805 Woodside
Charles and Florence Workman House

Tax Photo - circa 1930s

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The architecture of this home is very different from its neighbors, because the house was built almost forty years after the others. This corner lot sat vacant until 1926 when Charles and Florence Workman purchased it and built the bungalow. The Bungalow was the basic middle-class home, replacing the Victorian cottage of the late nineteenth century. Its popularity was due to numerous pattern books, many published in California. Characteristics included low hip roof, rectangular plan and the narrow novelty siding. Charles worked as a blacksmith at the Judge Mine and served four years on the Park City Council. On Christmas Eve, 1927, after driving his wife and daughter, Margaret, to Salt Lake for an afternoon’s shopping, Charles dropped dead. "Changing the completed plans for a merry, happy Christmas for him and his loved ones, into one of deepest sorrow and grief," reported the Park Record newspaper. Charles had borrowed the car of Charley Chong, owner of the Senate Cafe, to make the trip and was on Main Street returning the keys when Charles complained of pain in his heart and collapsed. The midst of the Great Depression, 1927 was an extremely hard time for most in Park City. By 1930, Florence was caring for three boarders in her large new house, along with her three children, Margaret, Farrell and Charles. Florence died in 1935, just 57 years old. Her daughter Margaret owned the home until 1943, when she sold it for $50.00.