The Francis Armstrong House (also known as Tower Apartments) is a historic house in

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. It is locally significant as a fine example of Queen Anne style architecture.

Description and history

The -story, Queen Anne style house was built in 1892, and was designed by William Ward and constructed by Taylor, Romney & Armstrong as the home of Salt Lake City mayor

Francis Armstrong Francis Fraser Armstrong (1813–1897) was a Scottish Methodist pioneer of the Swan River Colony who befriended and recorded the language of the Nyungar people in Western Australia. His father Adam Armstrong, was a well known early settler of We ...

. and The scheme of the house is thought to have been brought over by Armstrong from England in 1891, and is apparently based on an English home of the period. It was listed on the

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on May 23, 1980.

References

Houses completed in 1892 Houses in Salt Lake City Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah Queen Anne architecture in Utah 1892 establishments in Utah Territory National Register of Historic Places in Salt Lake City {{Utah-struct-stub