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Show i : ' . 1 : - ' . - . - J r ; . .- , ; ' ""w, , -4' ' i - i v - A :1 , v , ' J r 1 "fV , I w . f I 1905 five dollar gold piece. Restoration Work Rewarded said Nelson. After gold fever hit. Nelson got a metal detector and went over the house thoroughly tho-roughly but failed to find any more treasure. It's definitely a sign of encouragement to go on with the project," he said. While Park City's historic residences seem to almost daily fall victim to the destructive jaws of bulldozers, bulldo-zers, Dale Nelson is trying to save one of the city's oldest yet most run down homes. Nelson who has renovated at least eight Park City homes and buildings started worked this week on the old Sullivan house on upper Main Street. The imposing three-story victorian is thought to have been built in 1884 and it is certain that it did survive the great fire of 1898. It was once the home of "Patty the Pigv one of the city's most illustrous landladies and has not been lived in since 1948 according to Nelson. " I don't even know if we can restore it,," said Nelson as he stared at the leaning"" walls and tilted floors, "but it's such a fine old building that it's worth a try". Nelson says if possible, he'll turn the historic house into a four bedroom town-house town-house for his personal use. If the project seems almost impossible given the condition condit-ion of the building, Nelson did find a bit of encouragement encourage-ment Tuesday afternoon. He was pulling up an old piece of linoleum in one of the back rooms and found a 1905 five dollar gold piece worth now many times its original face value. The coin was laying on top of old newspapers dating from the same year. "Qut of all the old buildings I've restored in this town, this is the first time I've found something valuable." |