Rectangular Cabin

Rectangular cabins replaced the one room log cabins and
brush shanties in this area. Rectangular cabins traditionally
have 2 rooms side by side, as you can see by the floor plan. 
The rectangular cabin was the first house type to appear in 
and around Park City because of its small size and easy construction.
Also, the rectangular cabin's roots lie within Scottish and 
Irish construction methods. In the 1880s, the majority of 
Park City's population originated from Scotland, Ireland, England 
and Wales. A local Parkite, George Snyder's house, described as
a two room frame house, was the first built within the Park

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Shotgun house

The shotgun house is characterized as being one room wide
and two rooms deep, with the rooms directly in line with 
each other, as you can see by the floor plan. A popular,
choice for mining towns, lumber camps and other boom towns,
because of its cheap and easy construction, the shotgun was not
greatly used by Park City residents. Instead only a small number
of shotgun houses existed in Park City, predominantly in the 
city's Chinatown - just East of Main Street. The last of the 
shotgun houses in Park City was demolished in 1983.

Why do you think it is called a shotgun house?

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T cottage

The T-cottage, named because it consists of two wings
which intersect at right angles to form a "T," turned up
on the Park City landscape and quickly became the most
popular house type. By the 1880s, the T-cottage gained 
national popularity, and was available from plan
books.  Park City built more T-cottages than other 
mining towns.  51% of all Park City houses before
1889 were T-cottages.

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Pyramid cottage

Named for its characteristic pyramid roof, the pyramid
cottage is described as a four room square building with
a pyramid roof and front porch. Introduced to Park
City in as early as 1888, the pyramid cottage did not
gain popularity until after the great fire of 1898 when
it was used to replace destroyed homes. Because the pyramid
house type replaced those homes destroyed by the Great
Park City fire of 1898, heavy concentrations of pyramid 
cottages can be found on Park and Marsac Avenues - where
the fire did the most residential damage.

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