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 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.

Sources

References

  1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.