This two and one-half stone house is a good example of pre-Victorian high styled pioneer architecture. It has slanted bay windows with brackets and Greek Revival type wood lintel trim, quarter round windows in attic and plain frieze and cornice. There is an oval pane front door. The roof is gable and the plan is L-shape.
A carport has been added, and the stucco wall and two story porch are intrusions. But despite intrusions it is a good example of design and craftsmanship of the late pioneer period.
Erastus Snow, an early Utah pioneer and LDS Church apostle, built this home for his second wife, Minerva White. She was a close friend of his first wife, Artimesia Beman. The house, which was built in 1888, is a good example of pre-Victorian high styled pioneer architecture.
Minerva Snow was born in Massachusetts in 1822. She and her mother joined the Mormon Church when Minerva was eighteen years old. She married Erastus Snow on April 2, 1844. She came to Salt Lake Valley in 1848. In 1861, she went to Southern Utah with her husband and families. She served in the Relief Society in St. George.
She moved to Salt Lake and Snow built this house for her. She was a counselor in the Relief Society in the Eighteenth ward while she lived here.
Erastus Snow-came to Salt Lake in 1888 and stayed in this house. He was living here when he died May 27, 1888. Shortly after her husband’s death, Snow was called to go to Manti to work in the temple.
Franklin Richards Snow, son of Erastus and Artimesia Beman, lived in this home for a number of years until his home on the other side of Canyon Road was finished.
Located at 217 Canyon Road in the City Creek Canyon Historic District of Salt Lake City, Utah.