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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. 630 N MAIN GROVER HOUSE FARMINGTON, DAVIS COUNTY UTAH STATE HISTORY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50000 6312 % WALTER GROVER ~ ROCK HOME ~ ~, ~ T he original small rock home at 630 North Main Street in Farmington, Utah is one of many stone structures that helps set Farmington apart as a city with a distinguishing architectural heritage. The home was built in 1880 by Walter Grover as a gift for his mother, Elizabeth Walker Grover, a Mormon handcart pioneer who emigrated from England to Utah in 1856. Walter, Elizabeth's eldest child, was just 19 years old when he started and finished the construction of the small two-room house. Building the home finally gave his mother - the sixth plural wife of Thomas Grover - a permanent residence for her and her four children. Walter received consent from his father, Thomas Grover, to build the home on the east end of the family farm. The farm was located on a plot of ground, which based on the earliest 1875 Davis County records, was first surveyed by Daniel W. Miller, one of Farmington's early settlers. The title to the land appears to have been sold to Thomas Grover around 1876 by either Thomas White or Daniel Miller. Walter began the building of the home by chopping logs in the Farmington canyons and hauling them to a Farmington sawmill. There they were made into lumber for all the heavy beams and floors. Walter hauled rock from the foothills for the walls, and sand and clay from the shores of the Great Salt Lake west of Centerville using a yoke of oxen. This clay and very fine sand made the mortar to lay the rock. Astonemason was hired, either by Walter or his father, to lay the rock walls, which were built two-feet thick - a necessary insulating technique used at the time against cold and heat due to the very poor shielding properties of stone. Walter did all the shingling himself and most of the carpentry. Elizabeth's remark when Walter presented her with a finished home was, "It seems like heaven!" Elizabeth Grover lived in the home until all of her children except the youngest were married. After the death of her husband in 1886, she moved to Logan with her youngest son to care for her aging parents, renting the house in % ~aUe.. ~~~ adher absence. She d ea!ce:,..etz. /.9..1.9 passed away in 1917. ~ In 1938 a three-room rock addition was added to the house by Leo and Florence Manning and in the 1990s an additional foundation was laid by Bob Sutton to further expand the footprint of the building to the North by several hundred square feet. Today the home has been preserved and restored by its new owner and occupant, Bob Aamodt, Inc., a financial advisory firm. To make use of the existing foundation laid in the 1990s, the home now includes a new rock addition, providing office space to the North. The floors, beams, and walls Walter Grover lOvingly constructed for his mother have been fully restored. Replica windows and doors have been installed and the decor and furnishings of the building designed to be true to the home's pioneer period. Reference: Walter Grover Family History by W~ne Airmet 311012014 2008 05-15 House Pic.JPG https:llmail.google.com'mail/u/0I?sh\6=1#inboJQ'1449927adc28d4ca?projector=1 1/1 311012014 https:/Imail.google.com'mail/u/Ol?slMl=1#inbOld1449927adc28d4ca?projector=1 East Vi~.JPG 1/1 311012014 https:llmail .google.com'mail/ulOl?sh\e=1#inboxl1449927adc28d4ca?prqector=1 West View.JPG 1/1 311012014 https:/Imail.google.com'mail/u/Ol?sh\e=1#inbOJd14499383cdaeeOba?projector=1 DSC_044O.jpg 1/1 311012014 https:llmail .google.com'mail/ulOl?shw=1#inboxl1449927adc28d4ca?projector=1 Recep3.JPG 1/1 311012014 https:llmail .google.com'mail/ulOl?shw=1#inboxf1449927adc28d4ca?projector=1 Recep.JPG 1/1 |
