Mary Smith House Explained

Mary Smith House
Location:12544 S. Relation St. (1565 East), Draper, Utah
Coordinates:40.5233°N -111.8469°W
Built:1883
Architecture:vernacular cross-wing
Added:April 15, 1994
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:94000292

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

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.[1]

It is a one-story brick house built on a granite foundation. It has a cross-wing plan and intersecting gable roofs.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=94000292}} National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mary Smith House ]. National Park Service. James F. Cartwright . September 1993 . March 6, 2018. With .