- Woodruff-Riter-Stewart Home
The Woodruff-Riter-Stewart Home is a
mansion on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City,Utah . It sits on the corner of State Street and 200 North on the south slope of Capitol Hill.Originally built for Edward D. Woodruff, a
Union Pacific doctor who partnered a successfullaundry business, the home was designed by architects Headlund and Wood and was finished in 1906. The home is an example ofRenaissance architecture .Originally, the house had an interior like an English home with
stained glass ,mahogany paneling (although it was cheap localpine painted to resemble mahogany),leather coverings, andmural -adorned walls. However, subsequent owners painted over all of the original interior. Likewise, the original redbrick of the house was painted white for a time.Woodruff lived in the house his entire life and it was inherited by his daughter Leslie and her husband, General Franklin Riter, a noted local citizen. Riter was the first
Utah attorney on the Board of theAmerican Bar Association . He was also the US Judge Advocate inGermany . In 1950 the home was sold to DeVirl Stewart. For a time it was used for office space, but the building's interior and exterior is now restored.The building was purchased by Philip McCarthey in 2003.Thebed and breakfast , Inn on the Hill,was reopened in 2004 and is open daily.External links
* [http://www.innsite.com/inns/A004051.html Page with information on the Inn currently housed in the historic home]
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