This is a two-story home with a central hall type plan. It is one room deep and two rooms wide with a hall, and has a one story shed extension to the west rear. Chimneys are at the gable ends. Facade piercing follows a “five-over-five” symmetrical pattern. Windows are double hung sash types, six lights over six. Shutters and siding are later modifications.
Some part of this house may have been built by 1879 when the city directory shows Paul E.B. Hammer, a painter, in residence there. Hammer bought the property for $600 and resold it the same year for $650, both modest sums. Caroline C.P. Conley, widow of Solomon Conley, bought the house in 1879. She is listed as physician and surgeon in midwifery, practicing and in residence there, in 1884. Thereafter she lived elsewhere.
The house had apparently been brought to its present configuration by 1890, when Mrs. Conley was able to borrow several thousand dollars against it to finance the construction of four houses to the west on 4th North.
Located at 469 North Main Street in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah
Thank you very much for this post. I am on a team at the LDS Church History Library who seaches out information on women who were midwives. There is an advertisement in the Deseret Evening News in April of 1883 for a “Mrs. Caroline Conley; Physician & Midwife in obstetrics”. I have been working to find out who she married because I need her maiden name. US Census in 1870 & 1880 in Utah and Wyoming were not helpful and my other “tricks’ were not producing results. This morning I decided to just try Google and poof up came her information in your post about the Hammer home. Dates are good and address is perfect. Thank you. I work remotely from Frankfurt Germany as my husband is an Area Medical Advisor for part of the Europe North and Eurasia Area Missions.
I need to ask if I can share your information your information about Mrs Conley with our team. Thank you
Of course.