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Hannah Maria Libby Smith House
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Hannah Maria Libby Smith House House
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| Location: | 315 East Center Street Provo, Utah |
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| Area: | less than one acre |
| Built: | 1878 |
| Architect: | Charles Warren Smith |
| NRHP Reference#: | 80003981 |
| Added to NRHP: | 02/14/1980 |
The Hannah Maria Libby Smith House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Built in 1878, this home is one of the best preserved vernacular residences in Provo. Hannah Smith was the wife of George Albert Smith, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She lived in this home even after her husband died and raised her children here. Her Grandson, President George Albert Smith, became a president of the same church. The Hannah Maria Libby Smith House was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Register on March 21, 1996.
A one story orange brick home, the Hannah Smith house is built on a rubble rock foundation. The home includes gabled roofs, double hung windows, original glass and woodwork, and novelty siding. The most unique decor is the Federal-style lintel with brackets topping all of the windows. The home is still primarily original and in neat condition.
Hannah Smith was born June 28, 1828 in Ossipee, Grafton, New Hampshire. She married George Albert Smith, at the time an apostle serving in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in 1845 in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. At the time she was his sixth wife, her sister his fifth. Leaving her home in Illinois with her husband in 1846 to migrate to Utah, she and many other families waited at Winter Quarters, Iowa, while her husband made the rest of the journey before returning for her in 1847 to transport her there. Eventually the made there home in Utah Valley, in the city of Provo.
George Albert Smity became the eighth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and John Henry Smith, Hannah’s sister’s son who Hannah raised as her own child, became the first counselor in the First Presidency of the same Church.
After the death of George Albert Smith in 1875, Hannah sold her previous home and moved into this one until she passed away in 1906. Grace Libby Smith Cheever, her daughter, stayed in the home until she in turn died in 1939. Her daughter, also named Grace, kept the home until she died in 1974, leaving the home to her husband Arnel Milner. Arnel Milner sold the home to the Utah County Heritage Foundation. The home still possesses it’s original interior and furnishings, and continues to be a valuable historical link in the city of Provo today.
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