
This is another in my oldest in Utah series.
I like to build lists and collections, one I’ve often wanted to work on is the oldest homes in Utah. This list isn’t complete, I’ll be adding to it as I find or remember them.
1840’s
- 1841 – Miles Goodyear Cabin in Odgen
- 1847 – Deuel Home – Salt Lake
- 1848 – Robert Gardner Home in Millcreek/Salt Lake
- 1848 – Fielding Garr Ranch House(*) on Antelope Island
1850’s
- 1851 – Barnes-Gibson Home in Kaysville
- 1851 – Joseph “Cap” Hill Cabin in Layton
- 1853 – Wood-Harrison House in Springville
- 1853 – Isaac Chase and Brigham Young Home in Salt Lake.
- 1854 – Clark Taylor Home in Provo
- 1856 – William and Ann Bringhurst House in Springville
- 1856 – Morgan Hughes Home in Spanish Fork
- 1857 – William and Grace Wignall Home in Payson (first in Payson)
- 1857 – William Wignall Home in Payson
- 1857 – Orwell Simons Home in Payson
- 1859 – Anson Call House in Bountiful
- 1859 – Ole Peder Sorensen Pioneer Cabin in Mendon
1860’s
- 1860 – Paul E. Kofford House in Spring City
- 1860 – Pendleton Rock House in Wanship
- 1861 – William Stuart Seeley House in Mt Pleasant
- 1861 – Mads Madsen Home in Mt Pleasant
- 1862 – Edward Pugh Home in Millcreek
- 1862 – Christopher Flintoff Dixon, Sr. Home in Payson
- 1864 – Niels H. Borresen House in Spring City
- 1864 – Reuben W. Allred, Sr., House in Spring City
- 1865 – Ashton/Driggs House in Pleasant Grove
- 1865 – Orson and Mary Ann Hyde House in Spring City
- 1865 – Joseph S. Murdock House in Heber
- 1867 – Joseph Olpin House in Lindon
- 1860s – Lauritz Larsen House in Spring City
1870’s
- 1870 – Neils Peter Larsen House in Pleasant Grove
- 1870 – Samuel Green House in Pleasant Grove
- 1870 – Johnson/Hansen Cabin in Provo
- 1870 – Perry and Agnes Fitzgerald House in Draper
- 1874 – Samuel Douglass House Payson
- 1874 – Jacob Hanmer White House in Pleasant Grove
- 1874 – John Frantzen House in Spring City
- 1875 – H.T. Reynolds House in Springville
- 1875 – William Roberts House in Provo
- 1875 – Hannah Maria Libby Smith House in Provo
- 1875 – Judge Jacob Johnson House in Spring City
- 1875 – Morten Rasmussen House in Mt Pleasant
- 1875 – Iver Petersen House in Spring City
- 1876 – The George Patten Home in Payson
- 1876 – Simon P. Eggertsen Sr. House in Provo
- 1876 – Peter Axel Johnson House in Pleasant Grove
- 1876 – Johnson-Hansen House in Provo
- 1876 – Christen Larsen House in Pleasant Grove
- 1876 – Rasmus Justesen House in Spring City
- 1876 – George Bonner, Sr. House in Midway
- 1877 – George Bonner, Jr. House in Midway
- 1877 – William Bonner House in Midway
- 1877 – Harvey H. Cluff House in Provo
- 1877 – Alfred William Harper House in Lindon
- 1879 – Todd – Hicken Home in Heber
- 1870s – Peter Mickelsen House in Spring City
- 1870s – Neils B. Adler House in Spring City
1880’s
- 1880 – Meiling-Seely House in Mt Pleasant
- 1880 – William Ford House in Spring City
- 1881 – John Hafen Home in Santa Clara
- 1883 – Dunn-Binnall House & Farmstead in American Fork
- 1883 – Behunin-Beck House in Spring City
- 1884 – George M. Brown House in Provo
- 1884 – Crisp-Allred House in Spring City
- 1885 – Charles E. Davies House in Provo
- 1885 – Crossgrove House in Draper
- 1885 – William H. and Sarah D. Meneray House in Springville
- 1885 – Lars and Agnes Jensen House in Orem
- 1885 – George Taylor Jr. House in Provo
- 1885 – William Friend Young House in Pleasant Grove
- 1887 – Heber A. Smith – Soren Rasmussen Home in Draper
- 1887 – Thomas Barrett Farmhouse in Orem
- 1887 – Lars and Christina Olsen House in Orem
- 1887 – Hopkinson – Elsner Home in Kanosh
- 1889 – Roswell Darius Bird Sr. Home in Mapleton
- 1889 – 1035 N Harrisville Road in Harrisville
- 1889 – 292 E 300 S in Springville
- 1889 – Dennis A. Smyth House in Ogden
1890’s
- 1890 – N.S. Nielson House in Mt Pleasant
- 1890 – Davidsen Home in Mt Pleasant
- 1891 – William D. Alexander House in Provo
- 1891 – Yard-Groesbeck House in Springville
- 1891 – John Taylor house in Salt Lake
- 1892 – Stephen and Mary Bunnell house in Orem
- 1892 – Reed Smoot House in Provo
- 1892 – Joshua David House in Orem
- 1893 – James C. Armstrong Home / Bertha Eccles Hall in Ogden
- 1893 – John Dixon House in Payson
- 1893 – Edward Wadley House in Pleasant Grove
- 1894 – Clinger/Booth House in Orem
- 1895 – David Baxter house in Orem
- 1895 – George and Temperance Adams House in Orem
- 1895 – Ira W. Gardner House in Salem
- 1895 – James P. and Lydia Strang House in Springville
- 1895 – Ami and Amanda Oakley House in Springville
- 1895 – Erick Ericksen Home in Mt Pleasant
- 1895 – Gibbs-Thomas-Hansen House in Salt Lake
- 1896 – Dr. Samuel H. Allen House in Provo
- 1896 – Bohne Home in Mt Pleasant
- 1896 – James H. and Rhoda H. Gardner House in Lehi
- 1896 – Samuel Goodwin House in Lehi
- 1896 – Cordner-Calder House in Orem
- 1896 – Nephi and Annie Kindred House in Springville
- 1897 – Thomas A. Richins House in Pleasant Grove
- 1897 – Warren B. Smith House in American Fork
- 1897 – Henry and Elizabeth Parker Chipman House in American Fork
- 1897 – David Morgan House in Goshen
- 1898 – The A.B. (Aurelius) Fitzgerald Home in Draper
- 1898 – Willard Boulter Enniss Home in Draper
- 1898 – Antone Nielson Home in Draper
- 1898 – William H. Ray House in Provo
- 1898 – William James and Edna Cordner House in Orem
- 1898 – Alex Justesen House in Spring City
- 1899 – Carter/Terry/Call House in Orem
- 1899 – Christopher F. Dixon, Jr., House in Payson
- 1899 -Knight-Allen House in Provo
- 1899 – Ben Meek Home in Draper
- 1899 – The J.R. Allen Home in Draper
- 1899 – Isaac J. Dunyon Home in Draper
- 1899 – 1899 Vine Cottage in Mt Pleasant
1900’s
- 1901 – Joseph S. Neilsen Home in Draper
- 1902 – John C. & Sarah E Snow House in Orem
- 1902 – The Heywood House in Ogden
- 1904 – 59 E 400 N in Payson
- 1904 – 310 S Main in Spring City
- 1908 – Knight-Mangum House in Provo
- 1908 – Lars Rasmussen Home in Mt Pleasant
- 1909 – Mary Ann Allred House in Spring City
- 1909 – James A. Loveless House in Orem
- 1910 – James Simpson House in Mt Pleasant
- 1916 – Susan Heaton House in Orem
- 1928 – George F. Carroll House in Orem
- 1931 – Theodore Farley Jr’s Farmstead in Orem
- 1935 – Roy H. and Florence B. Gappmayer House in Orem
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An addition to this list is the 1862 Edward Pugh home in Millcreek. https://jacobbarlow.com/2014/06/30/edward-pugh-home/
Thanks! I’m slowing trying to go back through all of my homes posted to see which to add here. I appreciate the help.
The James Jenson house. 1877
Virgin, Utah