1820 South Main Street, David S. and Bettie Reid House, 1894 (LHL 1982, https://www.cityofws.org/DocumentCenter/View/3828/042---David-Reid-House-PDF?bidId=)

A large brick asymmetrical two-story Queen Anne style house with an elaborate turned and sawnwork porch. (Originally with metal roof cresting.) A wide frieze crosses the structure below the cornice. The gable ends are frame with false half-timbering; the gable tops project as small pediments. The large octagonal bay at the NE corner was originally capped by a tall conical roof that was removed in the 1940s, reportedly because it leaked often and roofers were reluctant to work on it. The pedimented gable dormer features paired windows with a lattice pattern upper light. Above the central entrance is a recessed balcony with brackets that form a round arch currently sheltering a ten-light French window. (This balcony was originally fronted by a balustraded deck.)

A one-story porch wraps the south elevation along Cascade Avenue and curves around the octagonal bay to the north elevation; the porch is supported by turned posts and ornate Victorian sawnwork and brackets with a sawnwork frieze. The porch balustrade is a pattern of turned balusters between plain pickets. There are interior and end corbelled brick chimneys, and the original stepped stone retaining wall still runs along South Main Street. (A documentary photograph shows the building in 1894 shortly after it was completed, and helps to identify later alterations. Glass negative in files of Old Salem Museums & Gardens.)

Reid ran a successful grocery and dry goods business on Main Street in Salem, and was living on East Second Street when he bought this property in 1891, although the house was not completed until 1894. By 1906 his business was listed in the city directories as groceries, china, and crockery, but by 1908 he was no longer identified as a grocer. (Reid’s son, David Jr., had taken over the Salem store.) He later operated Reid's China Hall at 110 West Fourth Street.

Paul Otto Schallert and his wife Grace Jackson bought the property in 1920. He was a physician and surgeon at the Gilmer Brothers building. In 1943, the couple converted the residence into four rental units and relocated to Florida where Dr. Schallert worked as a Veteran Administration physician. The property remained in the family as rental property until 1966 when it was restored to a single family residence.