The Walter J. Green Victorian Style Home - Draper, Utah
N 40° 31.377 W 111° 51.986
12T E 426608 N 4486162
This lovely home is in a quiet neighborhood.
Waymark Code: WMBYQP
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2011
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The Draper Historic Preservation Commission has located this lovely home and set a plaque about this home.
The plaque reads:
THE WALTER J. GREEN HOME
BUILT CIRCA 1900. THIS HOUSE WAS OWNED AT ONE TIME BY THE JORDAN SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WAS HOME TO REID BECK, WHO WAS THE PRINCIPAL OF DRAPER ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FROM 1917, UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1943. MR. BECK AND HIS WIFE PURCHASED THE HOME IN 1935. IT IS OF VICTORIAN STYLE AND HAS A GRANITE BLOCK FOUNDATION WITH BRICK EXTERIOR. THE ORIGINAL LAND WAS PART OF A PARCEL GIVEN BY A GOVERNMENT GRANT TO DRAPER TOWNSHIP BY PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT PRIOR TO 1876. THIS HOME WAS REMODELED BY RALPH AND PEGGY WADWORTH FROM 1967-1985, IT IS IN THE PROCESS OF FURTHER RESTORATION BY DEVEAL & DOREEN DECKER.
DRAPER HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
Public/Private: Private
Tours Available?: No
Year Built: 1900
Web Address: Not listed
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