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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Crossgrove House Salt Lake County, Utah Name of Property County and State neighbor, John Boulter (1834-1907), an adobe maker/mason, built the house. Family tradition states that "the reason one of the windows in the house was a bit on the slanted side" was that James "Bayard" and his friend had set it after returning from Sandy where they had enjoyed some "spirits" after attending a church leadership meeting. 6 According to family tradition, the staircase was built by Martha Crossgrove's brother, Lewis [Louis] Henry Mousley (1833-1913). Lewis Mousley, who had married two of James Crossgrove's sisters, was incarcerated in the territorial prison for engaging in polygamy. James Crossgrove paid the fine of $300 and in return Lewis Mousley built the staircase in the house. 7 James and Martha Crossgrove expanded their holdings in 1889 and 1890 by purchasing addition land from the Heward and Rodway families. The Crossgrove family built a large barn and other outbuildings on the property, including root cellars behind the house and near the irrigation ditch (barn and later cellars demolished). Martha Ellen Mousley Crossgrove died on July 25, 1898. James Crossgrove continued living in the upper south room of the house with the family of his oldest son, Bayard "Bud" Mousley Crossgrove (1869-1948). Bud Crossgrove married Matilda Jane Garff on December 21, 1898. Matilda Jane Garff Crossgrove (1874-1940) was born and raised in Draper. Bud and Matilda had five children, three sons and two daughters. The children all have fond memories of visiting with their grandfather in his room on the upper floor. James A. B. Crossgrove died on September 9, 1914. The property was bequeathed to Bayard "Bud" M. Crossgrove by his mother's estate in 1915. Bud and Matilda Crossgrove continued operating the family farm. He built the chicken coops during the rise of the poultry industry in Draper. Two of their sons, Avar and Ralph, built houses nearby and were also prominent in the Draper's poultry industry. Two of the large chicken coops that were part of the complex are extant at the rear of Avar's property. Draper's co-operative egg economy was so successful that community leaders from throughout Utah visited Draper and used it for a model for co-operatives in their communities. The city gained national prominence when eggs from Draper were shipped to servicemen overseas during World War II. According to one Draper historian, at one point, "almost everyone had chickens," a fact collaborated by Draper's numerous poultry-related outbuildings. 8 The prosperity provided by the poultry industry allowed Bud and Matilda to expand and upgrade the ancestral pioneer-era home. Matilda Crossgrove died on July 7, 1940. Bud Crossgrove died on April 14, 1948. In August 1949, the property was deeded to their children. Bud and Matilda's fourth child and eldest daughter, Hulda Mae "Susan" Crossgrove (1905-1997) continued to live in the home where she had been born. Hulda Crossgrove was an educator who worked in the Jordan School District for 44 years. After graduating from Jordan High School, she attended Brigham Young University and the University of California at Berkeley. She taught school at the Draper Park School for twenty-six years. The Draper Park School was named for the community's most influential educator Dr. John R. Park. 9 Hulda Crossgrove later taught at Midvale Elementary for two years, then served as a girls counselor at Midvale Junior High for eight years and finally at Hillcrest High School for another eight years. Hulda Crossgrove was a founding member of the Draper Visual Arts Foundation and was instrumental in saving a collection of original art that had been purchased by Draper schoolchildren over the years. Hulda maintained and made many improvements to the family home in Draper. Hulda's sister, Helen Garff Crossgrove Dodson (1907-1999), moved into the family home to care for Hulda in the last years of her life. Hulda Crossgrove died on May 1, 1997. Helen Crossgrove Dodson died on August 28, 1998. Both sisters are buried in the Draper Cemetery. The property was transferred to a niece, Helen Sue Wagner, who sold it to Jared and Sandy Kunz in West as a fanatical gunfighter/law man. Since Rockwell died in 1878, it is likely that he stayed in the log cabin and not the existing home. The trail that runs through the rail right-of-way that borders the Crossgrove property is named the Orrin Porter Rockwell Trail. 6 Biography of James Ashburton Bayard Crossgrove on file at the Draper History Museum: [2]. 7 Ibid. 8 Ruth Day McGuire Miller, My Roots Run Deep: Looking Back at Draper, Utah, ([n.p.] 1977), 101. Quoted in the Draper Multiple Property Documentation Form: 9 Draper had a long tradition of educational excellence beginning with the remarkable career of Dr. John R. Park (1833-1900), who began his teaching career as a local teacher in Draper, in the 1860s. Dr. Park started the first rural high school in Utah in the Draper community, implemented many of the educational policies used in Utah today. He later became the president of the University of Utah. When the Draper community built a new school in 1912, it was named for Dr. Park. 7 |
