Price Main Street Historic District

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OMB No 1024-0016, NPS Form United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. z Page ~ Price Main Street Historic District, Price , Carbon County, UT lndividual buildings within the district consist imiinly of a variety of commercial st rnctures, from boarding houses and hotels with ground-floor business or retail space to single-story comme::rcial blocks. The district includes three non-commercial buildings: the United Methodist Church , Carbon County Comihouse, and Price Municipal Building (City Hall), all three of which are significant, contributing resources within the district. As exterior "windshield" vi sual survey results only, RLS crite1ia address the age and historic integrity of the Main Street fa<;:ade, and do not address otl1er criteria such as structural condition or integrity of historic interiors. A number of resources that date from the period of significance have bee:u remodeled, such as the Silvagni Building, con structed about 1915. The existing aluminum "skin" was applied c. l 960 and has gained significance in its own right. Similarly, exterior alterations such as those on the Ek<J Theater (Crown Theater) date from the period of significance such that these buildings represent very different styles and dates of construction, yet still retain integrity as examples of the pe1vetual adaptation of cor11mercial buildings with regard to use and style. The district includes only one out-of-period intrusions, the ouilding at 6 W. Main. Sun1ey results indicate a variety of styles and periods of construction, from late l 9th century varieties to mid201h century styles. A 11andful of earlier buildings show elements of late Victorian eclectic styles, with decorative brickwork , decorative trim and deep, classically adorned cornices. The ri1ost common style in the district is also eclectic: early 201h century commercial style with varying degrees of decorative elements and vernacular interpretations of popular styles of the day. These buildings may include Prairie Style influences, Arts and Crafts and/or Art Nouveau influences, or other fanciful or eclec6c details_ However, only where a given style is domin ant has the building been indicated as having a given style. The relevant periods, approximate dates of construction and architectural styles include those shown below, have the number of contributing resources within the district representative of each period/date/style (~pproximate dates are indicative of the buildings within the district and not necessarily representative of the style itself). A few representative buildings of each style are shown below. Those that are both stylisti <:ally significant and retain their historic character are indicated with an asterisk(*): Period Style Date Victorian Beaux Arts *40 West Main 19 ] 5 (J) 1910-1915 (3) 1923 (1) Eclectic/Commercial *70 West Main Period Revival English Tudor *United Methodist Church, 10 North 200 East No. of Resources 19 24 (2) ]tali an Renaissance *Star Theatre, 20 East Main *Boecker Electric Store (Eastern Utah Electric ComIJany), 11 West Main Spanish Colonial Revival 19 12 (1)