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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. ASHBY, JOHN AND ELIZABETH, HOUSE 708 N 400 EAST BOUNTIFUL, DAVIS COUNTY UTAH STATE HISTORY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50000 4598 From: Dwellings: A Guide to Early Bountiful Homes Built Before' '1 900. Published by the Bountiful Area Centennlal Committee, 1993. 126 Dwellings - North Tour toilet and other plumbing, one of the few houses with such luxuries. However, the winters were too cold to permit bathing in the bathroom. They still bathed in a tub by the Heatrola in the dining room. Often the water on winter nights froze in the toilet. Heat in the house was furnished by a coal range in the kitchen which also heated water, a smaller heater in the parlor, Heatrola in the dining room, and later a small kerosene stove in the bathroom. The davenport in the parlor and the couch in the dining room were used for sleeping. The couch was much like a drop-leaf table. Each side was folded down during the day and raised at night for sleeping. In 1955, the Ashbys sold the acreage to Clinton Swain for a subdivision, and a street (775 North) was cut just north of the house. The original red-brick house and lot were sold to Irish and Gladys O'Brien, who remained until their deaths. In 1986, Eric and Renae Hale purchased the home. They have added on a bigger footage than the original house. The new addition is of matching red brick with arched windows. The "front" of the house now faces 775 North. The Hales are slowly finishing the house, determined not to go into additional debt. Source: Gwen C. Atwood from Beth Ashby Cheney's history. THE WATERING TROUGH The old BounafuJ Watering Trough, on the comer ofSecond South and Main Street, was made ofwood and was long enough for four horses or more to drink at once. Wa ter Bowed from a pipe at the east end ofthe vough. People drank from the pipe and ammals from the trough. The school children from the Central School eamed wa ter from the vough in shiny tin waterpails. They were sent in pairs, two girls or two boys. It was indeed a happyexpeneace when it was one's tum to fetch the paJ1 of wa ter. The children aU drank from a dipper tha twas dipped into the pail. The water was cool and refreshing, but not very sanitary. Bountiful Area Historical Sites Tour Guide Booklet |
