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Show 7. Description Condition excellent _XL- good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered X altered Check one x original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The James W. Loofbourow House, built in 1911, is a two-story frame house with a hip roof and a concrete foundation. The style of the house is eclectic, with design elements from the Victorian Eclectic and the Craftsman styles. A large frame addition was built on the rear in 1983 as part of an overall renovation of the house, but because of its compatible scale, form and materials, and because of its location at the rear, it does not significantly detract from the original integrity of the house. The eclectic design of the house is unusual in both Price and in Utah. It has the basic form of a common type of Victorian Eclectic Style house a hip roof central block with a projecting bay on the front except that the bay has a hip roof instead of the typical gable roof. Other Victorian Eclectic features of the house include corbeled brick chimneys and leaded glass windows with a house-cut diamond pattern design. Contrasting with those Victorian Eclectic features are design elements from the Craftsman Style. Those include the flared eaves with wide three-foot overhangs, the short paired columns on the porch, the placement of the sills of the upper story windows at the eave line, and a variety of significant interior features. One of the most outstanding interior features is the flooring in the foyer, dining room and parlor, which is made of 7/8-inch strips of birch laid in a log cabin design. Also on the interior there are exposed beams, colonettes framing the entrances of the parlor and dining room, cove molding, built-in cabinets with leaded glass doors, a decorative brick fireplace in the parlor and a plate rail in the dining room. The elaborate Tiffany stained glass chandelier in the dining room is also original, and its design matches that of the leaded glass windows in that room. The exterior of the house is in good condition and virtually unaltered except for the large rear addition, which will be discussed later. There are two large hip roof porches one on the south side of the house and the other at the front (east facade). The porches are unaltered, and the porch on the south still has the original seating bench. The house is balloon frame with 2x4 walls and 1x4 horizontal cedar siding. The front door is oak with a full 1/4" bevelled glass. The south entrance door has an oval glass covering the upper half, with the lower portion being carved wood. The windows are generally fixed sash on the main floor and double hung on the second floor. There is a bay window in the dining room on the north side of the house with a flared-eave hip roof. The sidelight to the left of the front door has been replaced with a house-cut diamond shaped leaded glass window to match the other original windows of the house. The interior of the home originally had nine rooms. The top floor had four bedrooms and one bath; the street level had a kitchen., dining room, foyer and parlor. All walls and ceilings are lath and plaster construction. The foyer has a walk-in closet with full bevelled mirror on the door. With the exception of the kitchen, most of the original woodwork on the main floor interior is intact. In 1983 a major addition was commenced. A rear, lean-to frame porch (an earlier addition) was removed for this remodeling. The new one-and-one-half |
