Snyder Garage Photo: 1927 104 South Bartlett, southwest corner Eighth and Bartlett Built 1909 for Cadillac, Pierce Arrow, Corbin and Locomobile dealer Clarence H. Snyder. An up-to-date garage will be built at once on the corner of Eighth and G streets for the use of Snyder, the Cadillac man. The lumber has just been purchased by J. C. Emerick of Ashland, who will erect the building from the Big Pines Lumber Company. MM1/29/1909p5 The building is 100x50 feet in size and has a cement floor, without a post in it. This block of cement, by the way, is the largest in southern Oregon. It was constructed by Peter Denhof. The 5000 feet of floor space gives Mr. Snyder accommodations for 40 cars, and by the end of the season 20 of these will be new cars that have been sold by Mr. Snyder this year. MDT4/1/1909p1 The Medford Garage, now unused, known also as the Emerick Garage, has been engaged as the place to hold the poultry show. MT2/5/1916p6 Treichler and Wilson's Overland auto agency has moved to the corner of Bartlett and Eighth streets. MS6/3/1916p2 The 1927 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows the space occupied by an auto electric shop. Socialists' Hall See Smith's Hall South Central Service Station Corner of Ninth and Central Warren Butler has assumed ownership and management of Medford's newest service station, constructed along modernistic lines and featuring a full line of Gilmore products. MT11/11/1934p6 Southern Oregon Brewing, Ice and Cold Storage Company See Jackson County Creamery Southern Oregon Sales Building Photo: 1929 13 West Stewart Announcement was made Saturday by Southern Oregon Sales for construction of a pre-cooling, cold storage and packing plant, to cost $100,000. The structure will be three stories high and equipped with the latest fruit industry machinery. There will be a cafeteria and emergency dressing rooms, and rest rooms for women workers and smoking rooms for men. MT12/31/1928pB4 Sparta Building NRHP #362.0 Photos: circa 1913 2011 401 East Main/12 North Riverside, northeast corner Main and Riverside John Root, from Sparta, Wisconsin, contracted architect Frank Clark to design this gleaming glazed white brick building in 1910; construction began August 30. MT8/28/1910p1 The curved corner framed by twin ionic columns, created the perfect showplace for Pop Gates' Overland dealership. Gates leased the building in August 1913, and shortly thereafter became the valley’s Ford dealer. Soon, Riverside Avenue became the natural location for many auto dealers and repair shops, earning the thoroughfare the name Auto Row. In 1926 radio station KMED, the first commercial station between Sacramento and Portland, moved to the second floor. The station installed twin towers on the roof, stretching antenna wires between them. Work will start next Tuesday morning; the contract has been let to R. I. Stuart. The building will be known as the "Sparta" block. The name is the same as the town in which Mr. Root was reared [i.e., Sparta, Wisconsin]. MT8/28/1910p1 Contracts have been let for John M. Root's new $30,000 building, which will be completed in 121 days. The structure will have an enameled brick front. The first floor will be occupied by stores, while the second will contain offices. MT9/4/1910pB1 September sees the beginning of construction on the Root building. MT9/10/1910pB1 The enamel brick for the Sparta Building, which is being erected at the corner of Main and Riverside by John M. Root and associates, has arrived and gives great promise of lending beauty to the building. MT10/9/1910p6 Workmen are now placing the second story, the material of which is white tile brick. As Medford is free of coal smoke, this building will be one of the handsomest in the city. It will be lighted with the most modern electrical fixtures, inside and out. MS2/5/1911p1 One of the most handsome buildings erected in the city is the Sparta block, which is just ready for occupancy. MT7/2/1911pB1 Every lady and gentleman invited to attend our lectures given every afternoon 2:30 and evenings 8. Demonstration parlors in the Sparta bldg., ground floor. MT4/2/1912p2 The Equal Suffrage Club of Medford and vicinity have opened new headquarters in the Sparta building and will meet there each Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. MT5/13/1912p4 The McGuire five and ten cent store will open for business in its new location in the Sparta building Saturday. MT1/24/1913p2 The flower and rose show will be open all day in the Sparta building. The baby contest will be held at the Sparta building from 1 o'clock to 4. MT7/3/1913p1 C. E. Gates, the Overland man, has leased the lower floor of the Sparta building for a period of three years. The front room will be used as a show room, with the rear room as repair shop. MT8/29/1913p6 The work performed by the federal employment bureau, which closed its doors Saturday night, will be carried on at the Red Cross offices in the Sparta Building. MT7/24/1919p2 The Red Cross is establishing a health center in the Sparta Building which will be in charge of the Jackson County public health nurse. MS8/17/1919p4 Several public-spirited firms have cooperated in improving the appearance of the Sparta Building. Window displays will be changed frequently to keep this important corner looking presentable throughout the tourist season, or until the space is again rented. MT5/29/1932p3 Workers have gone into overtime restoring the historic Sparta building downtown after encountering unexpected problems with the columns, the roof, the metal cornice, as well as seismic upgrades. MT9/26/2011pB1 City directory listings for corner room of Sparta Building: 1912--McGuire's Variety; 1914-16--C. E. Gates Overland/Studebaker/Ford; 1921-26--Busy Corner Motor Co.; 1927-31--Western Auto; 1932-35--Vacant; 1937-39--Rogue River Chevrolet; 1940-60--Commercial Finance Corp.; 1962-71--Laurentide Finance Corp.; 1972-77--CIT Financial Services; 1978--Hi-Way Club; 1979-81--Harold’s Arcade; 1983-84--Heff’s Family Restaurant; 1985-88--Vacant; 1989-90--Spaghetti Factory; 1991--Vacant; 1993-1997--Las Margaritas St. Mark's Block Photo: 1911 1965 218 West Main, northeast corner Main and Holly aka Copco Building, Masonic Building, Episcopalian Block A granite alcove now on this site was created from the remains of the St. Mark's Block after it was razed in 1971. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church constructed the building in 1910 (contrary to the brass plaque on the site) of granite cut from the Ray quarry near Gold Hill. Businesses occupied the ground floor, and until 1919, when the building was sold to the Masons, church services were held upstairs. The third floor was added in 1926 and dedicated on December 10. Medford is soon to be graced by a new church building. It will be erected on the site of the present chapel, which is soon to be moved to the opposite side of the lot. MM3/6/1908p6 G. L. Schermerhorn has arranged to commence excavating for the erection of the new Episcopal church business block and church edifice. This new block will have a frontage of 100 feet on West Main Street, and will extend north on Holly Street 70 feet. This will be made into four business store rooms, each with a 25-foot frontage on Main Street. The building will be two stories. At the rear of these and fronting on North Holly, the society will erect its new church. MM10/1/1909p6 The church is estimated to cost $10,000 and will be constructed entirely of stone. The church will have a frontage of 46 feet on Holly and will be 100 feet deep. MT11/6/1909p1 The building committee of the Episcopal Church met this morning and decided to start the work immediately on the new brick block on the corner from which the frame church was recently moved. MT12/29/1909p1 Work has started on the foundation of the Episcopal block and stone church, to be finished by June 1. OR1/3/1910p13 The woodwork for the interior and the supports for the second story are in place, and the work on the side walls is being rapidly pushed. MT3/11/1910p5 Building stone from the Gold Ray quarry is being used in the new Episcopal church and block at Medford. MT5/12/1910p4 The lower story of the building at least is to be completed by September 20. The corner will be occupied by the Title & Trust Company of Medford. The first storeroom east will be occupied by the Aitkens Company, which carries ladies' ready-to-wear goods, and the next by Leander & Co., with the same class of goods. Abrams & Co., carrying auto supplies, will occupy the next store. MT8/31/1910p5 The Episcopalian building is nearing completion under the careful superintendence of Archdeacon Chambers of Portland. The building will contain two floors. Three stores have rented the ground floor, while the upper floor is being divided into eight offices. A large meeting or dance hall and a reception room to serve at times as a dining room. The building is being erected at a cost of $32,000. The new St. Mark's Church, next door, is not being built at present on account of lack of funds. MT9/4/1910pB1 The new store fronts for the St. Mark's building are being placed. MTw10/6/1910p5 The Medford lodge F. and A.M. has decided to purchase the St. Mark's building, and have issued 20-year bonds to the sum of $30,000. MT4/24/1920p6 A permit was issued this month to the Masons "for $25,000 to complete the second story on their building on West Main, and add a third story." JCN7/2/1926p1 A third story was added in 1926 to the Masonic building at a cost of $25,000 giving the local Mason lodge one of the finest lodge and club rooms in Oregon. MT1/2/1927pD2 Announcement is made of establishment by the Y.M.C.A. of temporary quarters in the Masonic building on West Main formerly occupied by the West Main U.S.O. MN10/6/1944p1 St. Mark's Episcopal Church NRHP #173.0 Photo: 1916 212 North Oakdale The new Episcopal Church, the cornerstone of which is to be laid on March 2, the Rev. Charles Scadding, bishop of the Oregon diocese, officiating, marks the commencement of the finest church building in the state outside of Portland. MT2/22/1910p2 The bishop of Oregon laid the cornerstone of the new St. Mark's Episcopal Church this afternoon. MT3/2/1910p1 St. Mark's, the handsome new Episcopal edifice, has been completed. It is one of the most attractive church buildings in Medford, built of concrete and brick at a cost of $5000. MT12/16/1916p5 St. Mark's Parish Hall/School NRHP #179.0 212 North Oakdale St. Mary's Academy Photos: 1908 circa 1910 1916 1920s 1953 South side of Eleventh Street between Holly and Ivy Built 1908; razed 1953. Ground was broken yesterday for the $21,000 Catholic school. Work will also begin soon on the priests' home. OR2/12/1908p5 The work of laying the foundation for the new Catholic school in west Medford is progressing rapidly. MM3/13/1908p2 St. Mary's Academy was dedicated here today by Archbishop Christie, of Portland. OR9/28/1908p13 The lawn of the academy will be dynamited in preparation for setting out a number of trees and rose bushes. MT2/4/1914p2 A permit to demolish the old school has been taken by Sacred Heart Church. MT7/4/1952 The new school opened its doors for classes last fall. The $400,000 structure includes nine classrooms for grade school students and four "home rooms" for high school students. MT6/21/1953p10 St. Peter's Lutheran Church Photo: 1949 1020 East Main, southwest corner Main and Vancouver A groundbreaking service will be conducted by St. Peter's Lutheran Church Sunday after the close of the regular service. The building will be of brick tile and Roman brick construction. MT8/27/1948p7 Standard Insurance Building Photos: 1960 1965 711 East Main, corner of Main and Genessee Among major building permits this year was one for Standard Insurance's two-story all-wood structure. The second story will be rental space. MT5/29/1960p10 Fire in the Standard Insurance Building gutted four offices and caused smoke damage in the rest of the building Friday night. MT10/31/1965p1 Standard Oil Service Station I Photo: circa 1924 1942 Northeast corner West Main and Fir The Southern Pacific has leased a plot of ground at the corner of Main and Fir to the Standard Oil Company. It is the first time the railroad has leased a part of the real estate it owns on either side of the tracks for other than warehouse purposes. MT7/7/1919p2 Standard Oil commenced work today on their modern city service station. The building will be entirely of steel, will be surrounded by a circular cement curbing, and there will be flowers inside the curbing and around the building. There will be four large oil tanks and three air and water tanks. The station will be working in about two weeks. MT7/10/1919p6 The new service station of the Standard Oil company opened for business at noon today, although work on the plant and grounds is not completed. MT7/30/1919p6 The Standard Oil station at Fir and Main has undergone a complete change of paint. The last licks were put on the tall flagpole this morning. MT7/14/1927p2 Standard Oil Service Station II Photo: 1940 Northwest corner Sixth and Riverside The Standard Oil Company has taken a long-time lease on the property 100x100 feet at the corner of Riverside and Sixth and will begin the erection of a new service station there in a few days. MT3/8/1920p6 Stanley Block See Palmer-Medynski Building Lillie D. Starr House NRHP #142.0 204 North Ivy Steinhardt & Kelly Fruit Packing House See Page Warehouse Stevens Wholesale NRHP #4.0 101 East Tenth, northeast corner Tenth and Front Built 1949 for Stevens Co., auto parts wholesaler. Stewart Building NRHP #308.0 Photos: circa 1904 1979 237 East Main, northwest corner Main and Bartlett aka Medford Bank Building, Will Hansen Building Mr. Stewart is perfecting the plans for the erection of a brick building to be 25x100 feet in size and two stories high. The first story of the building will undoubtedly be used for banking purposes, a move toward organizing a new bank house having been put in motion. MM10/28/1897p7 Hon. J. H. Stewart has purchased the brick building occupied by Ferguson, the grocer, on 7th Street, as also the vacant lot adjoining. He will have constructed, for the use of the proposed banking institution, a handsome edifice, as also another story above it. DT10/31/1898p3 The material for the new bank building is being put on the ground. Hon. J. H. Stewart is superintending operations. DT11/14/1898p2 Arthur Weeks., an excellent architect, is in Medford, crafting plans for the brick building Hon. J. H. Stewart, his father-in-law, proposes erecting soon. DT11/17/1898p3 Work has been commenced on the new bank building. The brickwork is being done by Geo. Priddy. DT2/23/1899p3 The work on the Stewart block is progressing rapidly. The tower is being erected and the building is nearing enclosure. MM4/21/1899p7 Ernest Langley has secured the contract for putting in the pipe and arranging the water system for J. H. Stewart's new brick block. DT4/24/1899p3 The building is 25x86 feet in size and two stories high. It is built of brick with sand rock at both top and bottom of each of the several pillars and at door and window sides and corners. The two large front windows are of the best French plate glass. The entrance to the banking room is from Seventh Street through a massive door of the best sugar pine with plate glass panels. At the back end of the counter is a good-sized room set apart from the banking room proper and will be for use by bank officials. This is divided from the other room with oak and glass partitions. Still beyond this is a directors' room, 16x24 feet in size, and beyond this is a 20x24-foot room which will be used undoubtedly for store purposes. A large safety vault has been provided for the bank's treasure and valuable papers. This has cold air ventilation and is positively fireproof. Inside this is a Diebold safe--a double timer, of the best of steel, and burglar proof. The upstairs, or second story, is divided into suites of rooms--six in number. A hallway extends the entire length of the building on the second story and each of these rooms opens into it. These rooms face on B Street, and from each of them there projects a large bay window. They are finished in sugar pine, and in each of them are marble wash basins and city water attachments. MM6/23/1899p6 The brick warehouse at the rear of the old Medford Bank building is about completed. This is being built by the J. H. Stewart estate and under the supervision of F. M. Stewart. It is 25x55 feet in size and will be used as a warehouse by the firm of Nicholson & Platt when they get moved into their new quarters. MM1/4/1907p5 Nicholson & Platt have moved their hardware store from the south side of Seventh Street to the Stewart block, just across the street. MM3/15/1907p5 A real estate partnership has been formed under the name of La Loma real estate company, by W. H. Stewart, with office in the Stewart Building, over the Nicholson Hardware Company. MT3/13/1911p6 Remodeling of the old Will Hansen building at Main and Bartlett streets was completed in 1935. MT1/3/1936p1 Recent occupants have been Cookie Connection, Boulangerie Rue de Main, Molly Reed. MT5/24/2010p6 Sunrise Super Service Station Photo: 1927 Corner Twelfth and South Riverside Representing an outlay of approximately $20,000, the Sunrise Super-Service Station was completed last February on South Riverside Avenue. In addition to the service station, there are also five three-room tourist apartments operated in connection with the station under the proprietorship of A. M. Alcock and J. A. Rowe. MT9/14/1927pC3 Syndicate Building See Farmers & Fruitgrowers Bank Building Taggart House East Main and Riverside W. F. Taggart is improving the appearance of his residence, corner A and Seventh streets, by the application of paint. MM4/18/1902p3 A. P. Talent House Ninth and Central Petition of A. P. Talent to construct frame residence corner Ninth and Central Avenue granted. MT2/20/1910p3 The family home for the past 11 years has been at 245 S. Central. MT5/26/1913p2 Tayler Building Photos: 1901 1904 221 East Main; preceded the Tayler-Phipps Building Tayler the foot fitter will move his stock of shoes, etc., to the store next to Wilkinson's meat market. MM2/23/1894p2 A. C. Tayler will move his shoe shop to the Damon building, near Mr. Lawton's harness shop. He has purchased the property, the consideration being $1400. MM3/2/1894p3 Gospel services are being held in Tayler's store every Sunday evening, conducted by S. D. Biden, and to which all are invited. MM4/20/1894p2 The Medford Book Store vacated the First National Bank building on Seventh Street Monday, and is now located in the Tayler building, next door to the Green Front cigar store. MM6/8/1906p5 Tayler-Phipps Building NRHP #310.0 Photos: 1989 2006 221-225 East Main aka Kidd Building, Phipps Building Ira D. Phipps, dentist son of one of the town founders, joined shoemaker Albert C. Tayler in hiring architects Power and Reeves to design this two-story brick building. Before construction began Tayler sold his business to Corsa M. Kidd, who later joined with V. A. Norris and Harvey Field in the shoe trade. In 1937, Nor-Field Shoes and Company remodeled the storefront with Carrera glass. The brass footprints embedded in the sidewalk take the place of those Tayler painted on board sidewalks in the 1890s. The metal versions probably date from Mr. Kidd’s day and still lead you into the shoe store, now under the management of John Norris. The upstairs level of the Tayler-Phipps building remains virtually unchanged since the building's construction; the Lincrusta wallpaper on the wainscoting likely dates from 1911 as well. A. C. Tayler and I. J. Phipps will erect a modern, up-to-date business structure of brick on their property on lower Seventh. The building will be 50x140 feet in size, and the lower story will contain two double-front storerooms. The upper floor will be used for office rooms. MM3/19/1909p6 It will be 50x92 feet in size, two stories high. The ceilings will be 16 feet high, and the fronts will be of plate and prism glass. The second story will be for office purposes. Dr. Phipps will use nearly all of the rooms on one side for his dental parlors. The reception room, which will be at the front, will be 16x22 feet in size, and in it there will be a large fireplace. The second story of the other building, Mr. Tayler's part, will be divided into three large suites for office purposes. A nice feature of all these rooms is that they will all have sidelight, a court at each side providing this light. A new feature in connection with the windows in these courts is that they will be protected from fire by shutters which will be so suspended by lead wires that should a fire occur these lead wires will melt, thus permitting the shutters to drop down over the windows. The architect is C. O. Power of this city, the contractor is Harper McKechnie, and the Big Pines Lumber Company will furnish the material. MM7/16/1909p1 The second-story ceiling joists are being put up in the Phipps-Tayler building, and by the end of next week it is expected the roof will be on. MM8/20/1909p6 Everybody is admiring the splendid brick front which is being put in for Messrs. Phipps and Tayler in their new building. The brick used are white in color with outer surface glazed, and the plain ones used cost $100 per thousand, while those used in the ornamental finish cost $150 per thousand. MM9/24/1909p5 Another 1937 major remodeling was undertaken by C. M. Kidd & Company, pioneer shoe concern, located at 221 East Main Street. With a smart new front, trimmed with lustrous, black Carrara glass, and completely remodeled interior and fixtures, Kidd's store is considered one of this city's most beautiful business establishments. MT1/2/1938p6 Norris Shoes finished interior and exterior remodeling in 1986. MT3/23/1989pB11 J. G. Taylor Building 314 East Main J. G. Taylor this week purchased from Lex Hubbard a 25x140-foot lot on [East] Seventh Street. The property is just east and adjoining the Union Livery Stable. Mr. Taylor will at once commence the construction of a 25x65-foot one-story brick building, to be occupied by himself for a harness and saddlery shop. MM6/21/1901p7 J. G. Taylor will commence work on his new brick building this week. G. W. Priddy secured the brick work contract, Chas. Pheister the stone foundation work, and A. C. Nicholson will superintend the carpenter work. The building will be 25x60 feet in size and one story high. MM7/12/1901p7 The brick work on the new J. G. Taylor building is being vigorously pushed, and it is expected will be completed before September 1st. MM8/16/1901p6 G. W. Priddy, the expert contractor and builder, has the first story of J. G. Taylor's brick building completed. It will be a fine structure in every way. DT8/22/1901p2 Mr. Taylor's new brick store building is nearly ready to move into. G. W. Priddy did the brick work on this, and A. C. Nicholson the carpenter work. MM9/20/1901p7 I have moved my stock of harness from the Woolf building to my new store. J. G. Taylor. MM11/15/1901p7 L. C. Taylor Building NRHP #260.0 313 East Eighth Terminal Hotel See Hotel Jackson W. E. Thomas Apartments 108-114 South Grape W. E. Thomas has a $15,000 four-flat apartment house under construction on South Holly [sic] Street. MT6/8/1927p2 The four-flat apartment house which is being constructed on South Holly [sic] Street is expected to be ready for occupancy by July 15. Construction was commenced in March and was designed to be one of the most modern in Medford. MT6/27/1927p2 The new Thomas apartment house on South Grape Street is being rapidly completed and is expected to be ready for occupancy within a fortnight, according to the builder, W. E. Thomas, who planned the four-flat structure. MT7/17/1927p2 The Thomas apartment house on South Grape was sold to George S. Hutchins, a well-known Medford contractor, at a consideration announced as $16,000. MT8/2/1927p8 I. W. Thomas Building [East] NRHP #67.2 131 East Main I. W. Thomas Building [West] NRHP #67.1 135 East Main Thomas Building #2 [Oregon Rooms] NRHP #110.0 Photo: 1979 225 West Main See also White & Thomas Block I. W. Thomas, who owns property west and adjoining the old Clarenden House barn, has decided to erect a brick building thereon. The building will be 50x80 feet in size and two stories high. MM4/12/1901p6 Contractor G. W. Priddy has men at work quarrying the rock for the foundation of I. W. Thomas' new brick building, which he has the contract for erecting on Mr. Thomas' property on West Seventh Street. MM4/19/1901p2 A. D. Ray, proprietor of the West Side Grocery, has secured a lease on the brick building to be erected by I. W. Thomas. MM4/26/1901p6 Mr. Thomas, of the Griffin Creek ranch, is getting everything on the ground for his big brick building, west of the railroad track. The foundation is laid, and as soon as the brick is ready he will push the work. DT6/27/1901p5 A. C. Tayler has sold two business lots on West Seventh Street, adjoining the Presbyterian church. One of these was sold to I. W. Thomas and the other to R. Slewing, the west side merchant tailor. The price paid was $1100 for each lot. The lots are 25x140 feet in size, and both of the purchasers will erect brick business buildings thereon. MM12/7/1906p5 I. W. Thomas has broken ground for his new two-story brick store building adjoining the Presbyterian Church. The building will be 20 feet front by 80 feet deep. MDT8/27/1907p4 Thomas' estate sold the building, then occupied by Stamper and Goff Brothers Hardware, in 1945 to Carrol S. and Lotus Gray of Medford. MN5/25/1945p6 Thomas Rental Store NRHP #72.0 39 South Grape A business building was erected on South Grape Street by W. E. Thomas at a cost of $15,000, showing that the continued growth of the city was reaching all parts of Medford's business section. MT9/14/1927pC3 Thomas Rental Store #2 Possibly 28-32 North Grape Marking the first business structure to be erected on North Grape this year, a $10,000 reinforced concrete double store building is expected to be completed within 60 days. It will have two store rooms, each 25x100 feet, and will be placed for rent or sale by the owner, W. E. Thomas. The contract is held by H. E. Goodhue of this city. MT10/7/1926p3 J. H. Thorndike House NRHP #139.0 221 North Holly Joseph E. Toft House NRHP #129.0 245 North Grape Raymond H. Toft House NRHP #138.0 243 North Holly Trailways Bus Depot Photo: 1979 Southeast corner Fifth and Front TraveLodge Motel Photo: circa 1960 722 North Riverside Preliminary excavation for a new $100,000 "highway motel" started this week. The residence still on the property will be moved to a North Pacific Hwy. location. MT4/13/1956p1 Triangle Auto Sales Photo: 1949 Corner Jackson and Riverside, 400 East Jackson Tribune Apartments 33 North Fir. See Medford Mail Tribune Apartments. Trowbridge Apartments 905 West Tenth Trowbridge & Flynn Electric Photo: 1949 1225 Court Trowbridge Cabinet Works Photo: 1927 Northeast corner Tenth and Grape Tucker Garage NRHP #366.0 32 North Riverside A garage building was completed during the past year for the Tucker Garage on Riverside Avenue. The building is concrete and modern in every way. MT9/14/1927pC3 Turf Exchange Saloon Photo: 1901 Northeast corner East Main and Front aka Noland & Ulrich Saloon, Railroad Saloon, Exchange Saloon, Railroad Exchange Saloon Built early 1884 by Noland and Ulrich; razed in the summer of 1902 to make way for the Palm Building I. For a long time the frame building standing known as the Turf Exchange Saloon has been a structure which no citizen has pointed to with any very great degree of pride. MM4/28/1899p7 The row of wooden buildings have all been torn down except the building occupied by the Postal Telegraph Company. DT8/14/1902p2 U.S. Bank Drive-Up Teller NRHP #30.0 North Front U.S. National Bank Building NRHP #26.0 Photos: 1966 1979 131 East Main, northwest corner Main and Central See also Medford National Bank Everything is ready for Monday's dedication of the new $1 million U.S. National Bank of Oregon's Medford branch. MT8/7/1966p1 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse NRHP #148.0 Photos: 1916 1940 2009 333 West Sixth, northwest corner Sixth and Holly aka Federal Building, James A. Redden Federal Courthouse Designed in a formal Georgian style, a matching addition to the rear was built in 1939. Medford’s post office was in this building for almost exactly fifty years, 1916-1966. The government is making an investigation to see if it will be justified in placing a federal building at this place. OR4/19/1910p13 The Secretary of the Treasury today authorized the selection of property at the northwest corner of Sixth and Holly as a site for a public building. OR1/18/1911p2 The Secretary of the Treasury today awarded to the Sound Construction Co. a contract for erecting a public building at Medford. The contract price is $96,123. Pioneer stone will be used. OR1/13/1915p5 Medford Concrete Construction has contracted for the basement excavation; the work must be commenced not later than the 15th of this month. MT2/5/1915p6 The excavating of the basement for the new federal building will be completed this week, the work being about two-thirds completed at this time. MT2/24/1915p2 The Jacksonville Brick & Tile Co. of this city has secured the contract for the brick for the new federal building now under construction at Medford. JP3/13/1915p3 The basement walls of the new federal building have been completed. Stones to be used in the building will arrive this week. MT4/12/1915p2 Masons are at work laying the concrete approaches to the new federal building. Illustrative of the infinite detail involved, the government insists that the edges of the curbing be ever so lightly rounded. MT10/15/1915p2 Sandstone for the Medford post office was furnished by the Pioneer Quarry in Lincoln County. OR1/1/1916pC8 All except one row of holly trees are being removed from around the Medford post office because of complaints that they are a hazard. MT12/9/1958p1 Tomorrow will be the last day for the public to receive postal service at the Medford Post Office on Sixth Street. MT3/8/1966p1 Union Livery Stables I Photo: circa 1905 Southeast corner East Main and Bartlett aka Worman's Livery Stable The structure at far left in the photo is the livery building built in July 1885. Wm. Egan, recently from Goose Lake, is building a livery stable, and will soon be ready for business. AT12/21/1883p3 The new livery stable at Medford for McMahon & Egan was finished this week and is pronounced a substantial and commodious structure. Messrs. J. T. Roloson and Adam Schmitt of this place done the carpenter work. OS1/12/1884p3 Wm. Egan, of Medford, has sold his livery stables in that place to Messrs. Llewellyn & Lynch, who recently came out from Kansas, receiving for the real estate and entire livery outfit $3,000. Mr. Egan is now in Ashland, and may possibly conclude to locate here. AT10/17/1884p3 Lewellen & Lynch are building a new livery stable in Medford. AT7/3/1885p3 Frank Lewellen has sold out his interest in the Medford livery stable to Ed Worman, a newcomer from the East, for $2,000 and will give possession on the 16th inst. OS11/14/1885p3 Work was started yesterday to tear out the buildings for the large new store belonging to Deuel & Kentner. MM7/17/1908p8 Union Livery Stables II Photos: 1910 1913 112 South Riverside The photo at right shows the stable barn in March of 1910, as seen from the roof of St. Mary's Academy at 11th and Holly. The purchase by Mr. Deuel of this property at Main and Bartlett insures removal of the old buildings and the erection of new ones thereon. I. L. Hamilton, renter of the Union stables, has not decided where he will move his livery business, but he will, in all probability, buy property elsewhere and build. MM12/7/1906p1 I. L. Hamilton, proprietor of the Union Livery Stables, has purchased the E. Worman property, corner South B and Eighth streets, and which extends east to South A Street. Mr. Hamilton is now having plans drawn for a fine livery stable, which he will erect thereon. MM12/14/1906p5 The building will be 64x134 feet in size, built of lumber, but later will have a brick veneering on the outside. It will be two stories high and will have stabling room for 60 head of horses and a carriage room capable of accommodating 44 rigs and six or eight automobiles. MM8/21/1908p5, MM10/16/1908p10 A new union livery stable is being built at a cost of $6000. OR11/2/1908p12 Fire destroyed the Union livery and feed stables on South Riverside Avenue last night at 11 o'clock, at an estimated damage totaling $15,000. Seven head of horses, thirteen wagons and two dozen sets of harness and other equipment, two unoccupied houses belonging to Mrs. L. R. Parker and about 500 tons of loose green hay were burned. MT9/27/1913p1 Union Livery Stables III Photo: 1914 112 South Riverside Hubbard brothers, owners of the Union Livery Stables that were destroyed by fire, will begin construction of a concrete building to take its place. The structure will cost $10,000, be 100x144 and will be occupied by Ray Gaunyaw. MT10/4/1913p2 The advertisement linked to began running in the Medford Mail Tribune on March 14, 1914. Union Meat Company Warehouse Southwest corner Eighth and Evergreen Work is progressing on Union Meat Company's new warehouse, on the railroad land just south of the Page warehouse. The building will be 50x75 feet in size. MM4/30/1909p2 Union Oil Service Station I Southeast corner West Main and Fir The service station proper will occupy 75 square feet, and will be of steel frame and sheet metal construction. The station will be painted in white and gray colors and will have a pretty yard surround. MT5/18/1920p8 Union Oil Service Station II Photo: 1940 Ninth and Central Union Oil Service Station III Photo: 1940 Fifth and Riverside Unity Hall See Smith's Hall University Club See Home Telephone & Telegraph Building; also Vawter House Unknown Blacksmith Shop 120 South Bartlett As the result of a fall from the second floor of a blacksmith shop under construction on South Bartlett, Charles Robb narrowly escaped serious injury. MT2/22/1911p2 Unknown Building NRHP #328.0 114 South Bartlett Unknown/Concrete Building NRHP #344.0 123 South Riverside aka Billings Buildings The Fitch Motor Co. finished moving yesterday from 123 to 127 South Riverside into the new Davis building. MT6/9/1927p2 The Huggins & Robinson Motor Co. has moved to 123 and 127 South Riverside. This building which was built by John Billings recently, has been purchased by C. T. Huggins. MT10/16/1927pB6 Unknown Houses NRHP #144.0 325 West Fourth USO Building See Gates Building, Home Telephone & Telegraph Building, Kentner Building Valley Auto Co. Southwest corner Sixth and Holly aka Anderson & Green Building Ground for the new garage was broken this week just north of the Episcopal Church, between Main and Sixth, on Holly. The building will be two stories in height and will be 50x100 feet in size, with plate glass front. The lower floor will be fitted up for stabling of machines, and the upper floor will be devoted to the repair shops. MT11/2/1909p8 Work on the Anderson & Green Building on Holly is rapidly progressing, although the weather has somewhat interfered with the work. MT11/28/1909p23 Anderson and Green "are just putting the finishing touches on the big brick garage they are building for the Valley Auto Company." MT1/2/1910p5 Vawter Apartments See Vawter House Vawter-Brophy Building NRHP #314.0 Photo: circa 1908 209 East Main See Brophy Building City directory listings: 1912 not found; 1914 Medford Book Store, Davis & Miller, props.; 1916 John W. Johnson, Jeweler, Medford Book Store; 1916 Medford Book Store, A. H. Miller, mgr.; 1930-81 Brophy’s Jewelry, Leland S. Brophy. Currently site of the On The Wall. The contract has been let by the Jackson County Bank for the construction of a building forty feet wide between the new bank building and the Hutchison & Lumsden building. Work will be commenced on the new structure early in September. The new building will be one story in height and will be separated by a partition into two twenty-foot rooms, one to be occupied by the Vienna Bakery and the other by the Medford Book Store and jeweler B. N. Butler. MM8/24/1906p5 Work will shortly be commenced on the building between the Jackson County Bank and the Hutchison & Lumsden building. The pressed brick for the front have already arrived, and the work will be rushed to completion, once a start is made. MM10/5/1906p5 Workmen commenced the tearing down of the old buildings occupied by jeweler B. N. Butler, Justice F. M. Stewart and the Vienna Bakery Sunday morning to clear the ground for the erection of a new building on the site, which is owned by the Big Bend Milling Co. The building will be one story in height with a pressed brick front and will consist of two 20x45-foot rooms, to be occupied, when completed, by the Medford Book Store and the bakery. MM10/12/1906p5 E. E. Angle and F. L. Litherland, of Portland, were in Medford this week on business. They have the contract for the building to be erected by the Jackson County Bank, between the new structure and the Hutchison & Lumsden building. MM10/12/1906p5 The Medford Book Store will soon be moved to the new building east of the Jackson County Bank. MM4/12/1907p5 Vawter House Photo: 1909 circa 1910 circa 1918 310 West Main, northwest corner Main and Holly aka University Club, Vawter Apartments Built in 1905 for William I. Vawter, it became the home of the University Club soon after Vawter's death in 1916. The building, missing the third story after a fire around 1935, was moved to the southeast corner of Eighth and Holly in 1941 and razed around 1968. Victory Housing Project Photo: 1957 West Jackson, McAndrews and Columbus Consideration of a federal housing project of 125 units, to cost about $400,000, was under way here last week. Locations are being considered, and Frank Clark, local architect, has been called in. MN12/4/1942p1 The apartments in the Victory Housing Project will be ready for occupancy Saturday, June 19. They are for use by persons directly engaged in the war effort, chiefly Camp White workers. Fifty-one of the apartments are one-bedroom, 50 have two bedrooms, and 25 have three bedrooms. The kitchens have iceboxes, coal-burning ranges, space heaters and combination laundry tubs and sink. MN6/18/1943p1 The Jackson County Housing Authority project will be liquidated this year, after nearly 14 years providing "temporary" low-cost housing, originally for defense employees. It will make way for a military reserve armory and a 10-acre recreational area. Of the original 157 units, 57 have already been torn down. The remaining 100 are no longer suitable for residential purposes. During the war there were 125 units, and after the war 32 additional buildings were brought from Vanport during the postwar pinch on housing. MT1/10/1957p1 Medford's firetrap is going to be torn down and replaced, probably by a city park complete with swimming pool and playground. The greatest fire hazard is the practice of locating the wood boxes and kindling in back of the stove of every unit. RRT1/11/1957p1 Residents of the "temporary" housing project, ordered to vacate, have protested the order and appealed for support from government officials. MT5/11/1958p1 Three permits to move houses from the project on West Jackson were issued this week. Purchasers cite such uses as garages, tool sheds, workshops and chicken coops. MT8/15/1958p1 Vienna Bakery Building Location undetermined M. C. Campbell, the Vienna bakery man, is having the old front of the building removed and a new one put in. The place was a miserable old rookery and an eyesore to all good citizens. MM3/21/1902p7 Village Dairy Smith Photo: 1957 703 East Main Built 1957. MT9/29/1957p12 Virginia Vogel Plaza NRHP #316.0 Southeast corner East Main and Central Vrooman-Childers House NRHP #6.0 230 South Central, northwest corner Tenth and Central Built circa 1910; occupied in the 1990s by North Country Head Shop. Wakefield Draperies Building 1100 Crater Lake Ave., northeast corner Crater Lake and Woodrow Work has started on a pumice building which will house Wakefield Draperies and the Frances Dallaire fur shop. The building, 40 by 80 feet, will also include a reinforced concrete vault for storage purposes. MT11/16/1955p1 Walker Building, Walker Hall See Childers Building/Dreamland Walton Building Location unknown A new brick building will soon be erected at Medford by Geo. S. Walton on the lot formerly owned by M. Mensor of this place. OS11/14/1885p3 Byers & Guerin, the well-known contractors, are engaged in the construction of 'Squire Walton's brick building at Medford. DT11/27/1885p3 Frank Galloway has sold his farm and other real estate and will engage in business in Walton's brick. DT11/4/1887p3 'Squire Walton has sold his brick store building to Mr. Griffin, a newcomer, who will go into business here in the near future. DT12/9/1887p2 Miss Russ' millinery store will soon be removed from Walton's brick building, to make room for another hardware store [most likely D. A. Huling's]. DT12/6/1888p2 Wards Building See Leverette Block Belle E. Warner Building See Warner-Gore Rental Building Warner-Gore Rental Building NRHP #266.0 Photo: 1960 301 East Main, northeast corner Main and Bartlett aka Warner Building One-half block off Main on Bartlett Street. MT11/22/1923p3 The new building on Main and Bartlett, built by Mrs. E. M. Warner and occupied by the White Sewing Machine Company, was finished a few days ago, and when the company moved in it was discovered that it was impossible to heat the place because chimneys had been omitted. MT12/20/1923p1 Warner, Wortman & Gore Building NRHP #267.0 Photos: 1901 circa 1908 307 East Main aka McAndrews Block The old frame building formerly occupied by John Hardin's barber shop has been torn down, and in its place Mr. McAndrews will erect a brick. The building will be 50x80 feet in size, and G. L. Davis will occupy it with his grocery store. Childers Bros. will do the brick work. MM7/6/1900p7 N. B. Bradbury's planing mill is getting ready to do the woodwork on the McAndrews brick block. He will also put in the counters and shelving in merchant Davis' new store. MM8/10/1900p7 Work was resumed on the McAndrews block this week. Work has been delayed while Childers Bros. were burning a kiln of brick. MM8/17/1900p7 Workmen are now pushing the construction of the new McAndrews block, and it will soon be ready for occupancy. Mr. Davis, who is to occupy the building, will have the finest business place in Medford. MM8/31/1900p7 N. B. Bradbury has men at work putting shelving and counters into the new McAndrews block. These are of peculiar design but are to be so arranged as to be both convenient and pretty. MM10/5/1900p7 The building was completed last week, and no sooner was the snow-white paint dry than did G. L. Davis commence moving in. The main building is 50x60 feet in size; the windows are French plate glass, and around them have been installed, about a foot apart, 124 electric lights. MM10/19/1900p6 Warner & Wortman, who purchased G. L. Davis' grocery store last week, have been busy removing their stock of goods from their old stand to their present location. MM4/26/1901p7 E. N. Warner, proprietor of the Double Front Grocery, is having a 25x40-foot brick storeroom built at the rear of his store. Time was not many years ago when there was ample room for Mr. Warner to operate in this spacious, double front building, but that time is now only a memory. MM7/26/1907p5 H. G. Wortman has recently completed the purchase of the Phipps property, corner of B and 7th streets, and will have a new building erected thereon as soon as some necessary arrangements can be made. The new building will be used as a cold storage and meat market. MM8/2/1907p5 Warner, Wortman & Gore have added to their building, to be used as a grocery store, at a cost of $6000. OR11/2/1908p12 Washington School I Photos: 1895 1896 circa 1906 1907 1909 Southwest corner West Main and Oakdale Designed by W. J. Bennet; completed 1896. Razed for construction of the 1932 Jackson County Courthouse. The new brick school building is to cost $12,000. Work on the foundation was commenced Saturday morning. The contractors are Butler, Barrett and Stewart. The subcontractors: On stone work, Frank Wait; brick work, G. W. Priddy; iron work, such as bolts, ties, etc., G. F. Merriman; painting, Ling & Boardman. MM9/27/1895p4 George Priddy, who still resides in Medford, made the bricks for the school house at the old Bain place, on the McAndrews road. MDN5/28/1931p1 The old bell in the Washington School tower is apparently doomed for the scrap pile unless former students take steps otherwise. The work of demolishing the school structure was begun in a small way yesterday. Mr. Hedrick called attention to the fact that the four feet of local sandstone in the foundation is in fine condition and will be sold to whoever desires it. MT6/9/1931p10 The building will have been completely razed and removed and all debris and salvaged material hauled away by next Wednesday. The big trusses will be salvaged and used in the new Roosevelt School annex, and will be much of the salvaged brick from the Washington School building. MT6/18/1931p8 Washington School II Photo: 1931 Peach and Dakota streets The school district acquired the Amanda H. Fehl property as a future site for the Washington School. MT9/7/1930p1 Concrete has been granted preference over brick for the new building to take the place of Washington School. MT12/9/1930p2 The $265,000 bond issue and acceptance of the school building program carried by a vote of 904 to 128. MT12/17/1930p1 Frank C. Clark has been assigned by the school board to draw plans for the new grade school. MT12/18/1930p1 General contract for construction of the Washington School building was let to Sig Ash, local contractor, whose bid is $40,000, this afternoon. MT2/17/1931p1 Pouring of concrete for the new Washington School started this morning, with most of the materials on the grounds. MT2/23/1931p4 Washington School will be completed by September 1, ready for occupancy. The building, when completed, will cost approximately $75,000. The pouring of concrete for the walls will be started within a few days. MT3/18/1931p6 The new Washington School is taking on a look of completion and occupancy today. In addition to the 15 regular rooms the structure includes a library, principal's office, health room, store room, lavatories and auditorium. MT7/16/1931p10 Medford's 81-year-old Washington Elementary School has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department announced Tuesday. MT11/14/2012p1 Webb Building See Webb-Adkins Block Webb-Adkins Block NRHP #318.0 Photos: circa 1900 1910-11 1947 220 East Main aka Webb Building Dr. Adkins and I. A. Webb will erect a two-story brick building, the excavation for which has already begun, 50x75 feet, on their lot on 7th Street. AT6/21/1889p2 The foundation of the Webb & Adkins new building is nearly completed, and the brick work will begin Monday. AT8/2/1889p3 The brick work on Adkins & Webb's building will soon be completed. AT10/4/1889p3 R. H. Halley has the contract for roofing the new building of Webb & Adkins, which is to be with tin. He will have it completed in a few days. AT11/1/1889p2 I. A. Webb expects to move into his new store in about two weeks. AT11/8/1889p2 When the fire reached the brick walls of I. A. Webb's new building, it was easily checked and controlled. DT12/12/1889p2 The Leak Advertising Co. painted a wall sign for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine on the building's outside east wall in the summer of 1891. The sign is now visible inside the restaurant in the Adkins-Childers Building, next door. Baker S. S. "Penwell has moved to the building east of Haskins' drug store." MM6/8/1894p3 W. B. Armstrong has commenced work on remodeling the room recently vacated by the Medford Furniture Co., next door west of Daniels' clothing store, for a new theater. MS8/18/1911p1 The Star Theater will be officially opened to the public on September 23d at 7 p.m., with a splendid array of photoplay attractions, appropriate music and the latest popular ballads. MS9/21/1911p3 The Liberty Theater, formerly the Star, repainted, renovated and refurnished, opened last night with an excellent program of Paramount pictures. MS12/1/1918p8 On September 21st, 1937, the new M.M. Department Store at 220-222 East Main Street was opened by Charles S. Adair and Bernie H. Williams, owners. MT1/2/1938p6 Weeks Building See Weeks and Orr Furniture Weeks and Orr Furniture NRHP #66.0 Photos: 1910 1911 1970s 1989 114 West Main aka Weeks Building John and Fred Weeks started Weeks Brothers Furniture in 1894 on Front Street, as an outlet for their Phoenix furniture factory. After a series of partnerships, Weeks & Orr Furniture and Undertaking built this building in 1909. They sold off the undertaker side of their business in 1917, the same year the Rialto Theater opened in the building. The family continued selling furniture in this building under the Weeks & Orr name until 1984, selling the business to the Joseph Winans partnership, who carried the tradition on into 2010. A false front added in 1953 by architect Ben Todd was removed in 2002, revealing the original brick façade. Messrs. Weeks & Baker are contemplating the construction of a rather imposing brick edifice to house their steadily growing business. MDT6/30/1906p1 Weeks & Baker commenced this week tearing down the old wooden building they have been using as a shop, in preparation for the erection of a modern two-story brick structure for the accommodation of their furniture and undertaking business. The building will be 25x40 feet in size and the front will be of pressed brick; the show windows in front will have plate glass seven feet in height and twenty-nine feet in length, running around the corner of the building next to the alley. The foundation will be of stone and the floor of the 25x40 wareroom will be of concrete. The ceiling of the lower story will be 16 feet high, and the room will have a gallery running around three sides of it. George W. Priddy has the contract for the brick work. MM8/2/1907p5 The types made us say last week that Weeks & Baker's new building would be 25x40 feet in size when the item should have read 51x140 feet. MM8/9/1907p5 Among the new buildings booked for immediate construction in the city is the two-story brick block to be put up by Weeks Bros., and will be occupied by Weeks & McGowan in addition to the rooms they new occupy on West Main Street. The new building will be 45x100 in size and will be built of brick and stone, and will be two stories high. This will cover the ground where previously stood the wooden building which was for years occupied by Weeks Bros., furniture dealers. MM2/26/1909p1 The Weeks & McGowan block, which is to be occupied by this firm as an annex to their present quarters, to accommodate their growing furniture business, is rapidly nearing completion. The brickmasons have about finished the walls and immediately a full force of workmen will be putting on the roof, laying floors and making ready for the interior finish. MM4/23/1909p1 On the Weeks building the floor and partitions are completed, and the lath is ready for the plaster work. MM5/14/1909p1 The Weeks & McGowan building is now occupied. MM9/17/1909p3 The lobby of the Rialto Theater is located in the Palm building and the auditorium in the Weeks and Orr building. CPA1/1/1953p1 Weeks & Orr [Winans] Addition NRHP #59.0 112 West Main Wells Fargo Building South Front Monday ground was broken on the lot lying south of 7th Street opposite the depot, and work will be pushed by contractor Gray as rapidly as possible. The plans call for a building twenty-five feet on 7th Street, and it will contain an office room, trunk room and storage room. MM10/18/1907p1 Nearly all the carpenter work is completed on the new Wells Fargo Express Co.'s building on the south side of 7th Street. MM12/6/1907p2 West Side Feed & Sale Stable NRHP #71.0 Photos: 1909 2011 29 South Grape This brick building was constructed in early 1906 for I. W. Thomas, a local financier, who leased it to T. H. Moore. Moore operated the Moore Hotel around the corner on Main Street; the stable was a convenience for his guests. Surviving a gutting by fire in February of 1921 MT5/30/1921p6, the structure was rebuilt and leased to Davis Transfer and Storage until the 1940s, when City Transfer was located there. The building served as storage for Pacific Telephone in the 1950s and ’60s, then for Your Office Boy. In the early 1980s the interior was remodeled to the present configuration. Over the the alley entrance is a painted sign chronicling its history of successive tenants, painted and overpainted on the bricks. Charles Tull, the West Side liveryman, has made arrangements for handling baggage and doing a general transfer business. He will put on a hack for the purpose in a few days. "Shorty" Dodge will handle the wagon and team. MM10/29/1908p5 A carload of brick was brought over on the Rogue River Valley Railroad from Jacksonville yesterday for use on the addition to the West Side stables. MM2/5/1909p5 Mrs. Thomas, owner of the West Side Stables gutted by fire last February and used as an auto storage room, will begin at once improvements aggregating $2500. MT5/30/1921p6 Western Bank NRHP #255.0 302 West Main Western Hotel See Clarenden Hotel Western States Grocery Photo: 1936 Eleventh and Fir aka Faber Building The fine, modern warehouse and offices of the Western States Grocery Co. is at the corner of Fir and Eleventh streets in Medford. MT2/18/1936p7 Yeoman work by the fire department, and a concrete partition in the basement and a firewall, prevented the [Pinnacle Packing] fire from spreading into the Faber's Farmer Supply company building. MT12/10/1954p1 A spectacular blaze destroyed the Faber's Farmers Supply Co. building last night. MT3/30/1960p1 Wheeler Apartments 249 South Riverside Whetstone Warehouse 337 South Front Lee Watkins has traded 100 acres to H. F. Whetstone for a rooming house and warehouse on the corner of South Front and Eleventh streets. MT1/22/1912p6 White & Thomas Block Photo: circa 1902 131-135 West Main, southeast corner Main and Grape aka Thomas Building, White Building, White-Harbaugh Building I. W. Thomas, the Heber Grove capitalist, will build a two-story brick building on West Seventh. I. A. Palmer, the expert architect, is engaged on the plan. DT4/25/1901p3 The stone for the foundation of I. W. Thomas' new brick building is being placed on the ground this week. MM5/3/1901p6 Contractor G. W. Priddy is engaged in burning a kiln of 250,000 bricks, and in about three weeks will resume work on the White-Thomas brick building on the west side, the foundation for which has already been laid. MM6/7/1901p6 Contractor G. W. Priddy has finished burning 250,000 bricks and will commence work on the White-Harbaugh brick building immediately after the fourth. MM6/28/1901p7 Brick work on the White-Thomas store building was commenced Monday. MM7/12/1901p7 Work on the Thomas-White building was suspended last week owing to the serious illness of Contractor Priddy's child. MM7/26/1901p7 Prof. Van Scoy has rented the second story of the Thomas-White block; the rooms will be fitted up for use by the Medford Academy. MM7/26/1901p7 Prof. W. T. Van Scoy has rented the second story of the Thomas-White block for the Medford Academy. There will be two rooms 25x40 feet in size. These will be well lighted by windows on north and south ends and west side. CO8/1/1901p3 Work on the White-Harbaugh brick is being pushed with all possible speed. Prof. Van Scoy is getting anxious for its completion. MM8/9/1901p7 The iron lintels and pillars for the White-Thomas brick building have been received and are being put in position. MM8/23/1901p7 The White-Thomas brick is not going to be completed in time for the Medford Academy, but Prof. Van Scoy has rented temporary quarters. [Presumably the gentleman front and center in the circa 1902 photo is Van Scoy.] MM8/30/1901p7 The White-Thomas building is being rapidly pushed to completion. The rooms for the use of the Medford Academy will be ready in about two weeks. MM10/4/1901p7 The Medford Academy is now established in its new quarters in the White-Thomas building. MM11/8/1901p7 Geo. W. Priddy,who has the White-Thomas brick building in hand, has almost completed it. It is one of the handsomest and most substantial edifices in town. DT10/3/1901p7 H. M. Coss has rented the I. W. Thomas new brick building and will move his stock of pianos and organs thereto. MM4/18/1902p7 The new rooms of the Coss Piano House in the White-Thomas building were filled Wednesday evening by music lovers of Medford. MM4/25/1902p6 The new Hart Hotel opened its doors Monday morning for business. This hostelry is located in West Medford—in the White-Thomas building. For several weeks the proprietors, Mr. C. H. Hart and son, E. C. Hart, have been working assiduously in making the place ready for occupancy. The building is a new one, and not having been built for hotel purposes it required an entire new interior arrangement and construction. However, it is now in good shape for the accommodation of guests. The first floor is used for offices and dining room and at the rear there has been built a large kitchen. In the dining room there are boxes partitioned off for family use. The upstairs has been partitioned off into fourteen very neat, clean and cozy sleeping rooms for the guests of the house. Across from these are a sitting room and living and sleeping rooms for the proprietors and their help. Every piece of furniture and bedding in the hotel is new and of good material. The owners have had considerable experience in hotel business in other places, and there seems every good reason for them to have a good trade in Medford. MM1/8/1904p1 W. A. Aitken has established his plumbing shop in the White building, corner G and 7th streets, and has installed a full, up-to-date plumbing plant. MM6/14/1907p5 Messrs. Sparks and Clark have established a cleaning and pressing establishment in the White-Thomas building on the west side and are already doing a good business. MM10/25/1907p5 Mrs. Abbey Thomas will spend $500 to remodel a store building on the corner of Grape and Main streets, according to a building permit issued today. MT6/29/1927p2 Work remodeling the store on the corner of Main and Grape is progressing steadily for a new job printing office, of which Joe Marshall is to be proprietor. MT7/3/1927p2 John F. White Building NRHP #112.0 Photo: 1979 209-213 West Main The rooming house upstairs was known as the LaFonda Rooms. On the south side of Seventh Street, west of G, Mr. White, the enterprising real estate man, owns ground with 50 feet frontage, on which excavating as far aback as 80 feet has already been made. Mr. White expects to put a two-story brick, with stores and an office for himself downstairs, upper story to be fixed for office or living rooms. MDT6/30/1906p1 J. F. White is having material placed upon the ground to be used in the erection of a 50x60-foot, one-story brick building, on his property on West Seventh Street, near the Presbyterian church. The building will have a frontage of fifty feet and will be divided into three store or office rooms. The front will be of stone and red pressed brick. MM10/12/1906p5 Not until the past few weeks has the Medford Iron Works been in shape to turn out castings so large as store pillars and lintels. A large traveling crane has recently been put in, and they are now prepared to turn out heavy works. Their first work in the very heavy line was pillars for the John F. White store building. MM12/21/1906p5 G. W. Priddy has men at work putting up the walls for the J. F. White building. MM2/1/1907p4 W. A. Aitken: "I have leased rooms in the J. F. White brick building which is now being put up on West Seventh Street and will move thereto just as soon as the structure is ready for occupancy." MM2/8/1907p1 The John F. White block on the west side is nearing completion and is going to be a substantial and handsome structure. There are three business places on the lower floor. The one on the westerly side will be occupied by Hill's meat market, the one on the easterly side by the offices of the Condor Water & Power Co., and the central portion by Aitken, the plumber. The second floor will be for offices and living rooms. MM4/12/1907p5 John F. White Buildings West Main John F. White has his brick building, west of the depot, filled with several different makes of sewing machines. MM2/7/1902p7 Boyd & Conklin will open a furniture store in J. F. White's brick building, on the west side. DT11/26/1902p3 A two-story brick building will be erected on the lots between the J. F. White buildings on the south side of West Seventh—where now stands a blacksmith shop. MM11/13/1908p1 White-Harbaugh Building See White & Thomas Block J. A. Whitman Packing House Evergreen between Eighth and Ninth J. A. Whitman has carpenters at work enlarging his fruit packing house adjoining the original on the south. MM10/13/1893p3 Wilkinson Building South Front Street In the Nash Hotel "annex," in the Wilkinson building on D Street, Dr. Reddy has fitted up ten rooms, which are furnished on the same general plan of the main hotel. MM2/10/1905p1 Eisenhart & McCown will move their lunch counter to the Wilkinson building, on South D Street. MM7/14/1905p5 D. B. Russell is moving to the Wilkinson building. MT7/23/1911pB1 Ed Wilkinson is overhauling the lower story of one of his buildings on Front Street, which will be occupied by Hale & Lyons. MT12/3/1913p2 Wilkinson-Swem Building NRHP #311.0 Photos: 2006 2007 217 East Main Butcher Ed Wilkinson wanted a meat market downstairs with an upstairs apartment (hence the balcony) when he hired W. J. Bennet to design this elaborate “Queen Anne Commercial” building in 1895. The fancy interior was filled with wood and stained glass. After Wilkinson "retired" he continued to live upstairs) the first floor was rented out, first to other butchers and eventually to T. W. Swem, who sold photos and gifts for over sixty years. Wilkinson’s apartment was turned into a retail mezzanine and sometime dance studio during the Swem years. Today, the upstairs has returned to its original use, now as an ultramodern apartment, but it retains the original 1895 ornate oak mantelpiece carved by the Weeks Brothers in neighboring Phoenix. Ed. Wilkinson has commenced work upon the foundation of his new brick building. MM8/23/1895p5 Ed. Wilkinson's new brick block, in which Ed will carve steaks to the general liking of all who come, is narrowing down to a finish, so far as the brick work is concerned. MM9/27/1895p4 Mr. Wilkinson has decided to continue his present two-story brick building on out to the alley, making his building 20 by 140 feet in size and all two stories high. The new part is to be used in connection with his market and for a stable. The foundation was started this week. S. Childers is doing the brick work. MM10/16/1896p7 The interior of the lower story of the Wilkinson Building, on Seventh Street, is being rearranged this week, in preparation for the Cameron & Meyers Shoe Store. MM3/2/1906p5 Due to the partial collapse of the Lindley Building, "the wall adjoining the alley on the north side of the Swem building will be removed as a safety measure." MT2/11/1935p1 Williams Block, Williams' Hall See Hamlin Block Wilson Building I Probably northwest corner Eighth and Central It will be two stories high and first-class. I am working three men in my blacksmith shop and could work more if I had room. I am going to do all wood work myself. MM4/20/1894p2 J. R. Wilson has moved his blacksmith tools to a temporarily constructed shop, corner Eighth and D Street. Work on his new brick will begin in about two weeks. MM8/23/1895p5 The brick work on Councilman J. R. Wilson's blacksmith shop is finished and the carpenters are now at work laying floors and putting in windows and doors. Brooks, the tinner, is putting on the roof. MM9/27/1895p4 Ed. Pottenger will open a butcher shop on his own account in J. R. Wilson's building on C Street, a few doors south of the post office. DT4/18/1901p7 Wilson Building II Northwest corner Eighth and Central J. R. Wilson is engaged on a brick structure, 46x50 feet. OR6/8/.1900p3 J. R. Wilson is having a cement walk put down in front of his new brick block, on South C Street. MM8/3/1900p6 J. R. Wilson has carpenters at work this week putting a new front into his new brick building on South C Street. The room is being fitted up for a blacksmith shop and will be occupied by H. H. Mitchell. MM9/14/1900p7 J. H. [sic] Wilson has been making a goodly number of improvements about his business block on South C Street. A fine opportunity is here given for the erection of a good brick building. MM3/8/1901p7 Ed. Pottenger will open a meat market; he has rented the J. R. Wilson brick building, just south of the Mail office. MM4/12/1901p6 Ed Pottenger has secured the building adjoining the Nash Hotel, formerly occupied by Warner & Wortman, and will open up his meat market therein, instead of the building adjoining J. R. Wilson's blacksmith shop. MM4/26/1901p7 H. C. Austin has rented the J. R. Wilson brick, south of the Mail office, and will move his stock of flour and feed thereto. MM11/29/1901p6 J. R. Wilson has rented his blacksmith shop and tools to Charlie Paine. MM1/2/1902p7 J. R. Wilson has opened a feed store in his building, one door south of the Mail office. He will also put in a stock of groceries. MM3/7/1902p7 Circus day comes on Wednesday, May 3d, and the ladies of the Baptist church are preparing to serve dinner and supper on that day in the Wilson store building, one door south of the Medford Mail printing office. MM4/21/1905p1 Dr. E. B. Pickel, B. Klum and W. C. Murphy have purchased from Dr. J. F. Reddy the half block on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Eighth Street, where the bakery and blacksmith shop are located at present. MT11/2/1909p1 The Halley building on South Central Avenue is a new structure of brick, occupies the former site of a one-story brick building and is two stories high. It was recently completed and is now occupied by Shield's dry goods store and Taylor Millinery Shop (42-44 S. Central). MT9/14/1927pC3 Wilson Building III 25-31 South Central, northeast corner Central and Theater Alley Medford Furniture Co. is having the Jesse Wilson building, opposite the post office, fitted up for undertaking parlors. The rear room is to be used as an embalming room. In the rear of the building will be a store room for furniture stock. MM9/25/1903p7 Wilson Building IV Location unknown Work on J. R. Wilson's new brick is going ahead with a swift pace. Frank Amann is doing the carpenter work. MM6/8/1909p6 Wilson Elementary School Photo: 1958 1400 Johnson Street Bids will be opened March 5 for construction of Wilson Elementary School. Wilson will be an open-corridor, single-story building with about 28,000 square feet. Twelve classrooms, with an alternate for three more are planned. Colored masonry block will be used along with glued laminated beams. MT2/18/1958p1 Wilson Opera House See Medford Opera House I Wilson-McCabe Building Photo: 1959 Corner Fourth and Grape Wimberly-Taylor Complex Photo: 1968 Between West Fifth and West Sixth and North Grape The $140,000 two-story office building was begun by Jack Batzer Construction in May and the exterior completed in October. MT1/14/1968pB1 C. A. Winetrout Building [Crater Lake Motors] NRHP #196.0 Photo: 1946 29 West Main, Southeast corner Main and Fir aka Crater Lake Motors Building, Larson Appliance building Completed 1946; razed to make way for the Bella Vita project. A postcard of downtown Medford and so labeled must have been taken at least 15 years ago. It shows the Larson Appliance Company store with a prominent "Ford" sign. The company moved to Fir and Sixth streets in July, 1961. MT11/7/1976 Charles A. Wing Arcade Building Photo: 1979 Northwest corner Sixth and Bartlett Opened May 1948; reopened November 1977 as the Sixth Street Mall. Demolished August 1988. The facade of the completed unit is partially constructed of brick made about 50 years ago by G. W. Priddy and was salvaged from the remodeling of the United States National Bank building. MT5/27/1948p4 Charles A. Wing Building NRHP #334.0 145 South Central Witham Service Station NRHP #261.0 Photos: circa 1930 1959 36 South Riverside, northwest corner Eighth and Riverside Currently home to Phat Kat Tattoo. George W. Deane is putting up a brick building on his property at Riverside and Eighth, to be used for a blacksmith shop. MT11/18/1909p5 Vance K. Wolgamott Apartments 525 North Riverside Woodmen of the World NRHP #123.0 Photo: 1926 143 North Grape, southwest corner Fifth and Grape Dedicated October 3, 1926 with ceremonies featuring an address by Oregon Governor Walter M. Pierce. The new building, general construction of which was completed September 20, is 50 by 100 feet in dimensions, with a white stucco front and latticed windows at the entrance doors, which open into a club room, and a ladies' room to the right. The lodge hall is 50 by 60 feet, with a hard and highly polished maple floor. The roof is so constructed to encourage perfect acoustics, being built in an oval shape. At the eastern end the hall has a balcony suitable for speakers and moving picture projection machines, while directly opposite a stage has been provided. MT10/3/1926p1 During the last year, the Woodmen of the World hall on North Grape was completed, with dedicatory exercises held last autumn, ex-Governor Walter Pierce being the main speaker. The building was constructed of concrete at a cost of $12,000. MT9/14/1927pC3 A deal was closed this week whereby the Woodmen of the World hall came into the possession of the Knights of Pythias lodge. The Woodmen will continue to hold their meetings in the hall. MT8/3/1930p3 Wallace Woods Building See Hubbard Brothers Hardware/Woods Block Woolf Building Northwest corner Sixth and Central aka Woolf's Hall Mr. I. Woolf, at not a very distant date, will begin the construction of a two-story wooden building on the corner of 6th and C Street. This location is just south of D. S. Young's second-hand store, and when completed will be occupied by Mr. Woolf as a general merchandise store. MM3/24/1893p3 That's a pretty good building Isaac Woolf is putting up on the corner of Sixth and C Streets. It is a two-story wood building 22x44 feet in size with an annex 16x20 feet, two stories. The ground floor of the main building will be used for a grocery store, the upstairs for a hall and the annex for family living rooms. MM10/27/1893p3 R. L. Wade, the new implement dealer, has leased the Woolf building and is adding thereto a store room 45x24 feet, the same to be covered with corrugated iron. MM4/28/1899p7 Mrs. Nancy Wise, of Keno, has rented the Woolf building and will soon open a restaurant and lodging house therein. MM4/6/1900p6 J. S. McCain and A. H. Chessmore have leased the Isaac Woolf building, on North C Street; about February 15th they will open a farm implement establishment. MM2/1/1901p7 Miss Lizzie Hoover has fitted up a room in the Woolf building, corner of Sixth and D streets [sic], for her new millinery store. MM3/8/1901p7 W. A. Countryman, a Free Methodist minister, will hold services at Woolf's hall next Sunday afternoon. MM4/12/1901p6 I have moved my stock of harness from the Woolf building to my new store. [signed] J. G. Taylor. MM11/15/1901p7 D. T. Cox and Jos. Scott have leased the Woolf building and remodeled it into a pretty good livery barn. Their place will be known as the C Street Livery Stable. MM1/31/1902p7 Mrs. C. L. Corwin has moved her stock of millinery to the Woolf building on North C Street, next door to Simmons' second hand store. MM5/12/1905p4 Messrs. F. M. Stewart and W. H. Bradshaw, who a few weeks ago purchased the Woolf building, corner North C and Sixth streets, are having an extension 24x26 feet in size with twenty-foot posts built to it, and the same together with the main building will be used as a rooming house. MM7/14/1905p5 Woolworth Building See Medford Furniture and Hardware Building Worman's Livery Stable See Union Livery Stables P. T. Young/Humphrey Motors Building NRHP #360.0 Photo: 1949 33 South Riverside aka Humphrey Motors Building YMCA Photo: 1965 West Sixth Street Young & Hall Building I Photos: circa 1910 2011 12 North Front See Palm Building I Built by the partnership of Charles Young and John Court Hall. The two lots north of the Palm-Niedermeyer building is one of the prospective sites upon which Young & Hall are figuring on erecting a brick. MM11/17/1905p1 Work was commenced Monday on the excavation for the new brick which Young & Hall will erect on D Street. The building will be seventy-five feet front on D Street and eighty feet deep, and two stories high. The lower story will be cut into store rooms, while the upper floor will be left in one big room for the accommodation of large gatherings—balls, conventions, etc., and may be ultimately fitted up as an opera house. MM8/31/1906p5 Young & Hall have started the erection of a building just north of their place of business on D Street. Architect Palmer is planning the building. The building is to be constructed of pressed brick; five capitals, all of granite, are to be along its front, giving it a rich appearance. Contractor Priddy is doing the work. MM4/24/1908p4 The Medford Brick Company commenced laying brick Monday on the new building which J. C. Hall is building on North Front Street. The building will be 50 by 75 feet in size. There will be two 25 by 75-foot rooms, one of which will be occupied by a moving picture show, and the other by a restaurant. MM5/29/1908p2 Court Hall has carpenters at work putting the floor joist for his new double front building on North D'Anjou Street. MM6/19/1908p5 The work in connection with the new billiard parlor of Brown & Co. in the new Young & Hall block on D'Anjou Street is not altogether finished. The parlor is 50x80 feet and it now contains five pool and four billiard tables, all of the Brunswick-Balke make. MM10/23/1908p2 A two-story building, containing three store rooms, has just been completed by J. C. Hall, at a cost of $15,000. OR11/2/1908p12 The north room of the Hall & Young Building will be occupied by the Rogue River Investment Company as an office and the south room will be the office of attorney Neff. MM12/11/1908p5 Home of the Crater Lake Social Club in November 1909. The upper floors of the building owned by Young and H. Hall are being remodeled by the Moose lodge as quarters. MS6/21/1916p2 Court Hall sold his half interest in the large two-story Young & Hall brick building on North Front Street, in which the Moose Hall and the Optimo Cafe are located, for $12,500. MT8/22/1918p2 Ed. Brown has rented the room recently vacated by Lyons & Hale on North Front, and will extend his present cigar store and resort to include that space. He has also made comfortable apartments for himself and Mrs. Brown and a number of up-to-date suites for bachelors on the second floor. JCN9/17/1926p12 Young & Hall Building II 201 West Main Messrs. Young & Hall, who a few days ago purchased a corner lot on West Seventh Street, near the Medford Hotel, are having excavations made preparatory to the excavation of a two-story brick building 50x75 feet in size. The building, we understand, will be for rent or for sale. This structure, together with one the same size which is being put up adjoining by J. W. White, will give that side another good business block. MM11/16/1906p5 Zion Lutheran Church Northwest corner Fourth and Oakdale 516 West Fourth The church signed a contract last night with E. N. Childers to build the new church, following plans drawn by Frank C. Clark, local architect. The modern concrete structure will have frontage of 86 feet on Oakdale and will be 40 feet deep. Childers will move the old edifice back on the lot, and will then wreck it for its lumber. MT7/22/1927p1 A new English Lutheran church on West Fourth Street is at present under construction at a cost of $15,000 and is expected to be completed within two months. It takes the place of a wooden structure, which served the local congregation for many years. MT9/14/1927pC3 Last revised April 19, 2013 |
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