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Show OMS No 1024-0018, NPS Fonn United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. § Page 1 Price Main Street Historic District, Pr ice, Carbon County, UT Narrative Statement of Significance The Price Main Street Hist01ic District is locally significant under criterion A, and ''is associated \Vith events that have made a significant contribution to broad patterns of our history." The hist ()ric resources within the Price Main Street Historic District represent a period of local economic growth and prosperity that paralleled the expansion of the region's coal and railroad industries. As described below, under criterion A, the development of Utah's coal and railroad industries and their relationship to the gro,vth of the city of Price are a significant regional and national historical development of which Price's Main Street commercial district is an integral part. The District is also architecturally significant under criterion C. Of the forty six (4<5) buildings within the district boundaries, twenty eighty (28), or 60 percent, are contributing. At least ad ()Zen of the extant buildings are important examples of distinct architectural periods and styles, including the three that are already listed in the National Register: Price Municipal Building/Price City Hall, listing number 78002652 (2/1711978); Star Theatre, listing number 82004]] 6 (8/911982); Parker & Weeter Block/Mahleres-S:i ampenos Building, listing number 82004] 15 (3/9/1982). Jn addition, under criterion C, the physical develop1nent of Price's Main Street and the types and styles of individual buildings within the district embody the spir:i"t of growth and prosperity that were largely a consequence of the region's grmvth and industrial development_ The period from ] 910 to 1960 is chosen as the period of significance. Not only is 1 910 the estimated date of the earliest building in the district, it was also the date of the establishment of Price as 2 third class city that commenced a couple of decades of rapid growth, as represented by the commercial buildings on Main Street. This period also saw relatively consistent prosperity for Price, even as other communities in the region suffered through economic downturns such as the Great Depression. Not until the decline of the coal mining industry and railroad traffic in the early ] 960s did Price experience any significant coJTespo:nding economic decline. This period ended with the construction of the most significant "modern" building with:i n the district, the Carbon County Courthouse, constructed 1958-60. The commercial sector of Main Street included \Vi thin the historic district boundar:i-es is the best representation of the growth, both commercially and architecturally, of Price during the early to n-1id twentieth century. The character and setting of the district retain a high degree of intehrrity and contribute t:o the history of Price. Price Earlv Settlement and Growth: 1877-1910 The first pernrnnent Anglo settlers in the Great Basin region of the 1ntern1ou11tain West were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, or Morn1ons), who first anived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in July of 1847. The early leaders and members of the church considered this region their "Zion" and began organized colonization efforts immediately after their anival. The first settlements were founded along |
