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Show Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Victorian eclectic Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: ll'_ji~'- (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a two-story Victorian home on a corner lot. It has a high hip roof, whose proportions recall Chateausque Style architecture, popular for mansions of the rich in this period. Note the tiny top gable on the north side, with its semi-circular window. The front (west) gable has wood shingle siding and is supported by two curved brackets. The house's walls are of buff colored brick with arches over the windows. A triple belt course of corbelled brown-black separates the first and second floor. The one-story wood porch that juts out toward the corner is now enclosed and covered with imitation brick. The north side porch roof and columns are also recent additions. Statement of Historical Significance: a Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture sr Architecture D The Arts Or Commerce a O a D O Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D n D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation Or Religion (^Science D Socio-Humanitarian D Transportation This house is significant because of its Victorian Style and because James E. Talmage, a well-known scientist and apostle lived here. Samuel P. Teasdel owned a men's clothing store on Main Street. He died on June 23,1901. He came to Salt Lake in 1853 and died in 1901. Teasdel built this house in 1896-1897. He is listed in the 1898 City Directory at this address. Annie C. Teasdel sold the house in 1902 to M. Bell Rice. Rice is not listed in the Salt Lake City directories and there is no information available on him. Rice sold the house to Edna and James B. Simpson,in 1906. James B. Simpson was involved in mining. There is no other information on him in the sources checcked. Simpson sold the house in 1910 to Joseph Geoghegan. Geoghegan was president of the Geoghegan Brokerage Firm, a merchandise business firm. He owned the house for two years and he didn't live here. He sold in 1912 to James E. Talmage. James E. Talmage, a well known scientist and a Mormon apostle, was born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England to James S. Joyce and Sussannah Preater. His family came to Salt Lake in 1876. The family settled in Provo. James attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo and then went to Leheigh University in Bethlehem, PA. He later graduated from there in chemistry and geology. In 1883 he started advanced study at John Hopkins University in Baltimore s Maryland. He returned to Utah however, in 1884 to teach at the Brigham Young Academy. In 1888 Talmage became presidnet of the Latter-day Saints College. He held that position until 1894, when he was appointed president of the University of Utah and a professor of geology there. In 1897 he resigned as president of the University and then in 1907 he gave his professorship to work as a consultant in mining geology. He also wrote a number of scientific treatises. |
