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Show JAN 1 4 1980 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 sun burst is a double window trimmed with turned pendants and brack ets where it slices through the cornice. At the first floor level the corners of the bay are cut away to form a bay window. Next to the bay is.a one^story gabled front porch with Doric Columns. The home .was built in 1893 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. 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 Oliver left the concern and Albert continued 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, The home is now owned by a restoration-minded family who moved to Salt Lake City from Portland and shopped at some length for the right place. "I don't know how other people pick their houses," the owner admits, "but my wife and I always look for the ones that communicate with us.... There is never a dull moment living in an old home. We have had some discouraging moments but at the end it is turning out to be a home we love." |
