The McIntyre House, located at 259 East Seventh Avenue in The Avenues in Salt Lake City, Utah was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#78002677).
The property on which the McIntyre House sits was registered to C. J. Sandbech on June 27, 1874, as lot 2, Block 101, Plat D. The lot was purchased by Gill S. Peyton on January 26, 1894, for a price of $2,500.00.
The structure was designed by architect Fredrich Hale and was first inhabited in 1898 and was called Payton Hall. The property, house, and carriage house was sold to Henry w. Brown on July 18, 1900, for a price of $15,000.00.
William H. McIntyre acquired the house on December 5, 1901 for a price of $19,000.00 and the adjacent lot (Lot #2) for a price of $2,000.00. From this date on the structure has been known as the Mclntyre House.
Service connections are recorded as being made on April 17, 1906 and additional services and repairs were made August 8, 1910.
William H. Mclntyre died on August 20, 1926. Mrs. Phoebe McIntyre resided in the house until her death in 1945. William H. McIntyre came to Utah as a boy from Texas and his adventurous life was bound up with the development of the Utah cattle business. In later life Mr. McIntyre developed large holdings in Alberta, Canada, where he established the McIntyre Ranch but he retained many interests in Utah and spent his last years there; dying in Salt Lake City in 1926 at ‘the age of ‘seventy-eight.
He was born in Grimes County, Texas about forty miles, north of what is now the city of Houston, in the year 1848, the son of William McIntyre who was of Scotch-Irish descent.
William’s brother, Samuel, along with William traveled to Texas about 1870 to sell some property owned by, t;heir father. After the sell was completed they bought cattle and made the long trek back to Utah. In the spring of the next year, they sold the cattle for more than five times what they had paid. This gave them enough money to buy more cattle in Omaha and drive them to Utah. This partnership continued until sometime in the 1880s and gave the two brothers enough money to enter into several ventures, including the Mammoth Mine at Mammoth, Utah which then developed into a successful operation.
During the 1880s, William had hard times in the cattle business losing almost an entire herd in the winter of 1886-87. In 1891 to 1894 William began investigating the possibility of purchasing land and in 1894 he purchased a full section of land near Cardston in Alberta, Canada. Ranching began shortly after the purchase.
William H. McIntyre was married to Phoebe, Ogden Chase. She was the granddaughter of Isaac Chase, the first flour miller in Utah. Liberty Park was once the Isaac Chase farm, later passing to Brigham Young. Phoebe Chase was torn at the caretaker’s house which still stands on Liberty Park.
Mentioned in the national register’s nomination form:
While they account for less than one percent of all residences, the very large, often architect-designed homes in the Eastlake, Queen Anne and Shingle styles, and later the Prairie and Craftsman styles greatly influence the visual character of the Avenues. Some of the state’s best examples of residential architectural styles were built there, including the William Barton house, 231 B Street, (vernacular/Gothic); the Jeremiah Beattie house, 30 J Street, (Eastlake); the David Murdock house, 73 G Street, (Queen Anne); the E.G. Coffin house, 1037 First Avenue, (Queen Anne); the N.H. Beeman house, 1007 First Avenue, (Shingle style); the Vto. Mclntyre house, 257 Seventh Avenue, (Classical Revival); the James Sharp house, 157 D Street, (Craftsman); and the W.E. Ware house, 1184 First Avenue, (Colonial Revival).
