161ParkAve_Historic Sites FormHISTORIC SITE FORM - HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY
PARK CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (10-08)
1 IDENTIFICATION
Name of Property:
Address: 161 PARK AVE AKA:
City, County: Park City, Summit County, Utah Tax Number: PC-7
Current Owner Name: HANSEN THOMAS E JR & BARBARA J H/W (JT) Parent Parcel(s):
Current Owner Address: PO BOX 3771, PARK CITY, UT 84060-3771
Legal Description (include acreage): SUBD: PARK CITY BLOCK 1 BLOCK: 1 LOT: 15 PLAT: 0S 16 T 2S R 4E
N 15 FT LOT 15 & ALL LOT 16 PARK CITY BLK 1 PARK CITY TOWNSITE UWD-320 V-575 M66-633 M88-355
454-206 618-278 1121-464 1441-17 1443-23, 0.07 AC
2 STATUS/USE
Property Category Evaluation* Reconstruction Use
building(s), main Landmark Site Date: Original Use: Residential
building(s), attached Significant Site Permit #: Current Use: Residential
building(s), detached Not Historic Full Partial
building(s), public
building(s), accessory
structure(s) *National Register of Historic Places: ineligible eligible
listed (date: )
3 DOCUMENTATION
Photos: Dates Research Sources (check all sources consulted, whether useful or not)
tax photo: abstract of title city/county histories
prints: 1995 & 2006 tax card personal interviews
historic: c. original building permit Utah Hist. Research Center
sewer permit USHS Preservation Files
Drawings and Plans Sanborn Maps USHS Architects File
measured floor plans obituary index LDS Family History Library
site sketch map city directories/gazetteers Park City Hist. Soc/Museum
Historic American Bldg. Survey census records university library(ies):
original plans: biographical encyclopedias other:
other: newspapers
Bibliographical References (books, articles, interviews, etc.) Attach copies of all research notes and materials.
Blaes, Dina & Beatrice Lufkin. "Final Report." Park City Historic Building Inventory. Salt Lake City: 2007.
Carter, Thomas and Goss, Peter. Utah’s Historic Architecture, 1847-1940: a Guide. Salt Lake City, Utah:
University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture and Utah State Historical Society, 1991.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Roberts, Allen. “Final Report.” Park City Reconnaissance Level Survey. Salt Lake City: 1995.
Roper, Roger & Deborah Randall. “Residences of Mining Boom Era, Park City - Thematic Nomination.” National Register of
Historic Places Inventory, Nomination Form. 1984.
4 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION & INTEGRITY
Building Type and/or Style: Other residential type / Vernacular style No. Stories: 1
Additions: none minor major (describe below) Alterations: none minor major (describe below)
Researcher/Organization: Preservation Solutions/Park City Municipal Corporation Date: Dec. 2008
161 Park Ave, Park City, UT, Page 2 of 3
Number of associated outbuildings and/or structures: accessory building(s), # _____; structure(s), # _____.
General Condition of Exterior Materials:
Good (Well maintained with no serious problems apparent.)
Fair (Some problems are apparent. Describe the problems.): The exterior paint is peeling and damage is visible on
the garage door.
Poor (Major problems are apparent and constitute an imminent threat. Describe the problems.):
Uninhabitable/Ruin
Materials (The physical elements that were combined or deposited during a particular period of time in a particular pattern or
configuration. Describe the materials.):
Foundation: The 1949 tax card notes that there is no foundation. The foundation is not visible in the
available photographs and therefore its material or existence cannot be verified.
Walls: The exterior walls are clad in wooden drop/novelty siding which replaced the asbestos shake
shingles mentioned in the tax cards of 1949 and 1968.
Roof: Both the gabled roof of the house and the shed-roofed porch are sheathed in standing seam metal
roofing material.
Windows/Doors: Windows appear to be primarily one-over-one double-hung sash in vertical openings.
The façade windows are paired and symmetrically placed with two windows in each opening. The entry
door is paneled and appears to be wooden.
Essential Historical Form: Retains Does Not Retain, due to:
Location: Original Location Moved (date __________) Original Location:
Design (The combination of physical elements that create the form, plan, space, structure, and style. Describe additions and/or alterations
from the original design, including dates--known or estimated--when alterations were made): The side-gabled frame house
appears to have been raised at some point prior to 1949 to create a single-car basement garage. The shed-
roofed addition on the side is a porch that has been enclosed since at least the 1949 tax card. The shed-roofed
front porch extends across the façade of the house.
Setting (The physical environment--natural or manmade--of a historic site. Describe the setting and how it has changed over time.): The
building lot slopes upward to the rear from the finished road grade and the house sits close to the front of the lot.
Like most of the historic neighborhoods in Park City, the overall setting is a compact streetscape with narrow
side yards and other homes of similar scale within close proximity.
Workmanship (The physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during a given period in history. Describe the
distinctive elements.): The distinctive elements that define this as a typical Park City mining era house are the
simple methods of construction, the plan type (hall-parlor), the simple roof form, the informal landscaping, the
restrained ornamentation, and the plain finishes.
Feeling (Describe the property's historic character.): The physical elements of the site, in combination, convey a sense of
life in a western mining town of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Association (Describe the link between the important historic era or person and the property.): The Other residential type house
form is a house type built in Park City during the mining era.
5 SIGNIFICANCE
Architect: Not Known Known: (source: ) Date of Construction: c. 1907 1
1 Summit County Recorder.
161 Park Ave, Park City, UT, Page 3 of 3
Builder: Not Known Known: (source: )
The site must represent an important part of the history or architecture of the community. A site need only be
significant under one of the three areas listed below:
1. Historic Era:
Settlement & Mining Boom Era (1868-1893)
Mature Mining Era (1894-1930)
Mining Decline & Emergence of Recreation Industry (1931-1962)
Park City was the center of one of the top three metal mining districts in the state during Utah's mining
boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and it is one of only two major metal
mining communities that have survived to the present. Park City's houses are the largest and best-
preserved group of residential buildings in a metal mining town in Utah. As such, they provide the most
complete documentation of the residential character of mining towns of that period, including their
settlement patterns, building materials, construction techniques, and socio-economic make-up. The
residences also represent the state's largest collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century frame
houses. They contribute to our understanding of a significant aspect of Park City's economic growth
and architectural development as a mining community.2
2. Persons (Describe how the site is associated with the lives of persons who were of historic importance to the community or those who
were significant in the history of the state, region, or nation):
3. Architecture (Describe how the site exemplifies noteworthy methods of construction, materials or craftsmanship used during the
historic period or is the work of a master craftsman or notable architect):
6 PHOTOS
Digital color photographs are on file with the Planning Department, Park City Municipal Corp.
Photo No. 1: East elevation (primary façade). Camera facing west, 2006.
Photo No. 2: East elevation (primary façade) obstructed. Camera facing west, 2006.
Photo No. 3: Northeast oblique - obstructed. Camera facing southwest, 2006.
Photo No. 4: East elevation (primary façade) obstructed. Camera facing west, 1995.
2 From “Residences of Mining Boom Era, Park City - Thematic Nomination” written by Roger Roper, 1984.