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Show 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. Washing to u C U ll .....y Blake, Wallace, House, Bloomington (NRN). Blooming is located in the south- western corner of Utah on the banks of the Rio Virgin river two miles north of the Arizona border. Originally what is now called Bloomington encompassed Xkx~HX four different settleme nts, Heberv~lle, Prive City, Tonaquint, and ,()\iJ7~Y Bloomington. This group of villages, ~ of which were ultimately abandoned, -'f- played an important role in the development of Utah's "DiXie)' The rocks from the abandoned Price City school and meetinghouse were used to construct this rock house which was built ~«xiRxi9Qixx in 1908 for Wallace Blake and his wife Isadora Larson, who was the daughter of the first homebuilder in Bloomington, Lars Jame Larson. Dode Worthen, one of the Worthen brothers, who had built many of the stone homes in the St. George area and who also worked on the St. George Tabernacle, did the stone work on this house, cementing the stones with adobe mud which is still intact today. The eighteen-inch-thick walls kept the home cool during the hot summers and supplied adequate insulation during the winters. The fine KBBXX interior carpentry, including a mantle, was done by Brigham Carpenter, one of ~ an old-time Bloomington family part whose father ~ was aH~ of the Mormon Battalion who eventually settled in the area. The huge timbers came from Mt. Trumbull, ~~na, aatx Xk«xerigift8±-s~iftgles-reM8ift-eft-e~e-reei-w~ie~-8e-e~e-eime-KaR-eeSe-$±e~ The home is a four-room vernacular style with a amall addition and porch and remains as ~ one of two structures in Bloomington to remind one of pioneersx times in a community which is now associated with a large resort. It is currently being restored by Mr. and Mrw. Matthew R. Simmons. l tl- ~ UN *where Brigham Young staked some of his highest hopes of developing crops and goods what would insure the independence of his "kingdom," and where he chose to build the first Mormon temple in Utah. |
