I haven't been very active lately... been busy buying a new (old) house. We looked all over the Salt Lake valley for something in my price range and didn't find much. So we expanded and found the perfect place in Tooele.

The house was built in 1911 2 bedroom, full bath with a rare master bath. Formal dining room, wood floors, updated kitchen with stainless appliances and a brand new roof just put on last week.

The interior has been completely remodeled and updated. Move in ready. All it needs is some curb appeal and a garage for my Jeep, (coming soon) until then I have a carport.

This pic is before the new roof... (notice the old crumbling chimneys)



After new roof (gets dark before I get home from work. The roofers removed the chimneys because the fireplaces were removed.)



Kitchen...



I'll get more pics in the daytime later on.

For the locals I live just one block off Vine street, that's the road that goes up Butterfield canyon, so in the summer I will use that to get to Riverton (in-laws) and Sandy (my folks)

 

Nice!! Congrats on the new home.

 

Nice place!

How long does it take to get to Riverton through Butterfield?

 

Depends on the traffic... I can't remember exactly how long, but it's a bit shorter than going around the Ochres.

It's one lane and kind of scary when people go too fast around those corners and almost force you off the side of the mountain. In a perfect world, they should pave a nice two lane road and connect Riverton/Herriman with Tooele.

 

Congrats on the new house!!

 

Yeah, umm I'm kinda of guilty on that one....... I live in Herriman and I've found that it's almost the same amount of time going U111 around to Miller Sports Park than over Butterfield through Tooele to the park. That road can be scary fast fun from the top going down Tooele side, not too hard to drift a JK.......

 

Congrats on your new home. Hope you enjoy it and like the area. I live in Clearfield, but orignally from West Jordan. Have not been on the Butterfield road for many years. I will have to get up there this summer.

 

Welcome to Tooele. I have lived here since 2005 and it is a very nice and quiet area. I came out of Vegas to here and have two young boys now. It has been a good experience for me and my family. If you need a hand for something, hit me up. Im on the south east side of town. Drewsifer

 

Nice digs... congrats on the new house...

 

So I went to the local museum and found out my house was owned by a school teacher named Edith Martin. She wasn't the first owner, but lived here the longest. My wife is going to hit up the tax assessors office, they have records of every owner since the house was built... maybe even photographs. So I have a little research to do.

From what I've learned so far; Edith was born in 1905 to Marie and Frank Martin. Census records show Frank and Marie were born in Utah in the early 1880's, while Utah was still a territory. I can trace their family from census records from 1900 to 1910, 1920 and 1930. At the age of 18 Frank Martin's occupation was listed as a day laborer. In 1910 he was a warehouse foreman at the International Smelter Company until his death from an infection in 1929. The 1930 census records only list his wife, daughter and son, unfortunately the 1930 record is faded and I can not make anything useful out except names. I was able to find Frank's WWI draft registration card that listed his address as 275 N. Just a few numbers away from my address. So now I'm wondering if at some point in time the addresses altered and perhaps my house is the same??

Anyway, the smelter company built their workers homes in this area so I'm curious to see if that's the case with my house. Perhaps Edith took over the house after her father died.

So at some point in 1925-26 Edith Martin graduated the U of U, I was able to find her name listed as a member of the Spanish club in a 1926 college yearbook. After graduating she returned to Tooele to teach for the next 45 years at Tooele High before retiring in 1970. Edith never married and died at a rest home in 1991 at the age of 86.

If I get enough research done I can apply for historical status with the Utah Historical Society. At that point I can start getting tax credits on my house. But more importantly I'll be documenting history, if only one small part.