This 1902 Victorian style house has been altered so it is hard to describe the original character of the house. However, it has enough of its original characteristics so it contributes to the historic district. The owner, Ezra 0. Best, was a contractor in Salt Lake City.

Ezra O. Best, a contractor in Salt Lake City, built this house in 1903. He lived in this and the duplex next door for most of his life. He was born in Salt Lake in 1859 and was the son of Aired and Margaret Oakley Best. He married Caroline Donaldson.

This house has been stuccoed over in front and a front addition makes it impossible to describe the style. Segmentally arched windows. Victorian hood attached to apex of front gable. One story house.

Located at 165 4th Avenue in the City Creek Canyon Historic District of Salt Lake City, Utah.

A Victorian “box style,” this house was built in 1903. It is representative of
the houses built in Salt Lake at the turn of the century. The owner, Frederick Ellis Barker, was a stenographer for the district court in Salt Lake and for other state courts.

Barker, a member of the LDS Church, was the mission president in Australia for three years. He also served as reporter for forty-nine general conferences.

Baker, a son of Simon and Jemina Nevery Baker, was born in 1862. He married Cecilia Sharp.

This house is simple Victorian “box style.” It is a house pattern book style.
There is a slightly curved façade on the extended front wing. The picture window has stone sills and lintels. There are segmented and square arched bays. There is a gabled portico with fancy pediment. The roof is hipped and gable. The house is ‘representative of the turn of the century and is typical of the quality of houses on the Avenues. New metal columns have been added which are too “light” to support the porch.

Located at 145 4th Avenue in the City Creek Canyon Historic District of Salt Lake City, Utah.

This 1907 pattern book house has been altered but still contributes to the historic character of the district. It was built by Ezra O. Best, a contractor in Salt Lake, and he lived in several apartments in the house.

Ezra O. Best, a contract in Salt Lake City, built this house in 1907. He lived in the different apartments in it and in the house next door most of his life. Best, a son of Alfred and Margaret Oakley Best, was born in Salt Lake in 1859, and he married Caroline Donaldson.

2 1/2 story brick house with a two level columned recessed porch, large front dormer. The front is built into the side of the hill.

Located at 159-161 4th Avenue in the City Creek Canyon Historic District of Salt Lake City, Utah.

This 1902 house is typical of the pattern book styles built during the first
decade of the 20th century.

Henry F. Kimball, a son of John and Margaret Clayton Kimball, was a glazier
and a designer with Bennett Glass and Paint Company.

This house is a pattern book style. It has a tripartite window on the gable
end. There are also fishscale shingles on the end. The windows are segmentally arched. ‘Te front has an extra stick style type canopy over the stairs.

Located at 151 4th Avenue in the City Creek Canyon Historic District of Salt Lake City, Utah.

204 N. Canyon Road, Salt Lake City.   (Just outside Memory Grove)

This 1904 Italianate house is typical of hosues of its style built in Salt
Lake. The owner, William G. Sadleir, was a salesman in Salt Lake City.

Sadleir was born in Iowa on March 5, 1871. He lived in Ogden, Utah and
Montana for a while and then moved to Salt Lake in 1902. He married Maude Van Dyke in 1895.

Sadleir worked for Leyson-Pearson, a Salt Lake jewelry store. Just before his
death in 1942, he moved to California to take a new job there.

This house is Italianate in form but not in detailing. It is two stories and
has a large porch. The columns on the porch are not original. There is a stained glass transom over the picture window. The cornice and frieze are plain. The house has a hip roof. It is representative of houses of its style.

Related:

• City Creek Canyon Historic District

226 Spencer Court, Salt Lake City.   (Just outside Memory Grove)

This large bungalow was built in 1911 and is typical of those found in house
pattern books during that period of time. The owner, Thorvald Severin Jensen, was a Salt Lake jeweler.

Thorvald Severin Jensen was born in Salt Lake on December 22, 1876. He
graduated from the University of Deseret. Jensen was a bicycle rider at the
old Salt Palace and played with the Corianton group. A member of the LDS Church, he served a mission to Denmark.

Jensen worked as president and manager of Jensen Jewelry. Before he
established his own business, he worked for J.S. Jenkins and Sons.

This large bungalow is similar to those in a house pattern book. It is one
and one-half stories and has a two story wood front porch under the natural extension of the gabled roof. It has square columns and tripartite gable windows in front gable. The dormers are gabled. It also has a square side bay window.

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• City Creek Canyon Historic District

230-234 Spencer Court, Salt Lake City.   (Just outside Memory Grove)

This duplex, which was built in 1916, is basically vernacular. The styling is unusual for the area of Salt Lake.

Samuel George Spencer, who owned the homes in front of this duplex, built
this home in 1916 for his sons who were married. Alma and David, sons of Jane Marie Baker, lived in this duplex.

Alma Spencer was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah. He worked for the Sweet
Candy Company for thirty-five years.

David B. Spencer was also born in Pleasant Grove.

The style is basically vernacular. There are segmentally arched windows. On the porch there are two square columns with railing. The house is a horizontal “rowhouse” and has a flat roof. The style is somewhat rare in the area.

Related:

• City Creek Canyon Historic District

238-240 Spencer Court, Salt Lake City.   (Just outside Memory Grove)

This vernacular duplex was built in 1916 and is an unusual style for this area of Salt Lake City.

Samuel G. Spencer, who owned the homes in front of this duplex, built this
home for his married sons. Daniel George and Ira Orson who lived here were both sons of Emma Gedge, Spencer’s first wife.;

Daniel George was a school teacher in Salt Lake for thirty years. He taught
at the Roosevelt Junior High School most of that time. He was born April 11, 1884. A member of the LDS Church, he served a mission with his wife, Hazel Valentine Spencer, to Australia from 1907-1909.

Ira O. Spencer worked with several small businesses in Salt Lake including
Schramn – Johnson and Don Elgreen. He was born in Pleasant Grove September 30, 1888.

The style of this house is vernacular. It has segmentally arched windows.
There are two square columns with railing and lattice work side by side on the porch. The house is horizontal row house plan. The roof is flat. The style
is somewhat rare for the area.

Related:

• City Creek Canyon Historic District

208 N. Canyon Road, Salt Lake City.   (Just outside Memory Grove)

This 1903 house pattern book dwelling is typical of homes built during this period and contributes to the historic district.

The house not on Canyon Road was built by Mrs. Ella Rogers Squires, a daughter of Thomas and Aurelia Rogers. Her mother was the founder of the Primary. Mrs. Squires lived in the house until 1905 when she moved to New York.

After she moved, Camilla C. Cobb moved into the house in 1908 and built the house in the front on Canyon Read. Mrs. Cobb, a native of Germany, came to Utah with Karl G. Maeser, her brother-in-law. She married James T. Cobb in 1864. She is credited with starting the first kindergarten in Salt Lake. She was also president of the Ensign Stake Primary.

This one and one-half story house is from a house pattern book. It has
fish scale shingles on the gable ends and the dormer. The picture windows are flanked by narrow operables on both floors. The house is typical of the period.

Related:

• City Creek Canyon Historic District

212 N. Canyon Road, Salt Lake City.   (Just outside Memory Grove)

This house which was built in 1906 is typical of the house pattern book
“box style” and has some Victorian characteristics. Walter C. Squires, the owner, was a barber in Salt Lake City. He worked with other members of his family and had shops in downtown Salt Lake and in the Templeton Building.

Ezra O. Best, the contractor, lived in the area on 4th Avenue and built a
number of houses on the Avenues and in the City Creek area.

This two story brick house is similar to the house pattern book “box
style” and some Victorian feeling. The square pierced porch has probably been added but it is compatible. There are square and segmented bays and large windows There is a scarcity of wood trim. The roof is hipped.

Related:

• City Creek Canyon Historic District