This one story building has a hipped roof central mass and gabled projecting front bay. Leaded glass windows, stone detailing at windows and chimneys are characteristic Tudor Revival influences. – Diana Johnson
William C. Spence purchased this property and the property just to the west in 1910 from FAE Meyer. The investment paid off in 1925 when Coral Lindsey Ashton and her contractor husband, Edward Ashton, bought the site. The following year a dwelling was constructed for Rosabel H. Ashton who obtained full title in 1929 and maintained ownership until 1945.
This is a two story, Box type home with a hip roof. There is a central hipped dormer on the front roof of the house and a classically inspired porch which wraps around to the eastern side of the house. – D. Diana Johnson
Charles Henry Jenkinson purchased this property from Thomas Marnane in 1903. 2 The following year he had a home built for himself and his wife, Mary A.R. St.Clair. Charles, a native of Lowell, Mass., was associated with railroads all his life. He eventually became the local treasurer of the Oregon Short Line Railroad in 1901.
In 1931 the home was sold to Davis L. and Lillian Boley Shurtleff who had been living in it since 1926. The Shurtleff’s maintained ownership through 1940.
This is a 1 1/2 story duplex with a gambrel roof. The gambrel end toward the street has patterned wood shingle siding and two double-hung windows with decorative upper sash. The 1st floor front has two gabled porches with doric columns and a pair of large windows with sandstone sills and lintels and diamond pane transoms. At the top of the windows is a dentil belt course of corbelled brick that extends around the building. Side windows have brick arched tops, with a dormer window in each side roof. The duplex is very similar to #65-67 Gordon Place next door built the same year, probably by the same builder. – Thomas W. Hanchett
Richard Chamberlain, a Salt Lake City Contractor, purchased this property in 1910 from Marvina Fenton (157 N. State). The rental unit was apparently built the same year, for Chamberlain resold the land and structure to Mrs. Fenton in 1911 who then mortgaged the site for $1000 to a Christina M. Pomeroy. It is likely that Chamberlain built the duplex for Marvina, holding the land as a guarantee against default.
Marvina Fenton obtained the title to this site as well as 65-67 Gordon Place when she and her husband Wallace purchased their home site at 157 North State Street in 1903. Two years later, the passageway between 151 State and the Fenton home was changed from Kimball Alley to Gordon Place. The interior of the Kimball block was now open for the various housing developments -that took place during the early 20th century on both sides of Gordon Place.
This is a one and one half story duplex with a gambrel roof. The gambrel end toward the street has patterned wood shingle siding and two double hung windows with decorative upper sash. The first floor front has two gabled porches with doric columns and a pair of large windows with sandstone sills and lintels and diamond pane transoms. At the top of the windows is a dentil belt course of corbelled brick that extends around the building. Side windows have brick arched tops, with a dormer window in each side roof. The duplex is very similar to #69-71 next door built the same year, probably by the same builder. – Thomas W. Hanchett
Richard Chamberlain, a Salt Lake Contractor, purchased this lot and the one just east of it from Mrs. Marvina Fenton in 1909. Her husband Wallace Fen ton, a nurserymen and carpenter, had gotten the land when he bought his home site at 157 N. State Street in 1903. The rental unit (duplex) was constructed probably during 1909 or early 1910.
Subsequent owners were not discovered until 1948 which suggests a faulty title chain for this particular property. My feeling is that Chamberlain probably resold the duplex shortly after construction but apparently not to Mrs. Fenton.
This is a 1 1/2 story Victorian home in original condition. It has a truncated hip roof with a small front dormer window, and front, east and west side gabled bays. The gables have patterned wood shingle siding, and the front one has a Palladian window. First story front windows have rough faced stone sills and lintels and two have transoms, The front and west side porches have fine Eastlakian woodwork, including scroll-sawn brackets, turned columns and spindle screens under the cornices.
This house was built in 1898 for Ebenezer Farnes. Farnes was born February 4, 1843 in Dagenham, Essex, England. In 1862, a convert to the LDS Church, he emigrated to the United States and came directly to Salt Lake City. With his brothers, he contracted to supply charcoal to the church blacksmith shop, earning thereby his parents passage to the U.S. In 1864 he was called to manage cattle in the settlement north of St. George. He was then employed in the tithing office meat market and was proprietor of his own shop, the Deseret Meat Market, at the time he built this house. His first wife, Mary Catherine Bullock died in 1879, his second wife, Elizabeth Josephine Fjeldsted, died shortly before him. Farnes sold the house shortly after completion to Joseph Askie Silver.
His daughter married Joseph A Silver. He was the first person to own an automobile in Salt Lake and invented the 3 wheeled bicycle.
In 2024 Layne Hermansen, who’s family has owned the Ebenezer Farnes/Joseph Silver Home for the past 50 years sent me these photos:
Layne said: We know the name of the company who custom made these in the 1800s. The man on the right looks like Ebenezer Farnes. With wife opposite, who died. The middle child, their daughter who married Joseph A Silver. Nothing of the above is verifiable. The fireplace is always a conversation piece. Anyone who sees it brisket walks towards it.
This is a 1 1/2 story house of vernacular design which was constructed in several materials at different dates. Its present “T” appearance was achieved at least by 1898 (according to the sanborn maps).
Most probably the house was originally a one story adobe square cabin type; section which is now the rear of the house. The next addition was the brick wing which was added to the west of the adobe room. This brick section is 1 1/2 story with a two-opening “door-window” façade and sports an “eyebrow” window just under the eave above the door. The stove chimney is located on the north gable end of this section. The last addition to the house and the one which completed its present appearance was a frame gabled section to the north. This frame part has ship lap siding and a bay window on the front first floor. A porch extends across the front of the brick section and has chamfered wooden porch posts. Wood lintels and sills.
Evidence of title and directories suggest this house had been built by 1884 for Alonzo Hazeltine Raleigh. Raleigh acquired the land in 1865 and the present house grew by stages from a tiny adobe structure. It is probable that some part of the house is much older, occupied either by Raleigh or a wife. Raleigh housed Elizabeth Ann Player Raleigh, a plural wife, here but he resided elsewhere in Capitol Hill. Raleigh was born November 7, 1818 in Francis, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, to James L. Raleigh and Susan McCoy. Converted to the LDS Church in Boston he moved to Nauvoo in 1843. In 1848 he crossed the plains in president Heber C. Kimball’s company.
Because he had worked as a mason and builder in the east, in 1851 he was placed in charge of the mason department of the department of public works. In 1854 he was appointed alderman of the third municipal ward and re-elected until 1884. In 1856 he was made Bishop of the nineteenth Ward, a position he held until 1877. In 1860 he was appointed city inspector of buildings, a post he held for 25 years. He was in addition an officer of the Nauvoo Legion, a member of the state constitutional convention and first president of the Deseret Dramatic Association. He was married four times; Caroline L. who died in 1853, to Julia Curt is, who died in 1891, to Elizabeth Ann Player, who died in 1924, and to Emily P., who died 1919. He fathered 25 children.
This is a 1 1/2 story Victorian cottage on a high stone foundation. It has a main hip roof with a dormer window, and a projecting front bay that has a segmental hip roof. The dormers have curved, wood shingled walls. Main walls are of buff-colored brick. Water table is of rough faced brick. Massive sills and lintels are of rough faced stone. Several windows have leaded glass transoms. A curved side bay window is located to the north. The front porch has fine woodwork, including a dentilled cornice, paired Tuscan columns on posts, and spindle decoration between the tops of the paired columns. The porch balustrade is iron.
This house was built over the winter of 1904-1905 for Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Player Raleigh. She was born February 6, 1838 in Cardiff, Wales, of English parents. She came to Salt Lake with a handcart company in 1856. A member of the LDS Church she was active in the Relief Society work of the 19th Ward. She was one of four wives of Alonzo H. Raleigh, by whom she had eight children. She sold the property in 1937, subject to a life estate.
A central hall home of two stories. Chimneys are located at the ends of the gable roof. The façade displays a symmetrical three-over-three arrangement. A plain, molded cornice was used. A rear 1 1/2 story brick extension with gable roof has small gabled dormers on north and south. The gable roofed main entrance portico is a later replacement.
Evidence of title and directory suggests this house was built about 1883 for w John Irvine. He was born September 1, 1846 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He married Mary Eliza Rutherford, who became president of the Young Ladies Association of the Nineteenth Ward. She died in March of 1910, age of 58. John became the private stenographer of Brigham Young and was also reporter of services in the Tabernacle. He later worked as a reporter for the Salt Lake Daily Newspaper.
In 1890 the property was sold to the Sarah S. Taylor, wife of Moses W. Taylor, a son of a president of the LDS Church, and prominent in his own right in business and church activities.
This 1 1/2 story home has a basement down the slope. Chimneys are located at gable ends. The symmetrical main façade displays two front doors and two-over-two, double hung windows. The hipped roof front porch has square, classically derived Victorian columns. Later extensions in the vernacular manner include a shed roof lean-to.
Evidence of title and directory suggests the house was built about 1884 for Daniel Cross, listed in the 1885 directory as a “capitalist”. A member of the LDS Church, Cross died in 1895 and full title was acquired by one son Nephi Lorenzo Cross, born Sept 13, 1854 Oxford England. A brakeman for the Central Pacific, he married Louisa Hill, born 1859 in Utah. The house remained in the family until 1937. Little is readily known of Daniel Cross or his other son, William H. Cross.
This vacant home exhibits Victorian motifs on a basically vernacular form. The main gable displays decorative bargeboard, with final and drop at the gable apex. A three sided bay with hipped roof is located here also, as is a window with fine Classical vernacular detail. The front porch has been enclosed. In the south is a hipped roof porch. An extension is located on the north side.
This house was built about 1872 by Swen J. Jonasson. Jonasson acquired title in co 1872, confirmed by a Mayor’s Deed in 1873. He mortgaged the property in 1872 to x a total of $1500, apparently to construct the house, and is listed by the directory of 1874 as in residence the previous year.
Jonasson was an attorney and notary public, an original stockholder of the Utah Southern Railway incorporated in 1871. He and his wife Maria Dorothia Juliana Heppner were handcart pioneers and Jonasson was a federal judge during the territorial period when the capital was at Fillmore. They had at least two children, Edith Elisa, born 1876, and Catherine born 1871.
The house was sold in 1877 to Gustave & Clara Johnson. Gustave Johnson worked for ZCMI, Walker Brothers, and Jennings Store. He also organized mercantile institutions in many Salt Lake suburbs. He was trained in horticulture in Sweden, and used his training to beautify his community and his home. The home has been vacant for many years and is in need of extensive repairs.
