The John C. Sharp House, located off Utah 36 in

Vernon, Utah Vernon is a town in southeastern Tooele County, Utah, Tooele County, Utah, United States. Description The town located along Utah State Route 36 in southern Rush Valley and is part of the Salt Lake City Salt Lake City metropolitan area, Metropo ...

, is an

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

house that was built in 1888. It is significant for association with John C. Sharp, bishop of the Vernon Ward of

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Restorationism, restorationist Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, denomination and the ...

(LDS Church), and also for being the only surviving house "which represents the financial success of many of the early ranchers and farmers, most of whom left the area as soon as they could afford to." Further it is one of relatively few surviving houses of a certain type:

box with a side passage plan; it is one of just 11 known in the state, nine being in Salt Lake City. Others that are NRHP-listed include the Charles R. Savage House in Salt Lake City, the Howe C. Wallace House (a contributing property in the

Avenues Historic District The Avenues is an affluent neighborhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is named after the perfectly gridlike, closely laid out roads called Avenues (numbers, 1st - 18th) and Streets (letters, A - V). First surveyed in the 1850s, the Avenues bec ...

) in Salt Lake City; the Lewis S. Hills House in Salt Lake City, and the David McDonald House in Salt Lake City. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1984. The listing included three

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...

: the house, a c.1888 barn, and a c.1888 milk house. and

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, John C., House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah Italianate architecture in Utah Houses completed in 1888 Houses in Tooele County, Utah National Register of Historic Places in Tooele County, Utah