Large two story stucco structure with a two-story double gabled wing with unusual tapered pilasters.
Some of this structure may be part of the adobe and frame dwelling built about 1873 by Levi Richards, although no nineteenth century elements are visible.
Levi Richards (1799-1877) came to Utah in 1853. He had studied medicine and served on the Utah “Board of Examination” for physicians. Richards only son, Levi W. ( -1914) inherited this property upon the former’s death and lived here until his own death.
Levi W. was a real estate and business entrepreneur. In keeping with the religion, of which he was an active practitioner, Richards had more than one wife. He married Louise Lula Greene in 1873 and her niece Persis Louiza Young in 1884. The women remained close “sister” wives until their deaths, living together in this house and other dwellings.
Located at 305 Third Avenue in the Avenues Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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