First Baptist Church 1927

If you compare this shot to the photos in yesterdays post about the Bailey-Booth house you will see that the street tree's were preserved when the First Baptist Church was built. Alas they are now long gone but the building looks exactly the same with the exception of the 1950's era addition to the west.

Bailey-Booth House

This fantastic wedding cake of a house was built by Mark Bailey, a professor of mathematics at the U of O, on the northwest corner of Broadway and High in about 1876. It was later owned by Senator Robert Booth who's family lived in the house until it was purchased by the First Baptist church in the mid 1920's as the site for a new sanctuary. That church building now houses the John G. Shedd Institute for the performing Arts.

East Broadway looking West

Here is a day time view of East Broadway looking toward the view point of yesterdays post. This shot was probably taken a decade earlier judging buy the age of the cars. The two major buildings on the left are the Eugene Hotel and the Medical- Dental Building on the next block. In yesterdays post I surmised that the S.W. corner of Broadway and Pearl was a parking lot as it remains to this day. It appears there was a Texaco Station in operation when this photo was taken. At the far right can be seen the building that now houses Lee Travel which then was home to a Dry Cleaners. In the distance can be seen the White Temple which is featured in an earlier post. Out of view to the right would be the First Baptist Church which now houses the Shedd.