Peck Cottage at 1552 Court Street NE, Salem, OR, is next door to our home and was purchased in 2019. The cottage is within the Court Street Chemeketa Street Residential Historic District (nominated and accepted in 1987 to the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the U.S. National Park Service). The property was home to Willamette College’s football coach, George Sweetland, in 1911-23 and then to Morton & Jessie Peck 1923-73. Morton Peck was Oregon’s foremost botanist. He wrote the definitive Manual of the Higher Plants of Oregon.
The Nomination Form states “[t]he Pecks are said to have maintained a beautiful garden on the property.” The property was used as a rental from 1973 until 2017, the gardens were destroyed and the cottage neglected and abused.
I prefer gardening over football, so the main front lawn, or what’s left of it after plantings, is known as the Sweetland Plain. The house is referred to as Peck Cottage to celebrate Morton Peck and Botany.
Photos of 2024 Peck Cottage Garden includes some from our home, too.
360° Surround View
Here are 360° panoramas of Peck Cottage as of Friday, March 29, 2024, at 7:37 AM PST and Sunday, April 7th at 8:18 AM PST.
- Sweetland Plain:
https://salemdata.us/garden/3d/Peck_2024_Mar_29.html
https://salemdata.us/garden/3d/20240407_main.html - Sidewalk:
https://salemdata.us/garden/3d/Peck_Sidewalk_2024_Mar_29.html
https://salemdata.us/garden/3d/20240407_parkway.html
How It’s Made
Here’s an 8 minute video showing the importation of 5 fish-eye photos into Hugin and producing an 80MB PNG file ready for viewing in the Pannellum viewer: