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Show 6th Avenue-1902 Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Building Materials: frame Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a two-story gable-roofed home. Gable ends have large wooden brackets in the eaves. The second story has aluminum siding while the first story is stuccoed. The first floor front has a central colonial revival entry flanked by tall casement windows. -Thomas W. Hanchett 6 >• <r 0 W X Statement of Historical Significance: n D D Q D Aboriginal American$ Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce • D D a P O Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D Q O a Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation The materials and massing of this home contribute to the historical character of the Avenues. This was the home of one of Utah's foremost pioneer painters,Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Several of Utah's artists built homes and lived in the Avenues. Lambourne was born in England and came to Salt Lake in 1866 with his father. Lambourne traveled throughout the United States and especially the West sketching pictures of the scenic United States and sights. He visited Bryce, Zion and Yellowstone National Parks. He also traveled across the U.S. with artist Reuben Kirkham in the 1870's and made canvases of American scenes from the East to the West. His paintings are mainly scenic. In mid career he turned more and more to poetry and prose, writing fourteen books. His best known was a history of the playhouse in Salt Lake where he worked as a scenery painter for many years. Lambourne had been living on this property since the early 1880's. However, this house probably replaced the older frame home. Lambourne's wife Minnie was the owner of the property until her death in 1914. Alfred then sold the property for $1050 to Duncan Richart and Fred Swaner, real estate and building contractors. (See also 531 6th Avenue) Richart and Swaner sold the property in 1916 for $3000 to Thomas A. C. Bruce who also owned the property at 323 H Street. Bruce, a clerk at the University of Utah, and his wife Chloe lived here until 1936 when they sold this property to Zion's Benefit Building Society which sold it in 1940 to Bret R. Wooley. |
