Park City Historical Society

Historic Photo

2001

This house was built in the early 1890s. Martha and Carl Gebhart owned the home. Carl was born in Germany in 1872 and emigrated to the US in 1889. Mary had also emigrated in 1889 The couple was married in 1904 and purchased the home shortly after. They lived here with their daughter, Elsie. In 1915 Martha hired Levine D. Gray who owned 133 Main (also on the tour), to repair and construct an addition to the home. He supplied lumber, shingles, mails, wallpaper, paint, windows and iron roofing of the value of $175 and worked at the home for thirty five days , charging five dollars per day.

This home is one of Park City’s many T-cottages. The original house was a hall and parlor type with a rear shed extension. Martha’s 1915 remodel probably included the addition of the wing to the north, creating the t-cottage we see today. The wing facing the street reveals the house’s more modest beginnings with the configuration of the front door flanked by two windows. T-cottage’s typically have an a-symmetrical front facade with the entry door aligned to the side and usually flanked by one or at the most two abutting windows.