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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Christensen, Herbert & Lillian, House Washington County, Utah Name of Property County and State County. He also worked on home courses until he was able to matriculate to Brigham Young Academy in Provo (later Brigham Young University). While Albert Anderson designed the house, he did not work on it, but provided expertise and loaned tools to his son-in-law. Joe Pitti provided this description of Herbert's work on the house based on interviews he conducted: Herbert constructed the house with some help on the more technical aspects, but mostly it was built pretty much on his own with one horse that he used to get sandstone blocks cut from the walls of the canyon mountainside. He would drag them back one by one, dressing the stone with a spelling hammer as needed and then dragging them into their final place. 9 Lillian received her teaching credentials and taught elementary school in Hurricane, Utah. In 1945, the family moved to Provo, Utah County, where she also taught school. She taught at Brigham Young University in Provo where she obtained her master's degree. Lillian also received a doctorate in psychology at Case Western Reserve. Herbert K. Christensen also received teaching credentials. He was an assistant professor of secondary education at Brigham Young University and principal of the Brigham Young High School when he died at the age of 43, on January 21, 1950. Herbert K. Christensen was buried in the Springdale Cemetery. Lillian kept the family home in Springdale until 1956. She occasionally rented it to relatives, many of whom promised to pay rent, but didn't. Lillian was happy to sell the house to, when she sold it to Jasper Lee and Ruby B. Shay. Lillian A. Christensen married Willard G. Smith in 1963. They moved to Salt Lake City where she taught at the University of Utah until her retirement. The Smiths returned to Provo after her retirement in 1977. In 1992, Lillian Christensen Smith was recognized as one of President Bush's Points of Light (#694 of 1,000) for her work with the Gathering Place, a treatment center for drug and alcohol addiction. Lillian Anderson Christensen Smith died on November 6, 1996 and was buried in the Springdale Cemetery. Eldon Christensen noted that "It was working with our father and grandfathers that my brother Albert developed a passion to build things and became an architect when he grew Up."10 Jasper Lee Shay was born in Oklahoma in 1905. Ruby Biggs Shay was born in Kansa in 1901. The Shay family lived in Chula Vista, California, where Jasper operated a service station in Coronado. Their daughter, Maureen Shay Bottimore, recalls that her parents fell in love with the home on a trip to Springdale. They purchased it from Lillian A. Christensen on December 24, 1956. Maureen remembers the family vacationed in Springdale for several weeks each spring, summer and Christmas. In May 1958, Jasper Lee and Ruby B. Shay signed as escrow agreement with Carl DeVon and Lou Ann Hardy. Jasper Lee Shay died of a heart attack in 1959 while on vacation in Las Vegas with the family. It is not clear when the Shays stopped visiting the home in Springdale because Maureen remembered her family owned the property in the 1960s. Ruby remarried and died in 1970 as Ruby Shay Young in Chula Vista, California. Carl DeVon Hardy was born in Springdale in 1935. Lou Ann Campbell was born in Garfield County in 1938. They were married in 1955. Carl Hardy worked for the National Park Service in Zion, Death Valley, California and Colorado. In 1961, Carl and Lou Ann sold the former Christensen house to DeMont and Wildeane Excell. Carl DeVon Hardy died in Denver in 1976. 9 Joe Pitti, "A Brief History of Under the Eaves Inn." Unpublished TMs , [2011] . 10 Eldon Christensen, email correspondence, July 2019. Section 8 page 13 |
