Madsen, David and Evinda, House

The story

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The Madsen, David and Evinda, House is a dwelling at 60 N. 100 W. in Ephraim, Sanpete County, built in 1900 in the Victorian Eclectic and Italianate styles.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and B, with local-level significance in architecture, agriculture and social history; its period of significance spans 1900, when David Patten Madsen and Evinda Elvira Allred moved in, to 1953.

Physical character

The house has a rock-faced limestone foundation, red brick walls and an asphalt shingle roof, with arched window heads and rounded and semi-octagonal bays under a hipped roofline. Inside are a wrought iron and tile fireplace, an open staircase and parquet floors. A 1910 shed and chicken coop and a 1942 granary complete the property's four contributing buildings. The house was updated in 1989, subdivided from its original acre in the 1990s, and damaged by burst pipes in 2005 and 2006.

Historical context

Peter Madsen moved the family to Ephraim in 1854; David completed homestead proof in 1900 and helped build the Ephraim City Electrical Plant in 1904. Evinda died in 1947 and David in 1953, and the house then passed to the Farleys in 1989, the Tidwells in 1994, Barbara Jorgensen in 1999 and the Riveras in 2005.