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Show 1153 2nd Ave. - 1905 Architect/Builder: S.W. Sears/ L.W. Riter Building Materials: brick_______ Building Type/Style: box type Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a two-story cube shaped house with hip roof and front center wood shingled dormer window. Decorative panes are found in the dormer, the upper sashes of most win dows, and in the transom above the large, single pane first floor front window. The wide first floor front porch has paired wooden Doric columns and a simple balustrade. Shutters are a later addition. -Thomas W. Hanchett g > O Statement of Historical Significance: O a a a a Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D Q a a a Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry a a Q D a Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D a Q D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation The house is a two story residence of pattern book design representative of the kind widely built in the avenues in the first decade of the 20th century. Its original owner was a prominemt journalist and historian, and like many residents of the avenues at the turn of the century, a non-Mormon who had come to Utah in the last part of the 19th century. The house was built in 1905 for Noble Warrura. Born in Indiana in 1864, he came to Utah in 1891 and entered the field of journalism, first as editor of the Logan Journal, then as long-time editorial writer for the Salt Lake Herald. From 1934 to 1950 he was on the editorial staff of the Salt Lake Tribune. Active in politics, he was a probate judge in Logan, a member of the Utah Constitutional Convention of 1895, a member of the first Utah State Senate, postmaster of SLC, and Salt Lake City Recorder, 1912-1915. An amatuer historian, he authored the four volume Utah Since Statehood, which remians today an important work, and Utah and the World War. In the early 1920's, he sold the house to Harold P. Fabian, a well known SLC attorney. He was born in SLC in 1885, the son of Ferdinand J. and Minnie Pegram Fabian. He attended SLC Schools, then went to prepatory school at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania prior to graduation in 1907 from Yale Univer sity and the Harvard Law School in 1910. He returned to SLC that year to start practicing law. He entered the U.S. Army during WW I and was commissioned an infantry major, assisting in organizing the First Divisional Infantry School of Arms at Camp Lewis, Washington. Following the war he once again returned to SLC and in 1919 formed the law partnership of Fabian and Clendenin with a fellow Army Officer whom Mr. Fabian encouraged to came to Utah, the late Beverly S. Clendenin, In 1926 he became associated with John D. Rockefeller, Jr; in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Preservation, and formed Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc., a non profit organization. He also was president of Grand Teton Lodge and Transportation Co. |
