Anni Clark Tanner Rental House

This historic one-story, wood-clapboard bungalow, featuring a stone foundation, was built circa 1912 by Annie Clark Tanner for use as a rental home. Annie, the daughter of LDS pioneer Ezra T. Clark, had another house adjacent to this at 291 West State Street. Annie’s polygamous husband, Joseph Marion Tanner, had squandered most of her inheritance and asked her to sell her home at 291 West State to help finance his farm in Canada, but she refused. She built this rental house next door and rented rooms in the main house to famous orchestra musicians employed at Lagoon. She worked for neighbors, washing and scrubbing floors for fifteen cents an hour to help her children receive an education. Six of her children received a college education, including Obert Clark Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner jewelry company. The home retains its historic integrity and contributes to the Clark Lane Historic District.

269 West State Street in Farmington, Utah in the Clark Lane National Historic District.