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Show 764 4th Avenue-1921 Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Bungalow Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a one story hip-roofed Bungalow built of dark red brick. It is very similar to 754, 758, 768 Fourth Avenue next door, built about the same time by the same developer. -Thomas W. Hanchett 6 >• cc o CO I Statement of Historical Significance: G D D D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D a D D a Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry a D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This brick Bungalow is historically significant because of its association with Orson F. Whitney who was a teacher, historian, politician, and apostle of the Mormon Church. This is one of four houses built in this lot by developer Edward A. Johnston. Johnston rented it a couple of years, then sold it to Orson F. Whiney. Whitney had been born in Salt Lake City in 1858. At the age of twenty-three, he was made bishop of the LDS Eighteenth Ward and held that office for twenty-eight years. In 1899 he joined the staff of the LDS Church's Historian's Office. A prolific writer, he published a number of books, including a four volume history of Utah, and numerous articles. In 1906 he was named an apostle and served in that office until his death in 1931. During his early years he was active in politics, serving as a member of the Salt Lake CityCouncil in the 1880's, as Salt Lake City Treasurer for several terms, as Clerk of the Territorial Legislature, Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1895, and as state senator in Utah's first legislature. Whitney lived most of his life in another house on the Avenues, 160 4th Avenue, spending only his last eight years in this one. Following his death in 1931, at the age of eighty, the house has changed owners every four or five years. |
