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~ /~ 394W MAIN HOTEL LEHI LEHI , UTAH COUNTY '- , ) j .. 1 39222005759890 -- ;. :; ; ------ < ) 5 .~ ,~ .;tt. ~ J- 1 ~ J 7 - J -~ -- . d v ~ l;, j t 4" d - < .-..::.. . c:.) ~ - UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service [phone] PROVODAJLY HERALD It~toric Lehi Hotel opens to p~blic today ·after lfesh renovation But this isn't another museum. It is) ' the original wood floors to a high the ~rst hotel in Lehi, aptly named the , glossy shine, covering the walls with Lehl Hotel. waIl paper and collecting hundreds of Carl Mellor, a 44-year resident of items to display the intriguing days of LEHI - Pictures of eager men and women starting a new life line the Lehi, spent his life saving to buy the yore. When total renovations and addiwalls in almost every room. building and the land surrounding it tions are complete, Mellor expects to Landmarks can be discovered under in April of 1997. Since then he and var- have invested $400,000 in the ·citY.s . foot and overhead as guests walk ious family members and friends have history, but says it will ~ll be worth it \ through the building. worked up to 14 hours a day restoring for history's sake. By BEKKI JANSON The Daily Herald '-- "I am a firm believer that unless were learn about our heritage personally, to us it is pef80nally lost forever," Mellor said. "I have been so ihtrigued with the rich history of Lehi and after teaching I found out m;my children and even adults didn't even know about most of it. Here is my chance to bring history back to life for ' every t one."!. . ~.d. ~ t a hIStory the h~tl.e buddirlg as. The hotel was ongtnl built in 1887 by the request of S. Ann S~ith, who had been one of wives of Joseph S~ith. Sarah wa school teacher and hved and taugh1 See HOTEL, · --rp"tg ~ervice [phone] PR~~'? DAILY HOTELn Contill ued from A I the tiny home right next to the hotel, where Mellor's niece, Elinor Unsworth, now lives as a caretaker for the hotel. After several years of teaching and taking in traveling merchants, she asked her husband to build the hotel so people would have J , t a place to stay. But the only land they had to build upon was over the old well, one of the first dug for area re sidents. Mellor found th e well during renovations and now has the area covered with Plexiglass so guests can walk over it, but still see physical hi story during their stay. When th e hotel was built it stood two stories and had a small kitchen, dining area and six bedrooms with one bathroom in th e ups tairs hall. The two front rooms on the bottom floor were used for traveling salesman . One of the rooms was late r turned into a saloon and th en back into a temporary s tore fr()lIt. With train tracks re s ting less th a n 200 fee t from the hotel, travelers were never without a place to stay when in Lehi, Mellor said. Today Mellor has brought back that hometown feel, with a little extra to boot. Along with restoring the original five bedrooms in th e main hotel, he added on four new rooms to the back that stand over head the ne w dinin g area. Each of the .• ,SON OI.SONlThe Daily Herald Piece of history: Carl Melior looks over the many historical photos he and his niece. Elinos Unsworth, will hang in the new dining room of the refinished Lehi Hotel. new room s has its own bathroom , but Mellor decided to keP I> th e style of no bathroom in th e original rooms to one r guests more than just a history lecture, but the experience also. "When the hotel was originally built there was one bathroom for all six rooms here," Unsworth said. "We decided to make one of the original six room s into two bathrooms to be s hared by the other five." Much of the furniture Mellor made himself by replica t i ng a rtifacts and pictures h e found in the hotel and enough bed space for 60 guests school house as h e renovated. at a time. An open house will h(-' h eld And mnny of the quilts resting on thp i>('d s in ('very room of today through Thursday from the hotel were made by family 10 a.m. to 8 p.m . fiw residents, tourists and history buffs to and fri ends. This new hotel is not limited 'explore the ancient walls and to couples seeking a peaceful floors . Mellor is offering a 30 bed-a nd-brea kfast hideaway, percent discounts for re servaand Mellor already has two tions made during the open weddings lined up for the end house and refreshments will be of June and several other par- served t h'-()ughout the day. For ties reserved for future events. more in lur mation on reservaThe dining room, complete with tions or the hotel itself call 768a home cooked meal, can hold 0307 or stop by the hotel at 394 ) up to 100 guests and there is W. Main Street, Lehi. UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service [phone] LEHI FREE PRESS ~ Open :. house slat~cj at restored Lehi Hote"!' 1~ ..... - (, ~ The Historic Lehi Hotel is as the Pony Express, OVerland once again open for business. Stagecoach, Porter Rockwell, : The Carl Mellor family has David and Israel Evans, and the ~- spent the past year restoring Smuin!I'homas/Wilson families. ~ one of LePi'~significant historic For more information, call ~ sites,the LehiHotel, which was . 768-0307. l -.: constructed in 1887 when the , ,. .,,~ ,~ ~ Denver and Rio " Grande , . ~ - . . . .;,. ,~ !_-'" .: Western Railroad .connected ~ Salt Lake City and Denver. 0{ Now known as the Lehi Hotel ~,-Bed. and Breakfast, the Mellor :;family will host an open house . . ~_ Monday through Friday, June :: 15-18; from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. ~ at.the hotel, 394 W. Main, Lehi. ;~ The original hotel, as well as :'. a new section with four large ::: sleeping rooms and a large din:~ ing ': room, can. be used for ~; reunions, conferences and small :.. weddings. Overnight accommoi dations for as many as 60 peo:! ple. . . ' ,::. . ' . A SO percent discount will be :~ given for all hotel reservations :; made during the open house. Located on the site of the first blacksmith shop inside the old · Lehi Fort, the cellar and founda- tion of the shop can be viewed · while visiting the hotel. Rooms and halls in the hotel · will featl:ll'e significant events · and people in Lehi history, such ~ t GARY R. HERBERT Governor Brad Westwood 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 -II Utah D;partmen&tOf __ ~H entage Ar ts 300 S. Rio Grande Street· Salt Lake City, Utah 84101· [phone] • facsimile [phone] • bjstoO' ufllb 10m' March 2002 Dear !(~ The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers are placing a plaque on the Historic Lehi Hotel. This is the oldest standing adobe hotel between Salt Lake and Denver. It was built in 1887 by pioneer Joseph Johnson Smith for his wife Sarah Ann Liddiard Smith. In 1997 it was restored by Carl and Dimple Mellor. They will host this event at the historic hotel located at 394 West Main, Lehi, Utah. The dedication of the plaque will be Saturday, April 20 th at 2:00 P.M. A tour of the hotel and a light Mellor Buffet will follow. We would be pleased to have you attend. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Dry Creek Camp Evansville Camp Snow Springs Camp Lehi Bluebell Camp dUN 251998 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (80l) 328-8678 PROVO DAILY HERALD JASON OLSONIThe Daily Henid Memories are plenty: Carl Mellor, right, looks over the many historical photos he and his niece, Elinor Unsworth, are hanging in the new dining room of the refinished Lehi Hotel. /I~~----~----- " \ _H_O_T_E_L_Y'6...L...J.L'_ _ Continued from 22 ii "" ho~(1 in the hotel and school house as call 768-0307 or sto,P by the he renovated. And many of the at 394 W. Main Street, Lehi. quilts resting on the beds in ....../ .,:,." ' " . -~ every room of the hotel were made by family and friends. But the bottle is not limited to ' couples seeking a peaceful bed and breakfast hideaway. Mellor already has two weddings lined up for the end of June and severa! other parties reserved for future events. The dining room, complete with , a home cooked meal, can hold up to 100 guests and there is enough bed space for SO guests at a time. For more information on reservations or the hotel itself the old well, one of the,first dug , for area residents. Mellor found the well during renovations and now has the area covered with Plexiglass so guests can walk over it, but still see physical history during their stay. When it was , built it stood two stories and had a small kitchen, . dining area, and six bedrooms with one bathroom in the upstairs hall. The two front rooms on the bottom floor where used for-traveling salesman, one of which was later ~J1t<re- Meuol turned into a saloon and then . back into a temporary store front. With the train tracks resting less than 200 feet from the hotel, travelers were never without a place to stay when in Lehi, Mellor said. Today Mellor has brought back that home town feel, with a little extra to boot. Along with resting the original five bedrooms in the main hotel, he added on four new rooms to the back that stand over head ihe new dining area. Each of the new rooms has its own bathroom, but Mellor decided to keep the style of no bathroom in the original rooms to offer guests more than just a history lecture, but the experience also. "When the hotel was origi. nally built there was one bathroom for all six rooms here," Unsworth said. "We decided to make one of the original six rooms into two bathrooms to be shared by the other five." Much of the furniture Mellor made himself by replicating artifacts and pictures he found , " ~ ~ -:,~~r-'i.~ Clippillg Service Cr- - Oml) 328-8678 PROVO DAILY HERALD JASON OLSONfThc Daily Herald Window shade: Carl Mellor talks about the unique window in one of the rooms in the newly-restored Lehi Hotel. Because the room was used for visiting,'salesmen, a normal window was placed on its'side to accarmnodate walk-up customers. " / ' ~ ' A-step back in time , . ~oric " .. .; ~ Lehi 'R BEKKI JANSON y The Daily Herald Hot~l . LEID - Pictures of eager men a nd women starting a new life line the walls in almost every room. Landmarks can be discovered under foot and over head as guests walk through the bu ilding. But this isn't another museum, His the first hotel in Lehi, aptly named, the Lehi Hotel. Ca-rl iMellor, a 44 year resident of Lehi, spent his life saving to buy the building and the land s urrounding it in April of 199'1. 'S ince then he and various family members and friends have worked up to 14 hours a day restoring the original wood £loon; to a high glossy shine, painting the walls with wall paper and collecting hundreds of items to display the intriguing d..ay~ of yore. When total renovations and additions are com pl ete Mellor expects to have invested $400,000 into the city's history, but says it will all be ~ it for history's sake. u1 am a firm believer that unless were learn about our heritage personally, to us it is personally lost forever," Mellor sai d. "I have been so intrigued with the rich history of Lehi and a fter teaching I found out many childr.en and even adults didn"1t .e ven know about most of it. H ere is my chance to bring ,, history back to life for every restoredto prime condition one. . . ., ., Unsworth now hves as a ,careOne what a history the little taker for the hotel. After severold building has. The hotel was al years of teaching and taking originally built in 1887 by the -in traveling merchants, she request of Sara Ann Smith, asked her husband to build the plural wife of Joseph Smith. hotel so people would have a , Sarah was a school teacher and place to stay. But the only land lived and taught in the tiny they had to build upon was over home right next to the Hotel, . ',', "\ where Mellor's niece Elinor , . •; HOTEL, 24 --; <See ... THE WILD AMERICAN WEST.... PORTER ROCKWELL ... U.S.IMORMON WAR... HUTCHINGS MUSEUM ... THANKSGIVING POINT... _.' Pony 'EJ(jJress (IFie Gatli of 'Emproymell t Historic Lehi •1__________________ do Porter Rockwell $3000 Reward May, 1842, Rockwell was a prime suspect in the attempted assassination of Missouri Governor Boggs. Rockwell killed more outlaws than Wyatt Earp, Marshall Dillon; Billy the Kid and Wild Bill Hicock combined. Port reportedly dumped outlaw bodies in an abandoned 264 foot deep well just 7 miles west ofLehi. You will visit this site as well as two sites where Porter was shot point blank and lived to tell his grandchildren. Pioneer Scout...Bodyguard...Hunter Sharpshooter•..Lawman ...Horse Trader.•.Mail Carrier...Miner...Temple Worker..• Government Employee... Never signed his name nor wrote a single sentence. Drove first wagon from L.A. to Salt Lake City. Iiere6ysweaTi 6efore tliegreat tlIld riving (jod, tliat duriTlg 11Iy CTIgagement, and wlii[c I am all e11lproyee of 1\JlSSef{' :\{ajors clr '1t'addefr, I wier, ulIder no circllmstances, use profallc {angutlgc. J wirrdrin/(no in to,Dca t illg {jqllorsj tFiat I 'u;ir{ Tlot quarrer or figli t witli any otFier emp{oycc of Ilic firm, aTl(tliat in every respcc t, 1 wire conduct 11Iyself liollcst{y, faitFifu{ to my auties, allJ'so lirect my acts as to ruin tlie collfidence ofmyemp{oyCTs.SO fit'fJl111t' (jod.' Pony Express April 1860 - October 1861 All of the Pony Express mail carried between St. Joseph, Missouri and Califfornia passed just west of Historic Lehi. Buffalo Bill Cody rode 322 miles in 21 hours and 40 minutes using 21 horses. Cody rode one horse at top speed for 24 miles when chased by Indians. Become fascinated with the courage and wit of these riders in history as you ride on the original trail for 14 miles. Ride in restroom equipped air conditioned busses on 14 miles of the original Pony Express and Overland Stage Coach Trails. Walk into the experiences and personal lives of significant Utah pioneers Relive the folklore of Porter Rockwell--the greatest gunfighter in the Wild American West Thanksgiving Point Spend two hours on a 500 acre attraction designed to become one of Utah's most visited locations. Karen and Alan Ashton and their eleven children are showing their gratitude and thanksgiving for what life has given them. Browse through shops, restaurants, vegetable and flower gardens, and historical sites. VIGILANTES ... DESPERADOS ...INDIAN MASSACRES ... PONY EX]>RESS ... OVERLAND STAGE COACIIES ... THE WILD AMERICAN VIGILANTES ...DESPERADOS ...INDIAN MASSACRES ...PONY EXPRESS ... OVERLAND STAGE COACHES ... 1997 Saturday Tours U.S.lMormon War 1857-1860 Camp Floyd, site of the largest military camp in the United States in 1858••• Did the U.S. Army come to Utah Territory to -Quell the rebellious Mormons" or was the army sent for other reasons? Listen to the accounts of a small number of Mormon guerillas intimidating and harassing 3000 military men. The army spent the unusually bitter winter of 1857-58 on the deep snow covered frozen plains of Wyoming. Learn details of the -Greatest U.S. Military Blunder ofthe 19th Century." The army left Utah in 1861. Eightyfour persons died-only one in confrontations with the Mormon Militia-and he died of a heart attack.Four Million dollars in surplus property were sold for SI00,000. The war proved to be an economic salvation for the saints. Carson Stage Coach Hotel 1858 In operation when the Pony Express riders carried mail to California and the East and when the first and last Overland Stage Coaches rumbled between Sacramento, California and St•. Joseph, Missouri. Visit this newly restored hotel that hosted travelers for over 100 years. Your Tour Guide--Carl Mellor Lehi Pioneers Riding a Stagecoach March 29 May 31 July 5, 12, 19 September 6, 20 April 26 June 7, 28 August 9, 30 Departure Site Hutchings Museum, 55 North Center Exit #28l1-15 at Lehi Roller Mills. West to Center Street, then North (right) 112 block. TOURS LEAVE AT 9 A.M. Pioneers traveling to Southern Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California. New Mexico and Colorado usually spent the first night (out of Salt Lake City) camping at Dry Creek in Historic Lehi. We take you to the site ofthat camp. Lehi was the sixth incorporated city in the territory. Your hearts will be touched as "ou listen to tender anecdotes and tragic events in the personal lives of some oi the original pioneers in Historic Lehi. John Hutchings Museum of Natural History. This world famous museum is b~i~t around the c.ollections of one significant man and his family. You will see Butch Cassidy, Civil and Revolutionary War gun collections in this newly restored Lehi Memorial Building. Some of the structural timbers for this building came from the original pioneer pavilion located on D~ Creek. Hutchings Museum preserves the rich mining atmosphere of pioneer Utah and you Will find here one of the most complete mineral coll.ections found in the intermountain area. Gold, silver, lead, copper, and iron on~s from Eureka, Tintic, Ophir and Taught Utah Pioneer History for over 40 years. He spent six months compiling Historic Lehi Tour Guide. Carl Mellor brings a touch of historic reality (Mormon and non-Mormon) to the Historic Lehi area. Mercur were transported through Historic Lehi Junction. See the magnificent Tom Cutler Mansion and the oldest still standing Union Pacific Railroad station. Walk through the home of the richest man who lived in Historic Lehi--John Beck. Browse through some of the most unique shopping experiences in America. Historic Lehi ON THE HISTORIC LEHI TOUR YOU WILL RELIVE MORE OF THE WILD AMERICAN WEST THAN ANY OTHER UTAH TOUR Return at 4 p.m. mSTORIC LEHI TOUR PRICES $30 per adult $20 per child Includes 7 hour tour, hot pioneer lunch and all entrance fees. $5 discount for Seniors GROUP DISCOUNTS--SA TURDAYS 5%, off for groups of 5 - 9 10%, off for groups of 10 - 19 20% off for groups of 20 - 29 30%, off for groups of 30 - 39 40% off for groups of 40 - 47 CHARTERED TOURS ... ANY DAY 30 to 39 people, $21 per person 40 to 47 people, $18 per person Includes 7 hour tour, hot pioneer luncheon and all entrance fees. We pick you up at any Location in Salt Lake or Utah County. Reservations and Information Call Carl Mellor at 768-8665 Or 768-4578 (Iea\'e message) or Experience Utah's Unique Sesqui-Centennial Heritage Call Hutchings Museum, 768-7180 LEHIHOTEL Constructed: 1887 Address: 394 West Main Present owners: CarllDimple Mellor As early as 1884, school teacher Sarah became owner of the Alhambra Saloon next door. Though the registry of the establishment is lost, the Lehi Banner often listed guests who were staying in the hotel. The 6 November 1891 list includes twenty-five patrons described with a hotel at 394 West Main (where formerly the John certain cosmopolitan flavor. The 7 July 1892 paper Woodhouse Store had been located). The Lehi detailing the "heterogenous arrival of the distinguished guests at the Hotel Lehi OIl the 4th of Hotel was nearly completed by 22 November 1887, when the Deseret News prmounced it the "largest July" copied the hotel register verbatim: Jolm [hotel] in the north end of this county." An 1890 Smith, Denmark; Fran Salzner, Germany, France; Sanborn Map of the hotel, which was then __ W . 1 Webb, L.S.It; Andrew Fjeld, Norway; Jas. immediately east of 1be Denver and Rio _Grande . y .. Kirkham, Goshen; G. A Smith, San Pete: Jas. Railroad dePot,SboWs ~doWostlirs dUiiiig iOoni," . '~DOrtoo, RuSh Valley; Wm~GOiteS, Denmark; D: office, and kitchen to the The second story, Jones, Minneapolis; M A Thodes, Clipperville; connected by an inside stairway, housed the Wm H Vaughn, Pontown; J. F. Russen and wife, sleeping rooms. Ohio; General Bismark. Russia; Geo. Goates, Lehi Leverett W. Brown bought the hotel in band.; S. 1. Taylor, Nevada; J. W. Goates, Austria; T. March of 1891 from Sarah Smith and her daughter F. Trane, China; 1. B. Smuin, Japan; 1. H. Kirkham, Florence. The name was changed to Brown's Hotel Hong Kong; Jas. Kirkham, St. Petersburg; .J. H. The 12 June 1891 Lehi Banner noted that Mrs. U. Potts, Australia; Isaac Alapeka, Sanguish Islands; 1. S. Grant (no relation to the former U. S. President E. Robinson, San Woun; Jos. Russen, Berlin; Wm. who had died in 1885), had established the Lehi J. Taylor, MoscoW; Wm Vaughn, Dublin; C. H. Cafe in the east half of the hotel building. Gray, Isle of Man; 1 E. Wines, Pekin, China; Jas. W . Goates, Lehi; H. J. Stewart, Pottsville, Ohio; J. According to Mrs. Grant, she had the "finest confectionary and choicest cigars constantly on H Fox., North of England; John I. Thomas, Lehi; A hand." The lady also claimed the "finest ice cream Walsh, Eureka; C. M. Green, Fish Springs: J. 1. in the city. Also fruit, nuts, figs, etc." Thomas and family, Lehi; 1. S. Hacking and pany, Cedar Fort; Wm Bryant, Lehi; Chris Madsen, The place was robbed OIl the evening of27 August 189l. Burglars broke in during the night Spanish Fork; Jessie Woolf, Zi~ 1. A Fenton, and pilfered two gold watches, two pairs of shoes, R.G.w. two pocket knives, and one coat from sleeping Nearly all the names listed were local men. patrons. The thieves were never apprehended and Evidently either the hotel management was the event startled townspeople. "Such a thing has attempting a publicity coup or the local fellows were having a grand time with world geography .. not happened before for some time," reported the 28 August 1891 Lehi Banner, ''Lehj has been The Hotel Lehi eventually returned to comparatively free from such characters. Leverett Brown's management. In the spring of In October of that year, ex-Rio Grande 18%, Dr. 1. N. Christiansen, a dentist, had his office agent B. W. Smith and U. S. Grant assumed on the premises. The place was periodically an inn management and changed the name to Hotel Lehi. until 1929, however, when Mamie Smuin Thomas In addition to a large sample room in the building purchased it from Rachel L. Brown for a residence. where drummers could display their goods while In 1997 Carl and Dimple Mellor purchased the staying in the hotel, the Alhambra Saloon was also propeny from the Lyall and Audrey Wilson estate. established on the premises. Evidently Smith and Plans are under way to convert the building into a Grant did not get along well. The 4 December bread and breakfast facility. 1891 Banner carried a notice of the dissolution of their two-month partnership. Smith henceforth became sole proprietor of the hotel, while Grant Ann Smith, plural wife of blacksmith Joseph 1. Smith, operated the Lehi House in her home (still standing at 390 West Main). In October of 1887 she began construction of a large two-story adobe a north. H 32 .' ... ~ j; Fonner Lehi Hotel in 1985 Fonner Lehi Hotel today 31 !II, - 11 .:: A GUIDE rTO LEHI CITY'S HISTORICAL SITES AND PLACES Puhlished by the Le hi lIislOrical PI-ne rvation Commission 1997 f unded 1)\ ~.-a llls from the I i :lil ~lalt Jli~torical ; dHi ' .tO n i .. it~ Society ( urpo ra tion Open House, Historic Lehi Hotel, June 15 to 18, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 394 West Main, The Carl Mellor family has spent the past year restoring the Historic Lehi Hotel--one of Lehi's significant historic sites. The Lehi Hotel was originally constructed in 1887 when the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad connected Denver and Salt Lake City. The Deseret News said at the time that the hotel was "the finest sample hotel in the territory The Lehi hotel is located on the site of the first blacksmith shop inside the old Lehi Fort built in 1853. The cellar and foundation of the blacksmith shop and an old bucket well can be viewed while visiting the hotel. The MeHors have restored the original hotel and have added a new section containing four large sleeping rooms and a large dining room .. The facility will be used for reunions, conferences, bed and breakfast guests, private parties (indoor and outdoor) and for weddings. Overnight accommodations for as many as 60 people are available. A home cooked supper and full hot breakfast will be included at reasonable rates. A 30% discount wiJ] be honored for anyone making overnight room reservations during the open house. Rooms and halls will feature significant events and people in Lehi history. The Pony Express, Overland Stage Coach, Porter Rockwell, Joseph Johnson Smith and his wife Sarah, John Woodhouse, the SmuinffhomaslWilson families, David and Israel Evans, and Lehi Gentiles will be be included. Residents who wish to have their ancestors remembered will have a chance to display a picture and history in the facility. Ask for details at the open house. Refreshments will be served at all times during the four day open house. For further information call the hotel at 768-0307. The Historic Lehi Hotel is Ideal for Your Family Reunion Many of the original pioneers of Historic Lehi were called to settle areas in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Canada. At the Historic Lehi Hotel we can recreate the pioneer experiences and feelings of your ancestors. You can sleep in the original rooms of one of Utah's most significant railroad hotels. You are on the site of the original blacksmith shop and an original water well within the Lehi Fort built in 1853. We can provide you with not only the historical settings but many of the actual historical stories of your ancestors We are a part of the rich Mormon Heritage. Also we were the closest large settlement to the largest military camp in the United States in 1858 to 1861. We were a part of the main communication and transportation connections of the nation in 1860-69. The original telegraph line, Pony Express and Overland Stage routes are a vital part of our historical legacy. And to top it off, we had Porter Rockwell, the greatest gunfighter in the wild American West, as our most distinguished citizen. All of the above comes alive as you bring your families and stay at the Historic Lehi Hotel. Arrive at 2 p.m. one day, have you meeting in our large rooms, enjoy a hot home cooked supper, listen to authentic stories of the WILD AMERICAN WEST, then sleep in our most comfortable beds. Your breakfast will be a hot full meal. Have some more meetings, and leave at 11 a.m.---AII for less than $30 per person. If you club, DUP Camp, or a civic organization wishes to use one of our rooms for a meeting, and we have not previously scheduled that room, you may use the room free of charge. Other than very simple refreshments, we do not allow food prepared in private homes to be served on our premises. To do so compromises our reputation and Health Department regulations. Reservations and Information Historic Lehi Hotel Bed and Breakfast Reunion and Conference Center 394 West Main Lehi Utah 84043 801-768-0307 Rates for Lehi Hotel Includes a full hot SUPPER and a full hot BREAKFAST Name of Room N umber of Persons in Room 3 4 5 6 110 110 110 90 95 95 95 130 130 130 150 150 150 170 170 170 115 130 120 150 170 80 95 110 100 80 100 120 1- 2 Century of Bride~ 90 Pony Express 70 StageCoach 70 Gentile 70 Mystery 50 Porter Rockwell 55 Sugar Room 55 STWRoom 55 Smui nffhomaslWi Ison The Presidents 55 David & Israel Evan's 70 John Woodhouse 60 Joseph Johnson Smith and wife Sarah 60 Ito 90 90 90 70 75 75 75 75 90 115 115 115 Group Rates Package One.........Total Facilities (sleeps 53)... Package Two .........New Upper (sleeps 20) Package Three ........Old Upper (sleeps 19) Package Four......... Old Lower (sleeps 14) Package Five ..........Total Old Hotel (sleeps 33) $1560 620 550 390 940 ... $29.43 per person 31.00 per person 28.95 per person 27.86 per person 28.48 person Wedding Prices #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 All Facilities $1560 Old Hotel (up and down) 940 Old hotel with Dining Room and Courtyard 1140 New Hotel with Dining Room and Courtyard 820 Dining Room and Courtyard 400 Luncheon and Dinner Prices Minimum often persons Reservations are Necessary (24 hr. before Salads and Sandwiches $5.00 Soup (or Casserole), Salads and Sandwiches 6.00 Full Chicken Dinner with Dessert 7.00 Full Beef Dinner with Dessert 8.00 Full Cardon Bleu Dinner with Dessert 9.00 Full Prime Rib or Rib Eye Steak Dinners & Dessert 11.00 Special Old Lehi Stake Tabernacle Banquet Cooked in the Old Lebi Stake Tabernacle Ovens Carrot and lell-O Salad served on leaf of lettuce Roast Beef or Chicken Minimum of 30 Mashed Potatoes and Gravy Hot Vegetable Hot Rolls and Butter Ice Water Chocolate Sheet Cake and Ice Cream $7.00 per person To: Utah State Government Historical Society 300 S. Rio Grande Salt Lake City, Ut 84101 From: Deborah W. Parry 1927 W. 11800 S. Riverton, Ut 84065 Date: January 22, 1997 Re : Additions and corrections to article on file While researching information on the Lehi Hotel (or Brown Hotel) built in 1887, I have found some information that should be corrected and also would like to add some additional information. The article that this information was found in was from D. Temme dated 3/6/81. I am a grandaughter of Maime Thomas former owner of this hotel and am at this time owner, as my father Lyall Wilson has passed away. The additions and corrections are added to the end of a duplicate copy of D. Temme. Please put these on file with that information. Thank you Deborah W. Parry HOTEL LEHI 394 W. Main St. Lehi, Utah This building was constructed in 1887 for Mrs. Sarah Ann Lilliard Smith as the Lehi Hotel. Located next to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot, which had been built soon after tracks for the D and RG RR were laid through Lehi in 1883. it was built to accommodate both overnight travellers and provide wholesalers with rooms in which to display their goods. The 1888 Utah Gazateer describes it as having "First Class Accommodations. large Sample Rooms on the ground floor." According to the 189293 Gazateer, the Hotel had recently been "Refurbished Throughout" had "Commodious Sample Rooms" and was "First Class in Every Respect." Only a little is known about the original owner of the Hotel, Mrs. Smith. She was born in Windsor, England, October 16, 1831 a daughter of Levi A. and Ann Lilliard Smith. They came to Utah in 1865 as a Mormon convert, married Joseph J. Smith on February 10, 1865 as a plural wife, and settled with him in Lehi, where she lived until her death in 1909. He was a wheelwright and blacksmith, and operated a sawmill and a molasses mill. She was active in local Mormon church affairs throughout her life and also taught for and unknown period of time in Lehi public schools. Mrs. Smith operated the hotel for only four years, and 1891 sold it to Leverett W. Brown. He changed its name to Brown Hotel and owned it until 1929, when *Daniel and Mamie Smuins Thomas bought it for use as their single-family residence. It had been unoccupied for several years prior to the sale, though exactly when it ceased serving as a hotel is uncertain. The building has remained in the Thomas family to the present. Hotel Lehi--Architectural Description The two story adobe box has a stone foundation, a low hip roof with wood shingles, and a symmetrical facade. *A fragment of plaster on the rear wall probably indicates that there was plaster over the adobe, as does the lack of significant erosion of the surface. An S shaped tie rod between the floors of the north and west walls indicate that large beams have been used to hold the heavy adobe walls together. The arrangement of openings on this first and second stories of the facade are not identical. There are three openings on the second story and five on the first story. There is a door and a window on each side of the double central door on the first floor and two windows flank the second story door. Each of the doors has a transom, and all of the window and door openings are topped by Greek Revival type pediments. The windows are the double hung sash type. A hip roof porch spans the facade. *The only alteration to the exterior of the building includes the possible addition of two rear doors which do not look original. That change however, in no way affects the original integrity of the building. Statement of Architectural Significance The Lehi Hotel is significant as one of very few well preserved examples of the late use of adobe in Lehi. The original settlement of Lehi was built primarily of adobe so it is not surprising that it continued to be used there even after the advent of brick. The box form of this building, however, is particularly unusual because it varies from the traditional building types of the time which were based on a rectangular form. The two story square box did not become popular until the turn of the century and even then it was more corrunonly a stylistic choice in urban areas. This box style house, therefore, is one of the earliest examples of that type in the state. This article by D. Temme 3/6/81 *Additions and corrections to article by Deborah W. Parry (grand daughter of Mamie Thomas), 1/11/97 Correct name is Henry Thomas The plaster on the north wall (under Hotel Lehi-Architectural Description, paragraph 1) is mistakenly identified as a plaster covering for the house. This is not so. Originally there was a small wooden structure attached to the house at this location. It was used as a kitchen. The plastered portion of the main house then being an interior wall. You can see the outline of the roof to this structure just under the upstairs windows on the north as well as note that the window sills had to be altered to allow for the roof. The doors mentioned in the same paragraph, as being added is also not a fact. The door closest to the main back door was an entrance to the main hotel dining room from this kitchen. The door next to this may have been cut after the original construction but predates the purchase of the Hotel by the Thomas family. It was used as an access to the pantry and cellar from the kitchen. Thus allowing the kitchen staff access without going through the dining room. This wooden structure was still there when the house was purchased by the Thomas family and was used as a garage and storage shed until it was torn down probably in the late 1940's. The shingles on the Hotel were replaced after the second world war but the porch shingles were not replaced at that time (they are probably the original shingle). The mud for the adobe of this building came from the lot directly across the street to the south. RULON PARRY ~ 1927 West 11800 Soutl1Riverton, Utah 84065 --- .. ~~ ,......-:: -..._---._- - - - - - - - ~fa.L ride.. J?'6)h>Ior-'~ 3~6 r. r~!t: Crand~ Lake LLt-aL BL/16/ C(·~ S'OCle7 QUESTIONS TO ASK HISTORICAL RESTORATION SPECIALISTS •.• 1. How to stop damage from termites and water rot already taking place? 2. Adobe walls are very fragile and serious ,damage appears in some areas. What needs to be done to repair damage and prevent further deterioriation of the original adobes ~ 3. Floor joists and support timbers in northeast section needs replacing. Who and what should we do? 4. Some outside window sils may need to be replaced. Windows need to be cleaned up and painted. Once the original windows are repaired and painted, can we put acceptable storm windows on the outside to insulate the build ~ ing and to protect the windows from further deterioration? 5. Front Porch. It appears we will need to completely redo the front porch. Is it possible to replace porch roof with a flat deck that can be used as a fire escape from the second floor and as a sitting deck for the second floor? Could we add a porch roof to the second level? See similar hotel (home) from the same period built in Raton, New Mexico. 6. Can we replace the shingles with a lifetime metal roof? Roof top at center is nearly flat. Could this have originally had a widow's walk railing? Shingles on buildiing now were placed there shortly after the first World War. Could a flagpole be permanently placed at the top. There is a ladder in the attic leading to a trap door which exits on the very top of the hotel. 7. Originally there was a wood framed kitchen on the north. It was about 28'X24'. We need an attached kitchen for the restored bulding. If we attach an an addition, does it need to be the same size as the original? How much larger could it be? Could there be two floors to the addition to accommodate more sleeping rooms on the second floor? 8. If we cannot add additional space to the rebuilt kitchen, how far away from the original hotel, can an addition be built? If a two story (or one story) addition is built, can we connect the two buildings via an enclosed walkway? 9. We need at least two restrooms on the second level. Is it possible to include two restrooms in the old hotel's northeast bedroom? , 10. Is it advisable to add the new air conditioning and heatinig systems inside the old hotel or in a new structure attached to or connected to the old hotel. Location of vents and ducts. 11. To what extent can we use donated labor to redo plaster of walls, refinishing windows, painting, ~~nding of floors and refinishing. 12. The electrical, plumbiing and heating and air conditioning will be done by certified contractors. Can we appoint someone to secure specialist contracto~s and to supervise and assist in the day to day work? 13. What kind of assistance from we get from state and federal agencies in the 1 form of grants, matching funds, etc.? , 14. Utah's Statehood Day in January, 1998 will be held in Lehi. it possible to have the hotel up and running by that date? Is 15. We will do the hotel first, then have caretakers move into the hotel while the school is in the finishing stage. The school additions on the back are over 50 years old. Will those additions affect getting the school on the historical register? 16. Lehi Historian Richard Van Wagoner says that the original door and window casin : gs and the door and window frames match the shape, size anddecor that was originally in the doors and windows of the military barracks at Camp Floyd. A John Nagalei bought the salvage rights to the Camp Floyd buldings and he , supplied windows and door for most of the build l ings built in Lehi for the next 15-20 years. Interesting, huh? 17. We need to process the applicaitons for the National Historical Register as soon as possible--if not sooner. How can we expedite this process? When????? I I 18. Can you help me with suggestions, references, ideas, support? 19. Most successful bread and breakfast inns follow a theme or themes. Consider the idea of naming and decorating rooms after famous Lehi residents--like David Evans, first colonizer and bishop; Tom Cutler, 2nd bishop, CEO of Sugar Factory, ZCMI, and broker for the vast m~neral wealth that flowed through the historic Lehi railroad junction; John Beck, the wealthiest pioneer that ever lived in Lehi; Porter Rockwell, the greatest gunfighter in the wild American West; AND/OR THE Pony Express, the Overland Stagecoach, the telegraph (first transcontinental) line, or the United States/Mormon War (1858-l86l) or we could focus in part or all of the historic rail lines that came to or extended from historic Lehi. If we have focus on railroads, it would be nice to have at least one railroad car that could be converted to a sleeping area. Possible Uses of the Complex of Buildings 1. Typically a bed and breakfast facility 2. A family reunion facility for descendants of Lehi's early families. 3. Youth Conference Center. 4. 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'.-'. ~ I ' I I '<".} ' • .. -.- _-_._ -- .-VI .L -- -" J' .I. ~I ~ IJ z /.:/ 3N-- I? 19 December 1990 Former hotel still stands' on 'Main Street di.tTiet h .. 18I1till••tandingetnlc• . tures built prior to the end n(World ·WarI(1917). Whilemanyevenuof historic importance took place in U - variou8 buildinp, moat downtown h.ppeninp h.vo been rather unremarkable. . 1 .i .' Lehi Yesteryears Penpt. pick..! up stew meat at Onrton's Butchershop, bnught a bottle n( 11"11',, Vegetablo Sicilian lIair Renower at Wadsworth's Drur;st<>rt!, and drnp~ nIT the dnmar,:cd h"m""" r.". ",pnir at Jlnrwncwl &. Son. n.f'Y I.~>l. tl"'ir mnil frotn their prh'ntLo J>O"t om"" bnx, bnught ic:o "",nm .. t C.""ers, nnd dobllt'<! their ',)'1:4 at Nld rtlClOWnts in ~lc!nt rnnvic. at the I..hi Operll Hou ..... Trn"elt'I"A bellied up to the bnr TheoldBrownlSmithhotelstiUatandaoDtheDortheutcomerol-400Wesiaad nt tM EllcorScnateSnlnonsC where Main Street. IAhi mcm ~ wentl, .Iept nIT the elTecta at the IAhi lIotellcnnwing th.. Icitchen nonr during a 1946 Brown's Hotel. The Ju~ 12, 1891 auch charactera.their 00..........ero safely hnnrded nt remncieling project w.. a trap door I.Chj Ban per noted that Mrs. U.s. In October of that y.ar u-Rio I lam mer's U .. ery. lending to a small cellar· like room Grant (no ralatlon to the former Grande apnta W. Smith and U.s. Cam mnnp IRc:o - mOAtcrrtninly. belnw. An old timer told the Wi!aona U.s. Pr-ident who had died In Grant _umed manapmant and Yet theM avcrngc, humdnlm hop- that the hiding plftCe w .... de.i",," 1885) had Mtabliahed the lAhi eare cnanpd the name to Hotel IAhL penings 0( yesterYctlr aro the vt:ry to provide refuge in the event of ' In the ...t h.lf 0( the hotel build- Smith advertiaed in the Oct. 2, house baa fnhric n(our town's history. WOan! Indian attack. A later use w . . . ina, Aa:ordina to Mrs.. Grant, she . 1891 BAnIw: that wheft we nre tndny b«aU80 ofthm.. pnuibly for what w . . then called. had the "finMt confectianery and ' been newly fitted up and rwnodOurine the _xt -r.al month. I -pnlygnmy pit- .. a spot for' muCh-'1:hoic.et cipra c:orwt.ntly on hand.- eled - will be run .trictly FIRST ,..iII "" drtailing tho hi.tnry 0( our mllrri.d husbnnda to hido wh.ri The I.dy alao claimed the "flnMt . CLASS in -- 1 r..pect.c\.n>"11tnwn buildings fnr you. M..t U.s. Manhals wen nosin!: abnut M:. c:ream in the city. AIao fruit, . In lIddition to a lara- sample Iik"ly I "';11 ncaaaionAlI)t Include' town. " . , .. ' ".,. .. nuu. etc.! · : . . . .. '.. . - in the buildln. where drumatnn..s of ,oo.t buildinp," .true· .In ' Octnber 1887 Mrs. Sraith " The p ' - . . .- nbbeci on the ,J __ -tel diIplay wbiIe tuTnthat.,..th"r...nlyinmanyof . lqpn construetion of. lara- twn- evwninao( ADa- 27.lIIL BlIJ'Iiaiw,:-:: lltayintJin the hotel, the Alhambra our memodeL . atnry adobe hotel -xl door at 394 .broke in durin, the nich& anci pi1- .:, Saloon _ aIaD..t.abIiehed OIl the . . llw..w....tccwa.....m.1 buildinc \Vea Main (woo,..11nt had been ferocl two &Did ~' two paira ~"'Inte;....a."'y.e__ ~ .tinabmcfincnn~lainSl.-t . . . a Incated her husband'. blacbmith of""" two pocIr.ellmi_anci_ ' in town -Jelro.... lAhi Liq,.hOt.t built by a plural .. if.. of Jo.. _hop.nd lau-r the Jobri \V.....u-.. . coat I'nxra sleepina pab'Dna. The., Ston, canpetincwitb U.s. Grant's -.ph Smith ... Jc-ph J. Smith. . Store). The LehiHotel w.. nearly th . . . . . . . . _ _ appt ..'lancIed place, added a distinct Cin1 War pn>nIJnc.nt Leni hlackAmitlT \n he- cnmpietod by NOv. 22, 1887 when ', and the event atartIed tDwnapeople. fla_toLebrscirinlrin,..tabIiah-. es.ct. : the Ds::.s:ut N~ ...., pl"OnOUnced It "Such a thina baa no& happened ' ~tL . . Rumor h .. it thilt polygamy ""lUI the -Iorpt (hou.1) in .the nnrth end. ,bofon fnr _ e tim.:.n ported the Neither altha bnai. ahopa ate,..d no;"""" In &mah Ann Smith'.lik· o(thia country.- . " Aua- 28, 1891 [chi Rtpncr; "lAhi . in buai_ for Ianc- Jeff 0. ... inortha" it ..... to t LICC- filnt "'ITo ,., :..ra .' ,- 1890 S lin born "'I ap ·... _r .L_ L _ _ comft __ ·'v- I .. fi- ......... .. IV. .... has . - . . . . - _W "I ._ •.--.. __ liS, liJltKABS. _ ~ S mum ....,..., fam.,... J....,ph Smith. " hot"l. which ......s thon immediately . Fur .. hat~ ~uon. Sarah Ann ' out ofth. Den .. "r ond Rio Grand. lived at 390 West Main (the pre. , 'drpnt, .ho..... downstairs din inc , , ..... t hnm.. of Lyall and .wd.....,. .......... olr~, and Icitch ..... to the . Wil~)' Her much-mom..! h_ IMW1h.1Oc S<'<:flnd ~tnry, ronn..Cted ; blUul?W..n, he Ii ....! up "" th" Leni by an 'inside .t"i,.,.·oy, housed the Bench -l\Ut of hArm'•• a,.." .~ing room..... ' . .\4 ..arly .. IAAf Sonah Ann t-cntt W. nrown bought the <>pC'I":Itc.-cl n privnt .. khnol in h« l.chi · Hot,,1 in Mnrch1891 from hom .. which .. 11OO ........•.. d nil n bnnrd· SArah Ann and her married dau~ing rn<"ility .. allrd th .. [... hi 110....... . tor Floren"" C"ttLor. I . An in tLo ...... tinl{ dillCtl"ery uncier nut nllllle WM chnnl.'CG to -uw rap. their'-' ,. • - t- • Yesteryears .' \ Continued from front pa,e drii'led elsewhere and Smith and Grailt cou 141 not ph long. Th. Dec:. • , 1891lllmIw: carried a notice of the diaolution of th.ir two-month partnenhip. Smith henceforth became sole pmprietor oHhe hotel, ;.. ' while Grant became own.r of the Alhambra one door ...t. Althouah the ,...pstly of the Smuin (Japan), J.H. KIrkham (Bona Konll, J ... IOrkham (St. Pet.raburll, JJI. PoUa (Aumalia),XAlapeka (Sanpiah .IsJand8), J. C. . RobiNOn (San Woun>. J...,h Ru_ (Berlin), W1lUaza J. Taylor (M_w), Wm. VauiPm (Dublin>' c.H. Gray (Isle oCMan>. I.E. W1_ (pekin. China>. J _ W. ao.t. (LehO, H.J. Stewart (PIIttrriJJe. Ohio>'JJI.FOIt<NartbaCEncluwD. • ," 'j "!~~ w.. periodically an Inn until 1929;' .1 . how.Yer, when Mami. Smuin. ·Thorn.. purchaaed iHrum Rachel '. ..1. Brown for a r.id_. "" ' . ... . Th. 'buildlnr, most wurthy of .' .' fncJuaion an the National Regi.... ; ofHiataric pt-, • vacant Iioday, bat _ rwnarkably ••n p . - fed .'·~for an ant__ adobe ItnIcturL It . .' _ownedbyMra. n-uadauch- ..: ... Aadnr wu- and .~ h~: ~ ~~~,,;~,:!!:~~~f!:: ~),~~LaIu~\.W; ' ~~r;~.; ~ ":.; :;;;:~ .:'.: :., ;.~:~ staying in the hotel The Nov. ... J.J. Thom. . .ncir-w,.(Leln1, .s.I. 1891 list includes 25 patron. with Hacldn, and party (Cedar F~), : • certain cosmopolitan Wm. Bryant (LebO. Cbria Mad.a . The J uJy 7, 1892 paper deW11n, (SpcriatI Fark). J.-. WooIf'(ZIan>' : the "heterogenous arrival of the JA FenlDn (Rio Weatem). N-rlyallthe_liaad_ distinguished cu-ta at the Hotel Lehi on the 4th or JuV copied the IocaJ III.... EYidntly the hotM hotel register Yerbatim: Jobu SnUtb lIlanapment _ att..mpti"l a . (Denmark), Fran SaIzner(G.rmany, • publicity· or the IocaJ r.no- . France), W 1. Webb (U.s.), ·An- . . _ havWItr allf1U'd time with wand tlnw Fjeld (Norway), Jam. KIrk· .....,hyandapellin c. A8ida t'taD .ham· (Goshen). G.k. Smith (San their miaaionGy a p c ; . - _ t Pete), James Dorton (Rush Val-hadllk.lyn_beenrurt.hera_y leY), William Goates (Denmark), than Salt Lak. City. A r•• quite D• .Jon. (Min.-pol.>' M.A. Rhodea ponibJy had _ _ even _ . (Clipperville), Wm. lL Va~n American Fork. t (Pontown), J .F. Ruuen and Wlr. Th. Hotel lahi _tuaRy no (Ohio), General Bismark (Russia), · turned to w-r.u Brown'. m&n-.! a.o..GoaLes (I:-hi b~~),~S.J. T~'y':~&bot.a~.a(~.Dr..; lor (Neylda). J.W.; .coa~"'t(-. : . J.N. Christian..., a denUat,h,cr ria), T .F. Trane(China),Jam. K .. h. oIr_an th.pnmt-. nw pI.. : Gn_ Ila........· aMI, . ;' ,.1, ' .... ' ' ..., .' "" ; .;,.; . , :.' . . :\~.- '.: ' ~.... . :~ .. ' ., , .·::-.-. ···.·;~f;~ 'f;' .' ~ . :... . .~" .," . ', • .J ;' . "" .0;' •. ":. . . . . 5· ,..~, / ~ ~. .. ,. HOTEL LEHI 394 W. Main St. Lehi, Utah This building was constructed in 1887 for Mrs. Sarah Ann Lilliard Smith a,s the Lehi Hotel. Located next to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot, which had been built soon after tracks for the D and RG RR were laid through Lehi in 1883. it was built to accommodate both overnight travellers and provide wholesalers with rooms in which to display their goods. The 1888 Utah Gazateer describes it. as having "First Class Accommodations. large Sample Rooms on the ground floor." According to the 189293 Gazateer, the Hotel had recently been "Refurbished Throughout" had "Commodious Sample Rooms" and was "First Class in Every Respect." Only a little is known about the original owner of the Hotel, Mrs. Smith. She was born in Windsor, England, October 16, 1831 a daughter of Levi A. and Ann Lilliard Smith. They came to Utah in 1865 as a Mormon convert, married Joseph J. Smith on February 10, 1865 as a plural wife, and settled with him in Lehi, where she lived until her death in 1909. He was a wheelwright and blacksmith, and operated a sawmill and a molasses mill. She was active in local Mormon church affairs throughout her life and also taught for and unknown period of time in Lehi public schools. Mrs. Smith operated the hotel for only four years, and 189.1 sold it to Leverett W. Brown. He changed its name to Brown Hotel and owned it until 1929, when *Daniel and Mamie Smuins Thomas bought it for use as their single-family residence. It had been unoccupied for several years prior to the sale, though exactly when it ceased serving as a hotel is uncertain. The building has remained in the Thomas family to the present. Hotel Lehi--Architectural Description The two story adobe box has a stone foundation, a low hip roof with wood shingles, and a symmetrical facade. *A fragment of plaster on the rear wall probably indicates that there was plaster over the adobe, as does the lack of significant erosion of the surface. An S shaped tie rod between the floors of the north and west walls indicate that large beams have been used to hold the heavy adobe walls together. The arrangement of openings on this first and second stories of the facade are not identical. There are three openings on the second story and five on the first story. There is a door and a window on each side of the double central door on the first floor and two windows flank the second story door. Each of the doors has a transom, and all of the window and door openings are topped by Greek Revival type pediments. The windows are the double hung sash type. A hip roof porch spans the facade. *The only alteration to the exterior of the building includes the possible addition of two rear doors which do not look original. That change however, in no way affects the original integrity of the building. Statement of Architectural Significance The Lehi Hotel is significant as one of very few well preserved examples of the late use of adobe in Lehi. The original settlement of Lehi was built primarily of adobe so it is not surprising that it continued to be used there even after the advent of brick. The box form of this building, however, is particularly unusual because it varies from the traditional building types of the time which were based on a rectangular form. The two story square box did not become popular until the turn of the century and even then it was more commonly a stylistic choice in urban areas. This box style house, therefore, is one of the earliest examples of that type in the state. This article by D. Temme 3/6/81 *Additions and corrections to article by DeborahW. Parry (grand daughter of Mamie Thomas), 1/11/97 Correct name is Henry Thomas The plaster on the north wall (under Hotel Lehi-Architectural Description, paragraph 1) is mistakenly identified as a plaster covering for the house. This is not so. Originally there was a small wooden structure attached to the house at this location. It was used as a kitchen. The plastered portion of the main house then being an interior wall. You can see the outline of the roof to this structure just under the upstairs windows on the north as well as note that the window sills had to be altered to allow for the roof. The doors mentioned in the same paragraph, as being added is also not a fact . The door closest to the main back door was an entrance to the main hotel dining room from this kitchen. The door next to this may have been cut after the original construction but predates the purchase of the Hotel by the Thomas family. It was used as an access to the pantry and cellar from the kitchen. Thus allowing the kitchen staff access without going through the dining room. This wooden structure was still there when the house was purchased by the Thomas family and was used as a garage and storage shed until it was torn down probably in the late 1940's. The shingles on the Hotel were replaced after the second world war but the porch shingles were not replaced at that time(they are probably the original shingle). The mud for the adobe of this building came from the lot directly across the street to the south. , CHAPTER 15 ~ Camp Houses/Hotels ~ Camp Houses From the earliest days of Lehi settlement, the State Road (State Street) has intersected Dry Creek between Center and First West. Until the post-World War I years \ehicJes crossed through the water; there was no bridge. Ilut there were two camp houses, as they were called, nestled in the large black willow trees alongside the stream bed. Samuel and Emma Briggs, Byron W. Brown, James Gough, and perhaps others owned these establishments. As peddlers and drummers traveled through the area with wares to sell, such places were inexpensive havens to board both themselves and their horses. One of these places, well-remembered by Cliff Austin, who is now in his late nineties, was the "Hay, Grain, and Stable Inn" w,here travelers could bed down .tnd have their horses stabled for ''two-bits a night."l Hotels The first two innkeepers in Lehi were Abram Hatch and Bishop David Evans, who opened a portion of their homes to travelers. A special correspondent for the New York Herald wrote what it was like to spend a night at Bishop Evans's place in June 1858: Bishop Evans was our host; he is the highest church dignitary in the place and keeps a sort of hotel. The bishop is a corpulent and sociable old man. A multitude of children are running about the house; they were very well behaved, made no noise, kept out of the way and bore a . very retiring disposition; they took care of each other, the elder ones acting as matrons to their younger relatives. . . . We did not ask the corpulent bishop the number of his spirituals, nor did he instruct us upon that point; so we were left in unhappy ignorance. Several women were moving around the house. It was very easy to distinguish the old one lady who claimed priority as mater families. There were three quite young women, who worked about the house, more quiet than tongue-tied servants. Whether they were some of his "better halves," we were unable to deci- pher, even after comparing notes. The saintly bishop, must however, have a harem of no small dimensions to generate such a vast juvenile population. The children all looked well, fat and hardy. The three young women, before alluded to, had a sort of iron bound countenance, which is almost indescribable: but more of that anon. At night we lit upon a feather bed, being the first bed I had laid on for 60 consecutive nights. 2 City Hotel John and Emma Austin were proprietors of the City Hotel located near the uptown railroad depot. Established in 1884 in their home (still standing at 588 North Third East), the hotel remained in operation for four or five years. James Kirkham, who was arrested for illegal cohabitation in the early morning hours of 8 November 1886, wrote in his journal that be and several other polygamists were taken to "the Hotel kept by Mrs. [Emma] Austin who was ordered to make ready breakfast for us all[.] She done so and Marshal Dyer had to pay the bill at 50¢ per head."3 A "Lehi Letter" in the 25 January 1884 Deseret News notes that at the "City Hotel, kept by Mr. Austin for the comfort of the hungry and weary, a pleasant affair took place, being the wedding of Mr. Parley Austin and Miss Lotta E. Whimpey." This lodging house remained open at least until 1888, after which no further records have been discovered. It is the 1989 home of the Horace E. Clark family. The Lebi Hotel As early as 1884 school teacher Sarah Ann Smith, plural wife of blacksmith Joseph J. Smith, operated the Lehi House in her home (still standing at 390 West Main). In October 1887 she began construction of a large two-story adobe hotel at 394 West Main (where formerly pad been located the John Woodhouse Store). The Lehi Hotel was nearly completed by 22 November 148 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 1887, when the Deseret News pronounced it the "largest [hotel] in the north end of this county." An 1890 Sanborn Map of the hotel, which was then immediately east of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad depot, shows a downstairs dining room, office, and kitchen to the north. The second story, connected by an inside stairway, housed the sleeping rooms. Leverett W. Brown bought the Lehi Hotel in March 1891 from Sarah Smith and her daughter Florence. The name was changed to Brown's Hotel. The 12 June 1891 Lehi Banner noted that Mrs. U. S. Grant (no relation to the former U. S. President who had died in 1885) had established the Lehi Cafe in the east half of the hotel building. According to Mrs. Grant, she had the "finest confectionary and choicest cigars constantly on hand." The lady also claimed the "finest ice cream in the city. Also fruit, nuts, figs, etc." , The place was robbed on the evening of 27 August 1891. Burglars broke in during the night and pilfered two gold watches, two pairs of shoes, two pocket knives, and one coat from sleeping patrons. The thieves were never apprehended and the event startled townspeople. "Such a thing has not happened before for some time," reported the 28 August 1891 Lehi Banner; "Lehi has been comparatively free from such characters." In October of that year ex-Rio Grande agent B. W. Smith and U. S. Grant assumed management and changed the name to Hotel Lehi. Smith advertised in the 2 October 1891 Banner that ''the house has been newly fitted up and remodeled - will be run strictly FIRST CLASS in every respect." In addition to a large sample room in the building where drummers could display their goods while staying in the hotel, the Alhambra Saloon was also established on the premises. Evidently Smith and Grant did not get along well. The 4 December 1891 Banner carried a notice of the dissolution of their two-month partnership. Smith henceforth became sole proprietor of the hotel, while Grant became owner of the Alhambra Saloon one door east. Though the registry of the establishment is lost, the Lehi Banner often listed guests who were staying in the hotel. The 6 November 1891 list includes twenty-five patrons with a certain cosmopolitan flavor. The 7 July 1892 paper detailing the "heterogenous arrival of the distinguished guests at the Hotel Lehi on the 4th of July" copied the hotel register verbatim: John Smith, Denmark; Fran Sa1zner, Germany, France; W. I. Webb, L.S.B.; Andrew Fjeld, Norway; Jas. Kirkham, Goshen; G. A. Smith, San Pete; Jas. Dorton, Rush Valley; Wm. Goates, Denmark; D. Jones, Minneapolis; M. A. "Rhodes, Clipperville; Wm. H. Vaughn,Pontown; J. F. Russen and wife, Ohio; General Bismark, Russia; Geo. Goates, Lehi band; S. J. Taylor, Nevada; J. W. Goates, Austria; T. F. Trane, China; J. B. Smuin, Japan; J. H. Kirkham, Hong Kong; Jas. Kirkham, St. Petersburg; J. H. Potts, Australia; Isaac Alapeka, Sanguish Islands; J. E. Robinson, San Woun; Jos. Russen, Berlin; Wm. -------------~~-------------------------- J. Taylor, Moscow; Wm. Vaughn, Dublin; C. H. Gray, Isle of Man; I. E. Wines, Pekin, China; J as. W. Goates, Lehi; H. J. Stewart, Pottsville, Ohio; J. H. Fox, North of England; John I. Thomas, Lehi; A. Walsh, Eureka; C. M. Green, ~ish Springs: J. J. Thomas and family, Lehi; J. S. Hacking and party, Cedar Fort; Wm. Bryant, Lehi; Chris Madsen, Spanish Fork; Jessie Woolf, Zion; J. A. Fenton, R.G.W. Nearly all the names listed were local men. Evidently the hotel management was attempting a publicity coup or the local fellows were having a grand time with world geography. Aside from their missionary experience most had likely never been farther away from town than Salt Lake City. A few quite possibly had never even seen Cedar Fort. The Hotel Lehi eventually returned to Leverett Brown's management. In the spring of 1896 Dr. J. N. Christiansen, a dentist, had his office on the premises. The place was periodically an inn until 1929, however, when Mamie Smuin Thomas purchased it from Rachel L. Brown for a residence. The building, vacant in 1989, is owned by Mrs. Thomas's daughter Audrey Wilson and her husband Lyall. Hammer Hotel In the early 1860s Hans Hammer built a small frame building at 162 West Main, where he operated a store until the Lehi Union Exchange bought him out in May 1869. For a few years the Hammer building was a supply house for traveling mining vendors before becoming the John Woodhouse Store until 1883. W. W. Brown operated a barbershop there in the early 189Os. An 1898 Sanborn Map shows that _Hammer had expanded the west side of the building, nearly doubling its size. The expansion was listed as "sleeping rooms." A boarding facility was a wise business decision for Hammer. Overnight travelers to Lehi could stable their horses in his livery stable and sleep in his inn. A 28 December 1897 article in the Lehi Banner detailed the "Strange Death of Don Wickerser" on the Hammer property. Wickerser came in from Mercur at 8:00 p.m. on Christmas night. He put up his horses in the livery stable, then ate supper in a nearby restaurant. To keep warm he drank a considerable amount of liquor and took a bottle of whiskey to bed with him in the Hammer sleeping rooms. Two days later the management wished to "clear his room," so they moved him into their granary. George Hammer called the marshal and told him the man had been in a continous drunken stupor since his arrival in town. Night policeman John I. Thomas was assigned to -"keep a fire going and see that the man kept covered up." Near midnight, "surrounded by strangers," noted the newspaper, "Don Wickerser gave up the fight of life with no relative near to close his eyes in his last long sleep." The report of tije death caused a stir about town the following morning and constable Dan Fowler initiated an inquest, but The Lehi Hotel, built in 1887, looks much the same in 1989. Both the Hans Hammer home on the left and the Hammer building on the right served as hotels. N ote City Hall (with belfry) in background. (Courtesy EI Moine Kirkham .) Union Hotel, ca. 1915. (Courtesy El Moine Kirkham.) ,.... ~ ·,· c -..,... - ~ ! Artist's sketch of Union Hotel. (Courtesy El Moine Kirkham .) NEW MEXICO to Fe Railway Photo 209 . he original homestead of "Uncle Dick" Wootton, owner of the wagon road through Raton Pass - be fo re he sold it in 1878. Ita Fe Railway Photo And after the sale to Santa Fe of his Raton Pass right-of-way - complete with widow's walk. \ ....... -_.---_. ~ -----_.. -- . .. . - ._ --_.- > .. . .. -- .~ .---- I· 6 [ 5e. -fs I I' i ! - --- - - -- __ cOO 0 o Ln-I:;" ~ . ffan1~r Rod - uJood Some History of the House 390 W. Main, Lehi , Utah By Lyall Wilson (about 1980) The house was built in about 1870 to serve as the first school house in Lehi. The walls are made of adobe from the ground across the road south of us. The walls are fourteen inches thick and the roof and floors were of native pine or yellow pine as it is some times called. The original building was two rooms with the school room in one room and the teaacher living in the other. Each room was about twelve by twelve feet square with eleven foot high ceilings. The pupils would pay for their schooling to this teacher in cash when they could or vegetables, milk, meat or what ever they could when they were a little short of money. When we remodeled the house and took up the old kitchen floor we found a trap door with a root celler under it that had been used by the teacher. Later on they needed more room so another . room was added on to the east side. This room was twelve feet wide but fourteen feet long which accounts for the jog in the wall in the front room. There was a back door in each of the three rooms and a front door in the two east rooms. There was a window front and back in all three rooms. The little place above the kitchen table is the only original window left and the back door next to it is still in its original form. We changed the door when we remodeled but didn't change the door frame. In the early days of Lehi there was an open well out in front, straight out from the *kitchen window about ten or twelve feet. It was some eight to ten feet deep and four to five feet across. The water was only down five or six feet from the top of the ground. This was a stopping off place for the people on their way to Fairfield and Skull Valley. Somewhere they could fill their water barrells on their wagons or water their live stock. It was later filled in when the hotel was built. When the railroad came through Lehi the big two . story house on the west was built. It was also made of adobe from the same place this house was made of. It served as a hotel for the rail road and for the people traveling out west of here. The train crews used to stop for their dinner or suppers because there was a depot and baggage room on the north corner of the vacant lot west of the Hotel. At that time there was a double track or siding where the train crewS could leave their trains for a short time after picking up or droppin off some freight. There was a leanto, or addition built on the back of the Hotel which served as a kitchen and the kitchen as we know it now was the dining room. , , After they built a regular city school in Lehi the original adobe house was used as a home. When Grandmother Thomas bought this property, which was the big place and this place in the same piece of land, she rented the place we now live in (which was still three rooms in a row) to different people until the time she gave it to Audrey and I to make our home in. This was in the early 1940's. *The well, which was rocked in, was used as a drain for the kitchen sink when water was run to the house in the 1940's ,. 298 CIVIC SERVICE though vacant at times, has been a residence since then. Chad and Julie Engstrom purchased the rundown building in 1983 and have nicely renovated what is now one of Lehi's three oldest still-standing public buildings. Franklin School Shortly after completion of the Northeast School the city council received numerous petitions from people living "over the creek" in the northwest part of town. Children of families in this area had a long distance to walk to school and parents wanted a new building somewhere in the "New Survey." To accommodate this section of town the school board purchased a triangular piece of property from James Carter on the west side of Fifth West at State Street. In 1875 a one-room adobe school building was built on this site. Initially the new school was simply called the North~ west Schpol, but in 1898 it was renamed the Franklin School (presumably after Benjamin Franklin). The building, like other schoolhouses in town became the social, religious, and educational center of the neighborhood. Until 1894, when the Northwest Branch Meeting House was completed and community functions shifted to that building, seats and desks in the Franklin School were moved against the walls to accommodate dances and other functions. In the earliest years there were no halls or closets. Coats and lunchbuckets were hung on wallhooks. Emily W. Johnson, who was first a student . and later a teacher in the school, remembered the large potbellied stove which stood in the center of the room: ''the old stove became a monster to me," she recalled, "roasting those who sat near. by and giving little heat to others. It also provided cover for many small pranks."l' At the turn of the century a brick room and hall were added onto the north end of the Franklin School. Emily Johnson in her memories of the building thought that this addition was built in 1897. But it was evidently three years later. The 12 April 1900 Lehi Banner reported that school trustees "will receive bids for the erection and completion of a one room brick school building to be built at the Junction, Lehi City, Said building to be done by contract or by day's labor at option of School Board." As lifelong residents of the Junction recall only one school in the area, both accounts likely refer to the Franklin School. During the summer of 1910 the original adobe portion of the Franklin School was demolished and replaced by a brick room which matched the north portion of the building. At this time a coalburning heater was installed in the southeast corner and a .drinking foun.,. tain outside the door replaced the water bucket and dipper of former years. The Franklin School was closed in 1926 and James Gough, Jr., bought the 545 West State property three years later. It was later demolished and a new residence built on the site (which is the 1989 home of the Gary Carlton family). Private Schools Numerous private schools were conducted at various periods of Lehi history. The History oj Lehi lists a Mrs. Bassett's school on the corner of Fourth West at Second South and another school conducted by a Mr. Purse. Edward Southwick's "Book of Remembrance" lists 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 try to teach us our ABC's." The Ball home was on the southeast corner of First East and First North. Peck also recalled another private teacher, Arinda Davis. l6 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, is the Lyall and Audrey Wilson home in 1989. 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 which she and the children could enter by way of a hidden trap door. The Wilsons discovered both this secret entrance and the dugout when remodeling their home. Lehi district schools, like other public schools in the state, were financed through both property taxes and tuition - occasionally paid in produce or other goods. The movement for "free schools" in Utah did not succeed until 1890, when the legislature provided full tax support for elementary education. Much of the influence behind this movement came from the state's nonMormon citizens, who felt that too much Mormonism was being taught in the schools. Small as Lehi was in the 1880s, the town did not escape the sectarian-versusreligious education controversy then swirling about the state. In 1882 Eliphalet Blatchford, representing the Congregationalist Church's Boston-based New West Education Commission, purchased Peter Christofferson's brick home at 99 West Main. The New West School's first teachers were Misses Carter and Winslow. The first four students were Lily and Rose Harwood and Minnie and Eugene Wines, children of prominent non-Mormon families. The size of the student body soon dramatically increased to include primary, intermediate, and academic grades. In 1883 the Commission hired Lehi builders Carl Carlson, J. Wiley Norton, and John Andreason to built a larger school to the east at 55 West Main (1989 site of Lehi Post Office). 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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION CLIPPING SERVICE , Phone [phone] Salt Lake City, Utah 8,,1ll lEHI FREE PRESS Lehi, Utah ~,. ,, " ~~~x~ -, .~t.. . 1~!",,-~.~\:,,'\,ll:§ii~Jl0JOpllle~~t~~us!:nt ~i , • , ~ ; : ..' ·~;~:~:i,!~';l~t!:;~~jtZ;.:;{;;;;;;\tij;Y;i~~jI;;;;;'<;;:;:;; ;;::.;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;~::: i~~~i.+iiiiWi:· : 9 ' Travelers bellieclup to the-~ al;, Th~'oldBrownlSmith ~~~('n~~~~:~:~~~:n~),I~f;~~t~~fl~'1 f~ Main Street. , :'.~ " stands on the northeast comer of400 West and ' .; , ' a. ..::~ ' .."" ,.:, ,, '-':);.; .' t1, " effects at the Lchi Hotel kh9~'inl "1: the, kitchen floor during Brown's Hotel. The June '12, 1891~ Lehi Banner noted that Mrs. U.S~;'~ _ their horses ,:,'eresafely boar' 1" a ' .' rell1~deling project was a .~~·ap ,: leadmg t{) a small cellar-IlKe room Grant (no relation to the' form JEi Hammer's LIvery. !. - . . . . ' . Commonplace -- most c(,l:t.\I1.9lyllx!low.,An old timer told the WilSDns U.S ; President who had died ,~ I! Yet ,the;;eaveragc, humdrtlnjibhp[ tha't th~ hiding pla~e was designed, 1885) had established the Lchi Caf~ :);, penmgs of yesteryear are the.very to prOVIde refuge 111 the event of in the east half of the hotel buila-;~' fahric of our town's history;~\yp. ar?, Indian attack. A . later . use was ing. According to Mrs. Grant, s~e r \\'lwre we are t~)(lny bccausC'Rt;then:! possibly for what was thel'l called it had the "finest confectionery mid I During the next several mCinths 1 "polygamy pit" -- a spot for much- choicest cigars constantly on han1.7 ;' will he detailing the history-()f Ollj' married husbands to" hide when The lady also claimed the "fin~st ; .dowiltownbuildiilgs for yo~, l\Jos~ U.S. 'Marsh~ls were n~sing 'ribo~t ice cream in the city. Also fruit, . k:like I,>: I \~'ill occasi~n~ll~;~ I,icludf town. ",_.,,, ... ... ' . . if' ")' ,';:':;;51 . nuts, figs, etc.~ '. . stones of. ghost ',bUlldW.¥~~ ~?truci. . '\~n/.OctobeL ~887. Ml~s: Sil)lt!JThe place 'was robbed on tife " · tures thatare there only. . lianyof began ~constructlOn of a large two- evening of Aug, 27, 1891. BurglJrs I,:' . }:: I stqj'y';,ndobe' hotel next door at'3Q4 broke in during the night and our memories, . "'it-, ", The oldest comnH'r hI bliildin~ West¥Main (v.'here.first hadbedn fered two gold watches, two pa'rs Ol still stan.d ing onl\tain ~tJ~?~,~\'~as ~ loc~t.~4, nerh.usba~d'~ ,bl~Sk~,Wi.Sh of shoes, two pocket knives and cine · hotel ' bullt by a plural \\'J(e of .J( - shop and latertheJohn Woodnou~e co~t from sleeping . patrons. The · seph Smith -- ' .Joseph;.::J}; ~Ulitl, St~i·e}:~J1le:t.e~iHotel>/;s n~~riY thlCves were never apprehended " . : p:·o.ni!nent Lchi hl,ack~I~~ i,tl.!.;;t..c;' 1, completed by..N?v: 22;, ~887 ..~h_ n and the event startled townspeoi>.le: ~ exact. ;;,~ , I,";:;' the Deseret News prorounce.d;. t . j 'Such a thing has not happeQ'ed ' ,:.~;otHumor hasi.t tha! P,~ l)~q:~i?;r.' . . t~e "l.argest(ho~,eJ)in thenii. r. t~~k bef()re for some time," reported ,the ' · no:more to Sarah l\nnJ?n)lth~',,11 · i. of thIS country. "";Jib' .', '~~~ Aug. 28, 1891 Lehi. BailDer: "Ifhi. ' " illg than it '\'as to.tJi'cfi'rst wif'C'of :j! An 1890 Sanborn Ma\)'oftne .1:~~be~~c0rJ1paratlVeIY fr~.e fj?m , ~;~luch more ramoJ!~ .J6~eph S~ii;t! ' hO~,el, ~\'I;T~h \\oas then im~ledi~~~)y . . ' ......- . ?J For \~hatc\,l'r re~"on~Sl)rilh:'. n ea;;t of the DenvCl; and RIO Grande J'liveclat;390 \\'cst"M:~j;;'''(tlll.': pr¢. ;I clet,ot,sh~ws ado~\'~-stairs di'~.' i~g 'f cnt h?me of LyalL and A~ldr '1 roO~l1, ofhcl', andklt<:he~ to ;.:%he ~ Wil~on) , Her Illuch,married"hu ' nOlth,The second story, conne~.t.} d band? Well, he lh'ed lip o'n the Le by ari inside stairway, housed 11l(! 1. Bench -- outpf ~,arlll ~~ .'~;::)'. -it sleeping rooms , .',_, ;~ : "" early ' 'ns :~ lBR·1 ' Sahlh "AI m l..cvel'ctt W. Brown bough f:. he ; oper:lted a pi'in\(cksc!looH li h l:.ehi . Hotel in March <1 891}r(lJll . i' hom I.' which also sCI'vcd.hs a boar SarhhAnn and her'mm:ried daugh. il;g facility ea llC'd il;c i,c.h i II ~>ll s ter Flrii:cnce Cottci': ' " ..;.":~-~~ intcre5tin~ discovery und The n:Llll(> was chan~cd)! to pil- ' t: '~i " :, ~; . i. such characters." In October ' of that year ex-Rio Grande agentB.W. Smith and U.S . Grant assumed management and changed the name to Hotel Lehi. Smith advertised in . the Oct. 2, 1891 Banner that "the house has been newly fitted ' up and remodeled -- will be run strictly FIRST ' CLASS in every respect." In addition to a large sample room in the building where drummers could display their goods while staying in the hotel, the Alhambra Saloon was also established on the premises. Interestingly, elsewhere in town "Jeff" Davis's Lehi .Liquor Store, competing:",i~h U.S: ~r.anes place added a dlstmct Clvll,War flavo; to Lehi's drinking esta.!>Vs~ments; } ,, ' . 't, c~t.~~~:: Neither of the boozeshops stayed in bu ~i'n ess for ' long> JefT~R~,~ i,s See ~~~~_ ~ia gf\! . .,.. ... - '" ,, "" "' ..... r: j r L\n . 'f:k.~,. .......":"d '.~I.I.c f. pa. ,- • ,./"• . ...~~ ""->~'l ~:T"\~'~~~,;~::~ ~~~~~~~~~Ji , ;.; ,:~,~ . ~.,:.: ..~ .. -.: ; . ~ ., ....". ;·'~"?:;''''~i·-'''''; .""' 0 .' " :'l\JI"aln .Street ]Y4est '.. .. '''> ears '; . (;o~tinued "~~ ~.~, ,~~.~,;t'~~l-----:.~-:-...:.~~-~~j i' > ~ ) , .= ~ ,~ e~.riT _ • from ;! ,, ' ,,'p' , .... '_l ;'l" f:"f .. ~; t ' " . ron page ' S . (J .j-::," !Jft.i. ',' . ,' ,~~" ."-',<~~ . "~;f;~' -. f .. . .; ., . " ~". , . . • :"". • • T::1;y~ .. '~ .:r.· . . • .. " 7' "~ - ~ - drifted elsewhere a""d " .:~ mUIn. apan), J.H. Kirkham .·r Grant could i10t et '\ SmIth and; Kong), Jas. Kirkham (St. rpr.,>"~",,, Was peri.?dically ~n inn until 1 4, 1891 Banner ~ar a.long. Th~ D~i ,burg), J ..H. Potts (Australia), Isa ~wever;'·' when Mamie the di~solution of thl~d notrce of~ ~ab~ek~ (Sanguish Islands), J. L oma~ purchased it from , .. partnershi S · elr wo-month.~ · Inson (San . Woun) .. J . Brown for a residence . . becamesol~~r m,ltth ,.,henceforth! Russen (Berlin), William'J. . The· ~uilding, most while Grant b opne or of the hotel,~ (Moscow), .Wm. Vaughn Inclusion on the National Alhambra one ~came owner of the~ C.H..Gray (Isle of Man), ofH!storic Places, is vacant Although th:or e~st. :r/' (Pek~n, China), James W. but Is .remarkably well establish . registry of the (Lehl), H.J,'· Stewart ~or an unfaced adobe p ~ . ;)ften ~~~!~s lost, the.LeOi .ohio), J.H. Fox (1;-J'orth IS own~qby Mrs. Thomas's d staying in . the ngtuelstThswho •.were~~ (EJohn I. Thomas ' (Lehi) ter Audrey . Wilson and h 1891 list i ~ cJ 0 e. e Nov:\, 6;7J. ureka), C.M. Green ' band Lyall.:.,.", . er a certaiii cos udes ~5 p~trons ~it~~ . J.J. 'f!1'orria~'an~ family . · :::'t!Jir;,~~?,;:: ''''' J I' r:ropohtan flavor. ';' Hackmg and party (C d IW ' B ear ·Th e uy7 .1892p . d "" the ;' ~1i'tero '. , ap~r etailin m;.' . ryan.f (Lehi), Chris M distjhgtrish:;n.ou~ , afI'lval ' ot~ne'. '. f(Spamsh Fork), Jessie Woolf ." .. _",,,,,,,, Leh'·'" --, Ii . ~est~ at the Hotel . J.A. Fenton (Rio Grande W hote~'?~ ~ ~ :ft~ ,o~ J~lt copied1th'" -,,:: N~~~ly ~!I the names I local'.~ !}?en. t Eviden tly ~ the (De"' egiS r.verb~tlIJ!;' John Smit l}.m.~S.~), Fran Sali,n er (Genn ' ""an ' , :;management . was' atte' t· , F rance) ~ WI W:' bb'" bl' . .•' mp mg ' d:ev/fj~id·(N~r·e . )' (J~.J3.!r>,\~' ' ~~relhlt->: coup or th~ local fellows ' '. avmg a grand time with world ~ h ""'!"- ';; . : ,.\~~y..t, "ames Kir P a:) i~oshen), GA 'Sini~h '·(Sa:n f~o~ap.hy.andspelling.Asidefrom e , ,a~es Dorton (Rush . Val ~~ elr. mlSSlOnary experience ' .' ~Yl' W!lh~m Goates (Denmark):" ~ad hkely never been furth most > .' \ nes rnneapolis), MA Rhodes ' than. Salt Lake .City. A few . .~~~;;:;;;;::;;;;;:;;·:;~ ;;;;;;;:;;;;::;::::· I:;;';;;;';';;~imih+~. mp~iii;i#._~~;----·· -~ -~ (Po;:fo:,)1l1'~ Wm. H. yaughn <~.: ~osSI~IY , had never e~en' seen '. ~ ~ !. (Ohio n, . . ~ussen and wife . . tnencan Fork. ,,' ( .',' '1 stands on the northeast comer of 400 West and ~ . ~ i' G General ~lsmark (Russia), ,'~. , The Hotel lehi eventually .~ ;: l. / j ' fci.i~ ~ lo;o'N~ates (Lehl b!lnd),.S.<!,..Tay-·~~ turned to Leverett Brown's m;~::\' ! riaf-T·~a~), ~,W'f .Goates (Aus:·~'P agement . the spring of 1896 Dr.···,l ;946 Brown's Hotel. The June 12, 1891"; such characters." . . .. , ,' . ' ?-ne/Chlna), ~l!:Il?es B:-',:::,l - :N. ChnstlansEUl~ a, dentist had ' jioqt Lehi Banner noted that Mrs. U.S~ ' In October of that year ex-Rio ~ " '.; ": . ' ·". :o<?,rl1 . _______: ' '-... Grant (no relation to the form l r Grande agentB.W. Smith and U.S. .,'" . "-""" ",.: '".?;,h lsofficebn.thepremises.Th . e 'I p ace -\ '.; U,S ; President who had died i';;' Grant assumed management and ~!..O...! _.O~~ ., !" '. " ; " , . :.,-.,'." ~'-I:" '~~ .• '., lso!1~ ' 1885) had established the Lehi Cafe 'changed the name to Hotel Lehi. Yet theseavcragc, hOmtll lli" .J 1,IPrumr LTIt.-n'U'J, ;o-f- m __ ... ;~:':; jgn.~~' penings of yestcrycar arc thc .h'r~ to provide refuge . in the cvent j . . in the east h alf of' the hotel build- Smith advertised in the Oct. 2, ing. According to Mrs. Grant, sne ' 1891 Baoner that "the hous~ has fahric of our town's history. We ar~. Indian attack. A later use wq had the "finest confectionery and :. been newly fitted ' up and remodwhe~'e we are t~)clay bccau5C.nCthen~ possibly for what was then call cd choicest cigars constantly on hand." . eled·· will be run strictly FIRST .D~l\'lllg the !l?Xt sever.al mOllt.hs I· "p'o lygamy pit" " a spot for muc~. The lady also claimed the "finest CLASS in every rcspect." . : w!ll})(> d~t Zllh.ng.thc l:lst~ry. of ot~r married husbands to' .h!dc wl}.E1p In addition to a large sample ice cream in the city. Also fruit, (~O\\ nto\\ 11 ,bUlldll1~s for )O~' !\Io ~t U .S. Marshals were nosll1g' about hkely I \\.'111 occaslOnally nc!ude town, . '. :;,1 nuts, figs, etc.." f room in the building where drum. The place \vas robbed on tll1e ' ' mers could display their goods while stories oC ghost buildings;' 'struJ " In . Octobcr 1887 Mrs. Smith ' tures thatare therc on l(;:iit ninnv o'i' hegaT) construction of a large t'~6, cvening of Aug. 27, 1891. Burglars staying in the hotel, the Alhambra our menlOries, . ' •.:'.:'-'"\:,. ' ~. story ,adobc' hotel next door at 3Q4 broke in during the night and pil- :.. Saloon was also established on the fer-cd two gold watches, two pa)rs \, premises. Interestingly, elsewhere The oldcst comnH'rcial building \Vest; Mail1 (whcre first ha~ ' ?ie.~n of shoes, two pocket knives and one ;.. in town "Jeff' Davis's Lehi Liquor still stan.ciingo)1I\Iain Stl~?~-,v.as locatcd h.er husband's bhicksrni ~h hotel bmlt by a plural wl(c-',of .J! ~ shol') and lritertheJohn WopdnoH~ e coat fi'om sleeping patrons. The :" Store, competing with U.S. G~ant's . seph ' Smith .: · ,Joseph ,J ? Slllitl ; Stoi·ej,: 1J1~LehiHotelw asnear.Jy thicves were never apprehended : place, added a distinct Civil..,.W~r .' prolli inC'nt Lehi hlacksmitl;: tn I , completed by Nov. 22, 1887 wh Jn and the evcnt startled townspeople: I navor to Lehi's drinking establish: nt ' ;. J. the Deseret News pronounce Q . ex a~'t : "Such a thing has not happetjed : ments . .,:." . '{:. .';<~~?~; , Neither of the booze shops stayed · ~> ,.. riumor has it that polyga m)' w, t~e "l.~rgest (~?se)) ~n the north, ~ d' bcfore for some time," rcported the ' in busi'ness for long: JefT:t Davis Aug, 28, 1891 Lehi Banner: "Dehi ~ 110:;ilOre to Sarah AnriSi11itli'~, Ii of thl~ cou ntl). . .. ,:.. ".....".. :,~~; ~.i!lg than it \vas t<;> .~Jlc n i"st wif~rr : An 18..90 . Sanborn Map " or the l:~. been com para tivel~. £r.~~,f~om ·d ~~~~~~T~tt~;.~: 9~'~;~!~ : illUCh more famous ,Joseph Sniitl .. hotel, which"was then immediately .~ Fill· whate\'er reason~il'Sarahll- :\'o , east of the Dcnver and Rio Grarlde i'lived 'a(390 \\'cs't 'MaiI1' (the"j),i'c j dq)ot, shows a do~\'nstairs dining !, ent home of Lyall and Atidr l room, of'fice, and .kitchen to the Wil ~ori). Hel; muclHll'a rried 'hu .! n01~th , The second s tory, conne~t~~d if band? \\Tell, he lived up on the LeI I by an inside stairway, houscd the Bench -- out ofharm·s.\\· ay, ~.; . slcC'ping rooms: ld A<; earlY ),·ris·:~r88.f~·S:1raliV AI f '(-' I,cvcrett W. Brown bought'-Jhe f opernt ed a ~;i'i\'arcl'- sclilol i'll h '; I~hi r Hotel in l\1arch" 189l- Jrilm t h,omc which also s %\'~~l~as a b~la r . ' j Sara h Ann and hcrmarried (l augh , .- ing facility callC'd the Lc.hiHollS . tc r' Floj:c nce Cot§ci': /" ...,"~'~i L::\n inteJ'(.stin~,discov(>J'y und i The n:lm e ~ was chilnged li: to t I I ~:~. I ') Bad:l / (C/ 01 a • a .rr: __ . , ', p r i 1 j t t r·.; · . . ,... ""'" _ .~ '" .. ~~ "'%'~-:-': ..~ . ~. ', I ~l1ir~',·'..,-:,. .. .. ", w ''':~ • . . '.' • J_ I . . f' '. HOTEL LEHI 394 West Main St. Lehi, Utah This building was constructed in 1887 for Mrs. Sarah Ann iiXMISX Lilliard Smith as the Lehi Hotel. Located next to the Deuver and RIo Grande Railroad Depot, which had been built soon after tracks for the D and RG RR were laid through Lehi in 1883. it was i~tl~~I~x built to accommodate both aXle overnight travellers and provide wholesalers with rooms in which to display their goods. The 1888 Utah Gazateer describes it as having "FIrst Class Accommodations, Large Sample Rooms on Ground Floor." According to the 1892-93 Gazateer, the Hotel had recently been "Refurbished Throughout," had "commodious saMple rooms," and was "First Class in Every Respect." Only a little is known about the original owner of the Hotel, Mrs. Smith. She was born in Windsor, England, October 16, 1831, a daughter of LEvi A. and Ann LIlliard Smith. x~xx came to Utah in 1865 as a Mormon convert, married Joseph J. Smith on February 10, 1865 as a plural where she lived until her death in 1909. Miexx wife, and settled with him in Lehi, He was a wheelwright and blacksmith, and operated a sawmill and a molasses mill. She was active in local Mormon church affairs throughout her life and also taught for an unkn~~ex.xx period of time in the Lehi public schools. Mrs. Smith operated the hotel for only four years, and in 1891 sol d it to Leverett W. 8rown. and o~med He changed its name to the Brown Hotel it until iiixx 1929, when Daniel and Mamie Smuins Thomas bought it for use as their single-family residence. It had been unoccupied for several years prior to the sale. though exactly when it ceased serving as a hotel is uncertain. in the Thomas family to the present. The building has remained Hotel Lehi--Architectural Description Th4f. two story adobe box has a stone foundation, a low hip roof with wood shingles, and a symmetrical facade. A fragment of plaster on the rear wall probably indicates that there was plaster ov:r the adobe, as does the lack of significant erosion of the sur.face. ~9-~d fie ~ between the floors of the north and west walls indicatethatarge beams have been used to hold the heavy adobe walls together. on -l-h'1 S f, rs~ o..ncl S€'Qlr-d sbr,e's The arrangement of openings of both f100£& of the facade are not identical. There are three openings on the second story and five on the first story. There is a door and window on each side of the double central door on the first floor, and two windows flank the second story door. Each of the doors has a transom, and all of the ~7indow and door openings are topped by Greek Revival type pediments. The windows are the double hung sash type. A hip roof porch spans the facade. The only alteration to the exterior of the building includes the possible addition of two rear doors which do not look original. That change, however, in no way affects the original integrity of the building. Statement of Architectural Significance I y'erLj ~ ~l ~<2.nle..Q The Lehi Hotel is significant as one of ~examples of the late use of adobe in Lehi. The original settlement of Lehi was built primarily of adobe so it is not surprising that it continued to be used there even after the advent of brick. The box form of this building, hm.;rever, is particularly unusual because it varies from the traditional building types of the time which were based on a rectangular form. The two story square box did not become popular until the turn of the century, and even then it was more cormnonly a stylistic choice in urban areas. This ~ box~~therefore, is one of the earliest examples of that type ln the s ta te. . '11-e.. ~ o~ ./ Inv - 1 Address: flC - PC - I Original Owner: Date of Construction: 5'1z... h::Js . COIJ'If\ s o( CiJr ,lot- 3~ "" TITLE Year ~ ~Lb ) 1~4:t ~/ 1I~q 1 l'z~Cfl - 'ffiAmi;- S"'U;/\ 11.0~,) V~Co. R~~ l . ~I/"O-J"., l. w. (J.,(b!l IA ......... L"Glt .,\, W,\()()t\ )t 2;;1>~ ~~\ ~ J~I~t 51K~ ~ ~ ~(i s.. ~VIlthtt I r ..... ~(.e [)l Cfl8~\ J o~ 0iA I Pt30hl , w;l\( ~ oJ 8f,..11h S~lJ\\r') -r~.1)vt\.H~ ~"' I W:,,'" A. Sm! ~ ~ ")I'I wo /)/0 !/LiO Sov~ d?1.i r tv.. 44 I fi(f) 3111/'1.1 SM~ A. i Fli"\"'D"'L~ ~.~r\\"~, Le<JMt /11 · ~(ow" :l!\ ' IeI \Jo~ I. SM \~ u /I ,.d-~-, . iN Instr. Grantee Grantor - WP wn Wo lJJD £)V~ ~ . ~,tl,. I I Researcher: ,{"L i LP - ~o: I <' / I rdc; ( ~~' +0 vLon . $ - - I ~(\ ,d v-d-t-; Wv<9v--e {UooI' ,. , , 8;;/'2.:52 I V lO J S1, ./ I l~ I ST l /A \ \ lot1 ""2'/?S8 J J r \S~ J WD J 143 ~ V tnt> C/4-13 . j ltJks ~,,4, Department of Community & Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Micha el O. Leavitt Governor MaxJ. Evans Director 300 Rio Grande Sa lt Lake City, Uta h 84101-11 82 [phone] • FAX: [phone] • TOO: 533-3502 ceh is try. ushs@em a il. sta te. ut. us January 27, 1998 CARL MELLOR 895 NORTH 940 EAST LEHI UT 84043 Dear Mr. Mellor: Enclosed please find a check for the amount of $5,000.00 which is the reimbursement for your 1997 Historic Main Street Grant contract. We commend your efforts in promoting downtown revitalization and historic preservation in your area. We look forward to working with you in the future. Sincerely, Don Hartley Historic Architect Enclosure Preserving and Sharing Utah 's Past for the Present and Future 14 r HPF.:J.L 25, 1997 r 15 ) t6 i=!PPIL. 25, 1'31'37 17 i4PRIL 25, 1997 19 r AP!':IL 25, 1997 20 I=IPRIL 25, l. qq7 ... ..·1 21 HPI~IL 1. 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