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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Crossgrove House Salt Lake County, Utah Name of Property County and State On the interior, the Crossgrove House has approximately 1,218 square feet of space on the main floor and 612 square feet of space on the upper floor. The garage has approximately 576 square feet of space. The main entrance leads into a small hall and staircase. The narrow staircase divides the main floor into two equal rooms, similar to the central passage house type; however, there is no passage and the house may have been a hall-parlor before the stairs were built. 2 The room on the north is currently being used as a bedroom and probably has been a bedroom since the 1960s when a closet was added. The room on the south is the living room, which features a round Art Deco style archway that was added in the 1930s. The wood floor, high ceilings, and blocked stove pipe flues are original. The archway leads to the kitchen and dining room in the rear addition. There is a bathroom in the northeast corner of the addition. The dining room is in the south half and features an exterior door to the screened porch on the south elevation, as well as a rear door to the breezeway. The kitchen, which has cabinetry from the early 1950s, is in the northwest corner. In 2010, the current owners removed a wall separating the kitchen from the dining room and added structural timbers for support. The breezeway connecting to the garage has finishes from the 1960s. The upper floor is divided into two bedrooms with a bathroom added next to the north bedroom in the 1960s. The Crossgrove house sits at the east end of a notched parcel of 0.71 acres. There is an asphalt driveway and a short chain link fence running along the south property line. All of the property directly behind the house has been covered in asphalt for parking. In the front yard, lawn surrounds the house with a few mature trees. There is a sidewalk leading from the street to the front porch and a sidewalk from the driveway to the screened porch. An irrigation ditch runs parallel to the street at the east property line. The north side of the front yard is mostly lawn with large trees on the north property line. There is a substantial non-contributing tree house in one of the trees. The northwest section of the property is divided between a vegetable garden and a yard for chickens. There are two small, raised chicken coops (noncontributing) in the yard. The property was originally much larger with a barn and several large chicken coops. Only two of the larger coops remain on a now separate property to the southwest. The neighborhood is a mix of historic and newer homes, which retain large lots, agricultural outbuildings, and a rural atmosphere. The house meets the registration requirements of the Draper Multiple Property Submission. The Crossgrove House has good historic integrity and is a contributing historic resource in Draper, Utah. 2 See Section 8 for an anecdotal history of the construction of the staircase. 4 |
