George and Phoebe Skinner Kinsey House

This charming Eastlake house once stood on the Northwest corner of 10th and Pearl, diagonally across the intersection from the original site of the Gothic styled Peters-Liston-Wintermeyer house, and across Pearl from the Lucky house. Built by George Kinsey who as a carpenter built many early Eugene homes, it stood until 1953 when it was torn torn for a parking lot. The site it now a multi-level parking garage and retail shops. While the Kinsey's owned many properties in Eugene as investments this house was their home for many years.

Original Skinner Cabin

This drawing and description of the Skinner cabin was made about 1950 by Phoebe Skinner Kinsey, the youngest Skinner daughter. The original cabin was built in 1846 about where 2nd and Lincoln Streets now meet at the west end of Skinners Butte. The cabin was not only the Skinner home but also served as a trading post, hotel and the first Post Office in the area.

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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.

First Presbyterian Church

Just west on 8th from the Lombard House was the First Presbyterian Church. Built in 1883 it stood on the Northeast corner of 8th and Lawrence until it was razed for the construction of the W.O.W. Hall in 1931.