(former) Douglas County Creamery Building #1 - Roseburg, OR
N 43° 12.671 W 123° 20.554
10T E 472173 N 4784323
This current rental unit was once home to a creamery before later moving into another building.
Waymark Code: WMQNYR
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 03/10/2016
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Located along SE Jackson Street is a four-unit rental building that was once home to a creamery and the first of two buildings the creamery, known as the Douglas County Creamery. The
NRHP Nomination Form contains the following verbiage to describe this former creamery's significance:
The Douglas County Creamery Building #1 is a two-story wooden structure with a full two-tier veranda on the front (east) elevation. The lower porch has a hipped cover that is supported by turned and chamfered posts. A solid knee wall encloses the upper veranda. Roofline entablature includes a cornice, dentils and a frieze board. Original siding has been covered with masonite siding; windows are double-hung one/one. An outside staircase on the north side of the building offers access to the second floor.
The wood-frame four-unit apartment house at 338 SE Jackson Street was originally constructed to house the Douglas Country Creamery. The Creamery began commercial operation hi May, 1902. It was originally owned by Gaddis and Gardner, the manager and operator, respectively. The Creamery sold approximately 800 ponds of butter per week. The company was later purchased by Richard Willet and George Chandler. Willett was the butter maker for the company for approximately nine years. Chandler had just relocated to Roseburg from Minton, Nevada. The Douglas County Creamery moved from this structure to a cast concrete building at the southwest corner of Douglas and Jackson Streets in 1912 or 1920. The building has served as a four-unit apartment house for many years.