126 East First Avenue in The Avenues in Salt Lake City, Utah

175 East Fourth Avenue in the Avenues Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

60-70 North E Street in The Avenues in Salt Lake City, Utah

1613 Colorado Boulevard Idaho Springs, Colorado

1601 Colorado Boulevard Idaho Springs, Colorado

125 East First Avenue in The Avenues of Salt Lake City, Utah

Nephi Clayton Home

140 East 2nd Avenue in the Avenues of Salt Lake City, Utah.

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• Richard K. A. Kletting

Preservation Utah‘s “Kletting in the Avenues” Historic Homes Tour said:
In 1890, local entrepreneur Nephi Clayton hired Kletting to design this Queen Anne mansion for $12,000 (about $500,000 in current dollars). Perhaps the home’s eclectic style reflects Nephi’s diverse business interests. At various points, he was involved in salt mining, railroads, dairy farming, cattle ranching, and banking. With all that, he still found time to establish and promote Saltair Resort.

The prominent feature of the home is its bell-shaped dome, a signature of the Queen Anne style, as are the decorative woodwork in the small gable above the dormer and above the second-story windows in the turret and the stained glass in the first-floor windows. But the arched windows derive from the Romanesque style – popular for public buildings (e.g. the City and County Building) but less common in residential design. The heavy lintels above the windows on the first floor emphasize the massiveness typical of Romanesque architecture. Note the original two-story carriage house at the end of the driveway.

City Of Rocks Stage Station

The flow of emigrant traffic through City of Rocks ebbed after 1852 and virtually ceased following the completion of the Transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad. The City of Rocks remained an important transportation center, serving as a relay point and rest stop on mail and stage routes connecting the railhead at Kelton, Utah, with the boom-mining communities of the Boise Basin.

Beginning September 1850, George Chorpenning & Absolom Woodward’s government-sponsored mail wagons ran from Fort Bridger to Sacramento, by way of the Salt Lake Alternate and Granite Pass. The route was abandoned in September 1853, in response 1 harsh winters and difficulty with Indians, yet resumed briefly in 1858, when the Mormon War disrupted the San Bernardino route. Concord coaches of four-horse mud wagons passed through the head once a week, from July to December 1858. The City of Rocks Home Station was located at the of Emigrant Canyon, adjacent to the same spring that had induced the pioneers to establish camp. Chorpenning & Woodward may have constructed the station as early as 1858, when they “stocked” their route past City of Rocks with stations every 20 miles.

Beginning in 1860, a local version of the famous Pony Express also ran through City of Rocks, along a route extending from Boise to Brigham City, Utah, by way of Rock Creek, Goose Creek, City of Rocks stage station, Raft River Headquarters and Kelton Pass. Holladay Overland Mall and Express Company coaches traveled to City of Rocks region by way of the Salt Lake Alternate. Here they turned north, rather than west, proceeding over Lyman Pass (a gentle breach of the Albion Mountains) to Rock Creek along the Snake River. The 240 mile trip took about 40 hours, reported stage driver C. S. Walgamott.

By the 1870s, Wm. Trotter and his wife served five meals a day at the station. Buildings were of logs, with low ceilings. The barroom was 30 X 14 feet, with a large fireplace. Beds, prepared for snow-bound passengers, were said to have been clean and comfortable. The Kelton to Boise Stage Route was abandoned by 1883, when the Oregon Short Line Railroad reached the Snake River corridor, north of the City of Rocks.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #571, erected by the Elma Taylor Clark Camp in 2013.

This photo was sent in by Marguerite Mower:

1500 Colorado Boulevard Idaho Springs, Colorado