National Register #01000832 Skidmore Academy Historic District Bounded By Granite, Scenic, Maple Streets and Railroad Right-of-Way Ashland Settled in 1852, Ashland was centered in the area known as the Plaza, the town's physical and economic core. While newcomers built the first dwellings close to the flour mill, store, and other services, it wasn't long before people purchased residential property west of Ashland Creek on the hill above the Plaza, on Granite, Church, and High Streets. On the more gently sloping land east of North Main Street, newcomers built houses on Pine (Helman) Street, Factory (Central Avenue) and Mechanic (Van Ness Street). Between the 1860s when the first dwellings were built and 1949, when post-World War II population growth necessitated building the new George A. Briscoe Elementary School, the Skidmore Academy Historic District constituted not only Ashland's oldest residential area, but one of its largest. Today, 130 years since the earliest extant residences were constructed in the area, Ashland's Skidmore Academy Historic District retains a strong visual connection to its evolving past and accurately reflects both its history and the associations that make it significant. North Main Street, long the primary entrance to Ashland from the north, retains much of its residential character despite commercial development on the east side of the street north of Central Avenue. Surviving with a high degree of integrity, this district is nominated under National Register Criterion A for its associations with the development of Ashland, Oregon between 1870 and 1949, during which the district's architectural character was firmly established.
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