Built in 1903 by Alexander Edwards, this duplex has unit 415 N Center St and 417 N Center St.

Located at 415 North Center Street in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

Unit 417:

Unit 415:

From evidence of title search, sanborn maps, and city directories, this home
appears to have been built in 1893 for Rhoda Mabel Young Witt.

Rhoda Mable Young Witt was born February 22, 1863, in the Lion House. She was a daughter of Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow Young. She was the 54th child of Brigham Young. She married Daniel H. McCallister in 1879. They had one son. She married Brigham Witt in 1888. They had one son. She was a resident of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho at this time. In 1898 she married Joseph A. Sanborn. They had two sons and one daughter.

Mrs. Sanborn unveiled the statue of her father in the nation’s capitol. She was a genealogical worker. She lived in this house until about 1903, Her mother, Lucy Bigelow Young, also resided here in the late 1890’s. In 1903 Sanborns moved to a new home at 709 N 1st W. In 1910 they moved to Seattle, Washington. They returned to Salt Lake and to this home in 1920. Mr. Sanborn died in 1929 and she resided here until her death in 1950.

Rhoda Mabel Young Witt deeded this home to Lucy Bigelow Young in 1897. The children (Susa Young Gates and Rhoda Mable Young Sanborn) regained the property after Mrs. Young’s death in 1905.

From the hipped gablet roofed central mass of this two-story home a gabled bay projects in front. Distinguishing features of the bay and gable are the eclectic detailing and round arched window at the second story level. Windows of the home have segmental arches or stone lintels. Beltcourse and quoins are ornamentally corbelled. The front porch configuration is not original. In the rear the two story porch enclosure has aluminum siding.

Located at 705 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Evidence of title and directory suggests this house was built in 1904 for Jacob Forsberry Gates and his wife Susa Young Gates and is significant because of its association with them.

Gates was born in 1854 in Salt Lake City to Jacob Gates and Emma Forsberry. When he was ten his family was called on the “Cotton Mission”. He served a mission to Hawaii in 1876-1879 and graduated from the University of Deseret in 1881. He served a second mission from 1885 to 1889 as superintendent of the LDS Church’s sugar plantation at Laie, Oahu. Upon his return he took up residence in Provo where he remained for twelve years as a furniture dealer and served two terms as a Justice of the Peace. From 1902 to 1903 he served a mission in the eastern United States. Upon his return, he “built with his own hands a house at 672 N 1st West where his family resided in Salt Lake”. He worked at this time as a insurance and real estate agent and in 1905 edited a new version of the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian. He served a mission to Germany, 1913-1914 and upon his return took up insurance again. He later became recorder at the Salt Lake Temple.

In 1920 Gates and his wife moved across the street to 709 N 200 West. This house remained in the family, passing to a son Brigham Cecil Gates and his wife Gwenneth G. in 1933. They held it through 1940. In the 1920 f s it was home to Mrs. Emma Lucy Gates, internationally recognized singer.

Susa Young was born 1856 in Salt Lake City to Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow, The first child born in the Lion House. She attended the University of Deseret where she was associate editor of the “College Lantern”, one of the earliest college newspapers in the west, the beginning of an active literary career in which she wrote for and edited every publication of the LDS Church. She wrote four books, including a biography of her father, and was active in church press relations. She was especially interested in women in the church and their activities. She was the chronicler of the lives of many prominent LDS women, editor of the Relief Society Magazine, involved in national and international women organizations. She organized the music department of BYU in 1878 and in 1897 organized the domestic science department there. She was founder and for eleven years the editor of the Young Woman’s Journal, later merged with Improvement Era.

This two story square, hipped roof “box” style house has been extensively
remodeled. The hipped dormer centered on the hipped roof and the Tuscan porch supports are characteristic features of the style popular in the early twentieth century. The enclosure of the porch at the second story has greatly altered the original character.

Located at 672 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

From evidence of title search, city directories and Sanborn Maps, this home appears to have been built about 1878. The first resident of the home was Joseph A. Silver.

Silver was born July 15, 1857, in Brooklyn, New York. He was married to
Ellen Watson and Elizabeth Fames. He had 14 children who survived him. He was president and manager of Silver Bros. Iron Works which was organized in 1886. He was active in making equipment for mining. He was a member of the LDS Church. He died February 11, 1930, Silver received the property from George C. Lambourne in 1878. Silver deeded the property to Louise M. Silver and her husband, James W. Silver in 1910. Silvers lived here through 1940.

This is a one-story house which appears to be a modification of a vernacular “gable-façade”, “T” plan. Exterior detailing such as the bay windows on the northeast gable and the bay gable on the southeast side suggest Victorian eclectic patternbook influences. Fluted rectangular columns support the porch. The southeastern hipped roof bay exhibits some rough faced stone lintels. – Tom Carter

Located at 633 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The front portion of this house was built by Anders W. Winberg because of whom to it is significant. Winberg was born April 30, 1830 in Lund, Sweden. He was converted to Mormonism as a young man at a time when strong opposition had prevented the establishment of a LDS Church in Sweden and had forced the expulsion of two early missionaries. At the spring conference in Copenhagen in 1852 Erastus Snow assigned Winberg and Nels Carson to make another attempt. In April of 1853 they organized the first church at Shoenabaeck, followed by three more that year. In 1854 Winberg emigrated to Utah. Family tradition relates that he built half of the original house in that year and the other half after returning from a mission in 1856.

He worked variously as a blacksmith, clerk, realtor, and merchant. In 1875 he founded The Bikuben, the official Scandinavian organ of the Church. He presided over the Scandinavian meeting and was a member of the high council of the Salt Lake Stake for many years. He married Andrina Wilhelmina Friese, by whom he had a son and several daughters who at various times lived in this house and adjacent houses now destroyed. The house remained in the Winberg family into the 1970″s.

One story (stone?) adobe vernacular house. The house appears to have a three opening façade and probably adheres to a “Rectangular cabin” type floor plan. The exterior is plastered and the house is largely obscured by a screened in front porch which extends in both directions past the ends of the house. Though altered, the wrap around porch is thought to be original.

Located at 560 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Evidence of title and directories suggests this house was built about 1892 by James Rouan, apparently a contractor, of whom nothing is readily known. It was sold in 1893 to John M. Eslinger. Eslinger came to Salt Lake in the early 1890’s. He joined the police department as a patrolman and rapidly advanced to sergeant and captain. He left the department in 1898 and subsequently became a “well-known” real estate dealer, A member of the LDS Church, he and his wife Carrie L. Eslinger apparently sold the house
on contract to Alfred Masterman in 1903, although Masterman did not receive title until 1914.

This is a one-story Victorian cottage with a main hip-roofed block and a projecting gabled front bay. The front gable has bargeboards and fishscale pattern wood shingle siding, and it has decorative scroll sawn brackets at the lower corners. This gable rests on a segmental bay with wood panelling below the windows. Walls of the house are covered with bevelled siding. The front porch has turned columns and brackets.

Located at 516 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

According to a building permit, this home was built in 1909. The one and one half story frame house was built at a cost of $3,500. The original owner of the home was Joseph Larson.
Larson was born about 1846. He was an employee of the Taylor-Armstrong Lumber Company. He died May 24, 1911. His wife, Clara, remained in this home until 1913.

The chain of title on the home is as follows:

• Jacob T. Raleigh to Clara Larson 1909
• C. Larson to N.H. Clayton Co. 1913
• N.H. Clayton Co. to Eva M. Thompson 1923
• E.M. Thompson to John L. Raynolds 1926
• est. of J.L. Reynolds to Beda Johnson 1936

Located at 337 North 200 West in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This is a one and one half story house with a cross gable roof and front and side gables. The gables have projecting eaves with bargeboards, returns, and round attic windows. Windows have small square panes dentiled molding at the tops. The indented front and porch has square pillars and fluted doric columns on wood shingled balustrade. – Thomas Hanchett