Picturesque Building Styles, 1865-1885
Italianate, 1870-95
The Italianate was a second architectural style championed by architects and builders of the antebellum period that did not become poplar in Utah until after the Civil War. Italianate houses were constructed in Salt Lake City as early as the 1870s, but they did not become common in outlying communities until the 1880s. Two varieties of Italianate houses are regularly encountered: the first a substantial two-story, box-like residence with a side-passage plan, the second in the form of the ubiquitous cross wing. Both forms are characterized by a low-pitched hip roof, overhanging eaves, bracketed cornices, and tall windows capped by slightly arched and sometimes hooded window heads.
Characteristics:
--asymmetrical plan and/or façade
--multiplication of openings and chimneys
--projecting bays
--low hipped roof
--bracketed cornice or eaves
--segmented or arched window heads
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