Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 6 | James Monroe's Home

JAMES MONROE'S HOME. It is to be hoped that a movement initiated some time ago by patriotic and historical societies in New York for the purpose of purchasing the onetime one-time home of President James Monroe has been successful and that the place will be saved from demolition. Tomorrow Tomor-row is the date for the sale of this property at public auction. . The house stands at the corner of Prince and Lafayette streets, and in it President Monroe passed his last years and died there on July 4, 1831. The house was built by Samuel L. Gouver-neur, Gouver-neur, President Monroe 's son-in-law. Fourteen years ago the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Scenic and Historic society set on the wall of this house a tablet briefly summarizing the great posts held and the great deeds done by President Monroe. In commenting upon the impending sale of the house and the notable acts of President Monroe, the Xew York j Times says that of all the illustrious achievements of that soldier, diplomatist, diplo-matist, statesman, the Monroe doctrine is the imperishable memorial. "The house where this man, whose name is known to every American citizen throughout the world as the proclaimer of a cardinal doctrine of American policy, pol-icy, died should be preserved for the veneration of future ages." Continuing, the Times says that had Mr. Monroe been a Frenchman, the house where he died would have been made a national monument. The hope is expressed that the patriotic societies will be able to raise the sum necessary to preserve the Monroe home, "to save Xew York and the United States from the shame of allowing the destruction of this relic and remembrancer of a great American and a vital American policy. It should be saved. It should I continue to stand among business build-! build-! ings. a historical and patriotic monument monu-ment too precious and too sacred to lose, ' '