282 N. Canyon Road, Salt Lake City. (Just outside Memory Grove)
This 1905 house follows the style used in the house pattern books at the time. It is a good example of the style. The owner, Valentine S. Snow, was a broker in mining and agricultural development.
Snow, a son of Franklin Richards Snow, was born in St. George on February 14, 1880 His family moved to Salt Lake when he was eight years old. As a young man, he worked with his father as cashier and secretary for Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company. He also helped develop the cantaloupe industry in Moapa Valley.
Snow was a member of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange for twenty-five years and for a few years was a member of the board of directors. He also helped develop mines in the Alta area. He was Secretary and Treasurer of Kimball Sign Company and a member of Snow and Cromar Stock Brokers.
Albert White had his own contracting firm and built or remodeled many homes and churches in Salt Lake.
This one and one-half story house originally had a wood columned and railed lattice and porch and balcony. There are dormers and a slanted bay. The front wall has a leaded glass transom -over the picture window7 and oval windows. The roof is gabled. It is a good small pattern book design.
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Preservation Utah‘s pamphlet from the 53rd Annual Historic Homes Tour of the City Creek Canyon Historic District on May 18, 2024 said this about the home:
In 1905, brothers Valentine and Frank Snow built matching houses, this one and the one to the north. Likely based on designs from pattern books, widely circulated at the time, this house’s style derives from a combination of Victorian elements-most notably its irregular (asymmetrical) shape, bay windows on the west and south, and leaded-glass transom above the west bay window-and Classical elements-most notably the columns framing its porch and the distinctive “oculus” (oval window). Valentine and Kate Snow settled in to raise a family of three children-Helen, Richard, and Louise-all of whom were born while the Snows lived here. In the early 1940s, the Snows converted the upstairs into an apartment. Valentine died in 1947, but Kate continued to live in the house until her death in 1974.