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5 HISTORY 1824 W. 6200 South, Taylorsville, Salt Lake Co., Utah p. 4 -continued- In the 1860s, Samuel Bringhurst had acquired approximately 30 acres on the north side of 6200 South and the west side of Redwood Road . The Bringhurst family deeded the Redwood Road frontage to the school and the church in 1905 and 1906 respectively. Around 1896, the frontage along 6200 South was acquired by a Swedish immigrant, John Anderson (1871-1912) and his wife, Ethel May Tripp Anderson (1880-1920). The Andersons sold the property to neighbors, Clifford Andrew Langdon (1866-1951) and his wife, Sophronia Ellen Carter Langdon (1874-1949), in 1904. At the time, the property extended from the west side of the school yard to the South Jordan Canal. The two-and-a-quarter-acre parcel straddled the line of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad. Clifford Langdon owned kennels and in his later years was a custodian for both the nearby school house and the church building. Clifford and Sophronia Langdon lived in a modest Victorian cottage at 1810 W. 6200 South until their deaths. In the 1953, the property was divided among their heirs. The family home at 1810 W. and the adjacent parcels were acquired by their son, William C. Langdon (1914-1974), and his wife Irma P. Langdon (1915-?). The Langdons had moved to California in the late 1950s, around the time the Bennion area was beginning to experience the effects of the subdivision boom on the Salt Lake Valley's west side that started with the conversion of Camp Kearns to residential housing after World War II. The Perkins-Bensch House was the last of three houses relocated between 1961 and 1965 to the corner of Redwood Road 12 and 6200 South in Taylorsville. In 1960, the Langdon family home was rented by Vera H. Bensch, who worked for the Purity Biscuit Company in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Bensch purchased all the property owned by William and Irma Langdon in two 13 transactions, the first on February 17, 1962 and the second on August 3, 1964. The first transaction included the property 14 1796 W. 6200 South where a house was relocated from Murray in 1961 . The second transaction was for the property at 1824 W . 6200 South. The tax records indicate that the foundation for the house had been excavated by November 27, 1964. The house was probably moved in December 1965 or early January 1965. A lien was placed on the property in mid-January 1965 by the LaVeel Webster House Moving Company. The exact route that the house took on its ~ourney from the east bench to Taylorsville is unknown, but likely down 4500 South (or possibly 4800 South) to Redwood Road. 5 Vera H. Bensch moved from 1796 W. into the house at 1824 W. 6200 South in 1965. Around that time she began working for the Supreme Bakers Company. She maintained the other houses on her property (1796 W . and 1810 W.) as rental units. Between 1967 and 1969, Vera H. Bensch was employed as a clerk for the American Oil Company. She moved to Salt Lake City in the mid-1970s. During this time, the upper floor and basement of 1824 W. 6200 South were both rental units. In her later years, Vera Bensch moved to Hurricane, Utah, in the early 1990s where she currently resides. She appears as Vera H. Rowley in some current records, and may have remarried . Vera H. Bensch Rowley sold the property to UDOT in January 2010. The last occupant, whose family members had rented the house nearly seventeen years, vacated the property in March 2010. The house was demolished in April 2010. Utah Pioneers placed a commemorative marker for the "Old School House" at the site in 1986. The marker was removed prior to the demolition of the meetinghouse. 12 See Historic Site Forms for 1780 W. 6200 South and 1796 W . 6200 South for more information . 13 The first transaction also included the house at 1810 W. 6200 South, which had been under contract to Joseph and Genevieve Key. 14 See Historic Site Forms for 1796 W. 6200 South for more information. 15 The house was moved prior to the construction of several freeway overpasses in its path. The feat would be impossible today.