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Show 129 G Street ~ 1894 5 Architect/Builder: Hart/E. T. Ashton Building Materials: brick Building Type/Style: Queen Anne g. ----------------------.--------------------------------------------------------:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: g * This is a two-story Queen Anne home with a main hip roof with a small front dormer window and an octagonal southeast corner tower with a segmental hip roof. The dormer window and the third story of the tower have wood shingle siding. A dentiled cornice runs under the eaves. Front windows have stone sills and lintels. The curved one-story front porch has wooden doric columns and an iron second floor balustrade. Un der the porch is an ornate leaded glass window and a leaded glass transom above the door. <•> (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) -Thomas W. Hanchett 6 • >• oc e Statement of Historical Significance: CO I ; D n D O D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce Q D 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 is an excellent example of the Queen Anne Style, one of the best in the Avenues. It was built by Orvin Morris who speculated in several Avenue;proper ties. At the time he built this home, Orvin Morris (1869-1931) was the chief rate clerk for the Oregon Shortline Railroad. He was later the traffic manager for.UtahIdaho Sugar. Morris, the son of Richard V. and Lavina Robbins Morris, was a native Salt Laker. He and his wife Mary Alien bought the property from Mary Ann Anderson (see 123 G Street). Mary Morris died soon afterwards and Orvin then married Ella Estella. They lived in this home until they lost it in 1904 in a tax sale to Arthur E. Snow. Snow was then secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Consolidated Mining Com pany (37 Commercial Blk). Snow and his wife Lucy W. moved to Spanish Fork in 1911, but maintained this home as rental property. In 1920, Snow sold the home to brother and sister Hugh James and Annie Grace Wilton. They and their mother Sarah M. Wilton (1851-1932) widow of Mark Wilton lived in the home. Sarah M. and A. Grace both lived here until their deaths. |
