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Show 903 First Avenue - 1893 Ca. Architect/Builder: wa 2 {jj HX 5 Building Materials: brick Building Type/Style: Victorian eclectic --^-----------------------------------------------------------•-------- Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: , (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a one-story Victorian home on a corner lot. It has a truncated hip roof with small front and west gables. In the gables is fish-scale pattern wood shingle siding. Along the wooden cornice are paired modillions. The windows have stone sills and lintels, with brick arches at the entrance. The aluminum front porch and window awnings are a recent addition. A sandstone wall of rough-faced blocks, with a, corner stair, runs along the street and contains the raised yard. Statement of Historical Significance: > O \n I O Aboriginal Americans 0 Agriculture D Architecture a The Arts ^'Commerce O d D D O Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D & D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation a D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation The house is a one-story Victorian dwelling of pattern book design, representative of the kind of house built throughout the Avenues during the late nineteenth-century when the population of the Avenues was becoming increasingly heterogeneous. Its first two owners were prominent residents of Salt Lake City. The house was built in 1893 for Madison B. Whitney. He was born in New York in 1870 and came to Utah with his parents in 1877. During his lifetime, he was SecretaryTreasurer of the Utah Implement Co., and founder of the Mt. Nebo Irrigation Project and the Utah Land, Water, and Power Co. In 1912 he sold the house to Dr. Pan Kassinikos, a prominent Salt Lake City physician and publisher of The Light, a weekly Greek language newspaper. Dr. Kassinikos was born in Greece in 1867, the son of Stamatina and Konstantine Kassinikos. Following completion of the public and high school courses in his native land, Dr. Kassinikos attended the university of Athens, where he specialized in the study of medicine. He was graduated as a physician and surgeon in 1891. For the next fifteen years he practiced medicine in Greece. In 1906 he immigrated to Utah and quickly became a prominent member of Salt Lake City's rapidly growing Greek community. In 1908 he ^bunded a weekly newspaper, The Light, (Greek). Following Dr. Kassinikos T s death in 1927, Gus Babalas bought the housed Nothing is known about him. He sold it in 1937 to Edward W. Hoffer, a warehouseman for the W.H. Bintz Co. Hoffer occupied the house until the late 1940 f s when it was converted into several small apartments. |
