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Show 654 3rd Avenue-1899 Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Victorian eclectic Building Materials: frame Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a prominent two story Victorian home on a corner lot. At the front (north) it has a hip roof and a projecting gabled front bay. The gable has a round attic vent, and bargeboards that curve to meet returns. A small cornice with widely spaced brackets rups in the eaves. Walls have wide ship-lap wooden siding with corner boards, and larger double-hung windows. A one-story porch wraps around the north and west sides of the house, with a dentiled cornice, wooden balustrades, Doric ^columns on paneled posts, and small gables marking the entry at the north west corner. There are two front windows with transoms. -Thomas W. Hanchett Statement of Historical Significance: D D a a D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce a O a D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry a D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation Q D O D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This home is one of the best two story frame Victorian Style homes in the Avenues, This is one of two houses built in 1890 by Samuel Woolf, a Jewish merchant who owned and operated a wholesale cigar business (150 South Main). Woolfe lived in this home and his brother lived at 658 3rd Avenue. These may have been part of the Isaac Woolf family. Isaac was a successful Salt Lake clothing merchant and one of the origi nators of Congregation B'nai Israel in 1873. The Woolfs lived in these homes only a few years then moved out and maintained them as rental. In 1899 the property was sold to lawyer Robert T. Brinton who lived here and maintained #658 as rental. In 1903 he sold the property to William B. Jacobs of Jones and Jacobs, machinery. Jacobs lived at #658 and rented out #654. In 1907 he sold the property to his partner in the machinery firm, William H. Jones. Jacobs continued to live at #658 until his death in 1927 -although Jones had sold the property in 1924 to Mary E. Nuslein, who had moved into #654. The house at #658 was converted into a duplex and continued to be maintained as rental property. Mary Nuslein was the widow of Fred R. Nuslein. He had been an "expressman," and had died in 1917 at the age of fifty-eight. The property remained in the Nuslein family until the late 1960 f s. Mrs. Mary Nuslein occupied #654 until her death in the mid-1930's. Ownership of the property passed to her son, John Frank Nuslein who lived in #654 until his death in 1965, after which his widow, Marge M. inherited the property. J. Frank Nuslein was born June 3, 1900, in Salt Lake City. He married Marge Morse September 24, 1927. During his life time he worked for the Utah Railway Co., the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad Co., which was an electric interurban line running between Salt Lake and Orem, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Ford Motor Company. |
