Alma Compton House

United States historic place


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

The house in 2010j
41°30′25″N 112°00′49″W / 41.50694°N 112.01361°W / 41.50694; -112.01361 (Alma Compton House)
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	1908 (1908)
Architect	Andrew Funk,
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Victorian cottage
NRHP reference No.	88000381^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 7, 1988

The Alma Compton House is a historic house in Brigham City, Utah. It was built in 1908 as a cottage for Alma Compton, an immigrant from England,^[2] and designed in the Victorian style.^[3] Compton, who became a professional photographer in Brigham City,^[3] lived here with his wife, née Jane E. Dalton, his son Matthew, and his two daughters.^[2] The Comptons were Mormons.^[2] The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 7, 1988.^[1] The Compton Studio Photographs collection at Utah State University includes "over 100,000 original photographic negatives."^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Death Strikes Oldest Citizen". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. March 15, 1931. p. 4. Retrieved October 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Larry Douglass, Roger Rope (February 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Alma Compton House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 15, 2019. With accompanying pictures
^ "Compton Studio Photographs". Utah State University. Retrieved October 15, 2019.