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Show 70 L Street - 1897 Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Building Materials: brick Victorian eclectic Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a two-story Victorian home with a main hip roof and a projecting gabled front bay. The gable has wood paneled fascia trim and returns. There is an attic window with a decorative corbelled brick arch, and there are two corbelled brick belt courses around the house, at the top and bottom of the second story windows. Front windows have stone sills and lintels. The paired second story windows in the front bay have carved wood trim, and the first story window has a transom. The first story front porch has a dentiled cornice and doric columns on sandstone posts. The house has a sandstone foundation. -Thomas W. Hanchett 6 ISTORY X Statement of Historical Significance: a D O a a Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce a D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry O a D D a Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation a a D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation The style, materials, and massing of this handsome two-story brick Victorian home make it significant to the architectural character of the Avenues. It is of social interest as a home built for the wife of a polygamist who main tained another home and wife on the other side of the block. It was built in 1897 by Herbert J. Foulger for his wife Charlotte M. Hall Foulger who occupied it until her death in 1939. Foulger was a prominent businessman and Mormon Churchman. Originally, he was a carpenter. He rose to supervise carpenters in the Salt Lake Temple and ZCMI construction projects and to manage and found a number of enterprises, particularly in wholesale and retail groceries. (20th Ward Co-op, People's Equitable Cooperative Store, and Foulger Brothers General Store). Charlotte Foulger was born June 28, 1855, in England and brought to Utah by her parents in 1857. She was married to Herbert in 1881 in the old Salt Lake Endowment House. She was active in affairs of the LDS Church, Mutual Improvement Association, and the Relief Society of the LDS Church and the mother of seven children. Char lotte died in 1938 and the house passed into the hands of family trustees and then in 1941 to a daughter, Edith M. Foulger. |
