Old Town Park City Homes

145 Daly

Tax Photo - circa 1930's

2001

This home was built c. 1895.  In 1900 John Ledingham was renting the home.  John lived here with his wife Mima and three children, Alta, Erma and William.  John was born in Kansas in 1860, son of Scottish immigrants.  He came to Park City as age 22 to work as a miner in the local mines.   John also served for a time as trustee of the local school board.  He died of miners consumption in 1917, just a month after selling the house to Minnie K. Bennie.

Michael & Matilda Umiljenovich had emigrated to the US in 1901 from Yugoslavia.  They bought three houses in a row, but lived in this house. Mike changed his name from Umiljenovich to Byer, but never legally. After Mike died of consumption in 1924, Matilda married Victor Toly. Toly added an upstairs apartment and stairs on the south side of the home.  Matilda continued to live in the house in about 1980. In 1993, local realtor, Rosemary Sweeney purchased the house and began a two-year restoration with the help of her daughter and son-in-law, contractor Bill Hughes.  The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This one-story frame home is variant of the pyramid type house.  The typicall pyramid house is cube shaped with four square rooms of equal or similar proportions and hipped or pyramid roof.  Pyramids popular in the late 1890s and were with a number of variations.  This one is characterized by dormer window and clipped gable ends.  Instead of the porch spanning the entire front facade of the home, here the porch is recessed into a section of the facade.  Pyramid houses make up about 20% of the total number of pyramid homes built duringParkCity’s mining boom.