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Show Street Address:______247 South 200 East_____________________site No: Architect/Builder: Peter Hansen ^ Building Materials: Brick x Building Type/Style: Pair-house type II/Vernacular Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This house is a one story brick example of a TYPE II pair-house. The house is three rooms wide and is unusual in that it has a symmetrical six-opening facade rather than the three-bay pattern normally employed on houses with this plan. There is a limestone foundation which supports the locally produced, yellow brick walls. Decorative external features are non-existent and the house remains a straight-forward articulation of this vernacular type. *J a ° | Statement of Historical Significance: Construction Date: The Peter Hansen house in Manti is architecturally significant as an example of Scandinavian folk building in Utah. The house contributes historically to the thematic nomination, "The Scandinavian-American Pair-house in Utah. 11 Peter Hansen was born in Denmark and emigrated to Utah in the 1860s. Hansen was a brick mason who utilized his special skill in building his own house, probably about 1875. Brick was a rare construction material in Manti prior to the opening of the Jacobsen brickyard in the late 1880s. Hansen probably fired his bricks in a kiln located on the property. In 1882, the house was sold to Sarah Bell Peacock for $500. SEP 7 1982 |
