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The Clark Lane Historical District
The Clark Lane Historic District was founded by the Clark family. The district thrived on a system of communal ownership which continued well into the 20th century. The homes in the district offer a wide array of styles and plans popular in Utah…
The Historical Ogden Swift Building
The Swift Building, found near the Weber River in Ogden, Utah, has been around for decades. Originally built in 1917, the building has been a landmark in the city. In that time, the building has passed through many hands, serving many purposes. It…
The Gustav Becker House
The prairie style home was built in 1915 for Gustav Lorenz Becker (1868-1947) and his wife Thekla Bowen Becker. Thekla Bowen Becker consulted heavily with the architect and interior designer, Walter E. Ware of Ware and Treganza, a popular…
Sullivan-Kinney House
After Garrett Sullivan arrived in Pocatello in the early-1890s in search of gold, he eventually decided to make the bustling town his home. He began building a house in 1893, but it appears Sullivan never occupied it, as he began renting out the…
Henry Webber House
Henry Webber arrived in Aspen in 1880, a year after the city’s founding. At the time, it was a minuscule tent mining camp. Trained as a bootmaker, Webber established a boot and clothing store named “Webber and Company,” and he soon thrived. He…
Christmas Gift Evans House
In 1864, the year of Helena’s founding, John B. Sanford and Christmas Gift Evans (named after his birth date) arrived in Montana from the East Coast, beginning a friendship on their cross-country journey. In 1865, they formed a business partnership,…
Abel E. Eaton House
Union, Oregon began as an industrial town in 1862, serving as one of the state’s primary economic centers through the end of the nineteenth century. Abel Elsworth Eaton, a former schoolteacher in the Midwest, moved to Oregon seeking financial gain,…
Belknap House
Constructed during Carson City’s heyday by state assemblyman Henry Hudson Beck in 1875, the Belknap House remains a well-preserved instance of the Second Empire style. Its distinguishing mansard roof, which curves downward from its flat top on four…
The Ivinson Mansion and Laramie Plains Museum
Edward Ivinson was born in 1830 in the Virgin Islands. At the age of twenty-three, he married the English-born Jane Wood. They moved to Laramie City in 1868 where the family helped establish numerous local ventures. In 1868, Edward Ivinson ran a…
The Copper King Mansion
Born in 1839, Williams Andrews Clark worked on a farm until he was fourteen years old. He attended law school for two years, taught from 1859 to 1860, then moved westward to try his luck with the Gold Rush in 1862. Arriving in Butte a few years…
The Startup Building
The “Startup Building” located in Provo, Utah was built by William Startup in 1895. The structure housed the Startup Candy Company, one of the earliest candy and ice cream manufacturers in the state. William Startup (Sr.), the founder, began his…