Old Town Park City Homes

97 Daly

(Historic Photo Unavailable)

2001

This house was probably built in the late 1890s.  Josephine and Bart Mahoney lived here.  Bart was born in County Cork in 1880 and immigrated to the US  in February 1890.  He arrived in New York on the ship “Ardgroom”. He married  Josephine Murphy and they moved to Park City from the mines of Eureka in 1905.  They had six children (five born in Park City), John, Patrick Francis, Eleanor, Maria and Michael William.  Bart worked in the local mines.  Josephine finally received legal title for the property in 1916 and sold it in 1917.

This home is a one-story frame T/L cottage with a gable roof.  The original house was a hall and parlor type was built prior to 1889.  The addition of the wing to the north by 1900 created the t-cottage we see today.  The wing parallel to the street (the stem of the “T”) reveals the house’s more modest beginnings with the configuration of the front door flanked by two windows.  T-cottage’s typically have an asymmetrical front facade with the entry door aligned to the side and usually flanked by one or at the most two abutting windows.  Here the front door is centered between two windows, the typical configuration of a Hall-parlor floor plan.  This addition documents the most common and acceptable method of expansion of small Park City homes.

This home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.