Alma Staker House

United States historic place


Alma Staker House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°32′33″N 111°27′14″W / 39.542626°N 111.453814°W / 39.542626; -111.453814
Area	less than one acre
Built	c.1870
Architectural style	Greek Revival, vernacular
NRHP reference No.	79002509^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 9, 1979

The Alma Staker House, at 81 E. 300 South in Mount Pleasant, Utah, was built around 1870 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

It illustrates "syncretism", i.e. the synthesis of Eastern style, with Western materials. It is an adobe house with vernacular Greek Revival style. It has a "temple-form" or "up-right and wing" house plan, i.e. a one-and-a-half-story gabled central unit, one room wide and two deep, flanked by smaller one-story wings.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ Tom Carter; John S. H. Smith (October 24, 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Alma Staker House". National Park Service. Retrieved August 14, 2019. With accompanying three photos from 1979