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Show 12. Pine was the only plentiful wood in the Salt Lake area. r so all the woodwork in the Beehive House was constructed. with pine. It was then painted and grained to siaul.a.te 81ther oak or birdseye maple. J5 In restoring the hoae, Brighaa Young's sitting roo. was grained;-: l.1ke oak, as were the ch1aa closet, bathrooa, entrance hall, upper hall. stairway and. hall to the third floor, ballustora. northeaat senng rOGa and dinning roo.. 'lbe northwest bedroom on the first and second. floor, 8$ well as the southwest bedrooa, was grained to si.ulate bird:seye maple. '!he ha.ndra1l of the stairway ~ the deviation in color. and 1t was stained a dark mahoganyred,JO ' Even the ,marble ln back of the stoves is not really Jlarble. but plaster, painted. and grained to look 11ke aarbel. The design for the two mantels in the Long Hall were found 'in the dralf1ngs of '.l'.ruu.n ' O. Angell and reconstructed. ' Large double doors, which had been installed dUring the ti_ of John W. YoWlg, were replaced throUgh5Ut with the single doors ' authentic toBrlgbam YOD~'S time. 'Itlose doors which were not replaced were repaired. J ' All the floors in' the 'B eehive House had been cOTered 'witbhardwood. With the exception of those floors whose floors were' to be , oovered wall to ' wall, the floors were rebuilt with lengths of four, six, and eight' incb knotty pine, and fastened down with square nails. ' The new board flooring was placed in the first floor southwest bedroom, northwest bedrooa, sewing rOolll,bathreo.. closet off the hall, famly store, long back hall, pantry, kitchen, Jle:n's dinning room, closet off , the lien' s diJU11.ng rooJl and the back ent.r:Y. Also, the second ,floor southwest bedrooa, northves. ~ ~ooa, west bed.rOOll, and four rOOM at the north end of the house. Exterior Repairs. Inasmuch as the Beehive House was over one hundred years old, extensi va -repairs were nec_suy inside and out. " A new fi8:gstone terrace and walk, using old flagstones, vas reconstructed around the building. '!be hang1ng gutters and downspouts were replaced. AX\. exterior. ,wood cornice was put on the second story open porch. Solie of the adobes had to be replaced with new masonry. The exterior woodwork was repainted. the stucco scraped, patched and repaired. Roofs and decks were reshlngled, two chilllleys rebuilt and the exterior shutters and hardware duplleated. J9 ~Ibid., page 22. , Ibid. " J?lbld.. page 2J~ 24. J8Ibld •• page 25. 39Ib1d ., page 26. |
