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Show 201 Eighth Avenue - 1915 Architect/Builder: Bowers Building Company Building Type/Style: Bungalow Building Materials: frame brick Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) The Grant house is a rather large one-and-a-half story Bungalow with the first story of brick and the gable and gabled front dormer covered with shingles. Craftsman detailing includes the large, facetted, brackets on the gables and dormer and exposed purlins on the full-width: front tjorch. Statement of Historical Significance: D D D D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D O Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D Q a Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation In 1915 the Bowers (Geof, Leo, Frank) Building Company were granted building permits for this and the house adjacent to it on the north (q-20 A Street). Mary Grant Judd owned both pieces of property at the time. Mrs, Judd, wife of prominent Salt Lake'lawy-er Robert^L. Judd, was Eeber J. Grant 1 s daughter. She and her husband lived at ^20 A Street, her father, L.D.S. Church president Heber J. Grant, lived here. ; Heber J. Grant moved here in 1916 from a residence on South :Temr>le Street (previously Brigham Street, now a historic district). He and his wife, Augusta. W. Grant, acquired title to the property in 1921. Heber Jeddy Grant was born in Salt Lake City on November 22, 1856. He was the son of Rachel Ridgeway Ivins and Jedediah M. Grant. Jedediah Grant became the first mayor of Salt Lake City in- 1851 and three years later became second counselor in the first presidency of the L.D.S. Church. Jedediah Grant died nine days after his son was born at theage of /+0. Rachel R. I. Grant supported herself and her son by sewing and Staking in boarders. As a young boy Heber J. Grant studied, bookkeeping and at the'age of 15 was working as a policy clerk at an insurance company. At 19 he <"PS working as the policy clerk and bookkeeper for the 7ells Fargo and/Company in Salt Lake City. He became assistant cashier of Zdons Saving's Ban1- ^n^ Trust Company at the ageof20. He purchased an insurance " 0n :encv fr> former employer about the same time he began working for Sions^Bank. In 1888 Heber J. Grant established an insurance company, bearing his n financial panic of the 1890s. Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was aole |
