This beautiful Italianate house actually graced two locations in Eugene before its demise in the late 1960's. Blaine and Bessie Shelton Hovey originally built this large home at 722 Lincoln Street (approximately where the Chevron Station now stands on 7th) in 1882. It was two stories over a full basement. Each floor had five principal rooms with 12 foot ceilings and 9 foot windows. The first floor had double parlors, a dining room, library and a kitchen. Upstairs there were five bedrooms. All of the rooms on the first floor opened on to the others as all of the rooms had double sliding doors to enable the first floor to be used for large gatherings. The front staircase curved along the back wall of the entrance hall to the floor above. Sometime in the mid to late 1950's the house was moved to 340 West 7th Street where it stood for only a few years before it was razed to make way for a used car lot (500 Motors). It's former location is marked today by the two large cedar tree's in the parking lot of the old Hollywood video location.
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