Evidence of title and directories suggests this house was built about 1892 by James Rouan, apparently a contractor, of whom nothing is readily known. It was sold in 1893 to John M. Eslinger. Eslinger came to Salt Lake in the early 1890’s. He joined the police department as a patrolman and rapidly advanced to sergeant and captain. He left the department in 1898 and subsequently became a “well-known” real estate dealer, A member of the LDS Church, he and his wife Carrie L. Eslinger apparently sold the house
on contract to Alfred Masterman in 1903, although Masterman did not receive title until 1914.

This is a one-story Victorian cottage with a main hip-roofed block and a projecting gabled front bay. The front gable has bargeboards and fishscale pattern wood shingle siding, and it has decorative scroll sawn brackets at the lower corners. This gable rests on a segmental bay with wood panelling below the windows. Walls of the house are covered with bevelled siding. The front porch has turned columns and brackets.

Located at 516 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.