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Dr. William Bardsley House

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Dr. William Bardsley House
Dr. William Bardsley House

The Dr. William Bardsley House, at 517 Park Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built around 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.It is a frame cross-wing type house, with the cross-wing being two-story tall and projecting a gable-end towards the street. This has an "Italianate style box bay window and paired double hung windows above." The gable end has decorative bargeboard which was taken from another historic house, apparently replacing an earlier bargeboard. It is on the uphill side of Park Ave., overlooking Main St.It was deemed significant as "an example of the residential architecture of Park City, the largest, historic metal mining town in Utah." It was "one of nearly 150 houses recorded as part of the research for the "Residences of Mining Boom Era Park City" thematic nomination" which determined National Register eligibility for 104 houses.

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Reese Williams House
Reese Williams House

The Reese Williams House, at 421 Park Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built in 1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.It is a two-story frame "box house", with a truncated hip roof having dormers on east and south sides. It was built as a house for Reese Williams by carpenter Ellsworth J. Beggs. Williams, born in 1851 in Wales, worked at the Silver King Mine, and died in 1898 just three days after this house was completed; his widow and children lived here for only one year.In 1984 it was deemed "architecturally significant as one of four extant two story box houses in Park City, three of which are well preserved and included in this nomination. The two story box is closely tied with the pyramid house, one of three major house types in Park City. Like the pyramid house, it has a square or nearly square form, a pyramid or truncated hip roof, and a porch spanning the facade. It varies in size from the pyramid house, being a full two stories, as compared with the one or one and one half stories of the pyramid house. The two story box was not common in Park city, but judging from the range of extant buildings in Park City, it seems to have been the preferred design choice for a sizeable Park City house. All of the extant examples of this house are located on prominent sites along Park Avenue, the most prestigious street in Park City, further documenting the significance of this house type as one chosen by those who were seeking more than a utilitarian dwelling. This house is also historically significant as the first hospital in Park City. It served the community from 1900 until at least 1904, when the large Miners Hospital was constructed."It was leased in early 1900 to T.H. Monahan and E.H. Howard who set up the Park City Hospital. The hospital had an operating room and electric lights. Monahan was a surgeon; Howard was manager of the hospital. The Williams family continued to own the building after the hospital closed, eventually selling it in 1925 to Henry Thomas, and it was then owned by the Thomas family for many years.

Levins D. Gray House
Levins D. Gray House

The Levins D. Gray House, at 355 Ontario Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.It is a single-story frame house with a truncated hip roof. It was deemed, in its Utah State Historical Society document, to be "architecturally significant as one of only five well preserved examples of a variant of the pyramid house. The pyramid house is one of the three most common house types built during the early period of Park City's mining boom era and was built with a number of variations. This one is characterized by the typical square form and a hip roof, but is distinguished from the basic pyramid house in that instead of having a porch spanning the facade, the porch is set into a recessed section of the facade."The document goes on to say: "Instead of having a porch spanning a symmetrical facade, as was the typical facade arrangement of a pyramid house, the northwest corner was recessed to form a small front porch. The porch spans half of the facade, which consists of a door and a window. It is supported on lathe turned piers which have decorative brackets at the tops, and the balustrade has a geometric design. This type of balustrade was a popular element of the Victorian period, but there are few extant examples of the type in Park City. Because porch elements are the first to deteriorate and be replaced, it is difficult to determine if indeed this type of decoration was common in the area."The house was built for Levins D. and Stella Gray, who bought the property in October, 1901. It was in an area being rebuilt, after a "great fire of 1898." It is not known if they lived there or rented it out, before they sold it in 1909.