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Show 1037 1st Avenue - 1896 Architect/Builder: Building Materials: brick and frame Building Type/Style: Queen Anne Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) The Coffin is one of the finest and most elaborate Queen Anne designs in the Avenues. Three projecting bays, two on the long facade and one on the front facade, are articulated and roofed differently. The front bay is topped by a gable with full cornice return. The middle side bay has a smaller rectangular projecting bay in the center which is continued to the roof. The third bay is finished with a hip roof. Connecting the front and side bays is a sweeping, curved porch supported by paired doric columns on brick piers. Carried through the porch is an onion-domed turret, with iron final intact. The flare'd second story is covered in shingles of several different patterns fish-scale, staggered butt, beveled, and undulating. The lot retains its.wrought iron fence Statement of Historical Significance: Q Q D D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D D O D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D a D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D Religion a Science a Socio-Humanitarian D Transportation Edwin C. Coffin was a prominent SL business executive born Nov. 9, 1855 in Iowa, a son of Thomas C. and '.Sarah Meyers Coffin. E.G. Coffin came'to the west in 1883, V and opened a hardware store in Hailey, Idaho. He moved to SLC some time later, where he was listed as proprietor of a SL hardware store, bearing his name, in the city directory of 1890. In the years from 1900 to 1909 Mr. Coffin was also engaged in such activities as Manufacturers Agent, mining, and investment broker. In 1909 he moved to Mammoth, Utah, where he was engaged in silver mining along with John Bern and helped to found the Lower Mammoth Mining Co. By 1918 Edwin had returned to SL where he was established as a manufacturers representative. His office was in the Dooly Building. The E.G. Coffin Co. still exists today. Edwin Chapin Coffin died on Jan. 10, 1938 at the age of 82. The. second owner of the Coffin home was Benjamin F. Caffey who pruchased it on Feb. 21, 1900. He was a "Utah citizen who had a very interesting career which brought him in touch with various occupations and lines of business all over the West and South- • west." Mr. Caffey was born in Montogmery, Alabama on Jan. 12, 1862, a son of Benjamin F. and Mary E. (Winn) flaffey. "He first came to Utah in 1889 and for nine years was in the mercantile business in Castle Gate. In 1898 he established his home in Salt Lake. He be came interested in mining, and was a member of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange. His name was "familiar with mine operate rs all over the West and among other accomplishments, was one of the locators of the original Anna Laura Mines of Utah." "He carried on an extensive business both for himself and others while a member of the stock exchange. (He was in volved with Wasatch Brokerage, Sadler Mercantile, Magnolia Trading Co., Pioche Mercantile, and C. E. Miller Brokerage Co., among others)." He was a lifetime member of Lodge #85 of the B.P..O.E. and in 1920 retired to Sunnyside, Utah. |
