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Show CONSTRUCTION The walls of the house were made of adobe, laid three feet thick over hellll stone. The .ain upper walls were also adobe, boned every two reet in height with two inch slats of native pine. The The exterior of the building, when completed, ·"was stuccoed a.nd calcimined in a pale yellow. The house has a wide square-colWl~l porch across the front. 19The orginal Beehive House had two sto:.;1~s, an attic and. cupola surDOunted by a beehive in front, and one and one half stories in the rear. It orginally had but a " single storied porch. . A secoDd . porch was added later. The Eagle Gate which was designed by Truaan Angell and. carved by Ralph Ramsey was the main entrance to Brigham Young's estate. It encluded a carpenter shop, pigeon house, shoeshop, blacks iii th shop, eor:rals, gardens, a school nouse, and .. upper garden which wu guarded by a 11ve bald eagle. 2 : .-. 'barns, The estate had. & six foot cobblestone wall around the grounds. - , In 1878, the wall in the front of the house was taken dOllll and a wrought iroD f"ence put in. A truck lost control and ran into the Eagle Gate. It was at this tiu that state street was widened, and the gate rebuilt • . The grounds were changed conaidexably with this move. three feet west of the orig1rlal site. to the back of the house. The wall was moved twenty- EYeD two old pine trees were relocated "The lilac bush" planted by Lucy Deeker Young 1n 1861 were JDOved toward the front of" the house. "21 After John Young purchased. the house in 1888. he made many changes. "The roof of the one and one half story wing was torn off,the walls PUShed out, and a three story addition bu1lt tD place of it. The painted marbel squares in the front hallway were coVered with wood paneling. The spiral staircase which had led to the upper-fioordry1ng rOOM was reJllbved, and an oak staircase with a square landing, carved ra.ilinss. and newa! posts with beautiful 18llps was installed on the west side of the hall. "22 19Anderson. OPt cit., page 6. 20Ibid., page 7. 2Ibid., 1 - page 11, 12. 22Ibld. t page 12. |
