| Description |
7640 Home of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Lee, Sold to Habbesham (now torn down) who built a new home near by. Located near Kamas Junction, going toward Heber City. Photo by: L. V. McNeely. The Fay Lee Home built in 1877 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Lee was built in 1877 by William Denton Moulton. The house, located nine miles north of Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, was constructed from sandstone brought from the Lake Creek area. There was a large, beautiful parlor and dining room with two staircases leading to the upper story which included several bedrooms. There was a huge, almost "refrigerator like" pantry, three full rooms and a vegetable cellar in the basement. The floors were ceder, an inch and a half thick. Mr. Moulton, the original owner, prospered in selling supplies to mining camps at Park City. He set up a complete spread on the ranch to handle the business, including a two story milk shed with a pipeline leading back to the calf shed for skim milk. There was a large slaughter house, an ice house and a well inside the barn. For its day it was very complete. The house became so well known that the stage coach line from Heber City to Salt Lake built a side road so that passengers could view both back and front of the home and its surroundings. When Mr. Moulton died, shortly after building the house, his brother-in-law Orson H, Lee became foreman and owner of the property and for thirty years, carried on the same work. His three sons, Orson Monroe, Dell, and Fay Lee, then took over the operation developing the property into a sheep ranch. One son, Fay Lee, owned the property until it was torn down in 1959 to make way for the new highway developments. |
