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Show 461 2nd Avenue-1892 Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Victorian Romanesque Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This two story home shows influences of the Victorian Romanesque Style in its round arches, various sized windows, and corbeled brick texturing. The front gable has a decorated bargeboard with pinwheel carvings, and is supported at the ends by brackets. East, west and south (front) gables have patterned wood shingle siding and arched windo with diamond shaped panes. The wood shingles in the west and front gables extend down and out to form hoods, supported by brackets, above paired second floor windows that hav wood paneled center members. Above the porch is a semi-circular front window. A dentil belt course separates the first and second floor. This motif is repeated above the large arched first floor front window with its ornate art glass top panel. Dentils and art glass are also found in the small east semi-circular stair window and the large, arched west window. Large chimneys on the east and west have arched corbeled panels. The gabled front porch has a wooden bargeboard and a corbeled, paneled brick base. -Thomas W. Hanchett Statement of Historical Significance: a O a a a Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D O O D Q Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D a a Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D O D a Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This home was built by William C. and Lillias T. Hilton Staines, prominent in business and social circles in Salt Lake City and is significant as an example of Victorian Romanesque architecture William C. Staines (1846-1919), the son of Thomas and Sarah Brown Staines, came to Salt Lake City from England in 1872. He first worked for ZCMI, then as a freighter for William Jennings. He married in 1891 Lillias Hilton Staines (1858-1944), the daughter of Allan H. and Annie Lyon Hilton, whose families were early Salt Lake City settlers. Staines built this home in 1892. At that time he was vice-president of the Cunnington Company and Cane Spring Consolidated Mining Company. He continued interested in mining, helping to develop the Centennial Eureka Mine. Lillias was active in real estate business in the Avenues. Lillias inherited this home upon William's death in 1919. She continued to live here until her death in 1944. (See also 135 F Street) During the 1920 f s the home was remodeled into apartments. Lillias' children; Fred C. Staines, Lillian Sorenson, and Annie S. Gray, inherited the home. The children sold the home to Robert G. DeLa Mare and his wife Mary F. W. The DeLa Mare's lived in one of the apartments, renting out the rest of the home. |
