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Show Street Address: cc 363 Park__________________________________Site No: Architect/Builder: Unknown Building Materials: Wood Building Type/Style: Pyramid House Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This house is a one story frame pyramid house with a truncated pyramid roof. Typical of the pyramid house is the square plan, the generally symmetrical facade with a door set slightly off-center between windows, and the hip roof porch. What distinguishes this house from others of the type is the use of decorative features on the facade. Many pyramid houses have simple, unadorned facades, but Victorian moldings around the door and paired windows and a decorative porch distinguish the house at 363 Park. Grooved moldings with decorative corner blocks such as those on this house are typical of the period of construction. The porch is one of the most ornate of those on Park City's pyramid houses that have survived to the present. It has a shed roof, and is supported on lathe turned porch piers. There is a frieze of jigsaw cut ornament across the facade, and a pediment-shaped projection centered over the entrance bay. Decorative brackets top the porch piers, and there is a band of teardrop-shaped decorative points below the frieze. The orignal balustrade was replaced by a simple, unadorned bannister of two-by-fours. It is a practical and unobtrusive alteration. There is a rear shed extension and a > small side extension attached to the north wall. The Sanborn Insurance Map indicates that both extensions were built before 1900. Matching drop siding was used so that the extensions complement the building, and do not affect its ___________________(See continuation sheet)____________________ Statement of Historical Significance: > Construction Date: c. 1898 Built c. 1898, the Walter and Ann Wilcocks House at 363 Park is architecturally significant as one of 69 extant pyramid houses in Park City, 28 of which are included in this nomination. Of the 28 being nominated, eleven are true pyramid houses and seventeen are variants of the basic type. This house is one of the true pyramid houses. The pyramid house is one of the three most common house types built during the early period of Park City's mining boom era, and significantly contributes to the character of the residential area. It appeared early on, but survived with variations longer than the other two types. This house was probably built c.1898 by Walter and Ann Wilcocks to replace their two-story frame house^ which had apparently been destroyed in the great fire of June 19, 1898. The Wilcocks also owned a rental house at 343 Park, which was also apparently destroyed by the fire and was replaced at about the same time with a new house, similar to this house, but smaller and less elaborate. The Wilcocks owned this house until Ann's death in 1930, at which time it was deeded to Ann's nephew, William 0. Scoble. Walter and Ann Wilcocks were born in England, he in 1840 and she in 1845. They immigrated to the U.S. in 1865, one year after their marriage, and came to Park City in 1877 where they remained for the rest of their lives. By at least 1880, Walter was operating a hotel in the town 2 and had purchased the property on which this house stands. He was also involved in real estate investments in the town (see 343 Park), and, like almost everyone else in the town, probably had some mining interests as well. He died of Bright's disease in 1900. The Wilcocks had no children. Ann Wilcocks continued to live in this house after Walter's death, sharing the home for a time with her nephew, William J. Scoble, who, in 1905, purchased her rental house at 343 Park. Ann, (See continuation sheet) |
