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Show 1 Page ID South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday , June 15, 1983 scraper. right in here, said teo-l- a was a man in town who bid Merrill,- pointing to the living $i;,025, but who Wanted the pro$ JT'l99m Cwrwpond.nt ; V We loved '.Toottij atea.i perty for commercial purposes. .The Merrill's ' bid was $1,000.. the rock work' and took it from-- ... It: was - really an, eyesore, there; 7saifa pavid Merrill 6 i his 1; she? said. But every time, we .Sirice the council wouldnt the property, the Merrills home at; TOO E. 192 ft.hVherf '' Would go by, wed stop, arid look . J their home, v . arid home,? sand visualize wife'got opr eola began ,;tyerj:iir the 'restoration ' June It, 1948, tS: - Merrill talked with the mayor : The building; which once about selling the property and housed the second school in Farthey could envision todays realthe mington, was the old Scout hall the ity through crumbling after a great deal of talking, to sell voted Council but, and where the LDS Relief SocieCity adobe, dirt floors and weeds. VWe werq renting a home just according to law, they put it up ty met, cost a grand total of about $15,000 those first years to up the street and at the time the for bid. finish. Other projects during the we wouldn't We it, get owned was figured the home and cityv said Mrs. Merrill. But when the 30 years have hiked the price. using it to house heavy equip But the Merrills had two ment The city drove their road bids were in, the high bidder strikes against them. First they were considered outsiders. We were school teachers at Davis and wed only lived here two or three years, said Merrill. There seemed to be a lot of repercussion so we didnt do anything with the home for a year. We planted the whole lot in corn, said Merrill., , ' The second strike was that in 1948, restoration was not in vo-- : gue. At one point, the city attorney came and reminded them that there was a stipulation in the sales contract that they tear down and build a house. Merrill showed him the contract that MERRILL home today is a beautiful example of restored stated they would .beautify the home (below). Many years ago it appeared as . pioneer corner. smil- The Merrills shown in family photo above. By SUSAN TANNER V &01WES -' - V -i- , re-zor- , 1 - ,v ' . . . ' still-enjo- y to Family ing about friends, who asked! Why dont yoit tear it down and t v get new rock? Most; people thought thej' were just a little crazy, and at tiiries, we thought the samp yr that my husband could use his creativity, I.Mrs: Merrill .oak floors himself. It was quite. , a decision in later years when they carpeted the home. We worked really hard and fast. It was my job to hustle up contractors, painters and electricians, said Mrs. Merrill, It seemed like there was such a shortage. The government had first priority and it was a struggle to get things. - ti.V -- a. way said.-1- ; V; ( 7 "'-v- ,; : : y. f): Mrs., Merrill believes her hus-n Utah-8band, now a artist,-.usehis home as his ar: b : well-know- thing, said Mrs. .Merrill. Bqjt tistic canvas';during the .years' saw the when the they were trying to earn a living Merrills werent going to tear and raise four children. down the original rock, they felt Weve had a project going good about the project. When- historian, Margaret all the time. I look at the cork The next step was finding an architect. They finally settled Hess, visited the home after the wall and think, said Mrs. Mefor a one arm draftsman and restoration, she sat and remin- rrill. The house is full of he made a drawing from my isced and told how her chair had memories and full of us. The That was the only been right next to yvhere the children feel like its their drawing. home. thing we had to work from, said chimney is located today. Merrill. But moving in was just the It has brought us great eninare roof The still beams beginning. The Merrills have joyment and been rewarding tact, said Mrs. Merrill. All the had one project or another go- and satisfying, said the Merrafters were mortared into the ing for the past 20 years. It was rills. 14 log square. The native lumber was so hard that you couldnt drive a nail into it it was petrified, said Merrill. ? Merrill brought all the granite stone to match the original rock down from the mountain. The rock walls were first erected iri 1875 and the wall is two feet thick. The Merrills continued the structures form throughout the house all outside walls are two feet thick. Utilizing the natural openings on the building helped when try: ing to work with the two foot thick walls. Only one opening for an upstairs window had to be made through the rock. Another opening became the fireplace and another the door. Dominique Putery was the Italian craftsman who worked on the Merrills rock work. The original stone was put together with lime and so Merrill had to dig out all the lime between the stones and put cement in between. I made over 10,000 batches of mud for Dominic and never got one right, said Merrill. He was a perfectionist. It is difficult to determine where the old rock ends and the patching begins. Merrill did the .manual labor. He would climb a 12 foot ladder to the top of the chimney with a rock and then Dominic would say it was the wrong one and kick it off the platform, he said. Five months after they began the project, the Merrills moved in. It was Halloween night, 1948. We had temporary beds, hardwood floors and this was the first time we had ever had centLEOLA MERRILL looks out window of her restored rock ral heating, said Mrs. Merrill.1 home. Merrill laid all the hardwood old-time- rs - Rain or Shine Fold or Not That's the Question To By SHARON NAUTA sound preachy. If you dont fold them, your hands are going to feel like two bowling balls suspended by a pair of rubber bands. If you fold the pretty guest STEELE To fold or not to fold? That is the question. .7 If you fold your sons peanut butter and honey sandwich, hes going to scream bloody murder. If you dont fold it, hes going to have a stream' of gooey sticky honey running down his hand '' 1 and arm. v If you fold the babys diapers, shes going to pull them all out of the drawers and toss them willy nilly first chance she gets. V" If you dont fold them, youre not going to have an excuse to sit down and watch All My Children once a day. 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