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Show 5 A Street-1885-1889 Architect/Builder: /Charles Edward Brain Building Type/Style: Building Materials: brick Queen Anne Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is an ornate one and a half story Queen Anne style house. It has a main gable roof with a front eyelid dormer, a gabled front bay, an octagonal southwest corner tower with a tall tent roof and a variety of porches. There is carving and dentil molding in the tower cornice, the front porch gables, and the front bay. The house has some wood shingle siding and much decorative brickwork. The several rear additions do not distract from the character of the house, though the replacement of the wooden front porch columns with wrought iron columns does. For a more complete description of the house, see the paper "178 A Street" prepared by Adelle W. Wester, 1977, in the Utah State Historical Society Collection. --Thomas W. Hanchett 6 > cc O W x Statement of Historical Significance: D D P D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce a O d Q D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D Military Q Mining D Minority Groups D Political D Recreation D O a D Religion \ Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This house with its complex massing, and detailing is an excellent example of the Queen Anne Style. James Matt Barlow Jr. was a salesman. He built this house in about 1885 According to Charles Edward Barin 1 s family tradition, Brain, a mason, built the house for Barlow. Barlow was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 17, 1868, to James M. and Decta M. Barlow. He married Jane Clark. He worked for Clark, Eldredge and Company andJohn Scowcroft Company. He was active in the Mormon Church. He died in Ogden in 1917. Barlow then sold the house in 1905 to Alonzo Blair Irvine, an attorney and a member of the Utah State Senate from 1920 to 1928. He was president of the Senate during his last term of office. Alonzo (1875-1940) was born in Salt Lake the son of William and Jane Fife Irvine. He graduated from the University of Michigan" at Ann Arbor Law School in 1902. He worked with the firm of Conover, Irvine and Snow at first in Salt Lake. Later he formed the firm of Thurman, Wedgewood and Irvine and later Irvine, Skeen and Thurman. Alonzo married Rosanah Cannon (1871-1969), a daughter of George Q. Cannon in 1898. He was on a LDS mission to Sweden from 1894 to 1897. He was superintendent of the Sunday School in the LDS Twentieth Ward. In 1908 Alonzo took out a building permit for a one-story brick addition to the house, He added a kitchen in 1916 and did brick repair work in 1925. In 1925 he converted part of the house into an apartment. Irvine lived here until his death, after which his widow sold the property, (see also 189A) |
