140 Front Street NE
D. A. White & Sons Warehouse on November 30, 2006.
Technically outside the boundaries of the Salem Downtown Historic District, this building was built in 1890 by Daniel Anthony White, who had come to Salem by covered wagon in 1890 from Illinois via Kansas and Washington. His sons were Harlan O. White and Floyd M. White. The building was originally used to store seed cleaning equipment.
D. A. White & Sons Warehouse on November 30, 2006.
In 1911, White built a store around the corner on State Street, and the early 1920s, the company had immense warehouses on Front and Water Streets along the east bank of the Willamette River with a reported capacity of six hundred tons of bailed hay.
D. A. White & Sons Warehouse on November 30, 2006.
Eventually, D. A. White & Sons eventually had seed processing operations throughout the United States and in Europe. By 1926, Harlan had served a term as mayor of Salem.
D. A. White & Sons Warehouse on November 30, 2006.
Harlan merged the company with James Jenks Sr. to form Jenks-White Seed. D. A. White died in 1938 and was buried at Pioneer Cemetery.
D. A. White & Sons Warehouse on November 30, 2006.
By the 1950s, this building was used just to store seed, and by the 1970s it had already been empty for several years. The building was owned by the White family until the mid-1980s.
D. A. White & Sons Warehouse on November 30, 2006.
Additional Links:
D. A. White & Sons Feed Store at Discover-Neighborhood-History
Historical Photos:
White & Sons Warehouse, March 1974 (Salem Public Library)
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