653 3rd Avenue

This house was constructed c. 1906 for metallurgical engineer J. Fewson Smith, Jr. Mr. Smith worked for the U.S. Smelting, Mining, and Refining Company for 38 years. He also designed Salt Lake City’s first sewage system in the early-1900s, and was water commissioner in charge of canals entering the Salt Lake Valley. Mr. Smith owned the home until 1924, when it was then sold to Oregon Shortline Railroad conductor Harry W. Logan.

Architecturally, the house has a two-story foursquare design with a hip roof, a wide one-story front porch with a second floor balustrade with turned lintels, and on the west façade it features a two-story brick projecting bay, In the late-1930s the house was converted into apartments, and in the early-1990s Richard and June Bickerton bought the home and restored it back to a single-family dwelling.

653 East Third Avenue in the Avenues Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.