Thomas Leavitt House

The Thomas D. Leavitt House, built c. 1896, is a two-story brick dwelling built by Leavitt for his first wife, Luella. The building sits on a .63 acre site enclosed by a wooden picket fence. There is one contributing ancillary structure on the site, a stone granary building now used for storage. The primary structure remains a residence, is in good condition, and retains a fairly high degree of integrity.

The Thomas Leavitt House is located in Bunkerville Nevada, a village of approximately 1000 people, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, near the Utah border. The house in on lot 2, block 17 of the Bunkerville town Plat, at the northeast corner of First West and Second South Streets. Neighboring structures include one-story ranch and bungalow residences, and the c. 1950 L.D.S. Mormon Temple to the north. The Thomas Leavitt House is the largest and best preserved residential structure in the vicinity. Landscaping consists of a lawn to the north and west, with several mature trees. There are two honey locust trees on the south side of the lot, approximately 75 years old. Forty to fifty year old cottonwood trees stand on the northwest corner of the lot, and on the south side. There are some young fruit trees peach, apple, pear, almond and apricot to the north of the house. The contributing out-building (approximately 20′ X 15′), a one-story uncoursed rubble building, with a corrugated metal-clad gable roof, is located to the east of the house on Second South Street. Non-contributing buildings consist of three chicken coops located to the northeast of the house.

Located in Bunkerville, Nevada and added to the National Register of Historic Places (#91001653)

The Thomas Dudley Leavitt House is a two-story brick structure with an intersecting, composition shingled gable roof and random rubble foundation. The plan of the building forms a “T”, with the principle elevation parallel to the roof ridge of the principle block. The building has three brick chimneys, one at each gable end. The inside corners of the “T” have been infilled with twostory wood-framed shed-roofed structures. There is a full cellar under the rear wing of the building.

The principle elevation, on the west side of the building, consists of four bays. The two outer bays, on both floors, contain paired, double-hung wood windows with segmentally arched heads. The two inner bays each contain a transom-covered door, also in an arched opening. On the second floor, these doors open onto a wooden porch, which extends the entire length of the facade.

Windows on other elevations are single, unpaired. In addition to the paired entry doors on the front elevation, the ground floor has two outside doors, on the north and south facades, while the second floor has one additional door, on the north facade. Originally, there were six outside doors on each floor, or twelve doors total. Outside stairs descend from the front porch on the south elevation of the structure.

The interior is characterized by large, simple rooms. Walls are plaster. Moldings are simple, with fluted door surrounds and wide baseboards. A flat, zig-zag cresting over bull’s-eye moldings are found at the top corners of doors and windows. There are pine board floors.

The house has undergone some changes in the approximately 100 years of its existence minor on the exterior, and slightly more extensive on the interior. On the exterior, the two rear porches flanking the leg of the “T” have been infilled. The porch to the south is open on the ground floor and enclosed on the second, while the north porch is fully enclosed, containing bathrooms on both floors. This work was done in the 1940s or 1950s. Another exterior change is on the main facade, where brick has been replaced to approximately four feet up the wall. This was done in the 1980s, because the original soft, locally made bricks were beginning to spall. Finally, the original cedar shake roof has been replaced by composition roofing, also in the 1980s.

Parley Hunt House

The Parley Hunt House, built 1907, is a one-story stone dwelling built by Hunt for himself and his mother, Susan Naney Hunt. The building sits on a .824 acre site surrounded on three sides by a chain link fence. There are three non-contributing structures on the site. The residence is in good condition, but, because of extensive remodeling, retains only a moderate degree of integrity.

The Parley Hunt House is located in Bunkerville Nevada, a village of approximately 1000 people, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, near the Utah border. The house is on tract 37, section 25 of the Bunkerville plat. It is on Canal Street, named for the irrigation canal that runs alongside it. Neighboring structures include the one-story Nephi Hunt house to the east, built by Parley’s brother Nephi c. 1900, and some mobile homes to the south. There is a cemetery to the west. The Hunt house is approached by a circular, asphalt-paved driveway from canal street, looping to the structure’s main entrance. Non-contributing buildings consist of a small, one-story gable-roofed wood frame dwelling, c. 1980, to the east of the house, and two wooden sheds on the western boundary of the property. A trellised patio, c. 1990, is to the structure’s east. There are two mature deciduous trees on the site (locally known as “salt trees”), one at the south west corner of the lot, and one to the rear of the house on the site’s west boundary. There is a lawn and several young fruit trees to the north of the structure.

Located in Bunkerville, Nevada and added to the National Register of Historic Places (#91001652)

The Parley Hunt House is an “L” shaped uncoursed rubble building, one and one-half stories, with a crossed gable roof and shingled gable ends. There is no cellar. The inside corner of the “L” has been partially infilled with a frame addition. The shingled gable ends are the most character-defining existing features. These gable ends flare at the base, with rake moldings that die into the flared base. There is a window centered in each of the three gable ends.

The building has modern aluminum windows, a composition roof, a plastic “bubble” skylight and a modern interior. On the interior, there is a modern, concrete block fireplace between the two south, front rooms. A modern kitchen has been built in the southeast room. The rear, northwest room has been partitioned into bedroom, bath and corridor. The attic has been opened up over the south west room, and now consists of two loft bedrooms.

When Parley Hunt completed the house, it was composed of three rooms, with the room at the rear used for cooking. There was a large fireplace between the two front rooms, the larger of which served as a sitting room. A stove in the rear room connected to a second chimney.

Parley lived in the structure until 1915. The building changed hands at least three times before the 1950s, when a Mr. Freeman purchased and remodeled it. Freeman opened up the attic to create the loft rooms, partitioned the rear, northwest room as previously described, and infilled the porch at the crook of the building to create a utility room. The kitchen was also added at this time.

wo subsequent owners, Dan Eastman and Nick Bartlett, continued the remodeling process, possibly replacing the wood windows with aluminum and replacing the original fireplace with concrete block. The Bartlett’s built the small dwelling structure to the east of the main building for their son. The current owners have added new insulation and gypsum board to walls and ceilings, replaced the roof, and installed a “bubble” skylight.