Home on Laird


It seems that everyone knows where the Harvard/Yale area is but very few can define it!  In static terms it is the area from 8th South to 1300 South and 1300 East to Foothill Boulevard (about 2000 East). Harvard/Yale is most noted as an area of grand historic homes and streets lined with towering trees. Many of the homes date back to the early 1900's and were built in two styles; bungalows & Prairie Style. In the 1920's the architecture turned to English Tudors and Colonial Revival homes. The homes located on the south side of Yale have a gentle creek running behind them called Red Butte Creek. Homes with any creek frontage garner a higher price.

The Princeton and Laird area was once apart of a tract of land owned by the Catholic Church (Marist Fathers of All Hollows College) and was slated to be a Catholic parochial school. The land was sold to Samuel Cambell, a local contractor, in 1924. Other prominent developers were J.A. Shaffer, Carl Buehner, William E. Hubbard, Graham H. Doxely, Howard Layton, and Gaskell Romney.

Here is a little known fact....."High School Musical" was filmed near here at East High School.