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Gibson-Sowards House

Coordinates: 40°30′05″N 109°31′59″W / 40.50139°N 109.53306°W / 40.50139; -109.53306 (Gibson-Sowards House)
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Gibson-Sowards House
Gibson-Sowards House is located in Utah
Gibson-Sowards House
Location3110 N 250 W, Vernal, Utah
Coordinates40°30′05″N 109°31′59″W / 40.50139°N 109.53306°W / 40.50139; -109.53306 (Gibson-Sowards House)
Area8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built1891
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.97001465[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 24, 1997

The Gibson-Sowards House, at 3110 N 250 W in Vernal, Utah, was built in 1891. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing included four contributing buildings and four contributing structures.[1]

It is a wood frame one-and-a-half-story house built on a sandstone foundation, with the sandstone taken from a hill just to its north. It is Victorian Eclectic in style, with an irregular plan, an asymmetrical facade, and decorative porches. It includes restrained Queen Anne elements such as lathe-turned columns, decorative brackets, and scroll-cut patterned railings on its west and south porches.[2]

Seven other contributing resources are: a log shed, a round metal granary, ruins of a rock house built around the 1880s, a 1925 garage, a c.1900 hay-derrick, a plank shed, and assorted corral fencing and water and feed troughs.[2]

It is located about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Vernal in Ashley Valley, a rural area in the Unitah Basin. [2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Utah State Historic Preservation Office staff (August 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Gibson/Sowards House". National Park Service. Retrieved June 4, 2019. With accompanying nine photos