Classical Building Styles, 1847-1890
Georgian, 1850-65
The Georgian style was largely an 18th-century phenomenon, and not surprisingly it is rare in Utah. However, several large houses that employed Georgian decorative elements still exist from the early settlement period. But more important than specific examples of the style is the double-piel (i.e., two-room-deep) Georgian house form itself, and nearly every Utah community has one or two of these distinctive dwellings. Although the true Georgian house has a central passage dividing the two rooms on each side, the most common Georgian form in Utah has the passage running only halfway through the house, with two large rooms in the front and three smaller rooms along the rear. This pattern seems to reflect a lingering New England architectural influence.
Characteristics:
--symmetrical principal façade
--side gables
--low pitched roof
--coursed ashlar walls
--emphasized water table
--flat arched window heads with pronounced keystones
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