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Show B DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE ,C ONDITION _EXCELLENT _DETERIORATED _UNALTERED XOR1GINAL SITE _GOOD X FAIR · _ RUINS ~LTERED _MOVED _UNEXPOSED DATE._ __ ---------------------------- DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE -t'-- '. '~". " ".",,-- . • , . " .~ . ;;' •. . ,. ~ . - ..... , . ". '" . , ' ~ Oakwood is a large two~story Victorian home vdth Eastlake style decoration. It was buH t about 1905 as a stnmner "cottage" for Susanna Emery-Holmes and added to in the 1920s when it became the year round residence of the Harold Lamb family. Today the house is composed of four wings, one at each compass direction, in an asymmetrical plan that is emphasized by the use of different roof heights for each wing . .._,., The west (front) wing has a steep gable with a horizontal and raking cornices. At the top of the gable is aSIIRll Eastlake bargeboard with heavy wood framing, two panels with a scroll-sawn sunburst cut-out, and a turned pendant below. In the gable is a tall window surrounded by patterned wood shingle siding. On:the first and second floors of all four w:ings the siding is clapboard with vertical cornerboards. Windows are tall and narrow, except for the large first floor front window with .its single lower pane and transom above \\r1. th smaller rectangular panes. . These panes match those of the French doors on the entry way . . A large front porch wraps around the west and north sides of the wing. On the west (front) side the porch has a small IIRllSard roof and on the north is a sloping shed-type . roof. It is supported by turned cohmms and scroll-sawn brackets in the Eastlake style. A balustrade with turned balusters follawsthe curved edge of theporc..~. The small north "-ring consists of a gabled two story bay windoy;~ "'nose ridgeline is lower than that of the west wing. The gable decoration is a smaller version of taat found in front, with horizontal and raking comices, Eastlake bargeboard, tall window, and patterned wood shingle siding. The gable is supported by scroll-sav.n brackets with turned pendants. The three-sided bay \\r1.ndow below is framed in wood in the Stick Style with panels of patterned wood shingles and clapboard. . The east (rear) wing is the . largest of the four. On its western , gable, where the tip of its roof peeks .above' the roof of the front wing, there.,.i!=; another Eastlake stmburst bargeboard,and a small window surrounded by wood shingle siding. The wing's east gable, at the back of the hoUse, has horizontal and raking cornices and a tall window but no other decoration. There was once an east back porch where the second floor overhtmg the first. Traces of thisma.y be seen in the short lengths of IOOlding, between the first and second floors , on either side of the house below the rear gable, that once tr.innned the overhang. The porch was enclosed in 1923 when a fanner carriage house on the property was moved and added to the rear of the wing as a garage, \\r1.th a sleeping porch built above. A one-story double garage was added to the west of this in 1929. The south wing was added in 1929 by Salt Lake City contractor Oscar Olytraus. It contains the dining room and breakfast nook, and a bedroom above ,and there is aSIIRll one-story kitchen nestled behind it next to the east wing. The new wing's south facade is a slightly simplified copy of the north wing, with a corniced shingled gable and Eastlake bargeboard, and a Stick Style three-sided bay ",rindow below. On the east and west facades of the wing are French windows wnich open onto brick steps on the first floor and SIIRII balconies on the second. |
