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Show Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Building Materials: Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) lot. It has a main gable roof, a lai and a southY/ec metal finial. curved vrooden balustrades and small doric columns. "Vails of the w. slightly "battered, 7 ' rather than vertical, and small first an: secon story ";indov/s are set into the v-alls. The gable ends are flush v;ith eaves. The gabled front porch has fluted doric columns on v/ood shin r a.ilinr Statement of Historical Significance: D D D D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D o D D a Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation a a D n Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This house is significant architecturally as a. good example of Shingle .Style architecture, designed by one of UtahVs most prominent architects, Frederick Albert Hale, andit is significant historically because ofits association v.dth a, succession of prominent men. This_house vra.s built about 1892 by prominent developer 7. F. McGurrin ivhose firm of McGurrin and Darling built many houses in the Avenues Historic District. He sold this corner property to Hev/ell Beeman in 1392 for %000. Born in Michigan, Beeman came to Utah in the 1390s and became ov/ner of the Salt Lake Photo Supply Company. He also had an interest in several mining companies. Beeman lived in the house nearly ten years, in 1902 he sold it to Hoyt Sherman. Born in Des Moines, lov/a, in 1353, he came to Salt Lake City in the late 1370s as an employee of =the Union Pacific Railroad. Long involved in the railroad industry, he ubseouent] y v:as an official of the Colorado Southern Railroad and the For Denver Railroad. In addition, he and by the federal government to suppress the practice of 'oolyg_ VO ' of the Mormon Church. Its task uas to supervise registration" conduct elections, and issuance of certificates to elect candidates, Bet-ve.en 1332 and look the Utah Commission disenfranchi ed some 12,000 voters, utilizing a test oath that "" required the prospective voter to sivear that he v*as not a rjolveramist, bigamist, or giulty of"unlav.r ful cohabitation o i in sympathy v/ith those practices. |
