455-467 Court Street NE
Meyers Building & D’Arcy Building on September 4, 2006
Joseph Meyers brought his family to Salem in 1880 and purchased the general merchandise store at the “White Corner” at the corner of Commercial and Court Street. Two of his sons, Henry W. Meyers and Milton Meyers, purchased his store in 1906. The Miller Mercantile Company bought the store in 1920.
This property was the site of the old Marion County Courthouse and two smaller buildings. Joseph Meyers bought the property in late 1897 when the old buildings till stood, and had the Meyers Building (pictured on the left) built on the site in 1906.
Salem lawyer Peter H. D'Arcy bought this property from Joseph Meyers in September 1908 and built the D'Arcy building during the following year as a 1-1/2-story building that housed the Wexford Theatre. By 1926, the building had been renovated to a full two-story building with a very different Revival-style facade and went on to house Good Housekeeping Furniture and Appliances. Peter D’Arcy died in 1933 and his wife Teresa died less than three years later.
Today the Meyers Building and the D’Arcy Building house Whitlock's Vacuum Cleaner Clinic and Sewing Center.
Additional Links:
D'Arcy Building at Salem Online History
Historical Photos:
Portrait of Peter H. D'Arcy (Oregon State Library)
Portrait of Peter H. D'Arcy (Oregon State Library)
D'Arcy Building, 1915 (Salem Public Library)
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