This is a full two-story brick house which has a flat roof. The house itself is one room deep and two wide with a central hall behind a symmetrical “five over five” façade. Extensions are found to the east rear. The raised parapet along the top exhibits corbelled bracketing and radiating quoins are found around the central door. The house was plastered at some point in its career and recently this plaster has been blasted off, leaving the brick is a deteriorated carditian.

Evidence of title and directories suggests this house was built about 1873 by Engbert Qlsen. Engbert received title in a warranty deed dated 1873 and recorded in 1877. The directory of 1874 shows Axel Valdemar Olson in residence there in 1873. By 1883 Engbert had died, leaving the house to his widow Maria and to Haakon and Axel, sons or brothers. Axel was a mason and bricklayer, Haakan a laborer. They may well have done much of the construction of the house themselves. Maria operated rented furnished rooms in this very large house early in the 1900’s and probably much earlier. The 1898 Sanborn labels the house “tenements” (apartments). Little is readily to be known about the Olsons, although title remained with their descendants into the 1970’s.

Located at 318 Center Street in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This home is a composite of two different styles and periods of building. The original section of the house was the south wing and is built of adobe in a vernacular one story hall and parlor style. The façade is three opening with gable end chimney. This section dates c.1875.

The bay hipped section on the north was added later when Victorian pattern book designs were popular. This section has a segmented bay, rusticated stone window lintels and sills, and leaded windows. This section probably dates c.1890-1900. A southern bay is also a pattern book influence.

Evidence of title and directories suggests this house was built about 1880, apparently by Fergus Coalter. Coalter was born March 19, 1854 in Glasgow Scotland. He is said to have emigrated to Utah about 1880. He was “a pioneer musician, merchant, and faithful church worker”. He founded a business in musical merchandise with George Carless. Coalter and Carless subsequently became Daynes & Coalter, Coalter S. Snelgrove and Fergus Coalter Music Co. At the time of his death he had been employed for many years by the Beesley Music Co. His wife Agnes M. died shortly before him in 1925. The first known occupants were Isaac Barton, a clerk, and his wife Agnes E., who bought the house in 1882 and may have built it. Little is readily known about them.

Located at 314 Center Street in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

Evidence of title and directories suggests this house was built about 1879 for William Southam. Southam was born August 6, 1845 in Warwickshire, England. He came to Salt Lake in 1869 where he worked as a molder when this house was built and later for thirty years for the Utah Gas & Coke Company. On February 22, 1876 he married Sarah Tims in the old Salt Lake Endowment House. She was born November 24, 1859 in Banbury, Oxfordshire , England to John Tims and Mary Morby. She came to the United States in 1875, a convert to the LDS Church. After Williams death in 1914, Sarah continued to live in the house, occupying it through 1940.

Located at 540 North West Capitol in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This is a two and one half story hip roof house that reflects the Classical
Revival style. The symmetrical facade of the building has a central pedimental portico with paired colossal columns. The entrance is in the Federal Style with elliptical fanlight and sidelights. There have been major window modifications and metal awnings have also been added. – D. Diana Johnson

This house was built in 1905 for William H. Dickson. Dickson was born in 1847 in King County, New Brunswick, Canada. He married Annie L. Earle in 1875 and shortly there after moved to Virginia City, Nevada. He had studied and practiced law in Canada and in 1882 began to practice in Salt Lake City. In 1884 he was appointed U.S. District Attorney for the Territory of Utah. He practiced law in several firms and at his deat was described as “one of the most prominent attorneys in the West” and “the greatest mining attorney in
the world.” He was a member of the Alto Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Masons. Following the death of his wife in 1917 he deeded the property to his daughter, Irene Earle Dickson Schulder and moved to Los Angeles where he died in 1924.

She sold the house to James P. Gardner, president of Gardner and Adams, clothiers, and vice-president of National City Bank.

In 1924 Gardner sold the house to James H. Wolfe, later a chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court and a member of the State’s judiciary for almost 25 years. Wolfe was a Democrat, social reformer, Unitarian, regent of the University of Utah, active in welfare organizations, and a war-time administrator. The house was remodeled into apartments about 1924 and remained in the Wolfe family through 1940.

Located at 273 East Capitol in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This is a Mediterranean house that was built in the 1930’s. The one and one half story stucco house, with a red tile roof, has casement windows. The house is asymmetrically arranged. The entrance porch is Spanish Colonial with round arches between supports and a red tile shed roof. – D. Diana Johnson

George A. Fisher had his home erected in 1936 on property he had purchased from o Willard & Harriet Hooper Young in that same year. Wesley A. Sorensen bought the home in 1939 and maintained ownership through 1940.

Located at 239 East Capitol in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This is a two story International Style house with flat roofs on the two levels. The house has casement windows, some of the original metal balustrade at the upper level has been retained but the metal entrance of the porch is from a later period. – D. Diana Johnson

The American Thrift Corporation purchased this property from Willard and Harriet Hooper Young in 1936. This company erected a home which was purchased in 1938 by Richard and Mae Alder Bird. The Birds maintained ownership through 1940.

Located at 235 East Capitol in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This was the home of Edward E. Jones, built in 1873

The tax record says it was built in 1896 with an effective year built of 1935 but those are usually wrong.

This home of 1-1/2 stories has been added to in traditional vernacular manners. To an early log rectangular cabin (see 1911 Sanborn Map) were added later adobe and frame extensions. The home has a gable roof and molded cornice. A projecting, pedimental gable entrance has Tuscan supports. Two over tow windows in the front gable have pedimental headers.

Evidence of title and directories suggests this house was built about 1873 for w Edward E. Jones, a miner. The house Jones sold in 1877 for $650 may have been only a small log cabin. Two additions, one of them adobe/had probably been made by 1889 when Susan Francis Williams leased it for $18 a month with an option to purchase for $3000, a substantial sum for the day.

Other sources call it the Jones/Williams/Johnson home.

Located at 444 Center Street in the Capitol Hill Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah