The Lorenzo Hill Hatch and John Doney houses exemplify the kinds of homes built in Franklin and other Mormon communities from the 1860s to the 1880s, when early dwellings were often simple cabins with a central hall and later prosperity brought more elaborate houses. In 1872, Lorenzo Hill Hatch built his elegant stone house on Main Street across from the city square, a rare Idaho example of Greek revival architecture popular in Utah during the 1870s, marked by rectangular proportions, symmetrical doors and windows, and heavy cornice lines with return eaves, a style brought to Utah by Mormons from upstate New York. When completed, it was the largest house in town, and travelers from Utah, including Brigham Young, often stayed there. A brick room at the rear was added around 1905 when the house was remodeled and plumbing installed, and Hatch's descendants occupied it until the 1940s; in 1979, the Idaho State Historical Society acquired it. Hatch, born in Vermont in 1826, later lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, and settled in Lehi, Utah, in 1851. From 1863 to 1875 he was Franklin's temporal and spiritual leader, serving as the town's second Mormon Bishop and first mayor, and he was also the first Mormon legislator in Idaho. Like many early prominent men in the church, he married plural wives and fathered twelve sons and twelve daughters. In 1863, at Brigham Young's request, he settled in Franklin with his large family to serve as Bishop. The small stone Doney house was built by John and Ann Doney for their family of ten children. Originally from England, they came west as part of a handcart train to Utah, arriving in 1860 among the settlers who established Franklin. Their modest home, typical of early Franklin and Cache County dwellings, was built of locally quarried stone like many of Franklin's early buildings, laid by skilled stone masons, many of them emigrants from England. Originally one-half mile to the south, the Doney house was moved to this site in 2002. The Doneys' journey reflected that of thousands of Mormon converts from England and Wales who, unable to afford wagons after leaving their homeland, pulled handcarts west; between 1856 and 1860, ten companies of handcart pioneers walked 1,300 miles from Iowa City, Iowa, to Salt Lake City, Utah.