An early electric streetcar in Salt Lake City. USHS
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The ''Unrivalled Perkins' Addition": Portrait of a Streetcar Subdivision BY ROGER V. ROPER
I N NOVEMBER 1890 GIEBERT L . CHAMBEREIN, a Denver real estate developer, arrived in Salt L.ake City and announced his ambitious plans for a new residential subdivision, to be known as Perkins' Addition.1 Chamberlin stated that over one million dollars would be invested in the subdivision to "improve the property handsomely" and to construct three hundred "first class residences."^ T h e "unMr. Roper is a historian in the pieser\ation lesearc h sec t ion of the Utah State Historical Soc iety. Much of the lesearch for thisartic le was done as part of a National Register nomination of the Perkins' Addition houses jMej^ared by Mr. Roper and Debbie Randall, an architectural historian with the Soc iety. 'Perkins' Addition was probably named after F. M. Perkins, a Denvei businessman who served as president of the company backing C^hamberlin and as secretary of Western Farm Mortgage and Irust Company of Denver. St'v Sail Lake Tribune, March 12, 1891, p. 6. '^Salt Lake Tribune. November 30, 1890, p. 6; January 17, 1891, p. 6.
