The Reed Smoot House, also known as Mrs. Harlow E. Smoot House, was the home of Reed Smoot from 1892 to his death in 1941, and is located at 183 E. 100 South, Provo, Utah, United States. Smoot was a prominent US Senator best known for advocacy of protectionism and the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act.
Reed Smoot House | |
 View from the southeast | |
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| Location | 183 East 100 South Provo, Utah United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°13′58″N 111°39′16″W / 40.23278°N 111.65444°W |
| Built | 1892 |
| Architect | Kletting, Richard K.A.; Smoot, Reed |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001831 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 14, 1975[1] |
| Designated NHL | December 8, 1976[2] |
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][3]
Smoot himself drew the first designs for the house, and Richard K.A. Kletting completed the design. The house cost over four thousand dollars to complete. "Victorian Eclectic in design, it is a Stately, solid, early Mormon square block home with some Victorian exuberance displayed in the detailing. The home is linked with Utah's early political and religious history, and is the site of several visits from U.S. presidents in the early twentieth century (Historic Provo p. 20)." This house was nominated to be named to the Provo City Landmark Register on April 28, 1995.
The house today
editAfter Smoot and his family moved to Washington D.C., the house was vacant for some time. Eventually, Smoot's son, Harlow, moved into the home. After being defeated for re-election in 1932, Smoot didn't return to live in the home on a permanent basis, choosing instead to spend his time in Salt Lake City and in Florida, where he died in 1941. Harlow Smoot and his wife continued to live in the home until their deaths and descendants have retained the home and kept it in excellent condition since that time. The house still contains many of the original furnishing, including the family china, a collection of pitchers, and a collection of paintings by Lee Greene Richards.
See also
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References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Reed O. Smoot House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 18, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2008.
- ^ George R. Adams and Ralph Christian (April 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Reed Smoot House" (pdf). National Park Service.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) and Accompanying three photos, exterior, from 1975 (32 KB)
- Hicks, Republican Ascendancy, 221–22.
- National Park Service. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form." April 1995.
- Milton R. Merrill, "Reed Smoot, Apostle-Senator," Utah Historical Quarterly, XXVIII (October, 1960), 343–44.
- Provo City Landmarks Commission. Historic Provo. 2002
- Thomas F. O'Dea, The Mormons (Chicago, 1957), 173.
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