Look for a charming, pale stone house with a wooden balcony and crisp white trim, tucked just behind a pretty garden with a bubbling little waterfall-it's right in front of you!
Now, picture yourself in the hot, dusty St. George of the late 1800s, where a young Thomas Judd-fresh from rainy England-built this very home in 1876. He probably thought the Utah sun was playing a practical joke on him! Thomas was a man of many hats: after trading his English countryside for the wild west, he became the Southern Utah Tithing Office clerk and teamed up with friends Woolley and Lund to start a business. But adventure called, and off he went-back to England on a church mission, leaving his new house behind. He’d soon return as bishop of the St. George First Ward, guiding locals for almost two decades. The house changed hands to another English immigrant, George Miles, in 1900. By the 1980s though, this sturdy villa faced its scariest tale yet: the wrecking ball! In a twist fit for a mystery novel, the house was cut into pieces and moved, only to be lovingly restored in 1991. Today, standing here, you’re seeing a survivor-now called Green Hedge Manor-whose walls have witnessed more drama than a soap opera!
