*** Sylvia Dorney-Depenbrock ***

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Albert Wilhelm (Albert, "Wiliam")

Depenbrock

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Irene

Depenbrock-Greenbaum

... Eltern von ...

Sylvia

Dorney-Depenbrock

* ~1948

... verheiratet mit ...

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1975

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William J ("Bill")

Dorney

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Megan Leah Dorney


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Personalien

Name

Sylvia Dorney-Depenbrock

Geboren am

~1948

Beruf(e)

President Greenbaum's Quilted Forest

Wohnort(e)

240 Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon


Eltern

Vater

Albert Wilhelm (Albert, "Wiliam") Depenbrock (1904-12-18 bis 1991-04-19)

Mutter

Irene Depenbrock-Greenbaum (1908-09-27 bis 2011-04-25)


Partner

Ehemann

William J ("Bill") Dorney (1943-07)
Hochzeit am 1975


Kinder

Tochter

Megan Leah Dorney ()

 

Historic Downtown Salem, 240-254 Commercial Street

Englischer Text kopiert am 10. Oktober 2004 von https://www.salemhistory.net/places/historic_240_commercial.htm.

Description

This is a two-story stucco-covered, unreinforced brick building in the Italianate style, most likely designed by Wilbur F. Boothby. It has cast-iron ornamentation on its primary facade. This seven-bay building was originally the southern part of a twenty-three-bay building known as the South Eldridge Block. Most of the ornate decorative features, which serve to define its Italianate character, remain.

240-254 Commercial Street

The predominate architectural accent of the building is the pedimented entrance that continues from the ground-floor upward to become the tower base. The cornice is canted with brackets, terminating at a bas-relief parapet that is bisected by the tower base (the tower was removed at an unknown date). Between the brackets are twelve one-foot-high sunburst or fan decorative details across the entire width of the facade. The year 1889 appears in twelve-inch-high relief numerals on the tower base.

Each of the seven second-story one-over-one, double-hung sash windows is ornately accented. Each has a transom window and above each transom window in bas-relief trim that extends across the top of the transom window and continues halfway down the side of the primary window to terminate in a decorative bracket with acanthus and ball trim. Decorative pilasters flank the windows and are on either side of the central bay and at the building’s edges.

The storefront appears to date from c.1930s-40s. Glass windows, some with steel mullions and others connected through the beveling of the glass, rest on tile bulkheads, line the recessed entryways that have scored concrete floors, and contribute to the historic character of the building, as does the metal canopy that appears to be from the same period. The transoms have been painted over. The building retains its historic integrity and contributes to the character of the downtown district.

History and Significance

The South Eldridge Block, erected in 1889, conveys a sense of historical evolution that characterizes Salem’s commercial district. This building is the southern-most seven-bay section of a twenty-three-bay building that extended to the end of the block. It has retained architectural integrity of design, window fenestration, and decorative ornamentation on the second floor, and it is associated with local noteworthy architect Wilbur F. Boothby and Salem’s Rostein and Greenbaum families, long-time Salem merchants.

Wilbur F. Boothby, a native of Maine born in 1840, was educated at Fulton College in New York, and arrived in Salem, Oregon, in 1864. He bought this property in 1890 from R.M. Wade, a Salem and Portland hardware and agricultural implement merchant. By that time, Boothby had operated a sash and door factory in Salem for many years as well as being a contractor and architect. Boothby also served as first president of the Salem waterworks. In 1872 he built the elaborate Italianate style Marion County Courthouse in Salem (now gone). He also planned and built the state mental institution and contributed to the erection of most public buildings in the state capital.

It is most likely that Boothby designed and built the entire Eldridge Block, including the remaining portion at 240 Commercial Street. The South Eldridge Block is one of several (both residential and commercial) properties owned by W.F. Boothby. With his wife Rebecca A. Dalgleish Boothby, W.F. Boothby parented six children, two of whom (Charles G. and Veva McCourt) lived to adulthood. Following W.F. Boothby’s death in the mid-1910s, his children owned the building until 1917.

In 1919 the local merchants partnership of Rostein and Greenbaum bought the Eldridge Block. This building had housed Greenbaum's, a department store since 1900, possibly even 1898. It then became Rostein & Greenbaum's in 1903 when Ed Rostein bought into the business.

About a decade after Rostein & Greenbaum became a partnership, Isadore Greenbaum's son, Adolph Greenbaum, joined the family retail business, after attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. At this time, Ed Rostein left the business and joined his brother-in-law, Sam Adolph, in opening an insurance and real estate company, Rostein & Adolph Insurance Company. Edward Rostein continued in this venture into his seventies. By then, after sixty years of conducting business in Salem, he had gained the sobriquet of "Dean of Commercial Street."

Isadore Greenbaum died in 1930. Adolph and his wife, Mildred Brunk, ran the store briefly until she died in the late 1920s. Adolph Greenbaum continued on, changing the department store to a fabric shop, probably between 1943 and 1948. The business became known as "Greenbaum's Fine Fabrics."

In 1943, Adolph Greenbaum and Ed Rostein sold this building to Roy Lockenour. Adolph rented space from Lockenour with the understanding that Adolph would have the first chance to buy the building if Lockenour decided to sell it. Adolph died in 1960 while on a hiking trip in Olympic National Park in Washington. His sister, Irene Depenbrock, then took over Greenbaum's Fine Fabrics. Irene's husband, Albert Depenbrock, eventually joined his wife in the Greenbaum business.

A few years later, Roy Lockenour told Albert Depenbrock that Lipman's department store wanted to buy the building and that they had agreed on a price, but he was honoring his earlier agreement with the deceased Adolph Greenbaum and offered it to the Depenbrocks first. Albert took his time before telling Irene about this, not realizing that Lipman's intended to replace the building with an enlarged parking lot. After hearing this, Irene Depenbrock immediately went to the bank and successfully obtained financing. She then called Roy Lockenour, who was in a meeting with Lipman's. On December 9, 1966, he sold the building to Albert and Irene Depenbrock, thus preserving it for their future use.

The Depenbrocks' daughter, Sylvia, and her husband, Bill Dorney, bought the business on January 1, 1978. Bill and Sylvia worked together at Greenbaum's Fine Fabrics until 1985 when Bill left to become director of the Salem Downtown Association. Sylvia specialized the shop's merchandise further, changing the fabric store into a quilting fabric shop in 1988, known as "Greenbaum's Quilted Forest." Bill and Sylvia Dorney purchased the South Eldridge Block in May of 1999. Greenbaum's Quilted Forest continues to occupy the building in 2000.

 

Greenbaum's Quilted Forest going out of business

After 116 years, Greenbaum's Quilted Forest going out of business

Junnelle Hogen | Statesman Journal

A bike rack made of massive green scissors cuts into the pavement in front of Greenbaum's Quilted Forest, marking the territory for the 116-year-old business and 128-year-old building at Court and Commercial streets, in the heart of the Salem historic district.

The scissors cut into the ground just as the business, the first quilting shop in the Willamette Valley, has cut into the fabric of downtown. Its loyal customers have become its loyal employees. The staff know half of their customers by first – and sometimes last – names.

However, after two years trying to find the right person to take over the business, owners Sylvia and Bill Dorney announced Thursday they are closing the store. A series of sales to empty inventory will start next week and the business will be gone by the end of August.

"We want to retire and move on with our lives," said Bill Dorney, 72.

He and Sylvia Dorney bought the 6,549-square-foot business from Sylvia's parents in 1988 – the fourth in the family to take over operations.

Sylvia Dorney said she never thought she would operate the store.

Now 67, she describes the town as small and constraining when she was growing up – several "B-grade" movie theaters. After getting her degree in home economics from Oregon State University, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she met , Bill.

He fell in love with the then-small town of Salem, and the two took on joint ownership after purchasing the store from Sylvia's mother, Irene Depenbrock.

Seven years later, Bill Dorney scaled back his involvement, just overseeing finance. Sylvia oversaw the rest of the operation and made it a success — at one time Greenbaum's Quilted Forest was ranked among the 20 best quilting shops in the country.

But after 37 years, Sylvia said she has grown weary of the constant stress of running the business.

"I work here three days, but it's 24/7 on my mind," Sylvia said. "There are monthly events, bimonthly events. It just goes on and on."

The couple put the business up for sale in July 2014, after their daughter declined their offer to take over.

Since then, they reached out to quilting networks throughout the Willamette Valley and heard from several potential buyers, but the interested parties didn't have the financing or the business background to make it work.

In December they received a strong offer, and were planning to hand the reins of the store by the first of January. Then the offer fell through.

"The party was ill-advised on finance," Bill said.

Sylvia and Bill had a timeline. They decided long before they put the downtown business on the market that if they didn’t get a good enough offer by summer 2016, they would close. When the time came, they said they knew what they wanted to do.

Greenbaum's Quilted Forest has 16 part-time employees, and all but three have been working for the family-run store for more than a decade. Many of them will find new jobs during the two-month period before the store closes, although Sylvia Dorney says a handful of the retirement-age staff are considering hanging up the caps for good now that the business is closing.

Jeanette Pitalo, a 28-year part-time employee and sewing class teacher, said the news was saddening.

"You feel like it's part of your life," Pitalo said. "It's part of you."

The news also hit home with Pam Moore, nearing 17 years of employment at the downtown business.

"There were tears," she said. "There were tears here at the store; there were tears at home. That 'what am I going to do' type thing. It's a lot of years, and a lot of people."

The Dorneys have agreed to help work with the employees as they find new jobs – they're considering bringing in surplus on-call staff while they ramp up sales before the store's closure.

They're kicking off closeout sales June 24, and will pair 10 days of 15-percent-off storewide sales with demonstrations and prizes. As the sale progresses, Sylvia said, the business will most likely consider further sales reductions, although they will be emptying the current inventory.

The building, which is listed for $425,000 online through Commercial Real Estate Advisers, will be put up for sale after the store closes in August. By then, the 116-year-old quilting business will be gone. The exposed brick interior will hold barren shelves, emptied of the colorful fabrics.

In the meantime, Sylvia Dorney remembers the building's history in the echoes of the voices and setting. She remembers when the store had checkered black and white tiles, which she would jump on as a child, trying to land her small feet in the center of the diamonds.

The staff is also nostalgic.

"It's just family. It's community," Pitalo said. "We're excited for Sylvia and Bill, but it's a closure."

jhogen@statesmanjournal.com; 503-399-6802 or follow on Twitter at @JunnelleH

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https://eu.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2016/06/16/after-116-years-greenbaums-quilted-forest-going-out-business/86013662/

 

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Erstellt durch Daniel Stieger (letzte Aktualisierung: 01.11.2024)
Letzte Änderung der Daten: 2004-10-04
Quellen: Ralf Schröder (Nordwalde)
 
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