Hyrum Don Carlos Clark & Ann Eliza Porter Clark House

Wood-framed buildings of this age and older are very rare in Farmington, since nearly all historic buildings here were built of masonry. Hyrum Don Carlos Clark left Farmington in 1880 to seek his fortune, first in Idaho and then in the Star Valley of Wyoming. His wife, Ann Eliza Porter Clark, found the winters in Wyoming too rigorous and her health suffered. In 1908 Hyrum built this house, close by his family, for her. Victorian cottages such as this one became the basic middle-class house in the late 19th century. This simple “T” cottage is also evidence of the continued popularity of the cross-wing plan throughout the state of Utah at that time.

367 West State Street in Farmington, Utah in the Clark Lane National Historic District.