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Figs. 13 and 14. Floor plans of the John Henry Layton house (left) and George Willard Layton house (right). Drawn by author.
deeded to them by their father, and both became successful bankers and ranchers. John H. Layton was considered one of the wealthiest farmers in Davis County at the time of his death.^^ He was a director of the National Bank of Layton, while his brother George W. was bank president and a stockholder in the Ellison Ranching Company. The brothers' Victorian Eclectic, high-style dwellings appear similar in massing and in the asymmetry of their cross-wing plans. The second-story porch tower located directly above the main entry is covered by a portion of a pyramidal roof which projects above the ridge of the main roof reinforcing the picturesque quality of irregularity common to the style and relating the visual image of the house to the cross-wing and tower type. The plans of the Layton houses are similar but not identical, for one is the mirror image of the other. In the John Henry Layton house plan (fig. 13) a central passage or hallway containing a staircase separates the dining room and kitchen located in the cross-wing from the parlor and sitting room, or possibly a bedroom, of the main block. A separate brick summer kitchen is now attached to the house ^''Deseret News, F"ebruary 3, 1920, p. 8.
