Built in 1907, the John and Johanna Anderson House is one of the best remaining examples of the crosswing house type in Sandy. It represents an important period in Sandy's development known as the Mining, Smelting, and Small Farm Era, from 1871 to about 1910. This development coincided with the discovery and mining of precious metals in nearby canyons beginning in 1863 and the arrival of the transcontinental railroad to Utah in 1869. Sandy became a crossroads between Salt Lake City, Bingham Canyon, and Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons, and railroad spurs into the mouths of these canyons allowed materials to be shipped to and from mining operations, making Sandy a strategic shipping point. John Alfred and Johanna Nelson Anderson immigrated from Sweden in 1887 and 1891 respectively. John, recorded as a laborer in the 1910 census, lived in the home with his wife, three children, and a boarder, John Lundgren, the previous owner of the property. The Andersons continued to live there until John's death in 1945, when the property was deeded to their son Arthur and his wife Hazel.