835 Norfolk
William & Alice Sanders House

Tax Photo - circa 1930s

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William and Alice Sanders purchased this property from David McLaughlin for $150. In 1889 they borrowed $200 from Nathaniel Houston and $200 from Thomas Kearns and built the northern half of this home, a one-story T-cottage.

In 1892 they sold the home for $600 to James and Martha Farrell. Four years later the Farrells sold the home for $800 to William and Elizabeth Deason. Both these families had large families. James and Martha had five children of there own, along with three sons from Martha’s previous marriage. William and Elizabeth Deason had seven children. Sometime prior to 1900 the south two-story wing was added to the home. This was actually a common method in Utah to increase the size of a t-cottage house, the resulting form known as a double cross-wing or H-cottage. Unusual was the decision to make the second wing two-story but with a large family the choice makes sense.

William and Elizabeth Deason married in Novia Scotia in 1875 and came to Park City in 1883, during the town’s beginnings. William was a miner and died in 1912. The 1930 census shows Elizabeth still living in this home with her youngest daughter Joanna. Apparently to make ends meet she was also boarding a family of six from New Mexico. Elizabeth died in this home in 1933.