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Show Architect/Buildert Building Type/Style: Building Materials: Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable This two-story brick building is quite simple in design and almost void of any architectural elaborations. The second floor has seven tall, rectangular straight-topped windows each with its own transom. The first floor is divided into two businesses; both featuring basic large, picture windows. Statement of Historical Significance: __ Aboriginal Americans __ Agriculture •-Architecture -- The Arts 2L~ Commerce .... Cocnnunication --Conservation EffiiMil"i.qn __Exploration/Settlement -- Industry -- Military -- Mining -- Minority Groups --Political . -.Recreation r Saligion --.Science --.SocLo-Humanitarian --.Transportation One of the earliest businesses in this building was Consolidated Wagon and Machine which, as a firm, dates back to 1888 in Logan. The firm was one of the earliest in Utah to branch out and become a regional company By 189 2, it had four stores in Utah (Ogden, Milford, Logan and Salt Lake City) and one in Idaho Falls. The business is significant because it shows the breaking down of Cache Valley's isolation and village economy and the beginning of its inclusion into the larger regional and later national economy. The local newspaper in December 1892 wrote the following about the business: "The farmer can here find any article for which he may use in any of the departments of his business. He can purchase a new wagon throughout, or one feloe or spoke. " |
