The Harlan and Marie Nelson House is located at 2785 East Lancaster Drive in Salt Lake City, Utah and was added to the National Historic Register (#100006014) on January 4, 2021.
From ksl.com: The Nelson House sticks out to anyone who has crossed its path over the past 58 years. Built from cream brick, plywood, glass and steel, it literally sticks out. “The style is strictly International Style with distinctive features, such as an irregularly-shaped hexagonal roof with prominent roof steel members, walls of glass, an open floor plan in the gathering spaces around a central hearth and a sunken den on the garden level,” historians wrote. “More than the California ranch or other common house styles of the period, popularity of the International Style was inherent on unique clients as they were particularly suited for unique lifestyles.” Harlan Nelson was one of IBM’s top salesmen during the rise of computers in the 1950s. His work took him and his family to Salt Lake City in 1956. A few years later, they hired Utah-based architect Eduard Dreier to design their dream home. Historians noted that Dreier was “a prolific residential architect with a relatively short career,” and the Nelson home is unique among Dreier’s work. He was one of a few Utah-based architects that dabbled in the International Style at this time. It remained with the Nelsons up until Marie Nelson’s death in 2018. It’s still a private residence to this day.
The Watkins-Coleman home was designed by John Watkins and built in 1863 as a home for his polygamous family. He received his architectural training in England before emigrating to Utah in 1856. While living in northern Utah, Mr. Watkins designed and helped build many lovely homes and church buildings. His grandson, Arthur V. Watkins, became U. S. Senator from Utah.
In 1903, the home was sold to Henry T, Coleman. His daughter and her husband, Francis C. Tatge, inherited the home in 1948. Since 1952 Mrs. Tatge has been living in the home and has kept it in excellent repair.
Because of its distinctive cottage character, and because it is one of early polygamist sun baked brick houses In Utah, it seems wise to preserve it as an excellent example of pioneer home building by an important early Utah architect. Also because of its quality many prominent church official: while visiting the area were overnight guests in the home.
Located at 5 East Main Street in Midway, Utah and added to the National Historic Register (#71000858) on May 14, 1971.
The Crandall Houses at 112 and 136 East 200 North in Springville, Utah are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They are the Clarence L. Crandall House and the Nelson D. Crandall House. The houses were both built in 1900, and are twin houses that look virtually identical. The designs appear to be adapted from pattern books circulating around that time. The design of the houses reflects the Victorian ideal of adapting high-style architecture to vernacular style homes. The Queen Anne-style trim, in particular, is unique within Springville.
Joshua Brockbank Home Built in 1869, Joshua Brockbank was a policeman and pound keeper who moved here from England as a child. 110 North 100 East in Spanish Fork, Utah
The significance of the McDonald House lies in typifying the values of a middle-class newly emerged from the struggles to establish themselves in pioneer society. The simple dignity of the McDonald House suggests the residence of a hard working, upwardly mobile, skilled tradesman. The very plain house has few stylistically distinguishing details, and the central hall plan is a vestige of earlier vernacular house types. located away from the center of Salt Lake City, it documents the scattered pattern of settlement in the outlaying areas of the Salt Lake Valley. Although the Mormon Church dominated settlement patterns in Utah, the opening of a federal land office in 1869 brought the scattered homestead pattern to the state. The McDonald House exists today in the midst of later twentieth century development, an important remnant of early domestic architecture outside the immediate Salt Lake City area. The house has been carefully restored.
The David McDonald House is located at 4659 South Highland Drive in Holladay, Utah and was added to the National Historic Register (#80003927) on May 29, 1980. The text on this page is from the National Register nomination form unless otherwise noted.
The architect-builders were the owners, David and Arabella McDonald, who lived in the building until their death in 1924. Both were immigrants to Utah in 1869, he from Scotland and she from Northern Ireland, and both were 41 when the home that was the measure of their success in America was constructed.
David McDonald had been educated in Scotland, and served five years of apprenticeship as a blacksmith and millwright. It was not until he was settled in Utah that he met his wife Arabella Anderson, whom he married in the Salt Lake Endowment House in 1874. David and Arabella remained supportive of the Mormon Church and its various programs, although his ambivalence about the Church was cause for comment. His membership in the largely Gentile Liberal party, and the broad and catholic selection of titles in his much-loved library suggest his distance from the mainstream of Mormon thought and practice. The McDonald blacksmithing business, located eventually only 50 feet from the McDonald home, prospered over the years. His increasing stature in the business community led to McDonald’s increasing involvement in politics. With the introduction of national political parties into Utah, he quickly became established as an active Republican.
At the death of both parents in 1924, the home passed into the hands of other members of the family and eventually was converted into a rental property in 1966. The home is now the headquarters of a professional design firm.
The plaque on the building says: The two-story Victorian house was constructed in 1890 or brick and adobe manufactured on the site. It was built by David and Arabella McDonald, immigrants to Utah from Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1869. In 1977 the house was renovated for use as office for Kent S. Topham.
Cabin built c. 1870. House built c. 1876. Garage built c. 1938.
The Johnson/Hansen home is both historically and architecturally significant. The log cabin, brick house, and garage, built between c. 1870-1938, describe settlement patterns and periods of development in Provo. Linking the brick of the historic home with a “modern” garage through the log cabin symbolizes the connection between past, present, and future.
These structures are architecturally significant as excellent examples of local 1870s architecture and as a unique, late 1930s blend of nostalgic and modern influences on residential design. By attaching the structures, the owner was simultaneously preserving the pioneer origin of the community and acknowledging the realities of a more modern lifestyle, one increasingly influenced by the automobile.
Ulbrich House: one-and-one-half story brick, single family residence with frame gables. Eclectic Victorian styling combines irregular massing of common Mormon vernacular forms with Victorian decorative features including a slanted bay window with bracketed cornice; segmentally-arched bays with labeled arches; lathe – turned mouldings and trim of Eastlake character, and ornamental doors, porches and shingled gable ends. Built c. 1895.
Ericksen House: one story brick, single family residence. Modest Bungalow styling features, Prairie style element such as the hip roof, deep eaves and full width front porch. Other elements include a hip-roofed dormer, square porch columns and square window bays. Built c. 1915.
