Mary Smith House

Mary Smith House
Location 12544 S. Relation St. (1565 East), Draper, Utah
Coordinates 40°31′24″N 111°50′49″W / 40.52333°N 111.84694°W / 40.52333; -111.84694Coordinates: 40°31′24″N 111°50′49″W / 40.52333°N 111.84694°W / 40.52333; -111.84694
Area less than one acre
Built 1883
Architectural style vernacular cross-wing
NRHP reference # 94000292[1]
Added to NRHP April 15, 1994

The Mary Smith House is a house on the National Register of Historic Places in Draper, Utah, United States. It was listed in 1994.[1]

The house was built around 1883 by Lauritz Smith for his first wife, Mary Kristine Mickelsdotter Smith, to avoid prosecution under the Edmunds Act. Since this law made "cohabitation" illegal, the theory was that if he created a new house for Mary and had his second wife Hannah in his main house he would avoid prosecution. [2]

It is a one-story brick house built on a granite foundation. It has a cross-wing plan and intersecting gable roofs.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 James F. Cartwright (September 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mary Smith House". National Park Service. Retrieved March 6, 2018. With three photos from 1993.
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