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Show RELIGION / religious facility_____________ EDUCATION / school____________________ SOCIAL / meeting hall__________________ LATE VICTORIAN / Romanesque_______________ Other; Richardsonian Romanesque___________ RECREATION and CULTURE / auditorium SOCIAL / meeting hall________ _____________________ foundation CONCRETE walls Sandstone ______ roof ASPHALT (shingles) other WOOD (trim) Describe present ana historic pnysicaT appearance. Star Hall is a beautiful Richardson Romanesque style meeting hall in Moab, Utah. It is one of the only remaining historic structures in this southeastern Utah town. In plan, Star Hall is T-shaped, with the narrow portion (also a gable end) facing south onto Center Street, the main east/west street in Moab. The top, wide portion of the 'T' (the rear of the building) faces north toward the center of the block. The structure has had very little alteration to its exterior since it was constructed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1905-06. It was apparently repaired and updated c. 1925 and again in 1968. The walls are made of twenty-one courses of locally quarried, rock-faced ashlar, reddish-pink sandstone. The mortar is the same color as the sandstone blocks and is predominately sand. The structure has a main, north/south gable roof with slightly smaller cross-gables with lower ridge lines over the 'T 1 extensions. All roofs are covered with nonhistoric brown asphalt composition shingles and all gable ends are pedimented. The eaves are wide, composed of tongue and groove boards, painted a dark brown. The pedimented, south-facing gable end is covered with plain wooden shakes which are Pabsco Spanish Tiles painted with Pratt & Lambert Red #231. These shakes replaced original shakes which had deteriorated by 1968. Star Hall has a centrally located, round arched main entrance facing south onto Center Street. The main arched entrance has wooden paneled, double-doors with narrow sidelights and a fan-light window above. Immediately above the arched stone entry are metal letters reading "Star Hall". While Star Hall is the original name of the building, these letters are probably not original. On either side of the main entrance and immediately above the top of the door are two decorative metal light fixtures of unknown date. (They were not present in a photo taken in 1909.) Originally, three stone steps led to the main entrance from a dirt sidewalk. the 1968 remodel of Star Hall, these original stone steps were replaced with concrete steps leading up from a concrete sidewalk. The top of the original steps and the modern top step match the top of the beveled water table which composed of two courses of dressed sandstone blocks. During three stone is The main entrance is flanked symmetrically by pairs of windows. The front windows, as with all windows in Star Hall, are two-over-two, double-hung windows with sandstone lug window sills and round arches of sandstone blocks over the half-round fixed transoms. The window sills lines around the building are all at the same height with the tops of the window sills approximately five feet (1.5 meters) above the present ground surface. X See continuation sheet |
