Amanda Conk Best House

Historic house in Utah, United States

United States historic place


Amanda Conk Best House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


40°41′33″N 111°51′36″W / 40.69250°N 111.86000°W / 40.69250; -111.86000
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1896
Architect	Anderson, Herman H.; Brain, Charles J.
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	08001154^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 4, 2008

The Amanda Conk Best House, at 3622 South 1100 East in Millcreek, Utah, was built in 1896. Also known as the Boyle House, as the Beal House, and as the Aoki House, it is a brick Queen Anne style house that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.^[1]

It was built for Amanda James Conk Best, a polygamous wife of Alfred Best, and is important as an unusual example for its time and place, as a large Queen Anne style house built out in rural Salt Lake County.^[2]

It has a twin, the Barlow House in the Avenues Historic District in Salt Lake City.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Korral Broschinsky (November 29, 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Amanda Conk Best House" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 31, 2009. Retrieved March 19, 2013. and accompanying photos