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Show NPS Form 10-900-. U1ah WoroPerlect 5.1 Formal (Rew;ed Feb. 1993) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. Ji. Page 2. John Y. and Emerette C. Smith House, Lehi, Utah County, UT wagon were retired for good. Smith also performed with the Lehi Ward Choir and the short-lived 1890 Lehi Glee Club. The esteem that Smith held in the eyes of his peers is evident by the political positions that he held. He was City Attorney from 1901-1904, and was eventually elected to the Utah State Senate, serving from 1907 until 1911. Emerette Smith, in addition to being the wife of a successful businessman and State senator, was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and the Emeritus Club of Brigham Young University. After leaving Lehi, she was president of the LOS Ensign ward Relief Society in Salt Lake City, and was a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Smiths left the house in 1911 and moved to the Avenues area of Salt Lake City. They later moved to San Francisco, California, where John Y. Smith died in 1953, and Emerette died in 1961. The home's next owner was Mrs. Samuel A. Smith. She owned it until 1920, though it apparently was a rental property. During this time, the house became Lehi's first hospital, though it only remained so for a few months. In March of 1914, Dr. Fred Worlton, the first professionally trained physician in Lehi, rented the house for use as a hospital. Dr. Worlton opened the facility in June 1914. The Worltons also lived in the house, using the first floor as living space while four rooms on the second floor functioned as patient rooms and an operating room . The building remained a hospital for only four months; in October the hospital was moved to the former Cutler House on State Street, the former home of John Cutler, father to Emerette Smith. The former hospital returned to its original residential use, though it is not known who lived in the house while it was a rental property from 1914-1925. In 1920 Ruth Pearl Fowler Cutler and her husband John Franklin Cutler bought the house from Mrs. Samuel A. Smith. John Franklin Cutler was the halfbrother (through polygamous marriage) of Emerette Smith. In 1925 the Cutlers sold the house to Israel L. Lott. Israel (or Israle -- sources conflict) Lott was a native of Lehi. After Israel married Emma Brown in 1909, the couple moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho. They returned to Lehi in 1920. Israel was employed as a plumbing and heating engineer, while Emma Lott was active in the LOS Church, in which she served in various leadership positions. The Lott family owned the house from 1925 until 1951. In 1964, Glade L. and Laurelle Dalton purchased the house; they remained there until 1985. In 1984, portions of the movie Footloose were filmed in the house. The current owner, Lisa Michaels, has owned the house since 1987. It has remained in a largely original state, though the Daltons did construct a large one story addition to the east side of the house in the 1970s, apparently to house Mr. Dalton's collection of antique cars. In the phase in Lehi's development during which the Smith house was built, larger, more elaborate houses were more prevalent. These buildings reflect the growing prosperity and sophistication that the arrival of the transcontinental railroad and other links to outside communities brought to Utah towns such as Lehi. Not only did Lehi's citizens have the financial means to build larger, more stylish homes, X See continuation sheet |
