The Curtis Cross House is a historic residence in

Salem, Oregon Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river ...

, United States. It was designed by architect

Clarence L. Smith Clarence L. Smith (1894–1951) was an American architect. According to a drafted nomination for a proposed Fairmount Historic District in Salem, Oregon, he was a "locally prominent and prolific architect" of Salem.Note: The Fairmount Historic Dis ...

, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The house was one of Smith's first works in Salem and the client, Curtis Cross, apparently was not happy. Cross brought the project to Portland, Oregon architect

Jamieson Parker Jamieson Kirkwood Parker (January 28, 1895 – December 8, 1939) was an American government administrator and architect from Oregon, working primarily in Portland and Salem. He worked as an architect for the better part of two decades, befor ...

to complete it. and

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Salem, Oregon Houses completed in 1924 1924 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-NRHP-stub