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Show Applicable National Register Criteria X A _B _C _D Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) _ A _ B _ C _ D _ E _ F _ G Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) POLITICS/GOVERNMENT_____________________ Period of Significance 1940-1943______________ Significant Dates __________ Cultural Affiliation N/A_________ Significant Person N/A_______________________________ Architect/Builder Louis A. Simon / Architect W.J. Dean and Sons / Builder State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The 1940 Colonial Revival style Sugar House Postal Station represents the federal presence in the Sugar House community, a distinct and stable neighborhood within Salt Lake City. When the existing postal facility became inadequate toward the end of the Great Depression, civic groups rallied support for a new postal station and through concerted efforts, succeeded in obtaining this facility. The postal station is eligible under National Register Criterion A as part of the Multiple Property nomination, "Historic U.S. Post Offices in Utah 1900-1941" in the "politics/government" area of significance. Although no longer in use as a postal facility, the Sugar House Postal Station remains an important and visible part of the Sugar House community. Established on October 17, 1883, the first official postal facility in the Sugar House area began operations under the name Sugar, Utah. This postal station remained in operation for sixteen years when Salt Lake City incorporated it into their jurisdiction. Sugar House's geographic location at the southern edge of the sharp rise of Salt Lake's East Bench on the creek from Parley's Canyon, enhanced its probability that it would become a center of industry and commerce. The community of Sugar House owes its beginnings to the construction of a sugar mill on April 23, 1854. Sugar House also is the first community to establish beet sugar, paper, woolen, and cotton mills as well as the first nail factory in pioneer-era Utah. In the 1880s two railways, important to the growth of Sugar House, were built--the Salt Lake & Fort Douglas Railway linked Salt Lake City with Sugar House and the Eastern Railway connected travelers to Park City. These railways and industries facilitated the development of a residential district surrounding the commercial core district, centered at 2100 South and 1100 East. The Sugar House Postal Station was the first and only postal station built by the federal government in Utah prior to World War II, although at least thirty post offices had been built by that time. Prior to 1940, the Postal Service leased a X See continuation sheet 2"Sugar House" is the currently accepted form of the community's name. Over the years, it has frequently been called "Sugarhouse." 3A postal station is a subordinate branch of a main post office. |
