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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Fillmore American Legion Hall Millard County, Utah Name of Property County and State Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance of the property. Explain contributing and noncontributing resources if necessary. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, setting, size, and significant features.) Summary Paragraph Located at 80 S. Main Street, the Fillmore American Legion Hall, built in 1924-1925, is a one-story log building in the Rustic style.1 The building has an unusual T-shaped footprint with a large octagonal meeting hall in the front and a smaller meeting hall to the rear. In 1950, a kitchen and storeroom wing, built with matching logs, was added to the south side of the meeting room. Only minimal modifications have been made since the 1950s. The foundation is concrete. The building is chinked with a combination of plaster and cement. Three cobblestone chimneystacks are visible on the exterior. The roof material is the original wood shakes. Between 2001 and 2006, the building underwent a modest rehabilitation in several phases. The American Legion Hall is located near the southeast corner of the Fillmore town square where the majority of government buildings in the city are located. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description The Fillmore American Legion Hall faces east to Fillmore's Main Street. The main meeting hall is basically an elliptical octagon with each side segment 21 feet long and each center segment 27 feet long. The building is constructed of lodgepole pine logs approximately 8 to 10 inches in diameter. The log ends extend past the rounded saddle notching. The wide end faces Main Street. The façade features a full-width wrapping porch supported on round log supports and an at-grade concrete deck. The roof is hipped with the ridge line parallel to the street with slightly belcast eaves and exposed rafters. The wood shake roof has been recently oiled with some replacement shakes along the ridges (circa 2006). The front entrance is accented by a pedimented hip with the American Legion symbol inset in the gable trim. The metal doors at the front entrance are circa 1970 replacements for the original doors, which were multi-light half-glass wood doors. Most of the windows are the original wood-sash double-light windows with one vertical slider. The logs are painted dark brown. The windows and trim are painted in a lighter brown. The building owners plan to re-chink the logs in the near future. The north and south elevations were originally similar with a full-height cobblestone chimneystack on the northwest and southwest angles. The southwest chimney was enclosed by the 1950 addition. It is fully intact, but only appears on the exterior above the roofline. The original rear wing (meeting room) was approximately 24 by 30 feet. The north elevation features a side entrance with replacement metal door (circa 1970) flanked by original wood-sash windows. It appears that the windows on the original south elevation were removed and replaced in the south elevation of the 1950 addition. The south elevation door has also been replaced (circa 1970). The west (rear) elevation of the addition has a horizontal double-hung window. The 1950 addition has a low-slope roof covered with corrugated metal and a cinderblock chimneystack. The west (rear) elevation of the original meeting room wing features a central tripartite wood-sash window. The south third of the wing is obscured by a shed-roof storage room that was added circa 2006. The storage addition is faced with unpainted logs and has exterior doors facing north. The shed roof has exposed rafters. The storage does not access to the main building and could be removed in the future. The cobblestone chimneystack located in the southwest corner of the original meeting room is enclosed within the shed addition The most recent modification is the replacement of one window with a double-hung vinyl replacement on the south elevation. All of the modifications to the south and west elevations are visually obscured by neighboring buildings and mature foliage, and have minimal impact of the historic integrity of the building. 1 The property is owned by Fillmore City with the American Legion Post 61 holding a perpetual lease. For the purposes of this nomination, Fillmore City is considered the owner of the building. The address of the building was formerly 76 S. Main Street. 3 |
