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Show NFS Form 10-900-a (8-86) Utah WordPerfect Format OMBNo. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 3 Sugar House Postal Station, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah The building is currently vacant and Salt Lake City has successfully negotiated for its purchase from the U.S. Postal Service for re-use, perhaps by community art groups. The building has been listed on the Salt Lake City Register of Cultural Resources which will help insure its preservation and maintenance. Although the interior lobby area has been partially modernized and a handicapped ramp has been added to the front, the building retains a high degree of integrity of design and material. Even though the building is spartan in design, it clearly states its role as a stable and unpretentious symbol of the federal government. The building thus is a legacy of federal programs at the end of the Depression era, and civic involvement that has served to maintain the neighborhood's identity as a distinct community. The Sugar House Postal Station was documented as part of a Multiple Property nomination of postal service properties throughout the state which was submitted to the National Register in 1988. At that time the Sugar House Postal Station was ineligible because it did not meet the fifty year age requirement. Today, with that requirement met, the postal station meets the requirements in the multiple property nomination already in place. The Sugar House Postal Station fits the functional category of a "small, single-purpose post office" located in a "neighborhood area within the service area of the main post office." As a historically significant structure in the community, it would be categorized under "B. Politics/Government and Economic Significance, Criterion A." See continuation sheet 8H.J. "Jim" Kolva and Steve Franks. "Historic U.S. Post Offices in Utah 1900-1941." National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form. (Copy available at the Utah SHPO.) 1988. 8Ibid. Section F-II, p.l. 10Ibid. Section F-III, p.3. |
