Mary Skinner Packard House

In 1867, three years after the death of her first husband Eugene Skinner, Mary Cook Skinner married Captain N.L. Packard. Right after their marriage they started construction on this house which was completed the next year. Mary Skinner Packard lived in the house at 260 West 6th until her death in 1881 at age 65. The house and its original carriage barn in the back yard still stand, though greatly remodeled and altered as they have served as a rental property for more than 60 years. The most notable change in the house is the enclosure of the large front porch and the replacement of many of the original windows. Also lost were the once extensive grounds that once surrounded the house which were lost to the several lane additions to 6th Avenue.

Second Eugene Skinner Home

After the Eugene Skinner family out grew their log cabin on the West slope of the Butte they built this snug little home closer in the town site on the southeast corner of 6th and Charnelton. It is believed that this is the house where Skinner died in 1864. Later his widow remarried to Captain Packer and moved into a much larger house two doors down which still stands.

St. John Skinner Homestead circa 1955

St. John Skinner, son of Eugene and Mary Skinner built this home on the northern most section of his parents donation land claim, between what is now 1st Avenue and the Willamette River at the end of Madison St. The house was razed in 1955 for the construction of the Eugene Vocational School.