Peter Hansen Home

This house is a one story brick example of a TYPE II pair-house. The house is three rooms wide and is unusual in that it has a symmetrical six-opening façade rather than the three-bay pattern normally employed on houses with this plan. There is a limestone foundation which supports the locally produced,
yellow brick walls. Decorative external features are non-existent and the house remains a straight-forward articulation of this vernacular type.

The Peter Hansen house in Manti is architecturally significant as an example of Scandinavian folk building in Utah. The house contributes historically to | the thematic nomination, “The Scandinavian-American Pair-house in Utah.”

Peter Hansen was born in Denmark and emigrated to Utah in the 1860s. Hansen was a brick mason who utilized his special skill in building his own house, probably about 1875. Brick was a rare construction material in Manti prior to the opening of the Jacobsen brickyard in the late 1880s. Hansen probably
fired his bricks in a kiln located on the property. In 1882, the house was sold to Sarah Bell Peacock for $500.

Located at 247 South 200 East in Manti, Utah and added to the National Register of Historic Places (#83003187) on February 1, 1983.