Friday, August 1, 2008

Another historic home

This is the Pingree mansion. It is a historic mansion in ogden utah. I was lucky enough to get a tour of this home. It belonged to a wealthy banker, He was a polygamist and this is one of his wifes homes. And yes the other one is bigger. This is the home that has elephant hide wallpaper, a state of the art ballroom floor with springs under the wood, and beautiful murals painted throughout. These are the original blueprints. This is the side view.

The back view.












Original furniture to the home.












This is the sitting room.and the living room
















The front entrance.









The elephant wallpaper














Butlers pantry.






























Original cabinets. And the silver left with the home.


















One of the uncovered murals in the home.






























Renovated baths.















Views from above.


















view looking up.




One of the renovated areas. This will be made into a b&b and there is an apartment in the basement for the caretaker.




















more murals




















Basement bedroom.





















A painting found in the basement. artist unknowen.






















more murals.






















This. is the ballroom the knooks are for seating when people were not dancing























another view of ballroom.




This home turned 100 years old this summer. It is an amazing home. There is alot more to see but it would have taken all day. I do have a little history on this home, If anyone is interested I can give more info. thanks for taking a peek, This was so fun to see. love J




















6 comments:

niartist said...

jojilla, thank you for the tour of this impressive beauty! I love old homes, and I am officially in love with that sink in the butlers pantry. They just don't make things like these old houses anymore! Great tour, thanks again!

cindy said...

Hi Jillian!...what a lovely home it must of been in its day. Are you going to have anything to do with restoring it?.....what do you think they will do with the ballroom?....(the picture of your kids is awesome!)...(I dont think I have ever seen such lovely wedding photos!) have a great week! Cindy

Jan said...

Hey Joj!! This vacation is killin' me!! (Loving the grandkids, though!) Besides swatting the mosquitoes, I am going all the time, and have so little time to check in on my favorite peeps and blogs. It makes me realize how it become my favorite pastime... Just wanted to say hi and I will check out and catch up on your info in full soon. Hope all is well, my friend, Jan

Picket said...

Hey girl....love your new header and the background...that is a beautiful old home...I love older homes. You ask about getting the pics on the blog..you are doing a great job of adding pics...what was you referring to sweetie? I surely am not that educated on computers and it takes a lot of trial and error for me...mostly error! lol

Picket said...

Me again...I use a free download called picnik.it lets you take your pics and add frames and borders and text....I love the polaroid one the you choose the back ground color around the pic....when you go to post and you browse your pics in you blog off to the side of the box it says small meduim or large so you can make you pics fit into your post...sorry I don't know more about computers

Rue said...

Hi J :)

Great house!! It's hitory is really something too. I LOVE that sink!!

Thanks for letting me know you posted it. I'm sorry it takes awhile for me to get over here, but I always will eventually ;)

hugs,
rue