Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House

United States historic place


Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The house in 2010
41°30′32″N 112°00′49″W / 41.50889°N 112.01361°W / 41.50889; -112.01361 (Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House)
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1898 (1898)
Architectural style	Victorian Eclectic
MPS	Brigham City MPS
NRHP reference No.	00001583^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 28, 2000

The Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House is a historic house in Brigham City, Utah. It was built in 1898-1901 by Jonathan Chester Knudson, a Mormon businessman whose father was a Danish-born convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[2] Knudson lived here with his wife, née Jennie Ellen Pritchard.^[2] In the 1930s, the house was inherited by their son, Jonathan Chester Knudson Jr., also a Mormon businessman, who lived here with his wife, Lucille.^[2] It was later deeded to their son, Jake, who lived here with his Japanese wife, Tomie Kono, a Tenrikyo minister.^[2] The house remained in the Knudson family until 1998.^[2]

The house was designed in the Victorian Eclectic style, with Queen Anne, Shingle and Neoclassical features.^[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 28, 2000.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Larry Douglass (November 3, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 11, 2019. With accompanying pictures