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Show 14 The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey Three age-related headings for prospective informants were established: first, those in their seventies and eighties who were familiar with the community's older traditions; second, those between the ages of thirty-five and sixty who had grown up with the old ways but had experienced the many changes of the postwar period; and third, those under thirty-five who knew Grouse Creek only in recent times. Within these broad headings, the additional factors determining the interview sample were gender and occupation. Allen N. Tanner house, site 6. Tanner, one of Grouse Creeks first settlers, was a prosperous rancher who built this brick house in 1905. Its floorplan is a variant of the type called "I house" by architectural historians-two rooms wide, one room deep, and two stories high. The Tanner house has a central passage and a substantial rear ell that includes a kitchen. Houses of this type and size are symbols of economic achievement in the Mormon region and elsewhere in the United States. The Tanner house was abandoned in 1947 after it sustained damage in an earthquake. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photograph: Carl Fleischhauer; GCCS CFB-231196-16/5A-6. First floor plan: Roger Roper) Previous architectural research in the Grouse Creek area consisted only of the preparation of forms nominating two sites to the National Register of Historic Places. The Allen N. Tanner house, a large brick central-passage house constructed in 1905, was listed on the National Register in 1982, and the local Latter-day Saint tithing granary was listed in 1985 as part of a statewide thematic nomination compiled by the Utah State Historic Preservation Office. Because comprehensive studies of vernacular |