Picturesque Building Styles, 1865-1885
Gothic Revival, 1865-80
The Gothic Revival enjoyed its greatest popularity in Utah during the 1870s. It is easily recognized by its steeply pitched gable roofs, gabled dormers with finials, and scroll-cut decorative woodwork along the gables and eaves. Traditional house types such as the hall-parlor and central passage were commonly built during this period with Gothic Revival dormers or a centrally placed cross gable. The cross-wing house gained ascendancy during this time, as did smaller variants of the side-passage form. The effects of such style books as A. J. Downing’s The Architecture of Country Houses were certainly evident, but older patterns still persisted and direct copies of stylebook designs were rare. Midway, in Summit County, and Willard, in Box Elder County, are particularly rich in Gothic Revival buildings.
Characteristics:
--asymmetrical plan and/or façade
--vertical emphasis
--multiplication of gables and chimneys
--high, steeply pitched roof
--central cross gable
--wall dormers
--bargeboards on gables and dormers
--lancet windows
--finials at the apex of gables and dormers
--tracery
--wall buttresses
--bay windows
--polychromatic treatment of materials
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