Famous Folks (continued)

A number of familiar area place names have connections to the
South University neighborhood: Albert Applegate (2185 Potter),
grandson of one of the three brothers responsible for the Applegate Trail;
John & Alice Seavey who had a large farm near Goshen (Seavey Loop) but lived at 2089 Potter from 1932-1965; Mrs. Jessie M. Honeyman (1165 E. 21st); Alton Baker (1910
University), Eugene Skinner family (882 E. 21st, a house built by Eugene Skinner’s nephew in 1890 and moved to its current site 90 years later; former UO President Prince Lucien Campbell reportedly lived in the house in the 1920s); William & Genevieve Tugman (2141 Harris, a home built in 1936 in the style of a Lane County farmhouse for longtime Register Guard managing editor Tugman).

The Delta Delta Delta sorority house (built in 1927 and now a Baptist women’s residence hall) at 1987 University was designed by Margaret Goodin Fritsch, a sorority member and the first woman architect licensed in Oregon.