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Show NPS Form 10-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) 0MB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 1_ Page J_ Lewis, John & Izola, House, Orem, Utah County, UT Narrative Description The John S. & Izola Lewis House is a brick English Cottage-style house on a raised concrete foundation with a full basement. Built in 1938, the house is a good example of a later, pre-war English Cottage-style building as manifested in the less-severe roof slopes, wider gables, and increasingly square footprint. The exterior of the house and grounds remain virtually unchanged from the period of construction. Built on a raised concrete foundation, the house faces south and is situated in one of the earlier neighborhoods1 with narrow lots. The basement has a front exterior entry accessed by a descending stairway and is used as an apartment. The house is basically an L-shaped crosswing of red, striated brick, common for the period. The brick is laid in a basketweave pattern just above the concrete foundation. The front entry is recessed behind an enclosed, arched, brick porch with a gable roof. The west facade features a brick chimney. All of the gable ends have brick corbel work at the base of the gables. On the rear facade is an enclosed porch/entry constructed of wood siding with a roof extension over the walkway. On the rear of the roof is an original shed dormer constructed of wood clapboards which extends approximately 3/4 the length of the entire roof. All of the windows on the front facade are eight-light casements. The two lower-level are tri-flanking windows, and the two upper-story, in the cross-wing gable and gabled dormer, are paired-casement windows. The windows on the remaining facades are either six-over-six or four-over-four, double-hung sashes. The basement windows are six-light awnings. All of the windows have wooden frames, sashes, and mullions. The consultant was only able to view a couple of rooms in the house. According to Izola Lewis, who still lives there, the interior has been slightly modified, although most of the modification is cosmetic including carpet over the original wood floors, and painted woodwork. No walls have been removed or altered. There is one outbuilding on the site which predates the house. The building is a small three-bay garage, approximately 25'x 20', of wood-frame and aluminum-siding construction. It was formerly an agricultural storage shed that existed on the site when the property was purchased. According to Mrs. Lewis, it was turned to face the house and converted to a garage after the house was built. A barn was built on the site after the house was constructed, but the section of land behind the house where the barn stood was sold to make a park and the building was demolished. The rest of the site remains much as it was when the house was constructed, with several trees and various shrubs surrounding the yard and house. Along the east side of the lot is a concrete irrigation ditch which the Lewis1 constructed to water the yard. 1 As mentioned in the "Historic and Architectural Resources of Orem, Utah" nomination form, the Provo Bench consisted of sparsely scattered farms until annroximatelv the 1910s when neiahborhoods of more closelv snaced houses beaan |
