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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. 306 S 100 WEST BOUNTIFUL, DAVIS COUNTY BOUNTIFUL HISTORIC DISTRICT .J UTAH STATE HISTORY 11111111111111111111111111111111111 1111 1111111111111111111111111 3922250001 5156 HISTORIC SITE FORM (Historic Sites Database version) Utah State Historic Preservation Office ID#: 10472 1. Ident!fication Old ID#: Property Name: Address: 306 S 100 WEST City: BOUNTIFUL Plat: A Block: 007 County: DAVIS COUNTY 2. Documentation/Status Site: 010 Dates Surveyed / Added to SHPO Files Evaluation: (B) ELIGIBLE/CONTRIBUTING Recon. Level Survey: Intensive Level Survey: General/Misc. File: National Register Status: BOUNTIFUL HISTORIC DISTRICT Date Listed 95217 03/04 / /93 Date Delisted: 10/26/2005 Areas of Significance: Thematic or MPS Affiliation: 3. Building Information Date(s) of Construction: Height (# stories): 1890 c. 1 Original Use SINGLE DWELLING Outbldgs: Contrib.: 1 Non-Contrib. 0 Plan/Type: CROSSWING Style(s): VICTORIAN ECLECTIC Material(s) REGULAR BRICK Architect(s): I Comment, .. 4. Other SHPO File Information Federal Tax Project No. (s) 106 Case No .. Devel. Grant: State Tax Project No.(s) Historic Photo Date: HABS/HAER: Printout Date: J JI221200 From: Dwellings: A Guide to Early Bountiful Homes Built Be<fiore ]900. Published by the Bountiful A,reaCentennial · Committee, ]993. Dwellings - Center Tour Pack/Holbrook/Pace 306 S. 100 West Pre-1900 This house was built before 1900 but the builder and year are unknown. However, it is known that Quince Pack occupied it in 1900. Ira C. Holbrook was the next owner. He was born in 1879 to Brigham Angell Holbrook and Hannah Cook. April 19, 1900, Ira married Allie Mae Pace. They moved into this home before 1907, the year their daughter, Jetta, was born, then they moved to 91 W. Center Street in 1919 when J etta was twelve. This house at 306 S. 100 West was a red brick one-story home with two extended bays with three windows each. The house had a big kitchen, living room, one small bedroom and one large bedroom with a clothes closet. 17 The long hallway had shelves to hold fruit and other storage supplies. In the early 1900s a bathroom was installed at the end of the hall. Jetta never remembers the home without the bathroom. On the back of the house was a screen porch. Ira Holbrook was a hard-working enterpriser and was at the crossroads of several of the business developments in Bountiful. As a young man he operated a bicycle shop and a barbershop just north of the bank building on the west side of Main and Center Streets. Then he and a brother-in-law, Frank Smedley, took over the frame building on the southeast corner of Main Street and 1st North. It became known as Holbrook & Smedley Furniture Company. Next door south was Tobey Burningham's Barber Shop. Behind the barber shop was a', hallway which connected Holbrook & Smedley Furniture with the People's Opera House, where the tall part of Lakewoods is today, at 70 N. Main. From: Bountiful Homes Built Bedjore]900. 993. Area . Centenn~al · Comm~ttee, 18 On the street level of the Opera House was a dry goods mercantile and the post office and the Davis County Furniture Company operated by Charles Rampton, which carried home furnishings. Holbrook and Smedley (to the north) sold stoves, iceboxes and other home "appliance" items and some home furnishings. In the Opera House building, businesses operated during the day. On the second floor Charles Rampton made an entertainment center with a polished hardwood floor for dancing. A stage was at one end where plays were presented, making it a theater. In contrast to all this, Ira Holbrook took care of the dead in a room at the back of the building. Since furniture stores stocked a few caskets, Ira became the first mortician in Davis County, along with his furniture business. The mortician picked up the body of the deceased and prepared it for burial, then delivered the body back to the home for the "wake." The body was packed in ice. Then the mortician transported the body to the church for the funeral, then to the cemetery for burial. Soon after opening the mortuary, Ira . bought a beautiful white hearse with beveled glass windows. The interior was finished with luxurious white tufted velvet and was drawn by a new team of horses. (Recently Frank Holbrook, Ira's grandson, and his wife, Josephine, donated the hearse to Lagoon for their Pioneer Village.) In 1916 Mark C. Holbrook purchased the Opera House building from Charles H. Rampton. In 1923 the Davis County Furniture and Holbrook & Smedley Furniture merged and became the Union Furniture. The wood building was later torn down. U nionFurniture was an appropriate name because it united family members: Ira C. Holbrook, Frank Smedley, and Mark C. Holbrook. Dwellings - Center Tour From this union also came the Union Mortuary on Main Street and 3rd North. Mark C. Holbrook was responsible for the attractive Spanish-type building. Merrill Holbrook became the registered mortician, after attending an embalming school in California. Russon Brothers Mortuary now occupies that buildmg. Years later Union Furniture was renamed and became Lakewoods. At one time Ira Holbrook and a Mr. Madsen opened the Union Bank, a couple of doors south of Bountiful Drug which was on the corner of Main and Center Streets. This bank later merged with Bountiful State Bank. Returning to the Holbrook home on 1st West, it should be noted that the property included a large area of land on which the family maintained an apple and peach orchard. Near the house was a small roadway or alley-way. On the north side was a row of buildings. The Terrace was a duplex with two apartments. Joe Bennett, the driver of the hearse and also the furniture delivery truck, lived in one apartment. Then there was the storage house for the hearse. A washroom building housed an electric washing machine which washed small loads. When sheets and large items were put in the washer, it had to be turned manually with a handle which turned the agitator. Later occupants of the home are not known. Present owners are Ralph and Caroline Pace. Sources: Frank and Josephine Holbrook; Jetta Holbrook Moss; Alta Holbrook Taylor.