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Show :-. Page 3 knobs and the like, were all of hras5. handsoMely modeled in this de_ign. ~any relIlember the handsome furnishinp,s as they were sold about six years ago at publ1," ,, __ auction on ~ain Street . '" ,- Some of the pieces 'fr. Beck has p'ntten intn his posses5ion. and they vill be"uaed in furnishing the house. The rear addition was built to conform to the older l)art of the house, the kitchen of w ~ ich w'a s torn away to give place to the nev structm-e. Where the fifty-year old locust stand3 wa~ the en ~ rance to the kitchen in the old days. When the doors were tak en from the 011 house th~y ~ ~ re replaced, as vere the stairs, in the addition, and the woodwork throu~hout wa5 ~3de to conform to the genera~ design. The hall 1s very large nnd ~andsoMely arranged. Th~ drawing-roolll faces the east and is a very large apartment vith a handsome oak mantel and fireplace and handsoae electric lights. The rooms upstairs are m0dern and handsoMely fitted up. The vhole house vill make a commodious and very artistic home. _~ IN THF. OLDEN TIME. / u..'~ , ~e Beehive House was built by Brigh~ Young in 1~52. It vas designed for his prlvate resident. Previously he lived in the White h01lse, now stand~ng a litt~e east of the Eagle Gate. He vanted to be nearer to his o ffice. and so the big house vas built vn the corner. It vas completed in 1853. Truman Angell vas the archlteet and he " cho's e a Colonial design. the front heing the srune today as in the original ' plans. The foundation is of cut granite and the walls are of four thicknesses of adob~. The upper floor contained a long hall on the east side used for a parlor and sometimes for parties and family dances. . Downstairs the east front room vas the dining ·room. Mrs. Mary Ann Young 11 ved in the Beehive House f1 rst. but she 'vanted a_.-x ler . horne tLnd' soon aftervard moved. \frs. Lucy Decker Ynung lived U iere' 'tor many y;!.Y s, preceding her sale of the property to .Tohn W. Youn~. In the old days President Young vas a great entertainer in -the house and ,at home vas most affable and genial. He u~ ed to have his breakfast In the Beehive, but. vould often go over t) the Lion House for dinner. ' ' WInF.-SPR f.AOING GROU:mS. I n those early days the house was in the nature of a country }:iOtDe, for t~e- ' private grounds extended up Brigham Street to A Street up the hill on A Street tQ Fourth, and thence dovn the ravine to City Creek. What 1s nova residence por tion of t 'he cit1 was 1n those d~s part of the prop~rty. Where Jo~n D. Spencer's fl~~ ' home at.~ds was once the garden. John Beck's State Street house is on the si'te '-bt .~the 014' barn, and opposite it, on the present vacant lot, was the corral. At the corner or ~orth Temple and State vas the barn-yard. vhere now stands the pretty brick terrace. ' Charley nurton's First Street residence vas on the place where the vood-Ihed stood, an4 ~be dove-cote stood vhere Fred Clavson's house is built. Mrs. Margaret Clawson's home is where the N. W. Clayton's home on Second Street hill V&5 Hamilton Park's and George D. Pyper's homel or beds, and so on through that populous district ground vas used to make up the farm. old carpenter-obop va. located, and Col. on the aite or the lce-~.. Up by today vere the .travberr" ~ .. ~ where 0:U7 • abort \lr.1h .,.0 ul \tIC ,.t The old stone wall surrounded the whole tract, and pieeel or it re.aiq &ftd frOM th~ can be easily traced the old boundary line3. This II ftotLeeable alone Bri&~~ f.treet, on A Street opposite Rowland Ha l l and at City Creek, near Fo~th. |
