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George Whitehead Home

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  • Washington County Historical Landmark

George Frank Whitehead (1863-1961) bought the whole city block and then built this home for his bride in 1883. He was a builder and insisted that everything about the house be substantial and of the best quality. He even insisted that the foundation be constructed and allowed to settle for one year before the walls went up. He and his bride, Esther Jane Morris (1864-1948), moved into the original part of the house on their wedding day, November 22, 1883.

George never ceased making improvements. As as the family expanded, so did the home. Originally, of course, there was no plumbing in the house, but George added one of the first bathrooms in St. George. He ran a pipe from the irrigation ditch to a bathroom upstairs so the family could have (cold) baths. Eventually he added one feature that no other local house possessed, twin staircases, one running east to west, the other west to east, with a common landing.

Edna Cloward Whitehead's daughter (was Edna Cloward the daughter?), owned the house until 1965. The house was sold and cut up into apartments.

In 1988 it was purchased by Jay & Donna Curtis and Jon & Alison Bowcutt. They had already restored and renovated the Woolley-Foster house next door opening it to the public as the Seven Wives Inn, St. George's first Bed and Breakfast Inn. Now they are working on the same type of restoration on the Whitehead home. They are carefully preserving its original beauty and furnishing it with furniture and artifacts from the time when it was first built.

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  • 241 North 100 West, St. George, Utah 84770
  • Plat A, Block 39, Lot 8 on the old pioneer map of St. George.
  • 37° 6' 44.24" North Latitude, 113° 35' 8.88" West Longitude
  • 2,786 feet MSL


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