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Show Lakeside Review, Wednesday, October 30, 1985 Old home reflects character k.. ' .'S ? " v C -- , 70 - sO j S. - '4.. SUSAN TANNER HOLMES Review correspondent FARMINGTON When you enter the wooden doors of y the white home at 200 N. and Main Street, you step from the stresses and hurry of todays society into another calm and beautifully warm time. Built as the towns first hotel in 1857 by the first settler in Farmington, Hector C. Haight, the building has been preserved and restored through the careful loving hands of its present owners, Claire and Ella Rose DeLong and their six children. The old house is a double cell," a very unusual architectural form in Utah. The double cell" means the two bottom rooms and the two top rooms are exact reproductions in size and shape. Each room has an outside door. The home is adobe on a rock foundation. White siding has been placed over the original adobe to protect it from the weather. WCo ' . two-stor- v w - !&-- m ,! . 'jS-'- ' ! - Vi j SAK AX- ld two-sto- The National Shoreline of the Great Salt Lake has varied over the years, causing problems for both . early settlers and modern residents. Aerial photo taken this year shows high level. ry Historical Foundation recently designated the building as a National Historical Site mainly due to the efforts of Knowlton Elementary School teacher Gail Bock and her 1983-8- 4 fourth grade class. The school children did research, filed the papers and even earned the money to pay for the plaque. Some of the walls of the building are 18 inches thick. A cherry wood railing accents the curved stairway. Re- -, markably the railing was never painted, just polished. It is believed one of the two large downstairs rooms was used as a parlor. The other might have been a dining room or bedroom. There is a spacious hallway attaching the old home with a later addition of a large eating roomkitchen and 10-roo- m lean-t- o. The DeLongs came to see the home after an ad stating Brigham Young slept here. They had just moved from New England and were looking for a historical home. They purchased the home and moved in December of 1968. It was falling down, said Mrs. DeLong. We had to put in new plumbing and new electrical wiring right away." took Restoring, however, money and with six kids, we didnt have any. We lived in it until 1980 when we knew we either had to do Somethin- g- Lake flowing with history Salt Lake. A tiny brine shrimp and small fly larvae make their home in the salty water. Fish occasionally drift into the lake from the streams (Bear, Weber and Jordan River) that feed it but die suddenly. In 1871, the City of Corinne, the largest steamer ever, was converted to a pleasure craft. Originally it was used to haul ore from the south end of the lake to the smelter. The pleasure craft sailed the lake for years, making regular stops to various resorts. It was General Garfield, after James A. Garfield, then a candidate for the U.S. presidency, visited the craft. Since the first visit to the Great Salt Lake by LDS explorers in 1847, the lake has been attractive to water lovers. Numerous bathing resorts have flourished at times about the lake. The most famous was the built in 1893, which afforded visitors various sorts of entertainment. Trainloads of pleasure seekers arrived regularly at Saltair by way of the Salt Lake railroad. The popularity of this Saltair varied with the rise and fall of the lake. In 1968, the building was closed to the public because of deterioration. Two years later a fire completely destroyed it. In 1980, a new Saltair with exquisite design was built near where the old one existed. Because of flooding waters it was never completely finished. DARLENE MIX Special to the lakeside Review The blue of the Great Salt Lake is visible from nearly every vantage point in Davis County. Thousands of Utahns and tourists have flocked each year to see and swim in the lake. The popularity of the lake and its beaches has varied through the Preserved and restored, this banister reflects the loving care given it by owners Claire and Ella Rose DeLong. years according to the rise and fall of the lake. Regardless, visitors are awed at the magnificent view of the Great Salt Lake and surrounding mountains. Since 1824 when Jim Bridger, the famous fur trapper, discovered the Great Salt Lake, it has become one the major geographical and geological features of the state. The Great Salt Lake is great in the sense it is the largest salt lake in America, and the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi and occupies the bottom of the largest closed basin in North America (the Great Ba, with it or get out of it. We just couldnt decide, said Mrs. De- the same method of construction used by the pioneers. There are no nails in the fittings. All the pieces stay together because they fit so perfectly. The outside door in the kitchen e is very old. It has square nails in it. They quit making square nails in the Long. Fortunately for the home, the DeLongs talked with national- ly recognized architects and restorers, Steven and Richard Baird. With the Bairds help the restoration began. Closets were torn out, the carpeting ripped up and wallpaper removed. Removing layer after layer of wallpaper stuck on with pioneer glue, which wouldnt come off with the steamer, proved to be quite a hand-mad- 1870s," she said. In the family eating room the mantel piece was designed, built and put in place. The chair rails were cut and placed in the identical spot they had been in pioneer times. The restorers knew this was the correct placing because they found the white line the original rails had left in the original dark green paint. The original woodwork was salvaged by using a blow torch to remove the layers of paint. The red pine from Farmington Canyon was then polished and task. When the carpets were moved a surprise awaited. The original hard wood floors were unpainted and in excellent condition. The wood had been and was flat wide re- well-season- ed pine. Even though the floors had not been painted, there were still pioneer paint drops and Every board polish build-uin this home has been steel wooled by me and my kids to get the pioneer paint off, said hand-graine- d. Some people take an old home and try to make it look new. The DeLongs have created a period in time. They have not only preserved a building, but an atmosphere. After 16 years of curtainless windows, the DeLongs recently e found just the right curtains to adorn the windows. One final touch has been added to the restoration. p. Mrs. DeLong. Work first began in the kitch- en area. The Bairds designed a kitchen in the area of the old lean-t- o at the back of the house. In their design they made the windows historical new windows were made using ' The Great Salt Lake is approximately 75 miles long and 50 miles wide. It has 10 islands. Antelope Island is the lakes largest island and was named by John C. Fremont in 845. The island is 16 miles long and 6 miles wide. It lies just a few miles from the east shores of the Great Salt Lake and is easily seen by Davis County residents. Because of the excellent vegetation, the island has been used as grazing land. By 1850 a boat was built and designed for the purpose of ferrying livestock to and from Antelope Island. The island once had been the native habitat of both Buffalo and Antelope. A big step in progress was the development of the island into a state park in 1969. A causeway was built allowing visitors to drive the seven mile water-levroad to Antelope Island. The causeway was submerged under water several 1 ed el Sal-tai- r, sin). The lake is 25 percent salt. 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