This house is one of the few, if not only, homes to be constructed entirely out of poured-in-place concrete. It was built for William and May Gardner who operated the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Two years later it was sold to Vivian and Loree Snow. Vivian was the sales manager of the Portland Cement Company and Loree was a noted civic leader in Utah. She instigated the first high school model U.N. Assembly in the country, and was the first woman chairman of the Utah Association for the United Nations. She also spearheaded a movement that resulted in the establishment of a new medical-surgical building at the Utah State Hospital in Provo.

219 South Elizabeth Street in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

The accomplishments of many of the women who lived in the district illustrate the prominent role that women played in the social and civic concerns of the Progressive movement, and indicated that more opportunities were available to them to effect change outside the home. Maud May Babcock (273 South 1100 East) established the University of Utah theater in 1895 and was long associated with the speech and drama department. She wrote several books, chaired the board of the Utah State School for the Deaf and Blind, and served as the first woman chaplain of the Utah Legislature. Loree Forsyth Snow (219 South Elizabeth) instigated the first high school model U. N. Assembly in the country, was the first woman chairman of the Utah Association for the United Nations, and spearheaded the establishment of the new medical-surgical building at the Utah State Hospital in Provo. Lois Hashimoto (315 South 1200 East) was instrumental in raising the money to construct the Japanese Church of Christ (268 West 100 South, National Register, 1982).