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Show History of 980 Zion Park Boulevard - Under the Eaves Bed and Breakfast. ~ Herbert Christiansen was born and raised in the first house past the gas station, now known as the Lazy Lizard boutique. He bad one brother. His futber died young of 'Brights Disease' . The house Herbert designed started construction sometime between 1933-1936 by. He was married to Lillian who ran the town post office, a timber frame building, which was located in the current car park. Herbert had been "sickly" all his life, working on the house took its toll and made him worse which culminated in J.L Crawford, a close friend of the fiunily, droving Herbert and Lillian to California where hypoglycemia was eventually diagnosed; the treatment that he could afford was to suck on hard tack candy to control his sugar levels. Herbert constructed the house pretty much on his own; he had one horse that he used to get the sandstone blocks cut from the walls of the canyon mountainside. He would drag them back one by one, dressing the stone with a spelling hammer as needed IIbd ~ dragging into their final p1ace - he may have has some help on the more teehnica1 issues but he pretty well built the house single handed. When the house was 'livable' LiJIian went to school to learn how to become a teacher. On graduation she went to Provo and began work at the teachers college, Herbert himself then went to college to learn how to teach supported by Lillian. Eventually they both becatne teachers and worked at Brigham Young University and moved out of Springdale. He died in 1950 '- "'fil~00. , - Herbert and Lillian had two children - Albert ~ . Albert went on to become a wellknown architect in Salt Lake City a:nd waS responsible for the 'Trolley Square' ? as well otker'??' buildings. .I PhotograpbsIPaintings ? The earliest known image is by JD Fairbanks, a reSident painter, who pajl{ted 10 scenes of the valley one of which is the area where the house currently stands./' 1870 - Richard Savage photographed the area where the house currently stands 1915-1920 - JL Crawfords futher photographed the area where the house currently stands and again in 1930-1935, this time the post office is visible. 1938-1939 ? Unknown man and child in front of partially finished house . The post office is still standing. 1940 -1945 House \ r\ ~~Q . . '(¥" ~ ~i<"l |
