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Show OMB No 1024-0018, NPS Foirn 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, Price, Carbon County, UT Company and tl1e D.J. \Villiams General Mercl1andise. 6 Early Main Street businesses were also located near the railroad, mostly between 100 West and 200 West. By 1908 tl1ese included a saloon, office, grocer, printer, cobbler, barber, and the Price Cooperative Mercantile lnstitution on the north side <Jf the street, and a saloon, general store, drugstore, restaurant. barber and bi1Jiards on the south side. 7 The Price Cooperative Mercantile lnstitution had relocated to Main Street, in 1906, from a building nearer to the railr<:rnd. Jts relocation was indicative of the growing tendency for businesses during this period to locate on Main Street rather than in the railroad district. The .l.C \\Teeter Lumber Company, located on the opposite corner of l 00 West and Main Street, a bank across the street from it to the n01ih and the Price Cooperative Mercantile lnstitution anchored what was then the east end of the Main Street business district. Three blocks away, at the northwest corner of 200 East and Main Street was the City Hall. 8 The growing importance of the community and the substantial business and retail activity "downto~1 n" Jed to improvements in the construction and maintenance of streets, sidewalks, utilities and otl1er community services. Street. were at first graded, and then graveled to accommodate horses, wagons, and a gr wing number of automobiles. The 1912-1913 Polk Business Direct ry predicted that Price would soon have paved streets. 9 By October, 1910, the town had even constructed its own electric pO\ver plant, and had extended electric service to both businesses and residences, a major undertaking for a tmvn of only 1,000 residents. The progressive spirit demonstrated by the settlers and early residents of Price was firn1ly established in the developing community, and its residents dete1111ined to become a third class city. ('Third class cities could assess more taxes and could also provide more services.) An election was held in December, l 910, and the measure to change Price's status easily passed. Price's residents celebrated its new standing on March 24, 1911. Main Street Period of Significance: 1910-1960 ln the early years of the period of significance, building construction, especially along Main Street, continued to increase. Although no longer existing, 1910 saw the construction of the Price Com ·:rnercial and Savings Bank and the First National Bank, both on the north side of Main Street near l 00 West. The following year, the Miles Building was completed, and one of the early merchants near the railroad, Louis Lc:n:venstein, relocated to a new business building and hotel, the Savoy, at the southwest comer of l 00 West and Main Street. These, too, have since been demolished. Other important Main Street businesses established during this period of growth included the Eastern Utah Telepl1one Company. Established in 1905, the telephone company constructed its new building in about l 912. On the southeast comer of Carbon A venue and Main Street, Pietro Silvagni constructed a substantial office building, in l 913. Across the street to the west, the Paternoster Building, consisting of a drugstore and hotel, was constructed, about l 916. All three of these early buildings still exist as contributing resources within the district. Besides the new banks, stores, hotels and office buildings, new 6 Ibid. Price, Carbon County, Utah , May, 1908, Sanborn Map Company, p. 2. 8 Ibid, p. 3. 9 Utah Stale Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1912-1913, R.L. Polk & Co., Salt Lake City, p. 192. 7 |
