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Show Restoration Program To Start Immediatley On Young Residence Restoration of the Brighamj Young Winter Home at St George will begin immediately, the Utah Park and Recreation Commission announced Monday The restoration will take several sev-eral months and is expected tc be practically completed in time for the 1962 tourist season. Work will include removal of a back room added after the original structure was completed by the Utah colonizer and first governor, Brigham Young, ir 1869. The east porch also added later, will also be removed. An other major project will include removal of the staircase inside the home from the center to the east side of the building. The work, to cost approximately approxi-mately $58,000, will be under the supervision of Glen Swenson Director of the State Building Board, and Aldin Hayward, Di rector of the State Park and Rec reation Commission. Salt Lake architect, George Cannon Young a grnadson of Brigham Young will be supervising architect. He also directed the recently com pleted restoration of the Beehive House in Salt Lake City, also a residence of Brigham Young. The Winter Home is a two-story two-story buff adobe building with an upper and lower porch, standing stand-ing behind a wooden picket fence and shaded by tall trees at 1st West and 2nd North. A white plastered one-story building at the east end of the house was used by Brigham Young as an office. When he was in St. George and southern Utah during the winters, the home was a center for social and religious gatherings. gather-ings. Present for the beginning of restoration were members of the State Park and Recreation Commission Com-mission which has the home under un-der its jurisdiction. The structure was a gift to the state from the descendants of Brigham Young. |