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Show NFS Form 10-900a (Rev. 8-86) 0MB No. 1024-0018 Utah Word Processor Format (02741) Approved 10/87 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page __4_ John Huber House and Creamery Midway, Wasatch County, Utah The Swiss influence on the local built environment has not been documented to date, so it is difficult to assess the Huber house within a local context of Swiss-inspired architecture. The house features a hall-parlor plan, which was the most common type built in late-nineteenth century Utah. The creamery, with its cantiievered porch and masonry insulation between the floor joists, appears to exhibit certain German/Swiss construction techniques. Notes y Magdalena Huber Probst, "History of John Huber," p. 4. B. Garter, comp., "The Swiss in Midway," ffea..r..i:.....Th_rgjj_s^o^jbhe_W.ejst_ volume four (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1943), p. 277. 4See biographical sketches in William James Mortimer, compiler and editor, How Beautiful Upon the Mountains (Heber City, Utah: Wasatch County Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1963). 5 Deseret Weekly News. 16 (October 9, 18 72): 36, p. 589. ^Children born in the U.S. to Swiss parents were counted among the Swiss population because they were part of a Swiss household. doc 03021 |
