Our History
The Victorian-style Mansion was built in 1892 for Henrietta Dyer Ellerbeck, the plural wife of Thomas Witton Ellerbeck.
Henrietta was born in England in 1842 and immigrated to Utah in 1862. She married Thomas Ellerbeck in July 1862 as his third wife. Thomas Ellerbeck served as Brigham Young's chief clerk and was involved in nearly all business and industrial developments in the Salt Lake Valley at the time. Thomas resided at a different home located at 24 East 100 South.
Henrietta continued to live in this house until 1903 when she sold it to William F. Armstrong son of Francis Armstrong, a mayor of Salt Lake City. William became a prominent Salt Lake banker and businessman. Involved with his father's business - the Salt Lake City electric railroad - and one of the organizers of the Standard Furniture Company in 1908. He remained president of the company until his death. He married Edith Mogle in 1894 and she continued to live in the house until her own death in 1958.
-written by Rachel Quist