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Show The Harbertson Home is a 1 story\ composite rock, stone, and brick Folk Victorian styled building that is associated with the side-gabled, one story subtype. The plan is compound with some irregularities, featuring two opposing, intersecting gables and an exterior of stone, brick, stucco, and wood shingles. The building includes a full-width porch with turned posts and spindlework detailing, brick and stone chimneys and foundations, and a composite asphalt shingle covered roof The house is part of the Weber Basin Job Corp Center and is situated on a bench in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains near the mouth of Weber Canyon. It is naturally separated from the other structures of the Weber Basin Job Corp Center by an extensive lawn and surrounding, mature trees. The building experienced two additions during the period of significance and remains in excellent condition with very few subsequent alterations to the exterior or plan. James Harbertson built the original rock home ca. 1888 and it was presumably a simple side-gabled building with a hall-and-parlor plan, typical of the post-railroad National style folk house that was common between 1850 and 1890. This was a traditional British folk form of construction that the English immigrant James Harbertson would have been very familiar with. The structure was built over a crawl space with uncoursed rock foundation walls and the wood floor is supported by composite stone and brick piers. The Harbertson Home experienced two additions, one in 1904 and another ca. 1910. 2 Both building campaigns were the work of James Harbertson and for ease of description, each 1 The home includes an attic space that according to Irene Harbertson Kendall was once used as a boys bedroom. 2 Earl Kendall was born in the Harbertson Home and recalls it looking just the same as it did when the Harbertson's were owners. Therefore, the second addition was made between 1904 and 1921 and the ca. 1910 date is partially speculative. |
