Caleb Baldwin House

The Caleb Baldwin home is significant because its age and architectural design represent the first major period of Beaver’s growth and development. As permanence and prosperity arrived, small one and two room homes of logs were replaced by small two and three room homes of stone and brick. During this rebuilding phase, the two room hall and parlor house form (with or without rear extensions) was the most common in Beaver. The Baldwin house is one of a number of such houses which continue to stand and which in their typical nature contribute to a full understanding of Beaver’s 19th Century architecture.

Located at 195 South 400 East in Beaver, Utah and added to the National Historic Register (#83003834) on November 30, 1983. The text on this page is from the nomination form for the historic register.

This hall and parlor house was constructed of pink rock c. 1885 for Caleb Baldwin and his family. It has four windows and a central door arranged symmetrically across the front facade and end wall chimneys. It displays a broad Greek Revival style cornice around the eaves and above each window and door is a large pink rock lentel. The home rests upon a foundation of black rubble rock and the stonework on the front facade is well squared. On the gable ends, the rock has been roughly cut and layed at random, while facade displays coursed ashlar masonry. The home has an original rear extension that forms a T-plan. At a later date, probably c. 1900, a pink rock addition was built on to the rear of the house, giving it its current elongated T-plan. All the pink rock walls are 18 inches in thickness and all the windows in the house are splayed, being wider on the interior than the exterior. A deteriorated shed roof frame addition, c. 1910, stands on the west side of the house but does not detract from its historic integrity.