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Show OMB No, 1024-0016, NPS Fonn United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. I Page 1 Muir House, Mendon, Cache County, UT Narrative Description The Mary Muir House is a one-story stone house, built 1869, with a frame cross-wing addition built circa 1885. The house is located at 145 S. Main Street in Mendon, Utah. About 1935, a non-contributing frame addition was built on the rear and the entire house covered in stucco. Between 2001 and 2003, the house was rehabilitated and the stucco was removed from the entire house, restoring the stone portion and the cross wing addition to their original appearance. The rehabilitation also incJuded repair and replacement of wood siding and windows. The property includes one non-contributing outbuilding, a circa 1940 cinder-block milking barn, and a contributing structure, a stone-lined inigation ditch. The Muir House is in excellent condition and a contributing resource in Mendon, Utah. The original stone portion of the house is located to the south. It is a one-story classically symmetrical hallparlor house with the 1idgeline parallel to the street. The centrally placed entrance is equidistant between the two window openings, as is typical for hall-parlor houses in Utah, and is set deep in the thick stone wall. This is not typical of most early stone residences in the state, as doors and windows are usually set flush with the exterior wall. The inset doorway on the Muir House provides an indication of how thick the stone walls are. The quartzitic stone masonry for the walls is laid in a random rubble pattern with large ashlar quoins of limestone or sandstone set in alternating colors. Similar stone is implemented as lintels and sills for the fenestration on this part of the house. The foundation is of similar quartzite stone, but is now encapsulated by a concrete base. Around 1885 a small cross-wing addition was added on the north end. The addition is frame on a stone foundation. The windows on the 1885 addition are the original two-over-two, double-hung windows. Most of the glass is also the original wavy glass; although a few damaged panes were replaced. The circa 1935 frame rear addition (which is considered non-contributing because the original stucco was removed and replaced with wood siding and it was built after the period of significance) has a concrete foundation. The rear addition has a shed roof with a small gable roof over cement steps to the root cellar. The addition was originally covered in stucco, as was the rest of the house. The entire roof complex was covered in cedar shingles in 2001. An unstable chimneystack at the south end of the roof was removed at that time. After the stucco was removed, the original stone was cleaned and re-pointed as needed. New drop-novelty wood siding was milled to match the original, which had been damaged by rot and the application and removal of the stucco. Similar siding was also used to sheath the upper portion of the rear addition, which previously had stucco as the only wall surface. The wood siding is painted dark brown. A portion of the stone at the northwest corner was left exposed at the juncture of the two additions. A new wood cornice was installed to match the original. The wood work (e.g. cornice, lintels, casings, etc.) is painted olive green. The wood sash windows are painted yellow. |
