732 Crescent Tramway
Carl Winters’ First Home

Tax Photo - circa 1930s

Recent Photo

Ever wondered who Carl Winters was, memorialized in the old high school/Library building on Park Ave? To start he lived here.

Carl Winters graduated from the University of Utah in 1924 and taught in Helper and Upton. In 1926, he took a job teaching at the Park City High School. According to their daughter Marie, “My mother didn’t want to come because it was a lusty mining town.”

The Winters purchased this home and lived here for twelve years with their three daughters. “A kitchen, bathroom, dining room, front room and one bedroom,” as Marie remembered, “Daddy later built an upstairs to it. Tore off the kitchen and bathroom and made them new. The house was small, one bedroom for all the five of us – until he built the upstairs. But everyone had a dining room, whether they had just one bedroom.”

Carl Winters taught mathematics until 1936, then became high school principal for two years before being appointed Park City School District Superintendent, a position he held for twenty seven years (until 1965).

The home's subsequent owners were Matthew Rodgers who married Ida Richardson on July 30, 1914. Matt was born in County Down, Ireland in 1888 and came to the US in 1906. He was employed as a hoisting engineer for the Silver King Coalition Mines Company until his retirement. The Rodgers loved their home and garden and lived here with their two sons Matt and Leo.