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Show HISTORIC HOME RAZED, TO BE RESTORED Dismantling of the old Brigham Young home on Second East and South Temple was begun about ten days ago by the Sugar House chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers. It is now being razed and will be restored at the Mormon Pioneer Village at the old Sugar House prison site. The job is being done by contractors who will be assisted by volunteers on Saturdays. The two-story building was one of Brigham Young's first homes and was designed by the noted architect, Truman O. Angel, and built in 1870. The inside trim is down, as is the roof and rafters. Each piece is being handled with extreme care numbered and saved so an exact replica can be built in the Mormon Pioneer Village. The tearing tear-ing down project will be completed in another week. Some of the native lumber, sawed in the valley, original square-cut nails and a portion of the crumbling old sandstone foundation and adobe walls will be preserved to show just how the home was first constructed. When the park is landscaped and the home re-constructed it will be just one of many old landmarks throughout the state to be assembled as-sembled on the 100-acre 'prison tract, transformed to a park. The old home will be rebuilt as soon as the park is ready and plans are under way by the SUP to begin the actual work on the park in a month, according to Karl B. Hale, president of the Sugar House chapter. Ashton, Evans and Brazier, architects, arch-itects, will design the pioneer village, vil-lage, which will contain pioneer homes, shops, grist mills and other structures that made up the first permanent white settlement in the valley. The memorial village will not only be historic in nature, but will serve well as an educational, cultural, spiritual and tourist attraction at-traction in the heart of the prom- inent business and recreational area of the city. Horace A. Sorensen was appointed ap-pointed chairman of a citizens' committee to speed develoment of the park and reconstruction program. |