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Alfred Lindorff House

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Lindorff House Park City Utah
Lindorff House Park City Utah

The Alfred Lindorff House, at 40 Sampson Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built around 1885. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.It was deemed "architecturally significant as one of two well preserved examples of a Park City house with a distinct L-plan by addition. This type of addition does not appear to have been common in Park City building, and less than five examples of the type are extant. As opposed to the T/L cottage and the T/L cottage by addition, which viewed from the facade have relatively short cross-wings and longer stem-wings, the L-plan by addition house has a distinctive L-plan consisting of two wings of almost equal length that intersect at right angles. A difference in the window types of the two wings indicates that this house was not built with an original L-plan, but instead is the result of the expansion of a small house by the addition of a cross-wing to the front of one end of the original facade. Although an uncommon type, the L-plan by addition is significant because it is a variant of the common modification of adding a cross-wing to an existing house as a solution to the problem of inadequate space in the tiny mining town cottage."It was probably the home of Alfred Lindorff, who was born in Denmark in 1863 and immigrated with his wife Mary in 1890.

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Alfred Lindorff House
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Wilkinson-Hawkinson House

The Wilkinson-Hawkinson House, at 39 Sampson Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built probably sometime between 1895 and 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.It is a one-story frame house, somewhat of the pyramid house type but somewhat also a bungalow.It was deemed "architecturally significant as one of only three well preserved examples of houses that are exceptions to the standard house types that were constructed during Park City's mining boom period. The majority of Park City houses were built as hall and parlor houses, T/L cottages, pyramid houses or variants of the pyramid house. Shotgun houses and bungalows occur in fewer numbers, but were also significant types. About 2Q% of the in-period extant buildings in Park City, including 39 Sampson, did not specifically fit into any one category or were altered so dramatically that the original type was not identifiable. Of those only three well preserved examples remain, all of which are included in this nomination. This house can be visually tied with the pyramid house and the bungalow. It has the square plan, the drop siding, and the indented porch of the pyramid house, but has the horizontal three part windows and simplified boxy form of the bungalow. In addition, it has a skewed gable roof which was not characteristic of either the pyramid house or the bungalow. This house is unlike any other house in Park City, and documents the fact that although standard house types were the rule in Park City, exceptions to the standard types were also built."In 1898 Frank and Rosetta Hawkinson bought a house, probably this one, described as "'a 3 room frame house on Block 78 between the house of Alfred Lindorf on the West, J. Peterson on the East, and Philip Tobin on the South.'" Neighbors recall them living in this house for as long as they could remember. Frank, born in Sweden in 1869, immigrated to the U.S. as a boy with his parents, and worked 35 years for the Park Utah Mining Company. He died of a heart attack when repairing the roof of this house in 1939. Rosetta was born in Switzerland in 1877, and came to Midway, Utah with her parents at age 9. They had two children.