Constructed in 1903 by Herbert Clegg for John E. Austin, a leading sheepman in Wasatch County, this house passed in 1908 to Dr. William Russell Wherritt after Austin moved to Wyoming. A native of Missouri, Dr. Wherritt was for many years the only physician in the Heber Valley, loved his profession, greeted his patients with a smile, and died of a heart attack in his forty-ninth year of medical practice. Emma Hatch Wherritt had been the bookkeeper and office assistant to her father in A. Hatch & Co., served as chair of the American Red Cross, organized the American Legion auxiliary, was a charter member of the Business and Professional Women's Club, and served as president of the Wasatch Camp, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. The house is one of the most elaborate Victorian homes in Heber Valley.