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Title	Brick house, Providence, Utah, 1970
Description	Two-story brick house with gable windows on second story and white shutters on the first story windows and door. The Fifes commented in a note written in the 1970s: "Basic floor plan is like many of the stone houses we've been studying recently. Symmetrical facade, 2 stories. A door in the center, with two windows on either side. The top level with gable windows and a door which opens out onto nothing. Flues centrally located, about 6' apart, and undoubtedly have a stairway going up to the second floor immediately between them." When asked (in 2005) about the purpose of the second front door, Thomas Carter, Associate Professor of Architectural History at University of Utah explained: "The upstairs door was probably for moving furniture and other large household items upstairs. Upstairs doors were found all over the United States during the late eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries, for the above reason. By the twentieth century, the need vanished and so did the doors." Image has been lightened.
Date.Original	1970-06
Place	Providence (Utah)
Subject	Architecture, Domestic -- Pictorial works Brick houses -- Pictorial works
Batch Number	B167; B304
Material Culture	Dwelling houses Brick houses Shutters
Genre	Material culture Vernacular architecture Slides
Creator	Fife, Austin E. Fife, Alta Stevens
Photographer	Fife, Austin E.
Publisher	Utah State University Library
Type	Image
Source	USU Fife Slide Collection, FOLK COLL 4 no. 3, ID number
Rights	Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries folklore curator, phone (435) 797-3493
Date.Digital	2004-11-10
Format	JPG
File size	117.123 kb
Height	545
Width	800
Color space	RGB
Scanner	EverSmart Jazz CreoScitex
Identifer Number	070304

Brick house, Providence, Utah, 1970

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