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Show CH STREET 4893 WASAT AUL'S CATHOLIC ST. VINCENT DEP CHURCH LAKE COUNTY MURRAY, SALT om 1) 328-8678 GREENSHEET -oown Memory Lane History On Wasatch Street T" (,Oll1nH'IllOrate May's lIistory Month. Murray will I ('('(Jgllizf~ historic homeowners along Wasatch SI red by presenting the st reet with the annual I'r('~( ' I\,<llion Award. Nearly the entire street was f('("IlI I\ , placed on Murray's historic register ami is "11<' ,,{ Ih t, ollly str('cts in Murray lI1aintaining its overall historic integrity. The homes and the beautiful St. Vincent Church were built in the lale 1910's and the 1920·s. The information below was proVided by the Murray City Cultural Arts Department and allows you to glimpsL inside the history of homes along Wasatch Street. Sam Whittle House 4906 Wasatch Street This house. and many others Iik.· iI. were built in about 1899 by lht' American Smelting and Henning Co. (ASARCo) as company hOllsing for the employees of their Highland Boy smelter. which was completed in 1899. In a bout 1907 Sam Wh it tIe houghl it. had it torn down and 1Il0\t'd it. from its original location ne:lr 5400 South and 800 Wt'st to Wasatch Street. where Ilt' reuuilt if. Whittle was Murray's fire chid from ID07 to 1909. lie lived In this house until 1934 and then sold it to his brother. Six years later his brother's son. Roy and Roy's wife Ann. bought it. They have lived in it ever since. St. Vincent DePaul's Catholic Church 4893 Wasatch Street John Olson House, 4928 Wasatch Ave. Built in 1908. this house. along with Ihe houses of the Cahoolls. I he Moffats. and the Bishops. was a focal point on the newly developed Wasatch Avenue in the early years of the 20th century. Like them. it is a box type house. a building type that was popular in Utah in the first years of the 20th century. Characteristic of that type. it is two stories and features high. rectangular massing. a hlp roof. a full-width porch and a bay window. The interior featured five fireplaces with oak mantels. an oak staircase. a buill-in buffet displaying souvenir plates from around the world. wainscoting of polished oak panels. wall paper of elegant red and gold. and omate electrical fixtures as electricity began to replace gas in outlying areas of (h(' Salt L..'l.ke Valley in the early 20lh century. Mr. and Mrs. Fay L. Curtz moved into the house In 1942. during World War II. and shared it with officers needing housing while awaiting the construction of Kearns Army Air Base. southwest of Salt Lake City. where more than 90.000 people received basic training. In the early 1950·s. the house was remodeled to make two apartments with separate entrances; the dining room was divided Into two rooms; a large bay window was removed from the south side of the house and the fireplaces were bricked up. Bryce and Sue Ann Bodily purchased the house afte~ Mr. Curtz's death and plan to restore it to its historiC beauty. St. Vincent's Catholic Parish was founded by Father Patrick A. Maguire in September 1925. Father MagUire originally led worship in the city jail and later In a fraternal hall. but the parish grew quickly. making a separate. new church building necessary. and this building was completed and dedicated on May 30. 1927. ft was one of eight churches in Murray in the 1920's and 1930's - four Mormon wards. and Baptist. Lutheran. Methodist Churches and this Catholic one. It remained the only place of worship for members of SL Vincent's Parish until 1964. when the new parish school opened on Spring Lane and Mass began to be celebrak<l tliere. Since then this building has continued as branch chapel. Father MagUire led the parish until 1938. when Father William Kennedy took over as pastor. lie relllaille<l with the church until 1946. Father Mark O. Benvegnu became pastor In 1962, |
