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Show GOVERNMENT / post office____________________ VACANT/NOT IN USE foundation Colonial Revival__________ __ walls roof other CONCRETE BRICK Granite ASPHALT (Shingle and built-up) Describe present and historic physical appearance. The Sugar House Postal Station has been described as an example of "starved, or stripped classicism," yet it primarily suggests a restrained version of the Colonial Revival style. This style was popular in Utah from the 1890 to 1940 with the 1920s and 30s being some of the most popular years. Much more common in Utah in residential architecture, the institutional examples of the Colonial Revival style reflects the change from the heavily ornamented Beaux-Arts to a more conservative styles in the Twentieth Century. This simplicity also typifies many of the attitudes during the depression era. Colonial Revival elements or characteristics in the one-part block, Sugar House Postal Station include the symmetrical main facade, the hip roof, restrained classical motifs or elements, the main entry fanlight, and multiple-light window sash. Located on Highland Drive, the southern extension of 1100 East and the major north/south road in the historic commercial node of Sugar House, the Postal Station is immediately south of the 1928, Jacobethan style Sprague Library. Together they form a substantial governmental/institutional presence in the center of Sugar House. The asymmetrical lot of the postal station is approximately 33,490 gross sq. ft. with the building occupying the west portion of the site. A paved maneuvering area, used for parking and access to the loading docks, is located at the east end of the lot. Two concrete driveways paralleling the building on each side provide access to the parking area from Highland Drive. The grounds in front of the building are landscaped with grass and deciduous shrubs. The basement and foundations of the building are constructed with reinforced concrete using spread concrete footings. The exterior of the building is faced with a variegated, buff-colored brick and granite veneer on the foundation. The roof appears to be a shallow-pitched, truncated hipped roof but is actually a 'flat 1 roof with the visible, pitched and shingled portions forming a false roof structure on the north, west, and south sides. The front (west) facade is flat, with the main entrance centered between four tall evenly-spaced double-hung multiple light windows. The metal and glass double doors and windows are framed with fluted pilasters and a simply detailed lintel, all of cream colored stone. The entry also contains a fanlight transom. A deteriorated, visually intrusive, concrete wheelchair ramp was added to the front of the building in 1964. The sides of the X See continuation sheet 1 Thomas Carter and Peter Goss, Utah's Historic Architecture. 1847-1940 (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1988) pp.147-49. |
