Since May is Historic Preservation Month, Salem’s Historic Landmarks Commission and SHPO are co-sponsoring a wood window repair workshop entitled “Beyond Window Rope Repair” by Amy McAuley of Oculus Fine Carpentry on Saturday May 14th from 1 to 5 at Grant Elementary School, 725 Market Street NE. RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Outline of workshop...

The city of Salem is working to update the Historic Code as part of the newly adopted Historic Preservation Plan.  One of the key items to the plan was to make the code more clear for homeowners and to allow for some administrative decisions rather than having every review go before the Historic Landmarks Commission....

Garden Tour Explore Nine Gardens in the National Register listed Court-Chemeketa Street Historic District.  Tickets at all Salem/Keizer Roth’s locations and A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village Adults: $15    Ages 12 & Under: $5   Plant Sale Open to the Public at Mission Mill Museum - 1313 Mill Street SE A wonderful variety of annuals, perennials , flowers, shrubs, herbs...

Rosalind Keeney and Julie Osborne, Historic Preservation Consultants are working with the city to gather information from the public.  They sent the following in a recent email to the NEN board.  Please take some time to answer their survey or consider attending the roundtable discussion. WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! The Historic Landmarks...

At Thursday’s meeting the Historic Landmarks Commission made a decision on the State Hospitals request to replace over 400 wood windows.  The Commissions desision  was to require repair instead of replacement on the North, West and South sides of the Kirkbride building.