Cyrus Benjamin Hawley House

Built in 1869 of soft-rock this one and one-half story house with a steeply pitched cross-gable roof illustrates the subtle use of Gothic Revival styling for a vernacular house type. The Hawley house is representative of several houses built near that year. With these houses an attempt began to stylize vernacular house types in Pleasant Grove. Before this year, gable-roofed houses were lower-pitched and undecorative. Near the 1890s, a frame lean-to attached to the rear of the house was replaced by the existing two-story section. At that time Victorian porches were added to the back and front, a second story walk-out porch placed above the front porch, the soft-rock stuccoed and splotched with black paint to resemble granite, and corner quoins scored. The house was extensively renovated and restored in 1984; new decorative wood replaced the old, using the elaborately saw-cut ornamental originals as patterns. All original outbuildings were removed from the property at that time.*

55 East Center Street in Pleasant Grove, Utah