Brigham's Winter Home

We toured Brigham Young's winter home in St. George. He built this home because the winters were hard on his aging body. In his older years he came down from Salt Lake City to his home in St. George each winter. Two of his wives lived in this home.

View from the back of the house.

Brigham and his two counselors in the first presidency.

The living room. He had a huge piano in the room right behind grandma.

Brigham and his wife.

The dining room. The living room is behind the fireplace.

The kitchen has a big wood/coal burning stove. The pine cones in the bowl in front of the stove were used to start the fire to get the coal burning each morning.

A look  out one of the kitchen windows, toward the front of the house.

Brigham's bedroom upstairs. He had two tables in the room, one for dining and the other to sit and discuss business after the meal.

The wood furniture is all made of pine, but is stained to look like oak, cherry and other hard woods.

His cane and silk top hat with its' traveling box.

One of the youngest pictures of the prophet Brigham.

A look at the side entrance to the house.

 This is the front of the house. The windows on the left are the living room and the window on the far right is the kitchen. The upstairs windows are the bedroom.

There were fruit trees and a garden on the right side of the yard and storage and other buildings behind and to the right of the house.