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A half-century-old home in Salt Lake City's Indian Hills neighborhood has been recommended for listing on the National Register of Historic Places because of well-preserved architecture and landscaping.
The house at 2691 E. St. Mary's Way was nominated by the State Historic Preservation Office. The house recently won unanimous recommendation from the Salt Lake City Historic Landmark Commission and awaits consideration by the Utah Board of State History.
The final decision rests with the National Park Service, which administers the National Register of Historic Places.
What makes the 1960 Price home special?
The application says the property is an "exceptionally well-preserved example of an integrated residence and landscape design in the mid-twentieth century.
"Despite some minor alterations, the John and Margaret Price House has excellent historic integrity. The property contributes to the historic character of its Salt Lake City neighborhood."
A 1962 article in The Tribune's Home Magazine section described it as "four levels of loveliness."
Korral Broschinsky, the historic preservation consultant who prepared the paperwork, said it is an excellent example of collaboration between prominent Salt Lake architect John "Jack" N. Clawson and Karsten Hansen, regarded as Utah's "father of landscape architecture."
"It would be the first national register nomination for both the architect and the landscape architect. John Clawson and Karstan Hansen are significant in their own way to architecture and landscape architecture in Utah," Broschinsky said.
Hansen was responsible for landscaping 600 properties, among them the LDS Church Office Building, the Utah State Capitol expansion, the Bennett federal building in Salt Lake City, the State Fairgrounds, Dixie College and the College of Eastern Utah.
Clawson designed a number of modern-style LDS Church meetinghouses and during the 1960s was responsible for the designs of several financial institutions in the Modern style.
According to the application for the St. Mary's Way home, Clawson's personal favorites were the Tracy Aviary's South American Pavilion in Liberty Park (1968-1969) and the School of Nursing at the University of Utah (1970).
The Price home, built on multiple levels to match the contours of its site "is one of the few examples of Wrightian modernism that actually evokes [Frank Lloyd] Wright's Prairie School; it's very close to some of his Prairie school designs in the way Frank Lloyd Wright integrated the architecture with the house, topography … and the landscaping," said Broschinsky.
The current owners of the Price home, Brock Van de Kamp and Rachele McCarthey, applied for listing on the register.
Dan Harrie contributed to this article.
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