Historic Downtown Salem #59: Gray Building

105-135 Liberty Street NE

Gray Building on September 4, 2006

This Italianate style building was built in 1891 for brothers Charles A. Gray, George B. Gray and William T. Gray. The building features cast-iron columns at the corners produced by the Albany Iron Works of Albany, Oregon.

In the late 1880s, Charles A. Gray was superintendent of the Salem Street Railway Company, George B. Gray was a realtor, and William T. Gray was a capitalist. Charles and George Gray were operated a hardware business in this building, while their brother William T. Gray worked as a general contractor. The Gray Brothers left Salem by 1907.

In early 1900, Charles Gray sold the building to Russell Catlin and James R. Lynn, Salem hop growers and merchants who did business under the name Catlin and Lynn. By 1914, the building had been broken up into four shops on the ground floor with offices on the second floor. Catlin acquired Lynn’s interest in the building a few years later, and the present owners are direct descendants of Catlin. Hartman Jeweler was once located here. Today it is The Brick Bar & Broiler.

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