This two-story Victorian Eclectic house was built c. 1904 for Heber J. and Augusta Grant, the seventh president of the LDS church and first president born in Utah. He played an important role in the development of the church in early Utah. Grant also had a pervasive influence o Utah’s business community. He was involved in various enterprises including several insurance companies, a livery stable, a leading Salt Lake City newspaper, a bank, the famed Salt Lake Theatre, and the Utah Sugar Company.

Augusta Grant oversaw construction of the home, Heber J. moved into the home in 1905 after returning from a church mission. It is a rare and classic downtown single family residential home with commercial buildings all around. The grants lived here until 1916, since it has been many things, a law office for one and was vacant for years before a fire in 2020.

174 East South Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah

(from Preservation Utah’s walking tour)
1904, Designed by Dallas & Hedges.

Augusta Grant oversaw the construction of this Victorian home in 1904. Her husband, Heber J. Grant, took up residence here in 1905 after returning from serving a mission for the LDS Church. Now surrounded by commercial buildings, the Grant House is a reminder that single-family residences were once the norm on
this section of South Temple.

Heber J. Grant was an influential businessman and, in 1918, became the seventh president of the LDS Church. Grant used the financial and political contacts he had developed during his career to maintain the solvency of key Utah industries during the Great Depression.

The Grants lived in this house until 1916. Several alterations have been made to it over the years, including the addition of the pedimented front porch with decorative brackets. Today the building houses law offices.