Price Main Street Historic District

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OMB No. 1024-0018, NPS Fann United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. z Page Z Price Main Street Historic District, Pr ice, Carbon County, UT The eligibility status of each of the 46 buildings within the district was evaluated based on the crite1ia established by the Utah State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO): A - Eligible/Significant: built within the historic period and retains integrity; excellent example of a style or type; unaltered or only minor alterations or additions; individually eligible for National Register under criterion "C 11 ; also, buildings of known historical significance. B - Eligible: built within the 11istoric period and retains integrity; good exainple of a style or type, but not as \veil-preserved or well-executed as 11 A 11 buildings: more substanti 21 alterations or additions than 11 A 11 buildings, though overall integrity is retained; eligible for Nati <ma] Register as part of a potential historic district or primarily for historical, rather than architect-ural, reasons (which cannot be detem1ined at this point). C - Jneligible/non-contributing: built during the l1istoric period but has had major structural alteration or additions; no longer retains integrity. D - Out-of-period/non-contributing: built outside the historic period. Resources by Historic Period Period of Si gni fi can e 1910-1960 No buildings from the earliest period of development remain on Main Street (1877-1909). Some of these early buildings were destroyed by fire; others were demolished to make \vay for the structures that we see today. The Period of Significance ( 1910-1960) began with rapid growth and development on Main Street. Although it was destroyed by fire in 1965, the Savoy Hotel, constructed in 1910 at the southwest comer of 100 West and Main Street was representative of this rapid grmvth. The years from 1910 to about 1915 also saw the construction of many other extant buildings within the district (historic names are given if known): Paternoster Building, 5 East Main (c. 1910), 5 West Main (1912), Eko Theater. 34 West Main (1912), Parker & Weeter Block, 85 West Main (1913), Franks Building (Oliveto's Furniture), 48 East Main (c. 1913), 63 East Main (c. 1915), 9-17 East Main ( c. 1915), 36 West Main (c. 1915), 40 West Main (c. 1915), 44 West Main ( c. 1910), 60 West Main (c. 1915), 70 West Main ( c. 1915), 75 West Main (c. 1915), 69 West Main (c. 1915), 67 West Main (c. 1915), 63 West Main (c. 1915), 41-47 West Main (c. 1915), 39 West Main (c. 1915), Boecker Electric Store (Eastern Utah Electric Company), 11 West Main (c. 1915), and the Silvagni Building, 4-14 East Nain (c. 1915). These 20 buildings account for nearly one-half of the buildings within the district that date from the period of significance. Based on the Utah SHPO criteria, of the 46 buildings within the district ~ the Price Main Street Historic District contains 28 contributing resources ( 60 percent) and 18 noncontributing resources ( 40 percent). Of the contributing resources, three are individually listed in the National Register. These are: Price Municipal Building (Price City Hall), listing number 78002652 (2/1711978); Star Theatre, listing number 82004116 (8/9/1982); Parker & Weeter Block/Mahleres-Siampenos Building, listing number 82004115 (3/9/1982).