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Show however, are of brick construction (102 sites or 54.0% of the total). The majority of Victorians, Bungalows and English Tudors are brick buildings, although the presence of secondary materials such as wood shingles and siding or plaster may visually dilute the prominence of brick. Approximately 12.2% of the sites feature plastered exteriors which may be covering stone or brick or even wood-sided buildings. It is especially noteworthy that only 11.2% of the sites have woodsided exteriors (either log, drop-lap, clapboard or plank). In other towns surveyed, the percentage of wood-frame structures is much higher. Farmington is definitely a city of predominantly masonry buildings (stone/rock, brick and adobe), a fact which may explain the survival of so many 19th-Century sites whereas in other towns sites from the early decades were destroyed long ago. A breakdown of sites by primary materials follows: Material DD EA BD DB CA BE EI FC AB AC HA BF OT Total # of Sites 34 23 15 1 102 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 ___ 2 189 % of Total 18.0 12.2 08.0 00.5 54.0 01.1 01.6 01.1 00.5 00.5 00.5 01.1 01.1 100.0% As mi~ht be expected for a city of Farmington's age, size and proximity to Salt Lake City, we find considerable diversity in architectural styles. Leading the list numerically are the Bungalows with 57 buildings (30.2%, including 5.3% for Prairie Style Bungalows). This figure is consistent with the high percentage of buildings constructed in the 1920s and 1930s (16.9% and 15.3% respectively). Next, and equal in numerical significance, are Vernacular structures and those of Victorian Eclectic style, each representing 20.6% of the total of potentially eligible sites. The figure for Vernacular sites is high and corresponds well with the large number of structures built during the 1850s through 1880s (24.8% of all sites). No other style accounts for as much as 9.0% of Farmington's buildings. However, it is noteworthy that some styles appear in Farmington which were not found in any of the other four towns surveyed. Among these are a few, rare Italianates thru |
