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Show 236 I Street - 1892 5 Architect/Builder: H,H, Anderson/lQth Ward Lumber Co. Building Type/Style: Queen Anne Building Materials: brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a two-story Queen Anne Style home on a corner lot. It has a main hip roof, a gabled front bay, and an octagonal northwest corner tower with a tall painted roof. There is a south side chimney .with an ornate corbelled brick cap. The front gable hasTfasciaboards, decorativewood framing, a triple attic window^ and fishcale pattern wood shingle siding. It is supported by corbelled brick brackets. A dentilled cornice runs under the eaves around the house. ; The house has much decorative brickwork including round corbelled arches above the tower windows, a tower belt course and corner trim, and a decorative panel above the front porch, The elaborate woodwork at the porch shows Jdastlake Style influence with arched spindle screens, brackets, heavy turned columns, and turned balusters. A gable with a carved panel marks the front entry. ' j " -Thomas W. Hanehett Statement of Historical Significance: D Aboriginal Americans O Communication Q Agriculture Q Conservation Q Architecture D The Arts D Commerce a Education D Exploration/Settlement a Industry a D D Q Q Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D O D D Religion ; Science Socio-Humanitanan Transportation This house is significant as a well-preserved example of the Queen Ann/Eastlake Style, larger and more ornate than most homes in this part of the Avenues Historic District. : In 1892^ John Burt purchased this land, and according to the building permit built this house. John Burt was a plasterer who was well known because of his connection with many large building contracts in SLC. He lived in SLC for a nember of years prior to his death. His death was caused by an overdose of alcohol and the drug laudanum. He died at the age of forty in a SLC hotel. He was married to Janet Hilton Burt, who lived in this house from 1899 until her death. Mrs. Burt was born in SLC on Jan. 29,1857 the daughter of Alien and Annie Lyon Hilton. The Burts had three children, Mrs. Marion Burt Shirtliff, Alien Hilton Burt and Charles W. Burt. Mrs. Burt died on March 18, 1927 at this house. Her son, Alien H, Burt and his wife Hazel, lived here following Mrs. Burt 1 s death. In 1941 Sidney L. Roburg, the current owner took up residence here. In 1946 Roberg and his wife Jessie purchased the house, 'ihe Roberg's are the current residents and owners of record. |
