John Patten House

United States historic place


John Patten House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°16′12″N 111°38′19″W / 39.270034°N 111.638587°W / 39.270034; -111.638587
Area	less than one acre
Built	1854
Built by	John Patten
Architectural style	Mormon vernacular
NRHP reference No.	77001315^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 22, 1977

The John Patten House is a historic two-story house in Manti, Utah. It was built with limestone in 1854 by John Patten, a native of Fairplay, Indiana who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1830s with his family and relocated to Utah in 1850.^[3] Patten had two sons and three daughters with his first wife Candace Smith.^[3] After she died, he married her sister Emily, and they had three sons and two daughters.^[3] The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 22, 1977.^[1]

The house is primitive vernacular in style, and, in 1977 was being restored by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers to serve as a pioneer museum.^[3] It faces west, and a 1981 photo shows it with the Manti Temple in the background, to the northeast.^[4]

Its NRHP nomination lists it at 95 W. 400 North St.; the house is found, however, at northeast corner of W. 300 North and N. 100 West, instead.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b The house shown in photos can be seen in Google Streetview, with image capture September 2012, accessed November 7, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Allen D. Roberts (January 26, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: John Patten House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 27, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1977
^ See photo caption in photos with NRHP document.