Eldredge, Horace S. Residence P.1

7417 Gift of Mrs. Louise B. Smalley, granddaughter of Horace S. Eldredge. See subject file in Library for details of the home. Picture taken c.1884. SLC. The enclosed photograph is the residence of: Horace Sunderlin Eldredge 216 East First South Street Salt Lake City, Utah. The picture was probably taken circa 1884. The portly gentleman by the gaslight, does not look like H.S.E but it could be. The one positive identification I can sake is monkey in the pony cart. St was called Don Cesar Be Bazcan and belonged to David Harold Eldredge. It died untimely from a surfeit of raisins. My mother once remarked that her rather did not like to climb steps to a front door and so chose the property on the corner of First South and Second East in preference to a piece of property on East South Temple Street. By the time I can remember it, the street had been regraded and the yard was three steps below the sidewalk, a cement retaining wall was surmounted by a handsome wrought iron fence. The house was soft red brick, with white trim and green blinds. It was pleasant warm in winter and cool in summer am it was lined with adobe. The first floor was 13 feet from floor to ceiling and the second floor 14 due to a slight miscalculation in building. The doors were sugar pine, the hardware bronze. The glass lights around the front deer ground glass in a very elaborate pattern, a bronze name plate on the walnut front door, On entering the hall, the front and back parlors were on the right, the living room and library on the left, the dinning room to the rear, The dining room had been enlarged and a new kitchen added- The from parlors had marble mantles surmounted by bronze figurines, Elizabethan hunter and fisherman in the front parlor, Greek and Roman Warrior in the bank parlor. They had been made for gas but were converted shortly before the First World War. They were kept that way as was one in the living room and a light in both the upper and lower hail as a precaution against the failure of the electric currant. The floors of the two parlors were inlaid in an intricate pattern. The fireplace in the living room was faced with blue tile and in the upper corners were portrait tiles of two of the children. The dinning room mantle had an elaborate super structure and green tile. St was later in date than the others in the house. The kitchen bedroom up stairs was converted to a bath room about the turn of the century. There was a string of dependencies from house to barn- The wash house was gone in my childhood, laundry methods had changed. The ice house had gone as the refrigerator was filled at regular intervals by an ice man who brought his wares in a wagon. The coal and wend sheds and the ladies and gentlemen's conveniences were still there- but ban been changed slightly. The children and Horace S. Eldredge and Chine Redfield Eldredge (married February 14, 1856) Standing left to right: Horace R. born June 17th, i869 married Eleanor Groesbeck February 3, 1897. They died in Salt Lake City 194- Alpha May born August 6th 1863, married Reed Smoot September 17th, 1884. She died in Washington 0. C. November 11, 1928. Chloe Adda born August 14th 1871 Salt Lake City, married William James Bateman December 17th, 1891 . He died in Salt Lake Cit y January 23rd, 1947, She died in Salt Lake City May 14th, 1947. Seated left to right: David Harold born August 29, 1878 married Barbara Mayr in Munich Germany April 24th, 1906. He died in Germany prior to World war 11, she is still living in Salt Lake City. Esther born October 5th, 1874, married Edwin C. Coffin Nov. 1, 1893, divorced 1903. Married to Theodore Louis Genter February 15th, 1906. She is still living in Pennsylvania. Ben R. born May 4, 1866. Married Lizzie Sharp August 18th, 1887 He died in Salt Lake City Oct. 29, 1942. Guy Sunderlin born March 12th, 1882, married Bess Shores April 10. 1903. He was killed in the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster in May 1922. She died in either 1949 or 1950. Mary Jane born July 23rd, 1880 married Lee Greene Richards August 18th 1908. He died Feb. 1950 and she died July 3rd 1951 in Salt Like City. Ernest R. born was born February 20, 1868, married Kate Sharp Oct. 1, 1890 she died July 1093, Married Cora Hooper Oct. 28, 1897. She died Feb. 1914. Married Elizabeth Morris in Portland Oregon in 1927 or 1928. She is still living, he died in 193- the picture was probably take in late 1884 or early 1885- the next picture of my mother was labeled 14 years and she had her hair pinned up no top of her head.