Morgan A. & Clarissa R. Knapp House

Multiple individuals owned the property that would later be the Morgan A. and Clarissa R. Knapp home. Samuel A. Hendricks owned it in 1895, then Lafayette Hendricks, Ralf Hendricks, Lottie E. Hendricks Simpson, then Morgan Knapp in 1914. 

Morgan Alonzo Knapp was born in Farmington, Utah in 1859 to Albert and Rozina Shepard Knapp. After Alberts death in 1864, Rozina took her children to live in Richmond amongst the rest of her Shepard family. In 1891, Morgan married Mary Flamm who later died in 1904. Morgan remarried a widow from Bountiful, Utah, Clarissa Riley Laird. They lived with Morgan's sister, Aubrey and her husband John Halgren, while he constructed their permanent home from 1910-1914. After their passing in 1932 and 1955, the home was deed to their daughter Lavenia Knapp Dobson and her husband W. Orval Dobson. They later deeded it to Paul R. Dobson in 1989 who then sold it to Norma C. Facer in 1990. It was later purchased by the currant occupants in 1998.

The Morgan A. and Clarissa R. Knapp House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 for its "events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history" and "embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significate and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction." Areas of significance are architecture, social history, and community planning and development.

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, National Register of Historic Places, Korral Broschinsky, July 15, 2004.