McDonald Theater Building

Just north of the Y.M.C.A building on Willamette was the still extant McDonald Theater building. This early 1920's view show a Harold Lloyd film featured at the Theater and a Drugstore next door. Farther down there seems to be a small market. Earlier this site was home to the 1886 Humphey Memorial Episcopal Methodist Church, Which stood until it was replaced in 1914 buy the brick sanctuary a block south on Willamette St. The Theater space remains as a concert venue and retail shops still occupy the rest of the space in the nicely preserved building.

Y.M.C.A. Building on Willamette St.

In Friday's post the Eugene Y.M.C.A. building can be seen in the photo at the far right. It was built circa 1910 and pre-dated the Weatherbee-Powell bulding. The earliest photo shows the old First Christian Church which stood on the northwest corner of 11th and Willamette before the new church building was built on Oak St. in 1911. At the far left is the Eugene City Hall.