Thomas R. Cutler was one of the most prominent men in the early history of Lehi. He was the owner of the highly successful People’s Co-op, which was in the Osmond Design building on State Street at 151 E. State.

In 1891, he became the general manager of the Lehi Factory of the Utah & Idaho Sugar Company. He worked for the company for 28 years although not all of those years were in Lehi. He was Lehi’s wealthiest citizen of the time.

In 1900, he began construction of a $14,000 home on his State Street property—a home that is a near duplicate of the Jesse Knight Mansion in Provo. Both were designed by architects Ware and Treganze. The “Cutler Mansion,” as Lehi people have called the Colonial Revival box-style home, was the “finest resident south of Salt Lake,” according to the Jan. 17, 1901, Lehi Banner.

The home was briefly the Reltuc Inn (Cutler spelled backwards). From 1914-1925, Lehi native Dr. Frederick Daniel Worlton ran the Lehi Hospital in the home. Worlton established 10 patient rooms and an operating room upstairs while he and his family lived downstairs.

Wallace and Arlene Olsen purchased the home in 1967, when it needed many repairs, and restored it to its former glory. In 1984, the stately mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although Wally passed away last year, Arlene continues to live in and take care of the beautiful mansion.