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? 150WI00 SOUTH I PROVO FOREST SERVICE GARAGEIWAREH( PROVO, UTAH COUNTY UTAH STATE HISTORY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 005764217 site iJ: 21 October 1992 42 UT 881 (obtain from USHPO) UTMi STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY UTAH STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE 106 SITE INFORMATION FORM Street Address: North end of Lot 2, Block 46 City: Provo (Between 1st and 2nd West and 1st and 2nd South) Property Name: Provo Forest Service Garage/Warehouse Map (attach copy to form): Quad Map, and Property Sketch Map Current Ownership:-X Federal __ State Original Use: * Garage and Workshop Local Private Current Use: Garage and Warehouse Condition: Evaluation: Alterations: potentially eligible excellent none currently ineligible .x... good minor out-of-period (i.e. fair -4 major deteriorated post - 1945) moved ruins demolished Photo Date: Color: 17 September 1992; B/W: 6 October 1992 slides prints All historic attach two current photos to form (from opposite corners of structure) Property Category: building structure site object Descript.ioT. of appearance Construction Date: Phase 1: 1935?? and significant architectural features: Phase 2: ?? (include principal material, major alteration & date, at1.9 .short description) Description The structure is a one story, L-shaped cross-gabled garage and warehouse. It is covered with flush 6-inch wide horizontal boards painted white, and has a green, coarsed split-shingle roof. The structure consists of two portions. The northern portion has three garage openings at the center, and one on its eastern end that opens into a separate room. Its eastern end (which is covered by the roof of the southern portion of the garage) contains two rooms, both of which have had southern doors or windows sealed. This portion has single-sash windows that are wider than tall, and panel doors. (continued on next page) Impending Action: (general description of work to be completed) The Supervisor's Office and Pleasant Grove Ranger's District are proposing to turn the structure back onto an active signshop and radio workshop. To do so, the roof needs to be replaced, and some interior modifications (such as the addition of wall and ceiling insulation) carried out. Forest economy dictates that the roof be tar shingle, and not split wood shingle, as is currently on the structure. Research Organization: Uinta National Forest Researcher: Charmaine Thompson (attach additional sheet or place additional information on back) Site 42 UT 881 21 October 1992 106 SITE INFORMATION CONTINUATION FORM Description (continued) The southern portion is taller, and its northern end is build over the roof of the northern portion of the garage, with the covered roof still intact. A wall dormer ends the addition on its north end. This garage has five symmetrically placed garage openings, with heavy wood doors on rollers. A single, two-level storage unit has been built into its southern end, with a restroom just behind it. Its windows are also single-sash, but are taller than wide. There is a tall, narrow interior slope brick chimney near the northern end of this portion. Alterations The primary alteration to the building was the addition of the southern part of the garage, which doubled the size of the structure. In addition, several other alterations can be identified. The garage door on the eastern end of the northern portion was cut into a wall (which also may have contained a window), changing that room from a probable woodshop to a car storage area. This was done sometime in the early 1950's according to Andrew Johnson (former maintenance worker on the Forest). All the garage doors on the north side of the garage were added by Mr. Johnson in 1979, replacing heavy wooden doors on rollers . In the process the frieze boards above the new doors had to be widened considerably to accomodate the shorter doors. The restroom was added in the 1950's, and the building was re-wired in 1984. History At present, little is known about the specific history of the structure. The property was purchased by the Uinta National Forest in 1934, apparently to accomodate just a garage/warehouse. The exact date of construction of the northern portion is unknown, but a single entry in a 1986 Forest Service facilities report declares 1935. Other records verify that a number of FS administrative structures were build on the Forest by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1934 to 1937, and this garage may have been part of that effort. Not even this much information is available on the date of the southern addition, although its materials and style suggest the 1940's. Mr . Johnson (Orem, Utah), who came began working on the Forest in 1957, remembers that the southern portion of the garage had already been added when he arrived. On the other hand, Former Forest Supervisor Clarence Thornock (Provo, Utah) thought that the southern addition was put on during a flurry of construction projects on the Forest during the early 1960's (the Accellerated Public Works Program). However, the materials and style of this structure is inconsistent with most of the other buildings on the Forest known to have been built during this time (most of which are brick, and the frame structures have lapped siding boards). Site 42 UT 881 106 SITE INFORMATION CONTINUATION FORM (PAGE 2) History (continued) No historical records have yet been found to verify any of these constuction dates. However, a relatively poor copy of a 1949 aerial photo of Provo does seem to include both the northern and southern portions of the garage. Therefore, all that can be said at present is that the structure may have first been built in 1935, and was probably completed before 1949. Informants and the co~dition of the building suggest that it was originally constructed to provide storage, sign- and woodshop workspace, and parking for staff at the Supervisor's Office, which was in downtown Provo. Its function has not changed since that time. Its importance as a workspace was eclipsed in 1964 with completion of the Rock Canyon Work Center, a much larger and more modern facility. Since that time it has been used to house vehicles and store engineering equipment. Site 42UT 881 26 October 1992 ADDENDUM 106 SITE INFORMATION CONTINUATION FORM Modifications Made to the Structure During the Week of 19-24 October 1992 The following changes were made the the structure in order to turn it back into a functional and comfortable workshop, and to make it handicapped accessible: New gray tar shingle roof Walling in of the three northernmost garage openings on the southern portion of the garage with 6 inch wide flush boards. A new garage opening was added, and a new door. Fiberglass garage doors were placed in both this opening and the remaining garage opening at the south end. Interior modifications include subdividing the southern portion into several rooms; addition of ceilings, new lighting, and all insultation in all rooms in the structure. The center of the northern portion remains essentially an open garage. \ °Radio Tower" o ~ II 11 h o Rad io " T n, ,,n" Map 1 Provo Garage Roof Replacement (UN-92-218) N _ Garage Location Provo, Utah Quad (T. 7 S., R. 2 E.) 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ISO -ro 100 wc:::..~r ~ f-l · -1-0 swee-t ~m ~~ p(1)p~ ~') - - ___ _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .- - - - - - - -e. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- General view of property, facing southwest across central parking area. 42 UT 881 -- General view of property, facing northeast across central parking area. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- View of driveway along the northeastern end of the building, facing north. 42 UT 881 -- View of the western facade of the garage, facing east/northeast. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- General view of garage, facing west/northwest across central parking area. 42 UT 881 -- Eastern facade of the southern portion of the garage. Photo faces west. 42 UT 881 -- Detail of the juncture of the northern and southern portions of the garage. Photo faces northwest. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- Southern facade of the northern portion of the garage. Photo faces north. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- Western facade of the southern portion of the garage. Photo faces east. 42 UT 881 -- Northern facade of the northern portion of the garage. Photo faces southwest. 42 UT 881 -- Southern facade of the southern portion of the garage. Photo faces west rthwest. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- Eastern facade of the northern portion of the garage. Photo faces west. 42 DT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- Interior view showing juncture of the northern and western portions of the garage. facing northwest. 42 DT 881 -- Detail of the south end of the western portion of the garage, showing garage door and open door with twolevel storage unit inside. Photo faces west. 42 UT 881 (Provo Forest Service Garage) -- Detail of the ceiling of the western portion of the garage, facing upward and westward. 42 UT 881 -- Interior of the back (northern) side of the northern portion of the garage, facing northeast.