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Show 505 3rd Avenue - 1899 5 Architect/Builder: Walter E. Ware/S. L. Building Co. Building Type/Style: Victorian eclectic Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: Building Materials: brick (include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a one-and-one-half-story Victorian home with elaborate Colonial Revival details. It has a red-tiled main hip roof, a hip-roofed west side dormer window, a gabled front dormer, a front gable, and a front porch with a gable over the entry. The front gable has an oval window and patterened wood shingle siding. The porch gable has an ornate carved panel. The front dormer has a swan f s-neck pediment. A dentilled cornice runs around the house. The front porch cornice also has carved garlands, and is supported by paired fluted Ionic Columns on paneled wooden posts, with turned balusters between. On the west side of the house along G Street are over grown gardens and a wooden pergola. -Thomas W. Hanchett 6 >• QC 0 </) I Statement of Historical Significance: D Q 0 a Q Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D 0 D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry Q Military a D D Q Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation O n D Q Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This house is significant as a fine example of Victorian Style architecture, one of the two most popular styles in the Avenues of Salt Lake City. It was built in 1899 by John R. Tierman. It replaced an older adobe and concrete structure. John R. Tierman was an assayer and for awhile was manager of the Miner Assay Office. He lived here until 1902 when he moved to San Francisco and sold the house ;to Robert Dunn Rhodes. There is no more information on him in the sources checked. Robert Dunn Rhodes, Superintendent of American Smelting and Refining Company, then lived in the house until his death in 1909. He died on June 25, 1909 at the age of fifty-three. There is no more information available on him in the sources checks. David B. Taylor then lived in the house from 1915 to 1916. He was president of the Consolidated Ores Company. There is no more information available on him in the sources checked. Henry E. Lewis, the general manager of Standard Coal Company, lived in the house from 1918 to 1920. There is no more information available on him in the sources checked. Lewis sold the house to Frank B. Scott who lived in the house from 1921 to 1927. He was born in Bale Verle, New Brunswick to David B. and Sara A. Tibbits Scott, August 15, 1870. He married Evelyn Eden on August 15, 1898. He attended the University of Mount Allison from 1888 to 1891. He received a degree from the Dalhousie University, which he attended from 1893 to 1896. He moved to Salt Lake in 1905. He had a general law practice in Salt Lake and he specialized in patent and copyright law. In 1913 he formed a partnership with R. R. Hackett. He was secretary of the Canadian Association and a Socialist. Cady Putman bought the house in 1927. He and his family lived here until 1939 when Putman went to New York to work. After Cady's death in 1940, his widow Myrtle Clark |
