Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1947.002.0023Description
Stone house that belonged to Judge Homer Merrill [sic] (Merrell) in 1890's.
Update - 2009: Black & white print attached to cream-colored mat which has a textured outer border around all edges. Print shows an ornate house built of irregular shaped rock with wooden gables protruding from roof, side & front. Windows of house are narrow & high. Front of house has multiple columns on side left entryway & matching columns on side right entryway. Several small rock outbuildings are seen on right side. The house is built into an arid hillside with a high butte type cliff seen on side right. An incline driveway has irregular shaped post fence on side left & a more uniform square post built fence with wire on side right of road bed. Light snow patches are seen on side left. A group of three women are standing on entryway side left & a man is seated on the steps with a black dog nearby. A man & a woman are standing on entryway side right each on one side of the portico.
Written on back in pencil: "Home built by Homer Merrell on the south side of the U.P. track by the hill west of town. Built around 1890. Faced mtns. to the east. Property later owned by A.M. Startzell. Nothing left of present time except a few foundation stones.
Written in blue ink: Merrell Home - Startzell Home.
Good condition with heavy soiling of black smudges on all edges of mat front & back. Excessive wear on all edges with very worn corners, some slightly torn as are parts of lower edges of mat. Print has scratches, scuffing, abrasions & some indentions on emulsion surface.
There are two black & white copies of the original, each 3 1/2 x 5" both copies show mat edge from original on side left. Both good condition. Copy 1 has dark shadow side right top, some abrasion outer right edge. Written in pencil on back: Judge Merrell Home.
Copy 2 also has some abrasions outer right edge. Written in black ink: Merrell Home Build [sic] on south of the tracks.Collection
Photograph Collection