Standifird Home

Standifird Home 306 S. Main St. For several years there has been a Pioneer Dinner and Hayride at the Standifird Home after the Independence Day celebration. In 2025 we decided not to do it.

The Standifird Home built from native sandstone with walls two feet thick, two chimneys and a tin roof. James Pearce and John H. Standifird were the two first settlers in Taylor. The Standifird Home was built in about 1900 by the Brimhalls. It was rented out twice then Aquilla Standifird, the son of John H. Standifird, bought the home. As a young teenager he mixed the cement and carried it to the builders as they put up the thick rock walls. The original building was the front room and the dining area in the kitchen ending at the cross beam between dining area and kitchen area. The kitchen and two South bedrooms were added later by Quill. The attic, where some of the family slept, was accessed by a ladder. When the kitchen was added, stairs were built and the floor installed. Before that they walked on planks to get to the beds. The washroom and bathroom were added later - It was a work in progress throughout Quill's life.

The Standifird Home might be considered the birthblace of our modern July 4th Anvil tradition.  In the early 1950’s, Reed Hatch asked Uncle Quill to put together a boom using anvils.  They weren’t quite sure how it worked but knew it had been used before.  Quill figured it out.  His descendants still organize and manage the “firing of the anvil” for the Independence Day Celebration in Taylor.

Quill used his Father’s anvil and the anvil from Joseph Smith Hancock.  Each had a blacksmith shop located on their property.  Those anvils are still used in 2025.  

Standifird home living room

Kitchen

Bedroom off kitchen

Master Bedroom and displays

Upstairs bedroom