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Show 8. Significance Period X prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1899 1900- Specific dates Areas of Significance Check and justify below archeoloav-Drehistoric archeology-historic agriculture -X_ architecture art _X_ commerce communications 1900 community olannina conservation X economics education engineering exploration/settlement industry invention - landscape architecture law literature military music philosophy politics/government religion science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation other (specify) Builder/Architect Unknown--possibly Walter Ware Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Built in 1900, the Thomas R. Cutler Mansion is both historically and architecturally significant. It is historically significant as the home of Thomas R. Cutler, a prominent Utah businessman. As the general manager of the Utah Sugar Company from 1889-1917, Cutler is credited with bringing about the success of the beet sugar industry in the intermountain west. Cutler also had great influence on the development of the business community of Lehi, a town in northern Utah County where the first successful beet sugar factory was established. This house is the only house associated with Cutler during his years in Lehi. Architecturally, the house is significant as one of a very limited number of Colonial Revival boxes in Utah, and as the only documented extant example of the type in a small town in Utah. Sophisticated examples of the Colonial Revival style comparable with the Cutler House were built in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Provo, and were often architect designed. The Colonial Revival box, however, was not the stylistic choice for residences in smaller communities. The Cutler House very closely resembles the Jesse Knight Mansion in Provo, designed by the Salt Lake City architectural firm of Ware and Treganza in 1905. It is likely that Ware and Treganza were responsible for the design of the Cutler Mansion as well, although no evidence has been produced that would confirm that possibility. Hi story Thomas R. Cutler was born at Sheffield, England on June 2, 1844. At the age of fifteen he began working with S.& J. Watts and Company, a large wholesale and foreign mercantile house. He remained working for this company until 1864 when he and his family converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons or L.D.S.) and emigrated to Utah. Upon arriving in Utah, he settled at Lehi in Utah County and began working for another mercantile store, T.& W. Taylor Mercantile Company when they opened a branch in Lehi. Cutler married Laura Elizabeth Coons on December 26, 1870. They had twelve children, of which ten survived. Then in 1880, in keeping with the L.D.S. church practice of polygamy at that time, Cutler took Rhoda Juliet Barnes as an additional wife. From this marriage Cutler had seven more children, of which, five lived. After a few years in Lehi, Cutler began raising sheep and cattle, which he continued to do until April of 1872, when he organized the People's Cooperative Institution of Lehi. Cutler was the president and manager of that store until 1889, when he gave up his managerial position to become the manager of the Utah Sugar Company. He remained as the president of the People's Cooperative until his death. In 1891 Cutler and three other men organized the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank which was the first bank in Lehi. That same year Cutler and two other men erected the Union Hotel wlrich |
