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Show NPS Fonn 10-900-. Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Fonn.t (Revised Feb. 1993) OMS No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. lL Page ~ Taylor, John W ., Janet (Nettie) and May Rich, House, Farmington, Davis County, UT - ~~~~~- May was born in 1865 in St. John, Utah to Agnes Eola Young and John Taylor Rich . She lived in the house until 1920 ant died at 101 in 1966. During her time in the house it was known for its immaculate condition and its fir laces, silver service, rugs and furniture. ~~J...,\u~-h:>~ ~~~_tqZo7 The house was later subdivided into apartme~ n. In the 1970s all but one apartm nt in a portion of the adobe house were removed and it was ag in used primarily as a single fp mily house. In l.ls ~.eye..,~ the early 1990s an apartment was built in the basemen of the foursquare. ~ ARCHITECTURE: ~~,~~ ~~ ~ , ~. 0"11" IS i+~ l'cl,qO<;. ~ - lA.A-1.<1tl4"" The foursquare or box was one of the most popular AeVv' house types of the early 20th century. It can be seen as a descendant of the hipped roof Italianate cube.shaped houses that appeared in pattern books around the time of the Civil War and began to appear in Utah in the 1870s. Foursquares ~n al§o be seen as a reaction to the assymetrical massing and visual complexity of the Victorian styles that were popular in Utah beginning in 1880. The rectangular facade, centrally placed door and regularly spaced windows of the foursquare refer back to the Classical style houses of the early pioneer period from 1847 to 1890. They share with the foursquare symmetrical balance and Classical decorative features. 't-e..-~~c.t.... ? Mail order house catalogs can be used as an index to the popularity of house types and styles in the early twentieth century. Foursquares began to appear in 1900 and reached their peak in popularity around World War I. One appeared on the front cover of the Sears 1908 Book of Modern Homes and accounted for 25% of the house plans sold by Sears that year4. The foursquare was a popular house type in Utah from 1900 to 1920. The Taylor house is a very early example of the foursquare type in Utah and the only extant one in Farmingto~n exhibits the basic characteristics of the two-story type with its cube shape, wide one-story front porch, and low hip roof. The characteristic centrally placed hipped dormer in the roof has been removed but was part of the origina ~ tructure. £ G~r~emen ~e s~ntii ~olding s can between the large windows and transoms, the side and transom lights around the main entry, and the clear leaded glass windows above the door. Schweitzer, Robert and Michael W.R. Davis. America's Favorite Homes. * ----- 4 X See continuation sheet 0- ~~S~l~~ ~ l~V'tl(l)~ \,U> ~ ~ pf- ~ --\w"P-$~ ~ ~~ . |
