Reed O. Smoot House

	Reed Smoot House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	View from the southeast
Location	183 East 100 South; Provo, Utah; United States
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
Designated NHL	December 8, 1976

Black and white photo of the Smoot family in front of their home in Provo, Utah. The family is dressed in typical turn-of-the-century attire. Reed and his wife, Allie, are seen with five of their children, including one baby in Allie's arms. A medium-sized dog is sitting in front of the family. — Smoot family in front of their house (circa 1900)

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.

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

After 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.

References

^ "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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NRHP Listings in Provo Utah

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[nhlsum-2] "Reed O. Smoot House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 18, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2008.

[nrhpinv2-3] 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)

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The house today

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