1892 Jail and 1898 Court House

This view looking East down 8th Avenue at about Park Street shows the 1892 Lane County Jail and across Oak the grand Court House of 1898. Both structures where razed 1958-1959 for the current bland and dated mid-century structure that now stands at this site.

Intersection Broadway and Oak October 1928

What a shame the two nice turn of the century commercial buildings on the NE and SE corners of Broadway and Oak were demolished and replaced the with ugly 1970's concrete monstrosities that stand there today. This street scape lost all is continuity with their removal. At the time this photo was taken in October 1928 they housed two competing grocery stores, one being Safeway. Further down Broadway on the right can be seen the Minor Building which at that time housed Applegate's Furniture on the ground floor. Other business's on the block were Crown Drug and Jensen's Cafe.

First Christian Church

The First Christian Church was built in 1910 at 1166 Oak Street literally in the front yard of the old Dunn house. It was at about this same time that the Dunn's moved the original home to build a new family residence oriented toward Oak Street. The two large locust tree's to the left of the church were probably part of the Dunn's original landscaping. These tree's, planted in the 1860's survived until about 1990 when they were removed. This view of the Church is a very early one as Oak Street is not yet paved and the tower has not been built. The tower was added in 1926 to house the first set of chimes in Eugene. The structure is in the Classical Revival Style with a large central auditorium under the dome that can seat 1,200 people, 2,500 when the side partitions were opened to the smaller auditoriums.