Alma Staker House Explained

Alma Staker House
Coordinates:39.5426°N -111.4538°W
Built:c.1870
Architecture:Greek Revival, vernacular
Added:July 9, 1979
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:79002509

The Alma Staker House, at 81 E. 300 South in Mount Pleasant, Utah, was built around 1870 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

It illustrates "syncretism", i.e. the synthesis of Eastern style, with Western materials. It is an adobe house with vernacular Greek Revival style. It has a "temple-form" or "up-right and wing" house plan, i.e. a one-and-a-half-story gabled central unit, one room wide and two deep, flanked by smaller one-story wings.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=79002509}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Alma Staker House ]. National Park Service. Tom Carter . John S. H. Smith . October 24, 1978 . August 14, 2019. With