648 East 100 South
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

National Register of Historic Places - James and Susan R. Langton House

Statement of Significant:

As a result of an extensive survey conducted of Salt Lake City's central/southern area, the James and Susan R. Langton house was found significant as an unusually well-designed eclectic version of the Box style house. Built in 1908, this large, two-story, ten-room residence was designed by Bernard 0. Mecklenburg, a noted Salt Lake architect. Best known for his work in completing the splendid Cathedral of the Madeleine (National Register), Mecklenburg also designed many apartment and residential buildings of which this house is one of the more outstanding. Designed in a Box style, which was popular in Salt Lake City during the first fifteen years of the twentieth century, the Langton house possesses a scale and styling that distinguishes it as one of the important elements on Salt Lake's First South streetscape—a prominent residential area that served as an expansion (although less prestigious) of the opulent South Temple district (National Register), during a thirty-to-forty-year period around the turn-of-the-century. The Langdon residence also reflects the architect's use of elements from the Box, Tudor, and Classical styles to achieve the well-integrated eclectic styling that distinguishes this house from other Box type designs. James and Susan Langton were both prominent in business, with their Langton Lime and Cement Company, founded in 1894, serving as one of the most enduring and successful businesses of its type in the city for over forty-five years. The wealth generated from this venture enabled them to construct a house of such style and scale on a prominent street of Salt Lake City.