57 South 1100 East in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

59 South 1100 East in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

Frederick A. Hale designed this house for Louis and Agnes Farnsworth in 1909. Farnsworth was director of Walker Bank and was treasurer and director of both Keith-O’Brien Company and M.H. Walker Realty. He was instrumental in bringing the Federal Reserve Bank to Salt Lake and served as its director after it was established.

1206 East 100 South in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This house was built in 1925 for Clarence and Josephine Davis Hawkins. Hawkins served as an instructor and bandmaster at the University of Utah from 1924-50. He operated his own music school for thirty-nine years, conducted the Hawkins Military Band, and was a national authority on bands, band instruments, and band music.

1224 East 100 South in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

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  The David and Alice G. Smith House at 1257 East 100 South, built in 1909, is a good example of an Arts and Crafts Bungalow with its exposed rafters and purlins, half-timbered dormer, and full-width porch with paired square columns on rough stone posts. This one story brick home was designed by Bernard O. Mecklenberg and built as a speculative house by Albert S. Erickson. A Craftsman Bungalow with similar but more modest detailing at 441 South Douglas Street was built in 1910 by a speculative developer, H. Bynir. The first residents were Sylvan, a department store manager, and Elizabeth Leon. Another Bungalow at 1224 East 100 South was built c.1925 of brick with half-timbered, clipped gables, as an investment by Willard B. Richards. Clarence J. (a bandmaster) and Josephine Davis Hawkins lived here from 1926-50.

The house at 1211 East 100 South was built for Almon and Theodosia Noble Kent Covey in 1909 (designed by Ware and Treganza). Almon Covey was president of the Covey Investment Company, founded in 1806. The Coveys were responsible for constructing several large apartment buildings that throughout Salt Lake, as well as participating in other real estate interests as well. He also owned and operated a ranch at Coalville and had other ranches in Wyoming. His wife, Theodosia, whom he later divorced, lived in the house until 1963. She was active in civic and church duties and was a member of the Ladies Literary Club, the Towne Club, the University of Utah Mothers Club, and the Salt Lake Country Club. Hyrum, Almon’s younger brother, and May Rowberry Covey, commissioned Ware and Treganza to design their house at 1229 East 100 South. Hyrum was also involved in the Covey Investment Company.

1211 East 100 South in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

The house at 1211 East 100 South was built for Almon and Theodosia Noble Kent Covey in 1909 (designed by Ware and Treganza). Almon Covey was president of the Covey Investment Company, founded in 1806. The Coveys were responsible for constructing several large apartment buildings that throughout Salt Lake, as well as participating in other real estate interests as well. He also owned and operated a ranch at Coalville and had other ranches in Wyoming. His wife, Theodosia, whom he later divorced, lived in the house until 1963. She was active in civic and church duties and was a member of the Ladies Literary Club, the Towne Club, the University of Utah Mothers Club, and the Salt Lake Country Club. Hyrum, Almon’s younger brother, and May Rowberry Covey, commissioned Ware and Treganza to design their house at 1229 East 100 South. Hyrum was also involved in the Covey Investment Company.

1229 East 100 South in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This house was built for Elmer O. and Nancy Albaugh Leatherwood in 1911. Elmer Leatherwood was a lawyer with the firm Staup, Nibley, and Leatherwood. He was district attorney for the Third Judicial District Court from 1908 to 1916 and served as a Republican Congressman from 1921-26. He was also prominent in the business community as president of the Olympus Mining and Milling Company, the Learly and Warren Stockyards, and the Western Company.

1237 East 100 South in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

Those who participated in the ranching business are also represented in the University Neighborhood Historic District. Edwin, a prominent Wyoming sheep grower, and Vilate K. Blaney, built the house at 1245 East 100 South in 1917. The house at 1257 E. 100 S. was designed by Bernard Mecklenberg in 1909 for David, a rancher from Wyoming, and Alice G. Smith. Between 1929 and 1938 this house was owned by Earl and Mabel Oman, wool growers.

1245 East 100 South in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

This house is one of the few, if not only, homes to be constructed entirely out of poured-in-place concrete. It was built for William and May Gardner who operated the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Two years later it was sold to Vivian and Loree Snow. Vivian was the sales manager of the Portland Cement Company and Loree was a noted civic leader in Utah. She instigated the first high school model U.N. Assembly in the country, and was the first woman chairman of the Utah Association for the United Nations. She also spearheaded a movement that resulted in the establishment of a new medical-surgical building at the Utah State Hospital in Provo.

219 South Elizabeth Street in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

The accomplishments of many of the women who lived in the district illustrate the prominent role that women played in the social and civic concerns of the Progressive movement, and indicated that more opportunities were available to them to effect change outside the home. Maud May Babcock (273 South 1100 East) established the University of Utah theater in 1895 and was long associated with the speech and drama department. She wrote several books, chaired the board of the Utah State School for the Deaf and Blind, and served as the first woman chaplain of the Utah Legislature. Loree Forsyth Snow (219 South Elizabeth) instigated the first high school model U. N. Assembly in the country, was the first woman chairman of the Utah Association for the United Nations, and spearheaded the establishment of the new medical-surgical building at the Utah State Hospital in Provo. Lois Hashimoto (315 South 1200 East) was instrumental in raising the money to construct the Japanese Church of Christ (268 West 100 South, National Register, 1982).