The Leavitt/Clark House began in 1862 as a humble twelve-foot-square, single-cell home of sun-dried adobe bricks built by John Quincy and Minion Leavitt, who soon added a second small room that is now the northeast corner of the house. While living there, John helped complete the transcontinental railroad and served as conductor of a train at the Golden Spike Ceremony in 1869. In 1873 Timothy Baldwin and Lucy Augusta Rice Clark bought the home, added a two-room rock addition to the west, and raised a large family in the resulting four rooms until 1881, when they built the south-facing, brick, one-and-a-half-story central-passage wing, originally featuring elaborate Victorian Eastlake details including a small second-story porch, roof cresting, and a large gable ornament. Timothy was a beekeeper and inventor and sold coal and salt, while Lucy was active in politics, running for the Utah Senate in 1869, serving as President of the Davis County Women's Suffrage Association, and becoming the nation's first female full delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1908. In 1918 Edmond and Elizabeth Ann Wood Whitaker bought the old home and added the current front porch, a new kitchen, and the house's first indoor plumbing. The Whitakers were farmers who raised sheep, dairy cows, onions, and other crops. In 1948 they sold the house to Harold and Nelda Monson, who raised five boys and lived there for fifty years, and Nelda ran a hairdressing salon for most of that time. In 1998 she sold the house to the current owners, including a great-grandson of Ed and Lizzie Whitaker.