The original small rock home at 630 North Main Street in Farmington, Utah, is one of many stone structures that help give the city a distinguishing architectural heritage. Walter Grover built the house in 1880 as a gift for his mother, Elizabeth Walker Grover, a Mormon handcart pioneer who emigrated from England to Utah in 1856. Elizabeth's eldest child, Walter was just 19 years old when he started and finished the small two-room house, giving his mother, the sixth plural wife of Thomas Grover, a permanent residence for her and her four children. With his father Thomas Grover's consent, Walter built it on the east end of the family farm, on land first surveyed by Daniel W. Miller and apparently sold to Thomas Grover around 1876 by either Thomas White or Daniel Miller. Walter cut logs in the Farmington canyons and hauled them to a Farmington sawmill to be made into lumber for the heavy beams and floors, brought rock from the foothills for the walls, and hauled fine sand and clay from the shores of the Great Salt Lake west of Centerville to make mortar. A stonemason, hired either by Walter or his father, laid the two-foot-thick rock walls for insulation against cold and heat, while Walter did all the shingling and most of the carpentry. When Walter presented the finished home to her, Elizabeth said, "It seems like heaven!" She lived there until all but her youngest child had married, then moved to Logan after her husband died in 1886. In 1938 Leo and Florence Manning added a three-room rock addition, in the 1990s Bob Sutton laid an additional foundation to expand the building northward by several hundred square feet, and in 2008 Bob Aamodt preserved and restored the home.