1907 The Duniway-Lachmund House

The house was constructed before 1907 when Willis S. Duniway (1856-1913) and wife Alice McCormack Duniway are listed in Polk's Salem City Directory as residents there. Willis Duniway was the eldest son of Benjamin and Abigail Scott Duniway, early Oregon settlers. Abigail Scott Duniway was a pioneer advocate of women's suffrage.

When the residences of “Piety Hill” were demolished for the construction of the North Capitol Mall (1937-57), this one was shared. It was, at the time of the move, the residence of Louis Lachmund, President of the Capital Ice and Cold Storage Company for 20 years and mayor of Salem, was spared. It was purchased from the state by Willamette University and moved to the campus where it was the residence of the president. In the 1990s it was moved to its present location east at 2430 State Street.

1926 Baumgartner House

This dignified house at 1160 Summer Street has has been moved progressively north three times over the last 70+ years. "Maybe it's trying to get out of town!" its owner says.
Joel Baumgartner was a young teller at the Ladd and Bush Bank in 1900 and there are many photographs of him, his wife Ada and daughters Lenta and Josephine, in the Bush family photograph collection. He was listed as a Hop Dealer living at this house, 208 Winter Street, in 1926. The date of construction is not known.
In 1937, the North Capitol Mall's first state building, the Oregon State Library, was planned for this location. It stood as the third house north of the Thomas Kay residence (on the northeast corner of Court and State) and that of his daughter and son-in-law, Hollis Huntington. The Kay residence was demolished, perhaps because Mrs. Kay was a widow and was willing to sell it to the state for that purpose. (She moved to 260 Washington Street, the former home of Mr. Ulysses Shipley.)
The Huntington house was purchased from the state in 1937 and moved north to 790 Winter Street. The Baumgartner house was also purchased from the state and was moved to 785 Summer street. As the North Capitol Mall continued to expand, this house stood where the North Capitol Mall Office Building was to be constructed. In the 1980s, it was moved again, this time to its present address.