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Show 0t'Il No . 10024 · 0018 NPS Form 10· 900 · a Utah WordPerfect 5 .1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No . ~ Page ~ Yhitaker, Thomas and Elizabeth Mills, House, Centerville, Davis County, UT married in 1906 and lived in this house until Florence died in 1943. Joseph sold the house in 1944 and died at age 84 on March 2, 1954. 22 Subsequent owners include Henry and Mary Baddley (1944-1954), Arthur Frederickson, an accountant for Union Pacific, 23 and his wife Grace (19541979); and Lyle and Helen Wright (1979-94). The City of Centerville purchased the house to be used for the Centerville Historic Preservation Commission and as a museum. ARCHITECTURE: In many respects -- symmetrical facade, rectangular massing, overall simplicity -- the Whitaker house is similar to the remaining two dozen or so stone structures in Centerville. As a whole, they depict a period of construction (1860 to approximately 1880) that falls between initial Mormon settlement and the late 1880s when fired brick became available and nationally popular architectural styles began to influence local construction. The field stone at the base of the Wasatch Mountains to the east was used for houses, mills, granaries, fences and culverts in Centerville and the neighboring communities of Farmington and Bountiful. Stone was also used as a foundation material for Victorian Eclectic style homes constructed from the 1880s to about 1905, and can also be seen on several 1920s-era period revival homes in Centerville. The Classical stylistic elements of this house were popular in Utah between 1847-90 and carry over from eighteenth-century American Classicism. After the American Revolution, America was working to transform a collection of essentially local building traditions into a single national style based on a revival of Classical principles--geometrical composition and symmetrical balance. The Whitaker house employs the centrally placed door, rectangular facade, symmetrical fenestration pattern, flat-arched window heads, low-pitched gable roof of the simpler, and Georgian and Federal styles. 24 The other houses in Centerville that date from this period, are of stone construction, and are potentially eligible for, or listed on the National Register of Historic Places, include: 521 E 100 North 170 N 200 East, Ozias & Rachel Bennett Kilbourn House 193 N 200 East 271S 200 East, Osmyn Merritt Deuel House (State Register) 20 N 300 East, Thomas Tingey House (National Register) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 22 Obituary, Salt Lake Tribune, March 3, 1954, p. 26. 23 Obituary, Salt Lake Tribune, January 17, 1963, p. B-13. 2A Carter, Thomas and Peter Goss. Utah's Historic Architecture. 1847-1940. Salt Lake City, UT : University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture and Utah State Historical Society, 1991. X See continuation sheet |
