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This house on Spring st. is the present home
of Mr. and Mrs. Otto J. Frohmayer. But few
people would recognize it as the same con
stuction today. The house has been remodeled
and expanded and landscape gardening of the
grounds has changed the sotting beyond rec-
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1656 Spring st. The photo is one in the collec
tion of E. R. Rice, whose grandfather, B. F.
Fifer, was a building contractor in Medford
during the early 1900s.
This panorama of the city of Medford was
taken in 1910 by L. A. Gregory who pointed his
camera out West Main toward Jacksonville. It
was the year that Main st. was being paved and
the Hotel Medford constructed, according to
Lewis Parker. The photo was owned by Parker's
aunt, the late Eva True of 413 South Central ave.
Mrs. True's parents, Samuel and Lydia Randies,
crossed the plains in 1S54 and settled in the Lake
Creek district of southern Oregon. In the fore
ground of the picture on the left side of Main
st. is the old Nalley house. A service station now
stands on that lot at the corner of Main and
Mistletoe sts. Across the street is the home of
W. E. (Gene) Thomas' grandfather. On out
toward Jacksonville is the building which now
houses the Park View Nursing Home, and be
yond it the old "Doc" Ray home, now next
door to the Assembly of God church, 1108
West Main st.
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Medford,
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Tribune.
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Medford in the Early 20th Century
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Frank Hull, photographer, snapped this
photo of the Mail Tribune building under con
struction. It was built by the late Porter J.
Neff, Medford attorney, in 1910 and 1911. R.
I. Stuart and Sons were contractors on the
project. The Holland Hotel later adjoined the
building on the right as it does today. The right
half of the building, now utilized by the
newspaper, housed several other businesses for
many years. The University club rooms were
in the second floor of the left half of the
building during the early 1900s.
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Much of the home building on Geneva st., He was the grandfather of E. R. Rice of West
marked today by some of Medford's largest Main st., who identified the houses in the pho-
trees and most choice shrubs, was done by B. tos above and below as part of the Geneva st.
F. Fifer, building contractor of the early 1900s. construction.
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