Joseph H. Frisby House, Historic house in Provo, United States.

The Joseph H. Frisby House is a two-story brick residence in Provo featuring a central pyramid roof with projecting gables. Its exterior displays Tuscan columns, boxed cornices with decorative brackets, and triangular-top windows accented by patterned brickwork.

Joseph H. Frisby, an English immigrant born in Birmingham in 1850, settled in Provo in 1903 and had this house built in 1906, the first year of his term as mayor. He sold it in 1913 to Charles Hopkins, a former Elkhorn, Montana postmaster and Provo city commissioner, who died here on November 9, 1936.

The house takes its name from Joseph H. Frisby, an English immigrant born in Birmingham in 1850 who crossed the plains by ox team in 1864 and settled in Provo in 1903. He served as justice of the peace and mayor, and lived here until 1913, when he sold it to Charles Hopkins, a former Elkhorn, Montana postmaster and Provo city commissioner, who died in the house in 1936.

This residence sits in a quiet neighborhood and can be viewed from the street, where its architectural details are clearly visible from the outside. The location makes it easy to explore the surrounding area and discover other historic homes nearby.

The house is virtually unaltered, which makes it the best surviving example of its Victorian Eclectic type in Provo. That type, likely drawn from pattern books, was rare in Salt Lake City and much of Utah but inexplicably popular in Utah County. Charles Hopkins, its second owner, died in the house on November 9, 1936.