(from Preservation Utah‘s home tour)
Built in 1948 by Pioneer Building Company (which dissolved two years later), this home is a WWII Era Cottage with Minimal Traditional style that combined elements of traditional styles like gables with the unadorned quality of Modernism. This home features a hipped roof (typically less expensive to construct than a standard roof), a circular window, attached garage, and a small portico (covered) entry.

The first owners of the home were Victor and Faye Guercio. Victor was born into an Italian immigrant family in Carbon County. He met Faye in Provo after the family moved there. After high school, he joined the Army Air Corps. His eyesight was not good enough to become a pilot, so he became an aircraft mechanic and served through World War II. Faye and Victor married in 1944 while Victor was stationed on an airbase in Texas.

The Guercios eventually raised four children in their house. Victor worked as a sheet metal worker and was active in the local metal workers’ union, advocating for improved health care and retirement benefits for workers. He loved his Italian heritage, including wine and Italian food. He took the family to the annual Italian Day at Lagoon, and he and Faye took several trips to Italy. He reportedly took great pride in his yard and meticulously kept it up.

Victor and Faye lived in the home for about 55 years. After Faye passed away in 2003, Victor moved to live with children.

1042 West Signora Drive in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah

Samuel H. Sharman Home

1159 East Gilmer Drive in the Gilmer Park Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

• mentioned in Gilmer Park Historic District:
  A number of residents were prominent in business. Earl F. Free (1205 Gilmer Drive) was the founder and manager of Carbo-Chemical Group and also Hygeia Ice Company. Harold H. Bennett lived at 1187 Harvard Avenue between 1930 and the 1980s and was the president of Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI). Samuel H. Sharman (1159 Gilmer Drive, 1925-38) was vice-president and general manager of Sharman Automobile Company and was also a nationally famous trap-shooter. Between 1922-36, Simon Rosenblatt, vice-president of Eimco and founder of Grand Central Stores, lived at 1277 Yale Avenue.
  
  also,
  Sharman, Samuel H. – 1159 Gilmer Dr. (1925-38); President of Sharman Automobile Company, 1924 Olympic team member

Benjamin F. Riter Home

The house was constructed by Benjamin F. Riter, a local druggist. The house has all the features of the Queen Anne style. It is very picturesque in design with an irregular floor plan and features a variety of wall surfaces. Riter owned a chain of pharmacies in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho and was the first vice president of the Utah Pharmaceutical Association. Mr. Riter was also a member of the Logan City Council. This beautiful home now serves as a bed and breakfast as well as a facility for parties and weddings.*

168 North 100 East in Logan, Utah

Harold “Hal” and Margaret Tomlinson Home

(from Preservation Utah‘s home tour)
This home was built in 1950 by Pioneer Homes in a variation of Minimal Traditional architecture. Some of its interesting architectural elements include the circular window, a hipped roof, and original decorative shutters with hearts. The attached garage and small portico (covered) entry are also elements of the Minimal Traditional design.

Harold “Hal” and Margaret Tomlinson purchased this new house in 1950. Hal later remembered paying about $10,000 for the home. The couple had two children at the time and added two additional children to their family in the next few years. Hal was born and raised in Montana and served in the Navy during World War II. Margaret was born in Idaho, but she came to Salt Lake to attend high school and met Hal here before he joined the military. In 1955, the Tomlinsons moved to a larger home on American Beauty Drive as their family grew.

The Tomlinsons sold the house to Marion and Florence Corbridge. Like other residents in the neighborhood, Marion had served in the Army during World War II and worked as a driver for the Greyhound Bus Company. The Corbridges apparently had no children at home when they lived in the house.

1026 West 800 North in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah

666-670 North 1200 West in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah

The Thomas H. Carr Home

The Thomas H. Carr home is a California Bungalow style built in 1910. The roof has a rectangular plan and wood shingled gable peaks. The façade composition is symmetrical. The long, pitched roof covers a porch which stretches the full width of the façade. The porch rests on four massive brick supports with wide ogee-shaped wood arches between them. Unique leaded windows laced with Mormon crickets adorn the transoms and upper lites which appear on the first story windows.

Thomas Carr was one of the founders of Rexall Drug Stores. Mr. Carr was a lifelong resident of Ogden. He operated the T. H. Carr Pharmacy, said to have been one of Ogden’s most prosperous drug stores. He also served as a member of the City Council and was a prominent Mason and member of the Weber Club. He was a very tall man, and had a special extra-long claw-foot tub delivered to the home, which is still in place.

After the death of Thomas Carr in 1919, Emma A. Carr continued to reside in the home until her death in 1926. Carr’s daughter Viola May Carr Hinley and her husband Herbert W. Hinley continued to reside in the home. Their daughter Lou Ann Nelson inherited the property upon the death of Mrs. Hinley and later sold it to Frank E. Hammond. The home was purchased by Bonneville Title and converted to office space in the early 1980’s. It was later restored by Charles & Tamara Anderson.

2520 Jefferson Avenue in the Jefferson Avenue Historic District and in Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah

• mentioned in Jefferson Avenue Historic District:
  Thomas H. Carr (2520 Jefferson) was one of the founders of Rexall Drug Stores, and owned and operated a prosperous drug store on 25th Street.
  
  also,
  Beginning in 1906, the bungalow era arrived in the Jefferson District. The shift to the bungalow style of architecture in Utah was a reflection of the phenomenon sweeping the nation during this time: a trend toward efficient, affordable, and relatively simple homes. Bungalows replaced the Victorian cottage as the house for the middle class. Eight bungalows (2520 Jefferson, 2546 Jefferson, 2604 Jefferson, 2615-17 Jefferson, 2619 Jefferson, 2656 Jefferson, 2659-61 Jefferson, and 2687 Jefferson) were built between 1906 and 1915.

The Thomas A. Whalen Home

Built in 1889 for Thomas A. Whalen, this home is a Victorian Eclectic/Queen Anne architecture. The house consists of pedimented gables with Queen Anne shingling and half timbering, turned porch posts, one-story, full-width porch with gabled entry and a shingled second story bay. The house is a mirror twin of the house at 2540 Jefferson.

Thomas Whalen came to Utah in 1871 and became a conductor on a Central Pacific passenger train until 1888. Upon retiring from the railroad, he became involved with Commercial National Bank as a member of its executive committee. He sold the “mirror twin” of his home to Oscar E. Hill which was one of his earliest real estate trans- actions. The Whalen family lived in the home until 1918. They sold the home to Joseph L. Carlson, who purchased the home for his daughter, Alta, and her husband Solomon J. Kaplan. Kaplan was President and Manager of the Buchmiller-Kaplan Company, a men’s clothing store in downtown Ogden.

The home was purchased by William Edward in 1929 who resided there for the next 25 years. The home was then sold to Loren K. Mohler. James A. and LeeAnne McGee, and Allen J. and Marguerite Turner who held joint ownership. The property was converted to a four-unit rental property in 1978 and was restored as a single-family home by Dan & Suzy Dailey.

2532 Jefferson Avenue in the Jefferson Avenue Historic District and in Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah.

• mentioned in Jefferson Avenue Historic District:
  Thomas A. Whalen (2532 Jefferson) served on the city council, and was also a member of the executive committee for Commercial National Bank.
  
  also,
  Thomas Whalen (2532 Jefferson) was an active real estate man. He was also involved with the executive committee of Commercial National Bank, served for two years on the Ogden City Council, and was a tax appraiser. He also built the house located at 2540 Jefferson as the mirror twin of his own and in which John Hoxer resided.