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Show NPS Form 10-900-. Utah Word Perfect 5. 1 Fc:.-.,al !:\olJtsed Feb. 1993} OMS No_ 10024-0018 United States Depa rtment of t he Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Co nt i n ~lat ion Sheet Section No. .lL Page 2 John T. and Emerette C. Smith House, Lehi , Utah County, UT The esteem that Smith held in the eyes of his peers is evident by the political positions that he held. He wc.s 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 '3e r~t:-, r , was a m8mb8 r of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and the Emeritus Club of Brigham Young UniVE!rsity. After leaving Lehi, she was president of the LOS Ensign ward Relief Society in Salt Lake City, ~ ', --; \VE.!= .3 rT'e lr be - clf the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Sml Lr,s ,=-ft the house in 1911 and moved to the Avenues area of Salt Lake City. They later moved to San Fra:>s! scc, Califarn ia, where John Y. Smith died in 1953, and Emerette died in 1961 . The home's nex t owner was Mrs . Samuel A. Smith. She owned it until 1920, though it apparently was a rental property. During th is time, the house became Lehi's first hospital , though it only remained so for a few montli::; In March ot 1914, Dr. Fred Worlton , the fi rst professionally trained physician in Lehi, rentec OL. l tna hou se for use as a hospital. Dr. Worlton opened HIe facility in June 1914. The Worltons also lived in the house at the same time , using the first floor as living space while four rooms on the second fIJ :'," functioned as patient rooms and an operating room . The building remained a hospital for only fOll r months; in October the hospital was moved to the former Cutler House on State Street, the former rl0m~ of Juhn Cutler, father to Emerette Smith. The fanner hospital returned to its original residential use, th ough it is not known who lived in the house wh dt It was a relltal property from 1914-1925. In 1920 Ruth Pearl Fowler Cutler and her husband Joiln Franklin Cutier bought the house from Mrs. Samuel A. Smith. John Franklin Cutler was the h a lf- b rot n~~ r (through po lygamous marriage) of Emerette Smith. In 1925 the Cutlers sold the house to lSI aei L. LoLt. Israe: (or Isral e -- sources conflict) Lott was a native of Leh i. After Israel married Emma Blown in 1909, the couple moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho. They returned to Lehi in 1920. Israel was emu 1oV8d as a plu mbi ng and heating eng ineer, whi le Emma Lott was active in the LDS Church, in wh ich she served in vari ous leadership positions. The Lott fam ily owned the house from 1925 until 1951. In 1964 , Gl a ~le L. and Lau relle Dalton purchased the house; they remained there until 1985. In 1984, portions of ihe movie Footloose were filmed in the house . The current owner, Lisa Mich aels, has owned the tlollse since 1987. It has remained in a largely orig inal 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 Cli l lf~ctio n 01 antique cars. In the pil8.S8 in Lehi's dev910prnent during which the Smith house was built, larger, more elaborate houses lI e': (0 more prevalent. Th ese buildings reflect the growi ng prosperity and sophistication that the arrival 01 th8 "["3nScontl llell tal (ailroad and other links to outside com munities brought to Utah towns such as Le r ~ i .. 'ot only did Leh i's citizens have the financial means to build larger, more stylish homes, they we re more aware of the popular architectural styles through contact with the outside world. This trend ccMU (iu.;;-,d th :ougil the historical period . The prosperity of developing industrial and commercial endeavo;"[: du dng the ~i rst part of the Twe ntieIh e entury is reflected in the substantial brick, decorative bui ldings Q~ tl la't era. |
