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5 HISTORY Architect/Builder: 1824 W. 6200 South, Taylorsville, Salt Lake Co. , Utah Unknown Date of Construction: p. 3 1960 moved 1965 Historic Themes: Mark themes related to this property with "S" or "c" (S = significant, C = contributing). (see instructions for details) _Agriculture _Economics _Industry C Architecture _Education _Invention Government _Archeology _Engineering _Landscape _Religion _Art _Entertainment/ _Science Architecture _Commerce _Law Recreation _Social History _Communications _Ethnic Heritage _Literature ~Transportation ~Community Planning _Maritime History _Exploration! _Other & Development Settlement _Military _Conservation _Health/Medicine _Performing Arts Write a chronological history of the property, focusing primarily on the original or principal owners & significant events. Explain andjustify any significant themes marked above. Use continuation sheets as necessary. The Perkins-Bensch House is a ranch-style house built in 1960. It was moved from the southeast bench of Salt Lake County to the Taylorsville-Bennion area in 1965. According to the tax cards, the residence was originally located at 4273 S. Edward Drive in Salt Lake City. In 1964 and 1965, approximately half a dozen houses were removed from the east side of Edward Drive to make room for the construction of Interstate-215 (also known as the belt route) . Edward Drive is located near where present-day Interstate-215 curves to the west. The contemporary houses built on the west side of Edward Drive are still intact with a view east to the concrete barrier wall of the freeway. The houses on both sides of Edward Drive were in the Maywood Hill #2 Subdivision. Most of the houses in the subdivision were individually designed and built between 1960 and 1961. Newspaper advertisements indicate that the Utah State Department of Highways (later UDOT) acquired the odd numbers houses on Edward Drive and auctioned them with the following advertisement: "The State of Utah Invites Your Bid on the Following Homes to be Moved or Salvaged ," The "upset price" (Le. the lowest acceptable price) for each house was $1,500 6 and the auctions took place in the summer of 1964. The tax records indicate that at least three of the houses were moved, rather than salvaged.? Prior to the relocation , the first known occupants of the house at 4273 Edward Drive were James A. and Lillie Perkins, who are listed at the address in 1963. James Perkins worked at the Norge Laundry. The next year John P. and Leah G. McBride occupied the house. John McBride was the branch manager for the General Electric Credit Corporation. Neither couple owned the property. By 1965, the house had been moved to 1824 W . 6200 South. In the 1960s, the farmland to which the house was relocated was owned by the Langdon family within a community of loosely associated farmsteads known as Bennion. Brothers John and Samuel Bennion were among the earliest members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LOS or Mormon Church) to settle on the west side of the Jordan River in the early 1850s. The name Taylorsville was given to the cluster of Mormon pioneer families who had established farmsteads west of the river, primarily along Murray-Taylorsville Boulevard (4800 South).8 By the early 1870s, the early residents of Taylorsville had completed an extensive irrigation system that included the South Jordan Canal, which flows north-south intersecting 6200 South at approximately 1900 West, at the west boundary of the Langdon farm . With irrigation in place, many descendants of the early Taylorsville settlers, including several families named Bennion, moved 9 south to settle the area near the intersection of Redwood Road and 6200 South . A red brick schoolhouse was built on the 10 northwest corner of the intersection in 1905. That year the Bennion Ward of the LOS Church was organized . Between 1905 and 1908, the ward members built a chapel just north of the schoolhouse. A new meetinghouse was completed in 1953 on the site of the old schoolhouse. 11 For many years, the schoolhouse and meetinghouse made the intersection the de facto cultural center of the Bennion community. 4229 Edward Drive was advertised in the Deseret News, May 25, 1964. 4249 Edward Drive was advertised in the Deseret News, July 20, 1964. The advertisement for 4273 Edward Drive could not be located using the online index, but the house was probably also auctioned in the summer of 1964. 7 The Edward Drive houses were all less than five years-old. 8 John Bennion suggested the name Taylorsville after his good friend , LOS Church Apostle John Taylor. John Taylor later became the third president of the LOS Church . 9 It is thought that Redwood Road was at first used as a surveying line to layout plots for the west side of the valley. It may have gotten its name from the redwood stakes used by the territorial surveyor to mark the line. Information from Utah History to Go at httpllwww.historytogo.utah.gov website. 1010 The name was changed to the South Taylorsville School in 1906 and then to the Madison School in 1908. The building was sold to the Bennion Ward in 1921 and later demolished around 1950. 11 The Bennion Ward used the old chapel for auxiliary meetings until the 1970s when it was torn down. The 1953 Bennion Ward meetinghouse was sold to the New Pilgrim Baptist in 1990. It was demolished in April 2010 as part of the current UDOT project. The Sons of 6