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Show 253 6th Ave - ca 1900 5 Architect/Builder, possibly John W.A. Timms Building Type/Style: Victorian eclectic Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a lh story Victorian home on a corner lot. It's complex box shapes include a hip-roofed dormer with wood shingle siding and diamond shaped window panes projecting in the front of the main hip roof, and a gabled dormer projecting to the west, The house has main gables on the east and sough (front) sides with wood shingle siding, palladian windows, and returns, supported by large medalion-like paired brackets. Below each gable is a curved, panelled brick bay. The west side of the house also has a semi-circular window and a square-columned rear porch. All windows have rough-hem sandstone sills and large lintels and the front window has a small paned transom. The front porch has a dentilled wooden cornice and squat, paired wooden columns on a heavy corbelled brick railing wall. The foundation is of large red sandstone blocks. - Thomas W. Hanchett Statement of Historical Significance: D O D Q a Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D a D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D Q D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This is a significant wxample of eclectic Victorian style built by a prominent builder contractor as his own home. This was built on property owned by Sarah Lattimer Timms, probably fy her husband John William Avery Timms. It was built about 1900. The Timms moved into it from their older home located at the rear of this home (see 320 B). Timms was a member of a family of builders and contractors whose members built several homes in the avenues. A brief geneology of the family is as follows: Parents: William Timms (1821-1904) married Mary Ann Avery (1821-1888) William Timms was a carpenter and lived at 133 T Children: William John Avery (1845-1927) married Harriett Sisiam (807 3rd) Alice Hannah Avery (1849-1939) married Joseph P. Thiriot (189 R) Hannah Alice Avery (1851-1937) married John Devey Demarius Ann (1854-1936) married Edward Thiriot (1104 3rd) John William Avery (185601916) married Sarah A. Latimer (253 6th) Ann Demarius (1859-1945) (1017 3rd) Avery William John (1861-1939) married Mary Ann Newson (125 T) In the 1890's John W.A. had been in partnership with his brothers, William J.A. and Avery W.J., and Thomas Oakey in the Phoenix Planing Mill Co., later called Timms & Oakey, At the time he built this house, however, Timms is listed in the directories as a machinist. In 1903 Timms is listed was being a carpenter, with his office in the Deseret News Bldg. He later went into partnership with Robert Roden and about 1909 established Timms & Son, a building and contracting firm, with his son Thomas L. (1881-1963) The business which was conducted from this home prospered until John W.A.'s death in 1916. Sarah Ann continued to live, in this home until her own death in 1940. Upon her |
