The Stewart Mansion: The Home of Andrew Jackson Stewart Jr. and Dorothy Melissa Riggs Stewart

 

Stewart Mansion, home of Andrew J. Stewart, and Dr. Dorothy Melissa Riggs Stewart

There were 14 high ceilinged rooms, several marble fireplaces, and one or two well-stocked cellars.

Dr. Dorothy Melissa Riggs Stewart had her clinic in what is generally termed “the Parlor.” 

The Stewart Mansion

Andrew and Melissa lived in their Provo home for the first ten years of their married life until all their children were born. [1]  

Around mid-1878, the family moved to their “pleasant and permanent home” at 285 South 500 West – the Stewart Mansion. [2]

In later years, Andrew’s nephew recalled visiting his mother – Andrew’s half sister – who was living at the house: 

“…I went back to see mother (Eva Elizabeth Stewart Haynes) and we were sitting there one afternoon in the upstairs of her brother’s house. It was a big, large house, her brother being a fairly well-to-do man, half-brother, Andrew Jackson Stewart, Jr., and mother had this upstairs and she was in bed in a west bedroom, large, commodious room, and I was sitting there with my brother and Aunt Lestry was visiting.”[3]

The Stewart Mansion at 285 South 500 West [4]

Scott Pease Stewart, Ida Christmas Stewart, Andrew Jackson Stewart Jr., Andrew Jackson Stewart III, Melissa Riggs Stewart, Lillie Stewart, and John Riggs Stewart in 1890. [5]

The family of Andrew Jackson Stewart, Jr. and Dorothy Melissa Riggs Stewart outside the north side of the Stewart Home at 285 South 500 West Provo, Utah, Nov. 3, 1918. Back (left to right): Henry “Hank” Stewart, Paul Stewart, Dorothy Stewart, Evelyn Stewart, Omer Stewart, Anna Peay, John Call Stewart, Helena Stewart, Eddie Peay Jr.  Middle: Esther Stewart, Myrtle Stewart, John Riggs Stewart, Melissa Riggs Stewart, Edwin Peay Sr., Rose Young Stewart. Front: ?, ? ?, ?, ?. [7]

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[1] “Memories of My Grandfather, Dr. John Riggs,” by Ida Christmas Stewart Peay.

[2] “I was born 25 Dec. 1874 at Provo, UT in the first little house on 1^st South and 4^th West owned and occupied by my parents who were New Englanders. When I was 3 ½ our family removed to our pleasant and permanent home on 3^rd South & 5^th West.” (Ida Christmas Stewart Peay family group sheet)

[3] Journals and genealogy of William and Lily Davies, 1972, p.129. Call Number: MS 21872. Church History Library.

[4] https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=322118

[5] University of Utah Special Collections, P1309, Box 1, Folder 2, Slide 038.

[6] Journals and Genealogy of William and Lily Davies, 1972, pp. 130-131. Church History Library. A negative of this photo is in the possession of David Grant Stewart, Sr.

Note: Andy’s obituary has a typo, stating 258 South instead of 285 South; no 258 South existed at that time on 500 West.