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Show 1120 2nd Avenue-1892, Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: QUeen Anne Building Materials: frame Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a one-and-a-half story Queen Anne Style cottage. At the top of the main hip roof is a tiny gabled dormer with an oval window and carved trim. At the front of the house is a two-story gabled bay with a carved sunburst in the gable. Beneath the sunburst is a double window trimmed with turned pendants and brackets where it slices through the cornice. At the first floor level the corners of the bay are cut away to form a bay window. The whole bay is covered with a variety of patterned wood shingle siding. Next to the bay is a one-story gabled front porch with Doric Columns. The house was extensively renovated during 1977. The brick storage and shop structure at the rear was built in 1909. Statement of Historical Significance: D D D O D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D D a a Q Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry a D D a D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D Q a D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This one-and-half story cottage is an excellent example of the Queen Anne style which is the most common style in the Avenues. It has recently undergone a fine restoration It was built in 1892 for Henry A. Ferguson. All that is known about him is that he was a carpenter. In 1899 he sold the house to Albert H. Walsh, and it remained in the Walsh family for the next seventy years. Walsh was the founder of the A.H. Walsh Plumbing Co. He also built two large apartment houses on the Avenues, "The Drayton" at 1121 1st Avenue and "The Emma", named after his wife, at 119 1st Avenue. Born in England in 1881, Walsh came to Utah with his family as converts to the Mormon Church. At the age of eleven, he went to work at ZCMI and two years later began working in his father's tire shop. At the death of his father he and his brother, Oliver S. Walsh, converted the business into a plumbing business and operated it in partnership until 1914 when Olvier left the concern and Albertcontinued it as the A.H. Walsh Plumbing Co. Active in the LDS Church Walsh was also one-time president of the Utah State Plumber's Association. Walsh married Emma Wiscombe in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1893. She had been born in Salt Lake City in 1873. As a young child she moved with her family to Springville, but settled in Salt Lake City after her marriage to Walsh. |
