Gibson-Sowards House

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]

Gibson-Sowards House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	3110 N 250 W, Vernal, Utah
Coordinates	40°30′05″N 109°31′59″W
Area	8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built	1891
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	97001465[1]
Added to NRHP	November 24, 1997

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

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. 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