Site Number:
14
Approximate date:
1920s
Two and one half story wood frame; hip roof with hip roof dormers; decorative brackets under 1st and 2nd floor eaves; pedimented gable portico above entrance on south elevation; 12 over 1 double hung sash on second floor; first floor south porch enclosed with Palladian-like windows.
Address:
426 W. Sixth Street
Alterations:
Remodeled in 1920
Style:
Period Colonial
City:
Medford
Significance:
Originally the residence of Edgar Hafer and built around 1905. Hafer established Big Pines Lumber Company in the "early years" of Medford. John A. Perl purchased Hafer's home around the turn of the century and Clark 'remodeled' it in the 1920's to be used as a funeral home.
1-Primary
Sources of information:
Frank Perl letter 3/2/82
Certainty:
Confirmed, SOHS Inventory
On National Register of Historic Places:
No
National Register Link:
http://image1.nps.gov:9001/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=NRHP&item=/Text/83002...(SUMMARY,COPYRIGHT)
In Lure of Medford Inventory:
No
Yes
Updates:
On the National Register of Historical Places as Hafer, Edgar F. House