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Show 275 Architect/Builder: Marinus Peterson Building Type/Style: Vftrnacnlar Building Materials: stone Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) One-and-a-half story stone house with a three opening facade symmetrically arranged Gable chimneys for stoves. Stone on the gables goes all the way to the ridge. The inter nal plan is hall and parlor. In 1924 a hipped roof shed was added to the rear and is constructed of ship-lap frame siding. The house has not suffered any alterations and stands as it was originally built. Statement of HistoricaTSignificance: D D D D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture' The Arts Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D D D Religion ; Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation Marinus Peterson, a Dane, built this house and the barn also. The house remains one of the outstanding nineteenth-century rock homes in Spring City. It is historically • interesting'to note that Peterson chose an English Style house for his model though the hall and parlor plan was also current in Scandinavia, the very symmetrical exterior and facade treatment is purely Anglo-American. Marvin "Bish" Peterson was a son of Marinus and lived in the house most of the twentieth century until his death in 1978. "Bish" stands for "Bishop," and is a tonguein-cheek reference to Peterson f s strickly non-Mormon attitudes and habits. |
