| Show L SOFOARDOIIISE i Cql Edwin F HoImes Buy j1f Famous Mansion I Ji V I Us MAY USE IT AS RESIDENCE I Consideration for the Transfer JNbi tf Is Supposed tc Given Out but jit SfeOjOOC of Neighborhood I Be in die Addition tc Makes an Important the Holdings of Sirs Holmes in the History ol Lr Vicinity Interesting1 Heavy Haln Has Improved tho BuilinngHeavy proved Business Outlook I has been sold b > Ga1riObOi13e I The Gardo house F church to Cot Edwin the Mormon historic of this I Holmes The passing ownership Is a I I mansion to a new common interest of jnoro than matter detail to the will add another und embellishment less or told with more I i stories local guides to the ever I bellishment by string of and neverending ii wondcring f The Gardo houso was built tourists r palatial resldencas when In the days President a In Zion by it were a novelty for 1 i who designed it 4 I Brigham Young wife Amelia favorite of his i1 the home It has been called Il FolKom Young the death of After p I Amelia palace the mansion was vacated by Lt Brigham and In ISi It was occupied by I Amelia Since then It John Taylor p4 President two aspirants to the United N has housed Col Isaac Trumbo and States Senate 1I Etch of them failed I A W McCunc not the blame has election but 11 of been attached to their tenancy of the 1 house Mr MeCune still occupies LI I occu-pies Gardo the house pending the completion comple-tion of his new residence I luxuriantly Tho Gardo house was I l furnished and such ofthe furniture as k Included in church is belonged to the J connected the transfer None oC the parties h I nected with the deal will divulge the to at present but It Is supposed l price amount neighborhood of the ill the V be University I for which It was offered to the II versity club 50000 Tho transaction i was made In the name of President II Snow as trustee in trust for the if church and the sale was effected LI through Tuttle Bros with Bishop M i S Woolley associated p The holdings of Col Holmes and Sirs Susan B EmeryHolmes in the I vicinity of the Eagle gate are greatly I Increased by the purchase of the Gardo house The old school site diagonally across the corner from the mansion has been purchased for Grace Emery I I and upon It a fivestory apartment house Is to bo constructed while Mrs I Holmes has secured the corner of State First and Canyon road a halt I block further north In the days of I the Young settlement this was known ns the asparagus bed Col Holmes declines to state the If purpose for which he bought the Gardo house or Whether or not he designs using It as a residence but says that I I ho may open the house In the fall for a period prior to making a contemplated contem-plated trh > abroad If the house IB occupied by Col and Mrs Holmes It will doubtless continue to be the scene of brilliant social events which havo marked It at different times la the past |
