Built c.1906 by prominent Utah architect David C. Dart, this one and one-half story cottage is a type known as a central block with projecting bays. With Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and English Tudor architectural features, the house style was labeled “builder’s vernacular” in early tax documents and is a good representation of early twentieth-century eclecticism.

The house has many University of Utah ties. The first owners were William and Grace Ebaugh. William was chair of the Department of Chemistry. In 1918, Edward and Lillian Gaby purchased the house and completed an extensive renovation of the interior. The house then fell into disrepair and was abandoned during the Great Depression. Seville Flowers, a botany professor, and wife Emily, owners from 1937 to 1972, restored it to a livable condition. In 1951, the façade was covered with a brick-imprinted stucco; it was restored to its original appearance in 2001.

David Dart also built 206 Douglas St and 209 Douglas St.

208 South Douglas Street in the University Neighborhood and the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah