Peter D. & Helen I. Kline Home

This Bungalow Style home was built for Peter D. & Helen I. Kline in 1913. The Kline’s lived in the home until 1916. He came to Utah as assistant to H.A. Strauss, general electrical engineer for the Walkeneau Electrical Construction Company of Chicago, who had the contract for the electrification of the Bamberger Electric Rail- road. He later became the general manager of the Ogden Rapid Transit Company where he remained until returning to the Midwest in 1916.

Marshall J. & Charlotte Herrington purchased the home from the Kline’s in 1917 and resided there until 1932. In 1936, Elizabeth B. Cardon acquired the home. The home was purchased by its current owners, Samuel L. & Mary Lou Stephens in 1957.

This house incorporated elements of the Bungalow Style architecture. Feature of the Bungalow Style architecture include a capped gabled roof intersected by a cross gable. The long rectangular floor plan is graced by a flat roofed porch span- ning the front of the house. The porch roof is supported by arranged brick piers. The piers originally projected above the porch roof and were joined by a balustrade. The interior of the house encompasses several elements reminiscent of the Arts & Crafts styles in Bungalow architecture, including dropped ceiling beams in the main parlor.

2547 Van Buren Avenue in Eccles Avenue Historic District and in the Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah

This home was built for Peter and Helen Kline in 1913. It is an example of Bungalow style with a gabled roof intersected by a cross gable. With the sloping ceilings on the upper floors, light is received through windows at each gabled wall. The house is graced by a porch with a flat roof supported by brick piers. Mr. Kline was asststant to H.A. Strauss, general electrical engineer fm the Walkeneau Electrical Construction Company of Chicago. He then assisted the Electrical Bond & Share Company of New York in the consolidation of vanous electrical properties and assisted in the organizing of the Utah Power & Light Co. He became general manager of the Ogden Rapid Transit Company until 1916, when he became vice president of an electrical company operating in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.*