Home of James Joseph Keep and Ann Miller
Home of James Joseph Keep and Ann Miller Keep


 

This is the home James built for he & his wife Ann Miller Keep to live in.
The property is located at about 53 West 200 South
Clarkston, Utah

James Joseph Keep built this nice "one room rock house." He was a brick-layer by trade, so he completed it himself.  At the time James Joseph and Ann built this home, all of their children were grown and married. They lived in it until they were very old.

The home was plastered white on the outside by their son-in-law, Morgan Davies, who also lived nearby.  Morgan Davies was successful as a plasterer, and was a foreman on the Salt Lake City Temple.  He also helped to plaster many of the large buildings in downtown Salt Lake City, including the Salt Lake Theater, State Capitol building, etc..

Ann loved to keep her new home looking nice.  She had flowers in the windows and all around the house.  There was a fine orchard of apples, English currant, and gooseberry bushes, and always a fine garden of vegetables.  She had a small porch on the front of the house, with hop vines all growing up around the porch, making a nice shade in the summertime.  In the fall, Ann would gather the hop vines and dry them, and make yeast three times a week, for their use.  The yeast was also traded for flour.  The home and property were sold in 1890, so Ann and Joseph could retire and live on the interest.

This home is no longer in existence.
 
 

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