This home was built by Patrick Moran, a local general contractor along with the carriage house south of this home (now a duplex) and the bungalow east of it (as a home for his mother-in-law.)

This home is located at 1106 East South Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah

(from Preservation Utah’s walking tour)
Patrick & Dolly Moran House and Cottage
1106 and 1108 E. South Temple
House–1901, John A. Headlund, SLC
Cottage–1908, architect unknown

Patrick Moran’s name is stamped in many Salt Lake City sidewalks. His contracting company, one of the largest in the Intermountain West, poured much of the curbing and sidewalk in Salt Lake City and Ogden. The company also undertook huge water projects like the Big Cottonwood conduit and pipeline in Weber Canyon. Moran eventually purchased the Portland Cement Company to insure the supply of materials he needed for his contracts.

Moran was well-loved in Salt Lake City. For several years he hosted “Moran Day” at Lagoon and furnished wagonloads of watermelon to the crowds. Among his many charitable projects, Moran organized the purchase of an elephant, Princess Alice, for Salt Lake City’s zoo.

Moran and his wife, Dolly, bought this red brick house on South Temple from Mrs. Edwin Mulford in 1903. In 1907, they built the shingled cottage next door for Dolly’s mother. She died, however, before the cottage was complete.

When their older children left for school in Connecticut, the Morans moved into the cottage themselves. The larger red brick house was only used when the older boys returned from school and for an occasional party. Dolly suffered a long illness prior to her death in 1917 and may have been more comfortable in the smaller cottage.