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This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. 298 E 200 NORTH HART, SAMUEL AND SARAH, HOUSE BOUNTIFUL, DAVIS COUNTY BOUNTIFUL HISTORIC DISTRICT UTAH STATE HISTORY 11 11111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111 39222500011163 L HISTORIC SITE FORM (Historic Sites Database version) Utah State Historic Preservation Office 1. Identification ID#: 10497 Property Name: HART, SAMUEL AND SARAH, HOUSE Address: 298 E 200 NORTH City: BOUNTIFUL Old fD#: Block: County: DAVIS COUNTY 2. Documentation/Status Site: Dates Surveyed / Added to SHPO Files Evaluation: (B) ELlGJBLE/CONTRlBUTING Recon. Level Survey: intensive Level Survey: General/Misc. File: National Register Status: BOUNTIFUL HISTORIC DISTRICT Date Listed 95242 Plat: 03/04 1 193 Date Delisted: 10/26/2005 Areas of Significance: Thematic or MPS Affiliation: 3. Building Information Date(s) o/Construction: Height (# stories): 1865 c. 1 Original Use SINGLE DWELLING Outbldgs: Contrib.: 0 Non-Contrib. 0 Plan/ Type: HALL-PARLOR Style(s): VICTORIAN ECLECTIC GREEK REVIVAL Material(s) STUCCO/PLASTER Architect(s): 4. Other SHPO File Information Federal Tax Project No. (s) 106 Case No .. Devel. Grant: State Tax Project No.(s) Historic Photo Date: HABS/HAER: Printout Date: //1221200 From: Dwellings,: A Guide to Early Bountiful Homes Built Bedjore]900. 56 Published by the Bountiful Area Centennial cornrn~sl~Jt'er Tour Hart/Schnieder/Kelly-Laughter 296 E. 200 North 1860s Samuel C. Hart and Sarah Ann Leah (or Leigh) were converts to the L.D.S. Church in England. They decided to emigrate to America and join the other saints in the . Valley of the Great Salt Lake. They did not have enough money for all the family to come at once, so Sarah Ann came to Bountiful with their four children in 1864 while Samuel stayed in England until he had enough money to come across the ocean and plains, and get them established. She was a brave woman to come alone with the children and make a home for them in the wilderness. Stephen James Hart, who was 12 years old when they came, reported, "Our first home was a little log cabin of Perrigrine ~ Sessions; our next one was a dugout and was our shelter for two or three years. Beds were either piles of straw in the corner or boards laid across sawed tree stumps. Our chairs were tree stumps; the floors, walls and roof were dirt; there were no windows and only a quilt for a door. When it was snowing, our mother made our bed under the table to keep us dry." Another relative tells how in the morning, after a snow storm, the family had to shake the snow off their bedding . Stephen also wrote in his diary that his parents started a grocery store in 1865 , so apparently the father had joined the family by then. The family built a two-room adobe home on the corner of 3rd East and 2nd North. They trimmed the eaves with a row of bricks to make it look stylish. In the north room, closest to the' sidewalk, was their little store where they sold groceries and notions, such as sewing supplies, etc. Seven more children From: Dwellings,: A . Publi she by Dwelhngs - Center our Bountiful Homes Built Be<6ore" ] '900 • Area Centenn~alCommittee, 993. 57 were born to them, making eleven in all. A room was added onto the east making the house "T" shape. Still later another room was added, making the house into an "L" shape with two gables on the south. Samuel died in 1886. Sarah continued to live in the home for many years. Starting in 1901, Sarah's grandson, Steven J ames Hart and his new bride, Ateamissa Porter, rented the house. They eventually became irritated because Grandma kept raising the rent: first it was $1.00, and then $2.00, and then she raised it to $3.00! So in 1907 they decided to move out and build a place of their own. They bought a piece of property for $150.00 and built a home for $700.00 at 763 N. 4th East. This little home is still standing. Back to Grandma Hart's home on 2nd North. There are no records available to show the next owner of the home, after Sarah's death in 1913. T ax records show that the house was stuccoed before 1925. Catherine Schnieder bought the home in 1952 and later deeded it to her son, Oral. Clifton and Sarah Burningham owned it from 1954 to 1960. In 1976 Gordon and Darla Kelly bought the home. Their daughter, Rebecca, and John Laughter now own the home. When they replaced the kitchen ceiling, they found an egg carton from the World War II period in the attic. The old claw-footed tub is still in use. They repainted the house in soft gray with dusky rose trim. They have added flower boxes to the window sills, and are planning shutters that Becky will make. They are striving to create a <:?untry French look. Sources: Davis County Land Records searched by Joni Hogan Thomson; Rose Hart; Rebecca Kelly; East of Antelope Island, pp. 239, 272. SLEDDING When I was a kid in the thirties, Moss's Hill {Fifth South today} was the fa vorite sledding hill in all the valley. The kids from all over the valley came to the hill to sled, starting early in the morning and sledding tilliate into the night. You could start on Eleventh East and, with good snow, you could coast at least to Second West. Some ofthe older hoys huilt a tohoggan tha t held six or eight people and they ha ve heen known to make it clear to Fifth West. They huilt honfires at intervals up the hill to warm themselves as they walked hack up the hill for another run. Everyone knew it was a Sledding hill so the cars ga ve the sleds the right-of-way. Not many cars were out, especially when the roads were icy. Milton Green