Smith-Larsen-Warren House

This house was probably built by Charles and Pamela Smith c.1886 and changed from a Victorian to a Bungalow house type c.1911 by Laura Larsen. The Smiths lived around the corner at 19 South 200 East from 1889 to 1908. They sold this property to Benjamin Brown in 1908, and he sold it in 1911 to Laura Walton Larsen. Laura’s first husband, Karl Charles Larsen, died in 1907 before the birth of their only child. She married William Henry Barber in 1919.

Laura crafted many quilts and booties for the Mormon Handicraft store in Salt Lake City, raised African violets, enjoyed genealogy, and liked to remodel the houses in which she lived. She moved out of this house in 1925. Albert Warren, a mail carrier for the Centerville post office, lived here during 1935-71.

The segmental arched windows on the side and rear elevations with the flat stone lintels over the front windows, along with an asymmetrical facade, suggest that a portion of the house was built during the Victorian era. The front porch, the front dormer, and the upper story shingles and simple double-hung windows, are Bungalow features that probably date from the 1910s.

280 East Center Street in Centerville, Utah