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390W MAIN SARAH SMITH SCHOOL LEHI , UTAH COUNTY 1l l l lllii~llliml llrmrlllllll 3 9222 00575 9886 GARY R. HERBERT Brad Westwood Governor Director SPENCER J . COX Lieutenant Governor Julie Fisher Executive Director Department of Heritage & Arts November 10, 2016 Ms. Heather Shelley 394 W. Main Lehi, UT 84043 Dear Ms. Shelley: This letter is in response to your inquiry regarding the historic register status of your buildings at 390 and 394 W. Main in Lehi. Our office administers the National Register of Historic Places program in Utah, so I checked our official records. Neither of your buildings is listed on the National Register. You mentioned that the building at 394 W. Main has a plaque on it, but plaques are not a very good indicator of National Register status, because anyone can place a plaque on a building for whatever reason. If your buildings were on the National Register, there would be no regulatory oversight by our office or by anyone else, due to that designation. There are no requirements that owners maintain their buildings to certain historical standards, nor are there requirements that they reconstruct or restore their buildings after a fire or other natural or human-caused disaster. The issue of insuring historic buildings surfaces on occasion, but since there are no added preservation or restoration requirements, there is no valid reason why National Register buildings would need special Insurance coverage. In conclusion, I can reconfirm that the two buildings at 390 and 394 W. Main in Lehi are not listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Please let me know if you have any questions or if we can be of further assistance. Sincerely, ~ Roger Roper Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer [e-mail] 801.245.7251 •ttI• Heritage & Arts Utah Department of 300 S. Rio Grande Street· Salt Lake City, Utah 84101· [phone]· facsimile [phone] • his'my utah,goy [phone] SALT LAKE TRIBUNE rr~--------~--------~ ~ The refurbished Lehi Hotel has stood in various forms on Main Street since 1887. Lehi Ho~tel Again Welcomes Weary Travelers Lehi, that thriving community some two-dozen miles down the crowded interstate south of the Salt Lake County line, was once known as one of the richest agricultural communities in Utah. It was famous in the region as the site of the state's first successful sugar-beet factory (1890) and likewise for the fact that one Isaac Goodwin planted the first alfalfa seed in the state there. Almost Simultaneously, other developments in the community had positive and negative effects on Lehi development. Records show the town was hard hit by the federal polygamy hunts and prosecutions in the 1870s and 1880s, which forced many residents into hiding. In a less religious matter, in 1887 the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad connected Salt Lake City and Denver. Its tracks then and now divide the town from north to south. Rails had reached town somewhat earlier, with the arrival of the Utah Southern Railroad in 1872. (The Utah Southern's depot there is the oldest in the state, and the Ut2h Historical Society's pres~r­ vation office has just announced a grant of $5,000 through the certified Local Government Program to reroof the building. The coming of the steam cars to town led to the establishment . · of the Lehi Hotel at 394 W. Main. The hotel, housed in the fine twostory structure shown in today's sketch, was built for Sarah Ann Smith in 1887. Smith was no novice in running a hostelry. A. plural wife of blacksmith Joseph J. Smith, she had operated the Lehi House in her home beginning in 1884, while also managing · to teach school. Now time has come full circle · in Lehi. Mter many years of varied uses, the large two-story adobe building is again welcoming weary travelers - it has been reI: stored and refurbished as a bed\ and-breakfast, using the old JACK GOODMAN name, the Lehi Hotel. Guests no longer arrive at the D&RGW station a few steps to the east. Now outlanders come by car. Most hotel roomers in the early years were commercial travelers with bulging sample cases. Now many come to visit Timpanogos Cave National Monument, or to rest before swinging round the Alpine Loop or to venture to Zion or Bryce many miles south. When the always-busy schoolteacher Sarah Ann Smith played the role of hotel hostess, guests "took meals" in a sizable dining room on the main floor, next to the large kitchen. They slept in a bedroom on the floor above. Smith sold her establishment to Leverett W. Brown in 1891, and he naturally changed the name of the hostelry to Brown's Hotel. A year or two later, a Mrs. U.S. Grant (no relation of the Civil War general and president) set up the Lehi Cafe in the east half of the hotel building. In October 1891, ex-Rio Grande Railroad agent B. W. Smith became a partner in the business and took it over from the Grant family a month or two later. A large sample room was set aside for "drummers" who could display their goods therein. Smith also established the Alhambra Saloon on the premises. While the hotel's register has disappeared, the local newspaper indicates the hostelry enjoyed good business with full rooms and considerable action in the Alhambra Saloon and restaurant. The hotel returned to the ownership of Leverett Brown - who first changed its name, in about 1896. Some space was rented to I.J.N. Christansen, a dentist. There were other changes, but the building served as an inn until 1929, when Mame Smuin Thomas bought it for a residence. The seller was Rachel Brown, apparently part Of Leverett Brown's family. Thomas occupied the old hotel until it bacame a part of the Lyall and Audrey Wilson estate, presumably after the demise of Thomas. Next on the ownership scene were Carl and Dimple Mellor, who bought the aged property in 1997. The Mellor couple quickly began its restoration - this year they had an open house at their historic B & B. The Mellor family bas added a section containing four large sleeping rooms and a larger dining room. Now the Lehi Hotel can provide overnight accomodations for as many as 60 guests. In addition to bed-and-breakfast provisions, the hotel owners advertise facilities for conferences, reunions, weddings and the like. Many of the rooms are named for such vanished Lehi residents as Porter Rockwell, and for such significant establishments as the Pony Express and Overland Statecoach. Both had links to historic Lehi. The Lehi Hotel owners point other historic items linked to their establishment. The old Lehi Fort, built in 1853, occupied part of the site, and an old-fashioned oaken-bucket water well, plus the foundations of the long-vanished blacksmith shop, are still visible. More important, perhaps, is the fact that what old timers called "the finest sample hotel in the Utah territory" is once again welcoming guests. Jack Goodman has been associated with The Salt Lake Tribune as a staff or free-lance writer for 51 years. UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clippillg Service [phone] UJ· PROVO DAILY HERALD (Putting history back ,into Lehi's buildings ~.Dr. ."\ • By BEKKI JANSON Herald Correspondent LEHI - History was his best subject in school and now he is using it to bring back a pan of Lehi many have forgotten. Carl Mellor, a retired history teacher, is putting the history back into two of Lehi's oldest buildings ! - the Lehi Hotel and the Lehi ' '' .. , .... ,....,!::!".~¥ ., -,; , ~.\t."'r. ~~House. ifi-' ~fc · ~ "I thought that these two buildings should be preserved," Mellor said. "They are two of the oldest buildings in town." The mayor of Lehi, Bill Gibbs, appreciates Mellor's desire to renovate the buildings and believes that he will do a job that will be good for the community. "It will be a lot of work, but anything that Carl does turns out nice," he said. In the book "Lehi - Portraits of a Utah Town," written by Richard S. Van Wagoner and published by the Lehi City CQJjlOration in 1990, Sarah Ann Smith, plural wife of Joseph J. Smith, operated the Lehi House, 390 W. Main in Lehi, as a school and hotel. In 1887 she began construction on a large two-story. adobe hotel in the lot next door at 349 W. Main in Lehi which is known today as the Lehi Hotel. The hotel was also known as a railroad house since it was built only a few yards from the then Denver and Rio Grande Railroad depot. The original. layout of the hotel Cali Mellor, new owner altha lehl Hotel and lehl on West Main Street, Lehl, points outside the ~:'c:an~n~~~h:~~:th~o~~~a~~d view (th~'!I__thls Winda~)_p~Sid~ntial_ C~d,~d_a.t~_s .~ ___ ~~~ ~helr way along the campaign trail via with all the-sleeping lOOms on the porch, according to Mellor. .- ..modate a number of guests. second floor. Upon its completion,. Ownership eventually returned A ground floor facility located the Lehi Hotel was declared by the to Leverette Brown and in 1896. behind the .school house will Deseret News as the "largest hotel Dr. J. N. Christiansen, a dentist. accommodate the physically disin the north end of the county," had his office on the premises Van abled with a full 100m and bath tNagoner said. " . " . ,.' along with •. family unit that can according to Van Wagoner. In 1891, Smith sold the hotel to . The bUlldmg has been used off house up to SIX people. The school Leverette W, Brown and he and on as an inn and a private resi- house will be turned into a conferchanged the name to the Brown dence, but it has been vacant for ence and .reunion center that can . hold 14 sleeping units, said MelHotel. A cafe took the place of the almost 20 years. office downstairs which offered Although all the registries from lor. the best in confectionery, cigars the hotel have been lost, old edi"I .wanted to offer more than .... ' andjce. cream ill..Lehi. tion~ of the ' Lehi Banner listed just the image··of the Old West for .Within a year the hotel .changed guests.,who ·, itayed',aL. the hot,:! . ., people who wijl stay here," Mellor owners again. This brne' ex-Rio Guests were recorded from all over said. "I wanted them to see how Grande agent B..W. Smith and U.S. the world including Mong Kong; they Iived-'. Everything about this plactto •.seems -, to fit what 'I think " Grant assumed management and .Australia, ·Moscow an"J1apanc., changed the name to Hotel Lehi. Keeping some of . the .historic would make a unique bed and He remodeled many of the rooms aspects is part of Mellor's plan. breakfast today." making way for a' display room in The major theme of the bed and While Mellor has been working the front of the hotel where sales- breakfast · is the railroad. Along out the details about zoning and men (who were staying there) with model trains and other track finding a contractor, he has been could offer their goods to the decor, each room will have a dif- digging around for artifacts and townspeople. He also altered one Jerenl theme relating to Lehi and other clues to the past. So far he of the front rooms into a saloon, the Old West. With a new addition has found some spoons, at least • Melfor displays spoons thai'werelo'iliid j'i\"iii'l'Wf8iOric lehl Hotel that according to Van Wagoner. on the back that will have a dining one of which is from the original he is renovating. After Its completion In approxlmatety one year, Lehl will have a small convention center/bed and bre.klaat hotel that will Both of the front lOOms eventu- area on the first floor and four silverware set of the Lehi Hotel. refleet the "Old West" atmosphere. "'; ' ... t; •.• , .. ally became display lOOms, each more suites on the second floor, Old canning jars, potato sacks and He plans to make the well one hectic for the neighbors, Max Ray, With. it_s.o._w _, n entry w.a y to the front Mellor hopes to be able to accom- other old food and cleaning items \ are still laying in the cellar where of the main attractions for guests a Lehi resident, thinks that restor. ~:_ ' . their owner last put them. . by making a window in the floor of ing the old hotel is a great idea. .One of Melior'S most exciting the main hall way. "I'd rather see them restore it finds was the original well that was According to Mellor the fort than tear it down," he said. "My dug before the hotel was built. The wall - which went around the city house was built by my grandfather well was the first of the Lehi area. of Lehi - was just a few yards about the same time as the hotel. After cutting into the floor of away from the well. (The railroad They both have a lot of history in the downstairs hall closet to check goes through where the wall of the them." Although Mellor has been how sturdy the floor boards were, fall used 10 be.) working with Van Wagoner on colMellor looked under the floor and found the old well everyone Mellor hopes to have the future lecting historical data for the renothought had been filled and forgot- bed and breakfast completed with- vation and personal knowledge, he [en . in a year. During that time he is always willing to learn more. "It was really exciting to find would be happy to gi ve a tour to Anyone having slOries, historical that," Mellor said. "Everyone I had anyone interested in seeing the artifacts or other information talked to said it was either filled hotel before renovations are com- regarding the Lehi Hotel or theschool house call Mellor at 768-: before they constructed the hotel plete. or it was a few yards away from Even thoueh renovation and 8665 or write to 845 N. 940 E. 'j . I. SARAH SMITH SCHOOL Constructed: 1865 Address: 390 West Main Owner: CarllDimple Mellor Numerous private schools were conducted at various periods of Lehi history. The History of Lehi lists a Mrs. Bassett's school on the comer of Fourth West at Second South, and another school conducted by a Mr. Purse. Edward Southwick's "Book of Remembrance" 1ists two other private schools, one in the "Bessinger home" and another in "Hannah Pickle's house" (present site of Memorial Building). The Elisha Peck, Jr., biography noted that he attended the home school of Carrie Ball, "a dear soul [who) used to get us boys and girls around her cook stove in the kitchen and tty to teach us our L ~"::''iI'-''~'''~~,",::'''':;..;,:~~ "'.", ABC's." The Ball DU~. was on we IWU~' comer of First East and First North. Peck also recalled another private teacher, Arinda Davis. Sarah L. Smith, plural wife of Lehi blacksmith Joseph J. Smith, also operated a private school in her home at 380 West Main. This adobe building, built in 1865, for nearly half a century was the Lyall and Audrey Wilson home. Jess Fox, longtime Lehi native, told the Wilsons that "I went to school in [the Sarah Smith home) ... there was just plain benches, and they had slates to work on which they held on their laps." Fox also related to the Wilsons that during his earliest school years there was the threat of Indian attack. To provide a place of safety during periodic scares, Sarah Smith had a cellar dug under the building. She and the children could enter the cellar by way of a hidden trap door. The Wilsons discovered both this secret entrance and the dugout when remodeling their home. In 1997 Carl and Dimple Mellor purchased the property, along with the Lehi Hotel building next door, from the Wilson's estate. The Mellors are currently restoring the old schooVresidence as part of a bed and breakfast and conference site. ' . . ' .\~.,,_. ~< :~:;;.~""'~: 10 .- . ;:.~: ~.'~~~:i.~:-~. . ...---" ;'\ '--. ; .. ·... '~~~fIlI_~~~~~~_~'l\W · nerlf· -'~~··~ Sarah Smith School and Home as it looked in 1945 Fonner Sarah Smith School as it looks today 9 A GUIDE TO LEHI CITY'S HISTORICAL SITES AND PLACES Published by the Lehi Ii isroricai Preservation Commission 1997 i"un,kc:l In grants from the lIislUrical Society :dHl I. l:' hi ( "ity( 'orpora[ion , i :ill "Ial ,' 000158 Attachment B Scope of Work 1999 Pioneer Communities Grant Program Lehi House and Smith Private School 390 West Main Street Lehi, Utah Grant funds and building owner contributions will be used to perform the rehabilitation work detailed in the "Budget" and "Work Description" sections that follow. The deadline for completing all work items is JUNE 30, 2000, unless otherwise noted or agreed upon. Any changes to this Scope of Work must be approved by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) . Unapproved work will disqualify the entire project from grant eligibility . Approved procedures for selecting contractors must be followed, including obtaining at least three bids, when possible . The owner must submit to the SHPO copies of all contracts with contractors for completing the work described in the work plan. The work plan and the actual work must conform to the Secretary of the Interior's "Standards for Rehabilitation" (1990 revised version). Work that does not meet these standards will disqualify the entire project from grant eligibility. BUDGET 1. Rehabilitate building exterior and interior $10,480 Total Project Budget* $10.480 *Includes grant amount of $5 ,000 and $5 ,480 local match. The grant amount will be given as a "rebate" after the project is completed. Total must consist of at least $5,000 cash expenditures. WORK DESCRIPTION 1. Rehabilitate building storefront • remove existing non-historic doors and window • fabricate and install new wood windows and doors in historic locations • remove existing ceiling and repair historic ceiling • miscellaneous interior and exterior trim and flnish Prior to starting the rehabilitation project, the owner must submit a work plan for the project to the SHPO and receive written approval of that work plan. The work plan will describe the materials and methods to . be used on the project as well as sequencing the work and coordinating trades. UT.lli siATr-' Department of Community and Economic Development Divi sion of Sta t e Hi s tory Utah State Hi s torical Society Michael O. Le avitt Governor MaxJ. Eva n s Director HlSfORICAL SOCIEPt;>" '-"F'#4fF \ -,;,_v 300 Ri o Grande Sa lt La ke City. Uta h ,~.j IOI - II H2 18011 533-3500 FAX: :"i:33-3503 TO O: 533-3502 us hs@his tory .stale. ut.us It ltP :llh is tory. uta h .org 27 April 1999 Carl Mellor 895 North 940 East Lehi, UT 84043 RE: Pioneer Communities Grant Program Dear Carl: We are pleased to inform you that have been awarded a Pioneer Communities Grant of$5,000 for rehabilitation work on the Lehi House building in Lehi. We will prepare a contract for this grant and send copies to you in the near future. I may also be contacting you by telephone to clarify some of the work items in the contract or finalize various details. Thank you for your interest in this matching-grant program. We look forward to assisting you with your important project. Please contact me at [phone] if you have any immediate questions regarding your grant. Sincerely, Donald Hartley Historical Architect c: Bim Oliver Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future £t:i-.d _"'Shtt Itt t//c,4J .:5e."-'k~r ~ i e/; / /-Iv 1-_/ ~/1t (~f~) )// ct ; Yl of? s-'/~ 1,/ I I - ~----------------------------------------~\ i=============----------------------. --: In 1 I U GO I ' l ' 'I ;l [0 I: I I I, /- ! I 00 I n~~-------------------------~~ Sarah Smith School BUilt in 1865 3QO West iIIain, Lehi - Scale: ~ ":: ! faot- 1-: ' .,vn I I I (/ll(lSlI"ru" / '/' , ~~r 'a.9<t . 1%?tJ S.:4(tid!"? l1tap 0-1 .z I. J"'~ , " ~'." ~• . 6" ..J 4- J 'ft~ 4i, /Hf SAMBO"" • '0 8.,.. 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