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Salt Lake City, Utah 1863
Relocated in 1975
Although Brigham Young never lived in this uniquely styled stucco farmhouse, he maintained both the home and its surrounding acreage as a “show place” and experimental farm for visiting dignitaries and guests. The farmhouse was staffed by a succession of Young’s wives. Other family members often gathered at the farm for holiday celebrations, which were spent dancing, feasting, and singing with friends and neighbors. Young also hosted meetings, musical performances, square dances, and dinner parties in the home’s second-story ballroom that was designed after the tradition of New England inns.
Not only did the 823 acre farm provide for Young’s large family and employees, it also served as an agricultural experiment station where new products such as alfalfa, sugar beets, mulberry seedlings, and silkworms could be tested for their viability in this “new” Utah climate and soil conditions. |
