Although this house today serves as a comfortable single-family home, it was actually constructed in 1928 as an apartment building-a duplex-with one apartment above the other. Yet the developers of Bonneville-On-The-Hill had explicitly prohibited apartment houses. Perhaps the fact that it looked like a single-family home allowed developer J. Hill Johnson to avoid attention. And, for its first few years, it did house tenants. But in the early 1930s, Johnson sold it to its first owner, Lawrence Guild, and from then on it would cycle through ownership and tenancy (sometimes the two apartments were owned separately) until the current owners purchased it in the late 1980s and converted it to the home you’ll visit today.

In appearance, it displays elements of the English Tudor or Tudor Revival style. It is asymmetrical, with a steeply pitched roof, stucco walls, and tall casement windows with numerous small “lights” (panes). What’s noticeably missing is the distinctive “half-timbering” (exposed framing) so often associated with this style. What you see from the outside is original except for the decorative “quoins” (cornerstones).
(text from Preservation Utah’s 2023 historic tour pamphlet)

1346 East Second Avenue in the Avenues of Salt Lake City, Utah.