This house was built for Reed and Allie Eldredge Smoot in 1892. Richard K. A. Kletting was the architect. Reed Smoot, born in Salt Lake City in 1862, served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church from 1900 until his death in 1941. Senator Smoot represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1902 until 1933 and became a national leader of the Republican Party. Reed Smoot was the son of Abraham O. Smoot, pioneer, civic, business and Mormon Church leader.