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Show 174 A street - c.1883-1884 Architect/Builder: /probabl Charles J, Brain B u i I d i n g Ty pe/Sty I e: I taliante Building Materials: wood Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This two-story home shows Italiante Style influence in its massing and decoration. It is composed of intersecting rectangular cubes with hip roofs. Windows are tall and narrow. On the first floor they have elaborate round topped pediments with:carved panels, and pilasters. Upper walls have fish-scale pattern woodshingle siding, with stucco on the first story which may not be original. The broad one-story Doric columned front porch thaiL wraps ^around the west aridjfrqnt sides of the house is probably not original, for it awkwardly slices off the top of one of the window pediments. --Thomas W. Hanchett Statement of Historical Significance: O D Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture B^Architecture O^TheArts O^Commerce D a m a D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry Q Military a Mining D Minority Groups 0" Political , D Recreation Q D O D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This house is significant as one of the best examples of the Italiante Style in the Avenues . Edward Brain received the Mayor's deed for this lot in 1869'. Brain a mason, lived in block #39 and later at 417 4th. He owned and operated Brain's Brickyard at V and 4th. In 1885 he filed a deed to give the property to Charles J. Brain, his son. Brain, a contractor, probably had built this house; he lived here until 1886. Brain built several homes and buildings in the Avenues, including the old Eighteenth Ward Amusement and the Lafayette School. He married Georgianna Romney, 0 -1931) the daughter of George Romney a prominent ecclesiastical, political and social leader. Romney was also a building contractor and he and his sons built several homes in the Avenues (see 134C) . Brain sold the house in 1886 to David R. Alien and moved to 309 2nd.Alldn was born Nov 12 1865 in American Fork Canyon, Utah to David Alien and Ellen Martin. Alien. He married Leila Merrill in 1882. He taught school in West Jordan and at the time that he lived in this house he was principal of the Thirteenth Ward School. He attended Cornell University where he recieved a M.A: He became professor of astronomy and mathematics at the Univ ersity of Utah. He was secretary- treasurer of that University under Joseph T. Kinsbury, president of the University. He died in Berkely, California in 1937. Alien sold the house in 1890 to Phineas Young. Young, a son of Phineas H. and Phoebe Clark Young and a nephew of Brigham Young did not live in the house and probably rented it. He lived at 61 West South Temple. He was superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Provo from 1882 to 1889 and foreman of the Border Ranch and Stock Company from 1889 to 1892. He was a guard at the state prison. He died in 1902. Young sold the house in 1899 to William N.B. Shepherd, William N. Budge Shepherd was a businessman in Salt Lake. He was also a local LDS Church leader and a musician. |
