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206 ESTATE & SAVINGS BANK LEHI COMMERCIA~ LEHI . UTAH COUN "1111~ii!ffjn NOMINATION FORM 3/30/2018 State of Utah Mail - National Register Weekly List 03/30/2018 Along State Park 31 & Bell Ranch Rd., Parcels 77128,82609,73632,77109,77257,80607,81637,149474, Spring Branch vicinity, SG 100002267, LISTED,3/26/2018 UTAH, BOX ELDER COUNTY, Planing Mill of Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association, 547 E. Forest St. , Brigham City, OT89000454, REMOVED, 3/26/2018 (Brigham City MPS) UTAH,CACHECOUNT~ Plant Auto Company Building, 38 South 200 West (UT 91), Richmond,OT04001129, REMOVED,3/26/2018 (Richmond, Utah MPS) UTAH, DAVIS COUNTY, Ron's Phillips 66 Service Station, 278 N Main St. , Centerville, SG 100002273, LISTED,3/26/2018 UTAH, MORGAN COUNTY, Morgan Elementary School, 75 N. One Hundred E, Morgan,OT86000737, REMOVED,3/26/2018 (Public Works Buildings TR) UTAH, SALT LAKE COUNT~ Erickson Artillo Dairy Farmhouse, 5419 S. 900 E., Murray,0T15000677, REMOVED,3/26/2018 (Murray City, Utah MPS) UTAH, SAN mAN COUNTY, Coal Bed Village Site, Address Restricted, Blanding vicinity, SG 100002234, LISTED,3/26/2018 UTAH, SUMMIT COUNTY, Cunningham, Thomas, House, 139 Main St., Park City, OT84002250, REMOVED, 3/26/2018 (Mining Boom Era Houses TR) UTAH, WASATCH COUNTY, Clotworthy--McMillan House, 261 S. Main St., https:llmail.google.com/mail/u/0I?ui=2&ik=76f70e 1a09&jsver=Z-grDj2gpow.en .&view=pt&search=inbox&th= 1627725112340065&siml= 1627725112340065 NPS Fonn 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) Utah WordPerfect 51 Fonnat (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N /A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategOries from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer to complete all items. 1. Name of Property ·. historic name Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital other names/site number--'U..ut....a.....h.....B...a"'o....,k"'ioUlg".......C....owm-<+p...a...0'ly_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 2. Location street & number 206 East State Street N/A not for publication city or town -,-Ie""hUJiL-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ N/A vicinity state code III Utah county code 049 'ltah zip code 84043 3. State/Federal Agency·Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this . _request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Xmeets _does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant _nationally _statewide Xlocally. C See continuation sheet for additional comments.} ~nomination ) Date Utah Division of State Historv. Office of Historic Preservation State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property _meets _does not meet the National Register criteria. (_ See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying officialffitle Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4; National ParkServic& CertifiCation I hereby certify that this property is: _ entered in the National Register. See continuation sheet. _ determined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. _ determined not eligible for the National Register. _ removed from the National Register. _ other, (explain:},_ _ _ _ __ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action , Date Ualted · t& / 17/ CiB Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital Name of Property Lehi. Utah County, Utah City, County, and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) Category of Property Lprivate Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) ....x.. building(s) Contributing Non-contributing _ public-local district buildings _ public-State site sites _ public-Federal structure structures 1 objects _object o Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) Historic and Architectural Resources of Lehi, Utah Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register N/A 6.Fl.lnctionor Use. Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) COMMERCEITRADE' financial institution Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) VACANT/NOT IN lJSE COMMERCEITRADE' business HEAl TH CARE' hospital HEAl TH CARE' medical business/office 7: Description '·" Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN Materials (Enter categories from instructions) foundation STONE'sandstone walls BRICK, STUCCO roof ASPHAI T other_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets,) X See continuation sheet(s) for Section No, 7 Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital Name of Property Lehi. Utah County. Utah City, County, and State Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" on one or more lines for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) 8. Statement of Significance lL. A Property is associated with events that have COMMERCE made a significant contribution to the broad HEALTH/MEDICINE patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance 1891-1948 high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. o Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, 1891 information important in prehistory or history. 1925 Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" on all that apply.) Property is: A Significant Dates 1937 Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. o a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or Cultural Affiliation NIA Architect/Builder structure. Charles Ohran, mason F a commemorative property. W W Dickerson, contractor on 1937 renovation G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) .x. See continuation sheet(s) for Section No.8 9. Majo....Bibliograpl1ical·. References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: Previous documentation on file (NPS): ...L State Historic Preservation Office _ preliminary determination of individual listing _ Other State agency (36 CFR 67) has been requested _ Federal agency _ previously listed in the National Register _ Local government _ previously determined eligible by the National _ University Register Other _ designated a National Historic Landmark _ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: #_--_ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # _ _ __ X See continuation sheet(s) for Section NO.9 Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital Name of Property Lehi. Utah County. Utah City, County, and State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of property 0.17 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) A 1/2 4/2/8/2/8/0 C_I 11111 Zone Easting 4/4/7/1 181710 Northing 111111 B _I .l.L!.J..L 111111 Zone Easting Northing D _I .l.L!.J..L II 1111 Verbal Boundary Description (Descnbe the boundanes of the propertY.) Commencing at a point in the west line of Block 86, Plat A, Lehi City Survey; Said point being N 1 deg. 46' W 163.78 feet along block line from SW comer Lot 3, Block 86; N 1 deg. 46' W along block line 114.74 feet to NW comer of said Block 86; with N-Iy line of Block S 62 deg. 55' E 94.33 feet; S 1 deg. 25' E 69.23 feet; S 88 deg. 14' W 82.26 feet to beginning. Property Tax No. 01 :083:0011 :003 _ See continuation sheet(s) for Section No. 10 BOl mdary "Istificatjon (Explain why the boundaries were selected.) The boundaries of the nominated property include the entire parcel currently and historically associated with the building. _ See continuation sheet(s) for Section No. 10 nameltitle Nelson W KnightlArchitectural Historian organization Smith Hyatt Architects date .July 1998 street & number 845 S Main Street telephone [phone] B""'o""ucun...... tifu'--'"'<-I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ state -1!L city or town .... zip code->.8"'4""'0'-"-1... 0 _ _ __ AdClltiorial •. Dbcumentatiol1> Submit the following items with the completed form: • Continuation Sheets • Maps: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts andlor properties having large acreage or numerous resources. • Photographs: Representative black and white photographs of the property. • Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items.) name E Russell and Phebe W Innes ce"'----_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ street & number _--'-2,29..,5......".S...u....btlSleatt""eupwl""a.... telephone [phone] city or town -----"S""a;un....d'ly'--_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ state -1!L zip code 84093-1050 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act. as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 at seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data. and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief. Administrative Services Division, National Park Service. P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form lO-900-a OMB No. 10024-0018 Utah WordPeffect 5.1 Fonnat (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No . .L Page.1.. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT Narrative Description The Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital, located at 206 East State Street in Lehi, was built in 1891 to house the bank's offices. The building stands at the southwest corner of State and 200 East Streets, which intersect at an oblique angle. The bank building occupies the irregular corner site resulting from this intersection. The building is an example of the two-part block type of commercial building in the Victorian eclectic style, as outlined in Thomas Carter and Peter Goss's book Utah's Historic Architecture. 1847-1940. 1 Although the building's designer is unknown, Charles Ohran, a local mason who was prolific in Lehi and Utah County, was the builder.2 The original appearance of the building was more decorative and elaborate than it is today. The rockfaced sandstone foundation walls supported red brick walls. The main entrance, on the east side of the building, was (and remains) enframed by square sandstone pilasters in a roughly Doric style. These pilasters support a projection that continues up through the second story. The bank building is encircled by a pressed metal Classical cornice. An approximately two foot high parapet wall (now badly deteriorated) once flanked a round cupola, topped with a dome, that accented the top of the projecting east entrance. The south half of the rear facade is clipped away to accommodate the irregularity of the corner site. An entrance on this clipped portion of the facade once provided access for additional tenant offices. The north facade, also prominent from both State and Second East Streets, is adorned with an arcade of arched windows on the first story. A line of one over one doublehung windows run along the second story of the north facade, as on the east facade. The interior of the building was once divided into space for the bank offices (on the north end of the building), a large first floor meeting room, and second floor tenant offices (on the south end). The bank occupied both floors of its end of the building. 3 In 1925, the building was renovated to house a hospital on its second floor. In 1929 the hospital was expanded into the first floor. The newly created Lehi Hospital accommodated 14 patients and included an operating room, bathroom, reception room and kitchen.4 The exterior remained much as it was when built, until 1937. At that time the building was renovated using $14,000.00 in WPA funds to better serve its hospital functions. Workers under the direction of W.W. Dickerson removed the dome on the east facade and stuccoed the brick exterior walls. The first floor doors and window openings were reworked and topped with stepped brick lintels. The interior was reworked, as well; the eastern portion of the ground floor was remodeled into a waiting 'Thomas Carter and Peter Goss, Utah's Historic Architecture. 1847-1940, (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture and Utah State Historical Society, 1991) pp. 62, 127. 2Richard S. Van Wagoner, Lehi. Portraits of a Utah Town, (Lehi, Utah: Lehi City Corporation, 1990), 223. Unless noted otherwise, the historical material in this nomination is taken from Mr. Van Wagoner's book. 3See Sheet 2 of the 1907 and 1922 Sanborn Maps of Lehi for a simplified floor plan of the building. 4Van Wagoner, 318. X See continuation sheet OMS No. 10024-0018 NP9 Porm 10-900-8 Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Re-.Iised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. L Page..£. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT room, a rest room, a nursery, a delivery room, an emergency operating room, an x-ray facility, and kitchen and dining rooms. The west portion of the first floor became the business and doctor's offices, a reception area, and three examination rooms. The upper story became private and semi-private patient rooms, and operating room, labor room, shower, bathrooms, nurses' offices, nurses' bedroom, and closets. In addition to central heating and air conditioning, a water powered elevator was added to the building's south side. The elevator was converted to a hydraulic system in 1956. The building remained in service as a hospital until 1967, when it closed. The building was used for offices and as apartments sporadically for several years. Although stripped of hospital equipment, the interior layout remains as it was after the 1937 remodeling. The exterior remains much the same, as well. As of 1998, the building has been vacant for several years, and is deteriorating. See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-9()().a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. JL Page ~ Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT Narrative Statement of Significance The Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital (1891), located at 206 East State Street in Lehi, Utah, is nominated as part of the "Historic and Architectural Resources of Lehi, Utah" Multiple Property Submission. It falls within the historic contexts "The Coming of the Railroad and Economic Expansion, 1871-1899" and "Modernization, Steady Growth, and the War years, 1900-1940s." The building is significant under criterion A as the first bank in Lehi, as the home of other businesses important in Lehi's history, and as the Lehi Hospital from 1925-1967. Established July 16,1891, the bank is associated with Lehi's increasing prosperity that arrived with the advent of the sugar industry in the 1890s. The sugar factory bought its raw material, sugar beets, from local farmers, who were paid in cash for their crop. This switch from a barter-based to a cash-based economy yielded a need for a local bank. The building at 206 E. State was built as the first permanent home of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, which occupied the building for 31 years. Additional space in the building was rented to other businesses, such as the Lehi Commercial Club, and the Lehi Fourth Ward of the LDS church. In 1925, after the bank closed, the building was converted into the Lehi City Hospital and served in that function until 1967, when the hospital closed. The economy of early Utah was based on bartering. Little cash was available, especially outside of the large towns in the Territory. In Lehi, most farmers exchanged their crops for credit at the People's Cooperative Mercantile. The Co-op was part of the cooperative movement instituted in Utah in the 1870s by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint (LOS, or Mormon churCh). Although the cooperative movement was not successful, many of its stores were privatized and retained the popular Co-op name. The People's Co-op gave each farmer the value of their crops in scrip that could be exchanged for goods only at the Co-op's stores, located on State Street and Main Street in Lehi. 5 The exchange of this scrip served as a local means of exchange for many years. 6 In 1891, The Lehi Sugar Factory was completed. Farmers who sold their beets to the factory were paid in cash, instead of scrip. The infusion of cash into the Lehi economy prompted the need for a local bank. In response, a group of Lehi businessmen, many of whom also had an interest in the sugar factory, founded the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank in June, 1891. Initial capital for the bank was $50,000.00. 7 Initial officers included businessmen Thomas R. Cutler, Ira O. Wines, William E. Racker, srhe People's Co-op Building (151 E State) is being nominated as part of the MPS "Historic and Architectural Resources of Lehi, Utah." &van Wagoner, 178. 7Van Wagoner, 178. X See continuation sheet NPS Form 1()'900-a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. Ji. Page..!. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital. Lehi . Utah County. UT William Clark Ole Ellingson, and Thaddeus Powell, all of Lehi, and Salt Lake businessmen Francis Armstrong, P.W. Madsen, J.E. Jennings, and M.E. Cummings. Work immediately commenced on a new building for the bank. The bank purchased a small piece of property for the new building from William W. Taylor, at the corner of State Street and 200 East, across State Street from the People's Cooperative Mercantile. The two story brick building, crowned with a cupola facing State Street, was built by Charles Ohran, a local mason who, in partnership with Andrew Fjeld, would go on to construct many of Lehi's buildings built in the early twentieth century. The building housed the bank's offices and extra office space to be rented. Nearly a dozen other businesses occupied this extra space, including the Utah Sugar Company (a number of whose officers also served in official functions at the Bank, 1891-92, 1895-97), Lehi Leaching Works (1892), Deseret Telegraph Co. (1893), Mosiah Evans-Notary Public (1894) Ancient Order of United Workmen (A.O.U.W.) Lodge (1895), A.J. Evans - Attorney (1905), and the Lehi Commercial Club (1905-1911).8 The Lehi Commercial Club, in particular, played a sizable role in Lehi's history. The Club was founded on 22 May 1905 at a meeting in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank. The initial members of the all-male club were Lehi's most prominent businessmen, including John Y. Smith, cashier of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, who was elected to the first Board of Governors of the Club. 9 The Commercial Club was formed to encourage new industry in Lehi, foster the interests of Lehi's existing businesses, and to furnish social diversion for its members. The club was successful in its mission, bringing the Mount Pickle Factory and the Lehi Mill and Elevator Company to town in 1906. Most importantly, the Club was instrumental in establishing a water system in Lehi, which was constructed 1907-1909. 10 In addition to office space, there was a ballroom on the first floor of the bank building. This was used for community functions for many years, including serving as a meeting hall for the Fourth Ward of the LOS church, which met there from 1903 until 1911, when the ward members moved their meetings into a newly completed building. By August 1891, the bank had $18,000.00 in savings accounts. The bank continued its success in the community over the next fifteen years. In 1897, the bank deposits had increased to $63,000.00, most of it from small local depositors. By 1905, however, the financial makeup of the bank had changed, with depositors from outside the community now making up eighty percent of the bank's business. Despite this shift of focus of the bank's mission, the institution enjoyed healthy growth: business gains in the 1905 fiscal year were sixty percent higher than the previous year's. In 1906, the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank extended its interests into the neighboring community of American Fork, consequently reorganizing in November 1906, as The Utah Banking Company. The evan Wagoner. 178. 9For more on John Y. Smith see the National Register nomination for the John Y. and Emerette C. Smith House. 10Van Wagoner. 330. X See continuation sheet NPS Fonn 1().9()().a U1ah WordPerlect 5.1 Fonnat (Revised Feb. 1993) OMS No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. JL Page ~ Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT reorganization, however, occurred during a period of economic downturn in the United States. The bank made efforts to reassure its depositors through such means as a December 12, 1907, advertisement published in the Lehi Banner, which stated that the bank possessed a surplus of $15,000.00.11 Despite such efforts, the bank fell into financial trouble and was placed in the receivership of the Utah State Bank Examiner in January 1911. The statement of financial affairs published after the bank was closed by the examiner valued the bank's building at $20,000.00. A reorganization of the board and officers of The Utah Banking Company helped re-open the bank in May 1912, under the leadership of Ira D. Wines, president, Thomas Webb, vice-president, and Charles C. Friel, cashier.12 A period of stable financial footing ended in 1921 when the bank, now renamed the People's Bank of Lehi,again was closed by the Utah State Banking Examiner. This time the bank remained closed. In 1923, the building was sold to N.O. Malan, who owned a nearby auto garage. Malan used the building for his unlikely business pairing of automobile garage and funeral parlor for only a short time. In 1925, the Lehi Hospital moved into the upper floor of the building. Previously, it had been housed in the nearby Thomas R. Cutler Mansion, located near the bank building. 13 The Lehi Hospital was begun by Dr. Fred Worlton in March 1914. The first such facility in Lehi, it began in the John Y. and Emerette C. Smith House which Dr. Worlton rented for four month before relocating to the Cutler mansion in October. The house was Worlton's office and residence as well as the hospital until 1925 when he purchased the former Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank building. The upper floor was remodeled in to a hospital that provided medical and surgical treatments. In 1929, The hospital, under the leadership of Dr. Fred Worlton, renovated the building into a fourteen bed hospital with operating room and space for Dr. Worlton's offices. 14 Dr. Worlton died in a duck hunting accident in 1931. His replacement, Dr. Elmo Eddington, bought the hospital from Dr. Worlton's widow. Another upgrade was needed, and in 1937, in order to secure Works Progress Administration funds for a remodeling, Dr. Eddington deeded the hospital to the City of Lehi. A $14,000.00 grant from the WPA funded expansion of the facility into an eighteen-bed hospital. The renovation transformed the building to its present appearance. The landmark dome on the west facade was removed and the building was stuccoed. The interior was reconfigured to house an up-to-date hospital facility. New heating and air IVan Wagoner, 179. 12For more information on Thomas Webb see the National Register nomination for the Thomas and Mary Webb House. 13"fhe Thomas R. Cutler mansion was listed in the National Register on July 12, 1984, but little mention is made of the house's use as the hospital. I'Van Wagoner, 318. X See continuation sheet OMB No. 10024-0018 NPS Form 1(}900-a Utah WonSPerfecl5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No . ...a. Page.Q.. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT conditioning systems were added, as well as a water powered elevator housed in a brick addition on the building's south side. The elevator was switched to a hydraulic system in 1956. After several years of being leased and operated by Dr. Eddington, a hospital board was established in 1940 to manage the hospital. Although the hospital was Lehi's only health care facility for many years, there were other doctors besides Eddington who attended patients there. These include Dr. Boyd Larsen from Lehi and others from American Fork. In 1967, the building was closed, falling victim to new hospitals in nearby Utah County and south Salt Lake County communities. For several years, the building housed apartments and offices, but is currently vacant and for sale. NPS Form 1(}'9()().. Utah WordPeriect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. JL Page.L Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank I Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT Bibliography Arrington, Leonard J., Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. 18911966. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1966. _ _ _ _, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints. 1858-1900. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958. Carter, Thomas and Peter Goss, Utah's Historic Architecture. 1847-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture and Utah State Historical Society, 1985. Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Utah County, Memories That Live: Utah County Centennial History. Springville, Utah: Art City Publishing, 1947. Kirkham, Thomas F., ed. and compo Lehi Centennial History 1850-1950 (including reprint of Hamilton Gardner's History of Lehi [Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1913]). Lehi, Utah: Lehi Free Press Publishing Co., 1950. "Lehi Reconnaissance Level Survey," prepared by Allen Roberts, AlA, for the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, October, 1992, and February, 1994. Copy on file at the Utah SHPO. Owens, G., Salt Lake City Directory. Including a Business Directory of Provo. Springville. and Ogden. Utah Territory, Salt Lake City, 1867. Polk, R.L., & Co., Provo City Directory. Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk & Co., 1891-92, 1903-1987. Polk, R.L., & Co., Utah State Gazeteer and Business Directory. Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co., 1900-1931. Reeder, Clarence Andrew, Jr., "The History of Utah's Railroads, 1869-1883," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 1970. Sanborn Map Company, New York, Insurance Maps of Lehi, Utah, 1890, 1898, 1907, 1922,1934. Van Wagoner, Richard S. Lehi: Portraits of a Utah Town. Lehi, Utah: Lehi City Corporation, 1990. See continuation sheet NPS Fonn 10-900-. Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Fonnat (ReviSed Feb. 1993) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. PHOTOS Page..a. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank / Lehi Hospital, Lehi, Utah County, UT Photo No.1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Lehi, Utah County, Utah Photographer: Kim A. Hyatt Date: June, 1997 Negative on file at Utah SHPO. NE elevation of building. Camera facing SW. Photo No.2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Lehi, Utah County, Utah Photographer: Kim A. Hyatt Date: June, 1997 Negative on file at Utah SHPO. SE elevation of building. Camera facing NW. See continuation sheet I \ - -e~ N ,/ ~ 1 .. O-/VI-W\e(t...\~ " ~\V\~ :=-.~~ \j-~ cJv.-. [O"'W''-~\ I U"\ PHOTOGRAPHS & SLIDES ...-:' aI::;'1 I :z.. :z: :z.- ..... \::J .....I •• tell'; , \l (I'" ,'..... I :z: :z: "7 _._, JUt-1E 23, 1997 33 JUNE 23, 1997 32 AUGUST 28. 2003 2 ~UGUST 2'8> 2003 E. AUGUST 2B. 2003 MAPS & DRAWINGS ... . .. " I .. . .. ... 1931 Lehi Sanborn Map • n I, I I I .. i ~ 1 ,0/ , I i •U : • , i I I ·i . ." i 'n ~ f i I "' I I J,. 1. )" i l'V, f I ~, 'I J " . &iJ z , H " O , ' . 86' f , I, .IJ 1, :. J<J " i II : z· I ·1 1922 Lehi Sanborn Map " I i'l ) 11 ' !, ! ,: - \ ' ,. ' • ,: f~ I I. . I -~ 'i I , ~~ l ' I j . ] ; " ,~ ; i ' i iI !, -' r. !j ,~ (. , "I \ j I I ' ,k I .. i : \: :ri· X z I-t .... I ~ I ,\, j N. . of' , , ij: , I 1 "!.. I, , " ,J , i ! Ii :, I :1- !j' II. . 1'- C. 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Fixing the building will cost more than $600,000, Vincze said, noting he has been unable to sell the building, find investors for the project or get any governmental or private grant money for the restoration project. In the condemnation order, Lehi code enforcement officer Arnold Hunt listed several reasons for the city's action: the building has been abandoned and vacant for over a year and could become an attractive nuisance to children or vagrants; there have been no attempts to repair the building for over a year; the building is dilapidated and deteriorating and is a fire hazard; doors and windows are missing, allowing rain and weather inside; and the wood is peeling and flaking. "I told him I would review the case and that I would allow him some time to repair the building," HUnt said of his discussion with Vincze. "He told me he was going to try to get some government funding, a grant." " Vincze also plans to open a haunted hospital in the building beginning the second weekend in October but said it is not clear whether the city will allow the haunted house. Last year's haunted house made barely enough to pay expenses, he said. Historic hospital in Lehi closed Building condemned, owner given 45 days to take action Cathy Allred and Caleb Warnock NORTH COUNTY STAFF Lehi has condemned a 100-yearold historic hospital, saying it's dangerous. Todd Vincze bought the hospital at 206 E. State St. nearly three years ago and has been working to raise ftinds to restore it by hosting a haunted hospital for Halloween last year and selling bricks as souvenirs. Now the city says the building must be repaired or torn dow!), and gave Vincze 45 days to take action. The condemnation order was dated Aug. 8. Vincze has appealed the order and begun to comply with some of the city's demands by cutting " weec:l$ on the property and putting a 6-foot fence around the site to keep out children, vagrants and vandals. "I don't believe they want to tear it down," Vincze said of the city. "Some people don't realize what an endeavor like this costs." First built in 1891, the 7,000square-foot building has been a llank, hospital, mortuary and office building. It's been vacant for the past 20 years. In 2004, meml>E:rs of the Utah Ghost Hunter's Society even spent time investigating ghost See HOSPITAL, B4 NEW! r- • I \ Join our ,new communi~y Web sites today at ·OurTowns.heraldextra.com rn SECTION ~nitl1~lterntb SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2009 METRO EDITOR I Arnie Rose' [phone] • [e-mail] Q!~ E~W h9spital coming down Cathy Allred DAILY I-fRALD LEHI - After standing on State . Street and 200 East in Lehi for 118 years, the "Old Lehi Hospital" is being demolished, bit by bit. The pigeons appEared at a loss Saturday morning, perching on nearby wiring and ,) n what was left of the hospital where they had often found shelter. The brick skeleton of the upper-level-entry window frame extended like a battered tiara from ,"::;-:,;;:-;-;:-:;::-::= the second floor as workers began a MARK ,'n i Herald few more hours of demolition. Todd Vincze works on demolition of the old Lehi Hospital on Saturday. The Lehi Historicll Commission Saving Soles in American Fork EGGS & ISSUES State Legislature hits the home stretch Matt Reichman DAILY HERALD • Having reached the coda of their 2009 general session, Utah legislators have 'until Thursday to make a finale of it. It's time to "fish or cut bait," as Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem, put it. Local legislators and community members gathered Saturday tt) take stock of the year's lawmaking at the final Eggs & Issues meeting, a weekly Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce community breakfast. The session has spent a fair amount of time mired in budget problems. Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, likened it to homework always getting in the way of other things during her college days. Still, Dayton rattled off a long list of state issues that have nonetheless been addressed, albeit behind the scenes, from incest to fluoride to forest fires. Valentine was particularly excited about the resolution of his now-notorious alcohol bill, which will redefine regulations pn alcohol serving areas. "It's probably the largest set of changes we've had in 40 years in Utah dealing with alcohol policy," he said. "We had at the table virtually every stakeholder of any consequence on this issue." However, the terms of the compromise won't be revealed until Monday. Valentine was also pleased to announce that both caucuses approved the $1.725 billion bond package that will fund the reconstruction of 1-15. Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, sponsored a bill that could amend the state constitution so that the Legislature, not the judicial branch, would be responsible for death-row inmates and their po.tential appeals . Bramble also addressed a modification of the Goverr1ment Records Access and Management Act, or GRAMA. The modification would make it more difficult to disclose certain government files, and local media'outlets are fighting to limit that modification in order to maintain the public's right to open records. For more information about the budget and other bills from the 2009 legislative session, visit www.le.utah.gov. Matthew Holland, the newly appointed sixth president of Utah Valley University, was also on hand to introduce himself and his vision for the state's secondlargest public university. "[Brigham Young University] out of necessity has become a large international institution ... That's a great mission for BYU, but it means it's no longer serv'ing this county and community like it once did, and another university has to do that," Holland said. had hoped the building could be things," he said. "It hurts." restored into a diamond on State They are using a sledgehammer Street, but city officials, afraid the and other hand tools to take the historic building apart, instead of hospital would collapse the way anthe faster backhoe. Vincze hopes t6 " other pair of old Lehi buildings did in January, gave the go-ahead for recover some of his losses from his investment in the building by selling , demolition. bricks and wood to a developer look"As sad as it is, we're taking it down brick by brick," building ing for materials to restore another old structure in Utah County. owner Todd Vincze said Saturday "Not that long ago, part of the on site. building fell down and we told him There are regrets, he said, mostly that of seeing a dream begun in 2001 . it just wouldn't work, and before we knew it he had a [demolition] never be completed. He had wanted the structure restored to its original permit'and was tearing it down," grandeur. "I've never quit anything. I've always followed through in See -HOSPITAL, B10 Lynn Pulley repairs a shoe at his shop, AF Shoe,Repair, in American Fork on Friday. ,Local shoe r~pairman going strong after 50 year$ Christie Dalley worked out of his little shop on Merchant Street in American Fork for more than 30 years now. And still, afAMERICAN FORK - A sign in a little ter all those years, he works 40 hours a week. "That's'just part-time. 1 used shoe repair shop in Americm Fork says it all: "I save soles and some heels, to work 80 hours," he said. His wife, Laverne, who also serves too." For 50 years, Lynn Pulley has been as his bookkeeper, has tried to get him to cut back on his hours, but he said if repairing shoes and more - he has DAILY HERALD he did that, he might as well quit. He 'says the shoe-repair business goes in cycles with the economy, though the business as a whole is getting smaller and smaller. . "When the gas prices were high, ' we got a lot of re-soling," he said. In ! See SHOE REPAIR, B10 Springville Mon - Sat 6am-11 pm Closed Sunday Large Oranges 394 1b 3 for 894 While supplies last Extra Large Avocadoes 89cteach ' While supplies last 'Sweet Gold , Pineapple 694 1b r While supplies last 5 Ibs Cello Carrots ~ $1 99bag Fresh Celery 694 1b While supplies last Green . Cabbage 294 1b While supplies last , While supplies last Fresh Express Cello Spinach < 99490ZBag While supplies last. Roma Tomatoes 594 1b Fresh Express Tossed Salad 994 120Z D A I L Y 810 Hospital Continued from B 1 Mayor Howard JOQpson said during a Saturday phone interview. "He had a building that couldn't be restored. One of the impetuses on that,was when the building on Main Street fell down, then people started thinking about the other one and that it could fall down." Termed the "Old Lehi Hospital" by Lehi natives, the structure was built in 1891 .for the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank after the establishment of the sugar-beet industry and Lehi Sugar Factory, which paid its workers in cash instead of script as was previously done for goods and services purchased, by the People's Co-op in the town. The Deseret Telegraph Company office, managed by Mosiah Evans, moved its office to the building. . After the bank began to fail, the building was sold to N. O. Malan in 1923. He operated a funeral parlor and automotive repair service on the main floor until 1925, when Dr. Frederick W orlton purchased the building and moved his Lehi Hospital onto the second floor. Th~ following year, the ground floor was also renovated to become part of the hospitru. The large building has also housed the Utah Sugar Company offices, a notary public, an attorney, a photo studio, a school and a ballroom. In 1989, the building was vacated, and since then there have been a few attempts to either condemn the building and raze it or to renovate it. A full history of the building up to 1990 can . Historical society The Utah Valley Historical Society's lecture ,this month is a reminder that history has a dark side. In the 1850s and early 1860s, relations between white settlers and emigrants and the Shoshoni Indians of northern Utah and southern Idaho deteriorated. The Indians resented the loss of their land and grass; they retaliated by stealing and striking back at the travelers and Mormon settlers. To capture some of those events author Rod Miller is speaking from his recent book "Massacre at Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten." Miller has a lifelong interest in Western history and literature. The lecture will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Provo Library. For more info, call Lyndia Carter at [phone]. be found in "Lehi: Portraits of them were older and didn't a Utah Town" by Richard Van want to be identified for this Wagoner. report. "I remember this place The Lehi Historical Com55 years ago, s9 it's that immission members present port ant to me," said a visitor. at a May 2008 meeting on a "This is where I was born." prospective buyer's proposal He said it would be too embarrassing to say who he was, said they were excited about the project. "It's going to be because people know him. a diamond on State Street," Sometimes, if Vincze is there historical commission Chairworking, visitors ask for a woman Connie Nielsen said at brick. "I have people come by the time. everyday now [and say], 'Oh, Carl Mellor, another memcan I buy a brick?' " he said. ber of the commission present He initially tried selling at the meeting, said the build- bricks from the building as a ing was the site where early way to raise money for the pioneers wrote up the Utah renovations. State Constitution. "I sold a few, not very "Many people don't realize many, like a hundred bricks," the historical significance of he said. Each brick was engraved with a person's name that building," Mellor said. History or no, neighbors of and birth date and came with the now-wobbly structure say a certificate of authenticity. Vincze also tried raising they feel relieved the old building is coming down. money for his dream of restor"I'm excited about getting it ing the" old building by turning torn down. It's such a mess," it into a haunted house from said Katy Veach, whose home 2004-2006. Neither attempt . is south of the building, on Sat- at building a restoration fund urday. "The biggest thing is, was too successful. He said he somebody's going to get hurt is looking forward to one day in there," she said being able to return and build Since the dymolition began, on the site. people have regularly passed "One step at a time. Let's by to take a brick. Most of , get it down first," Vincze said. HERALD Sunday, March 8, 2009 Shoe repair Continued from Bl '\ January it was good but tapered off in February. "These things go in cycles. However, there used to be a lot more shoe-repair shops around. Now I can only name about three in Utah County still in business." And when Pulley finally hangs up his tools, his shop will close, too. He has three sons, each having worked in the shop atone time or another, but they all have their own careers. He started out in Or em, where he learned the trade from Elwood Robinson. "When we first decided to open our shop iIi American Fork [in 1970], we chose the location on Main Street where the bicycle shop is now. Before we could move in, <fnother ' shoe-repair shop moved in close by, so we decided to 10cate little further away. They didn't last, but we did," Laverne said. Lynn said the'most difficult thing about repairing a shoe is knowing where to put the knife. "You have to know the difference between the ways shoes are made. One is a welt construction where the upper is fblded down under the foot and stitched to the sole from inside, and the other is a stitchdown construction where the upper is folded out from the, foot and stitched to the sole along the edge of the outside of the foot. The welt construction lasts longer." He said the hardest shoe to repair is one that has fallen victim to a dog's teeth. '!Sometimes they just cannot be fixed," Pulley said. The most -used machine in his shop is the patch machine - a heavy-duty sewing machine with a narrow arm to accommodate shoes and small items. Pulley does not like to replace zippers. "If I can fix them, I will. If not, I will send them out to be replaced. Most suitcase& have a rigid corner that is riveted, and you have to take that out, so you have to rebuild the whole thing when you are through. If I can reach a patch in the sewing machine, I will fix luggage, but not extensive stuff." , Although Pulley has made some shoes by hand, he said it isn't something he wanted to pursue. "He made an emergency shoe just to see if he could do it," Laverne said as she shows a pair of soft, blackleather custom shoes. "The trick with custom shoes is, you have to have three vocations," Pulley said, "First, you have to be a last maker and create a form. Second, you have to be a pattern maker to make the uppers. Third, you have to be a shoe maker who puts it on the last and makes the shoe." , "There are a couple of brothers in Orem who make custom shoes, and they made me some, and they are great," Pulley said. "One of the boys who worked with me to learn the trade went on to make custom boots in Park City." Though he isn't interested in making shoes, Pulley once made a headgear for a horse. "This guy had an albino horse with pink eyes," he said. "If he wanted to take him someplace, he had to put him in the back of his truck, and the horse couldn't stand to be out in the sun. I took a wide strap and sewed a strip of leather around it, put in bendable Addicted? STEPS Recovery Center 801-465-5111 ww\y.StepsRC.com colored plastic and cut out the holes for the eyes and there you had it: sunglasses for a horse." The biggest change in the shoe business during his career came as a result of the popularity of athletic footwear, Pulley said. ' 'These are made by 'setting the upper in a mold and pumping the bottom with plastic, and away you go. Most of the cheaper shoes are hollow in- ,", side of the plastic. Y 01,1 can re-" pair them if they are solid, bur~,'~ not if they are hollow," he Sal(N. "There are so many imports, 'i people can sometimes buy ne~t.' shoes cheaper than they can ber:: ' i:: repaired." When they're not repairing ' lo t shoes or bookkeeping, the Pul~ ' leys have been a quiet force ' ¢ ' for good in the commumtY. La<r, vern,e spends each Wednesday~' working on humanitarian proj-,; ects with a group headed by lq~~ cal charity organizer Rbseann 'O" Hansen. "We sent a big container to Chad in Africa. We , do whatever needs to'be done." Laverne said. , The couple spearheaded a fundraising campaign to raise money for a friend who needed a heart and lung transplant. It took them more than a year and a half, but they raised enough so the operation could be done. ' ''It gave the lady an extra 10 years, and she got to see her children grow up a little bit." Laverne said. Both Lynn and Laverne were born at home and grew up in American Fork. "We went to school together but never really got to know each other well until we took a class together when we were juniors in high school. He's older than me for only four months," Laverne said. They got married soon after Lynn returned from an LDS mission in Illinois. Laverne worked at BarbizoR, first sewing then training others. They had their 50th wedding anniversary in August. Pulley's shop, American Fork Shoe Repair, is located on 13 Merchant Street, open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. ,4~... the Savvy Shopper ~ Ma.king Your Money Buy More! ~ '_ SA't!!er~r~R~ra~o~~ss~!~LS , , , ' 5avvy5hopper.eventbri~.com Price good through 3/14 ~----------------~ Price good through 3/ 14 Wdt1~ In Springville Only COLGATE TOTAL ADVANCE TOOTHPASTE 40z Sale price = $0.99 after Instant . Coupon U~e coupon: $0.75/1 Found In: Smartsource 2/22 Finlll Price 0.24 e'rewaiting OU to move inl 151bs SlIle Price $1.99 While )UDD'lle DIAL LIQUID HANDSOAP . 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Those who delay preparations outcome," he said. for war actually bring war closer, The United States and its Rumsfeld said at the opening of NATO allies will move to protect an annual security conference in Turkey on their own if the three Munich that attracted world European nations continue their Rumsfeld said. defense leaders as well as 14,000 obstruction, street protesters. Turkey is the only NATO ally that . "If the international communi- borders Iraq. ty once again sends a signal of . At issue is whether NATO will uncertainty, and once again shows supply Turkey with surveillance a lack of resolve, there is no planes, Patriot missiles and chemchance that Saddam Hussein will ical and biological weapons detecdisarm voluntarily or flee - and tors. NATO will try to resolve the thus little chance of a peaceful impasse on Monday. President Bush on Saturday prepared the nation for a possible war with Iraq, saying the United States must be ready to act even if the United Nations backs down. "The United States, along with a growing coalition of nations, will take whatever action is necessary to defend ourselves and disarm the Iraqi regime," Bush sitid in his ' weekly radio address. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi CONTRACTOR RESTORING LEHI LANDMARK Renovation under way at old hospital The Daily Herald ,The Daily Herald EHI - The old Lehi Hospital on 206 E. State St. brings back many memories for 91-year-old Orville Gunther. When he was "just able to walk," Gunther went to church there with his parents. He remembers his father losing a savings account when the bank! that was originally housed in the building went broke. It was ~lVen an experience in the attic of the building that motivated Gunther's 53-year banking career. He recounted an encounter with an old carpenter in the attic after Gunther had found a pile of gadgets that tellers used to use to bundle bank money. "They are the strings those crooks used to tie up L THE DAILY HERALD PROVO, UTAH A Man at work: Jay Peterson, a structural engineer, carries out some of the original high-grade lumber from the old Lehi Hospital. Building owner Todd Vincze, a general contractor who specializes in historical restorations, is attempting to restore the old hospital to its 1891 appearance. HOSPITAL, A2 High 32 Low 21 ~ NEWSPAPER Births .. : ...... All Lifestyle . . . . .. . . El Movies . . .. . . . ... E4 Obituaries . . ..... AS Opinions . ...... . A6 Sports ......... . Bl Weather ...... . . BI0 111111111111111111111111 61055 00150 FIT ~ ES S UTAH COUNTY This will be the year West Nile Virus comes to Utah - and likely Utah County. Those are the words of Lewis Marrott, director of the Utah County Health Department Mosquit o Abatement program - and h~ intends to make sure . Utah County is prepared. Although cold weather has kept mosquitoes at bay so far, he is preparing for the thaw - and the ensuing explosion of mosquito populations . - by increasing staff and buying more of the equipment used to test for infected insects. West Nile was first discovered in New York City in 1999 and has since spread to 38 states, including Colorado. The potentially deadly virus is spread by mosquitoes and affects humans, horses, See VIRUS, A2 Utah examines Olympics'legacy INDEX 6 West 'Nile Virus on way to Utah By CALEB WARNOCK By TAMMY McPHERSON ~ee See RUMSFELD, Al 0 5 CE· ~-1! By DEBBIE HUMMEL Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY Just a year ago, this city hosted 17 days of international sports competition and more partying than it's ever seen. As the Salt Lake Winter Olympics fade further into memory, locals are remembering the games with boisterous celebrations while state and civic leaders grope for the economic legacy so coveted by cities when they bid on the games. Saturday marked the Games' one-year anniversary. The city has spent the last two weeks building up to Saturday's festivities, which included a lighting of E R ,S the Olympic cauldron and a parade of illuminated floats. "All you have to do is go and talk to someone about the Olympics and you see the light in their eyes," said Utah's Olympic officer Lane Beattie. But questions persist about what kind of economic future the Olympics hold for Salt Lake City and the rest of Utah now that they're gone. "I think some people had expectations that the Olympics were going to lead to a long term economic boon to the state," said Fraser Bullock, president of the slowly dismantling Salt Steve Clark, left, and Scott Turnbow inspect the Olympic cauldron at the University of Utah See OLYMPICS, A9 this week in preparation for its re-lighting on Saturday. •• Rage A2 - THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com). Provo. Utah, Sunday, February 9, 2003 I HOSPITAL t Continued from Al r j' the money they stole from carpenter told him. t us,""Ithe made a silent 'covenant with myself never f .to do anything in this life I• to have people say I had t : i. t l ¥ e . ~ , ! = ~ .t " , 'stolen their money," said 'Gunther, who is still Chairman of the Board at the Bank of American Fork. The building Gunther remembers has changed identities many times since it was first built in 1891, from bank to hospital to office building. For the last 20 years, it has been a vacant eyesore, and that's something new owner Todd Vmcze, a general contractor who specializes in historical restorations, hopes to change as he restores the building to its 1891 appearance. MATT SMITH/The Daily Herald And when the work is David Peterson sorts through some of the lumber inside the Ol~ Lehi Hospital building. finished, Vincze hopes to call the building his home. the torn-out wiring, plumbing, . $1,000 a day, money that is All six of Orville GunRight now, the project is ther's children were born in and the six trees that used to c all coming out of his pocket. very much a work in surround the building. the hospital. progresi3. Vincze's crew has Funding for the $500,000 They've ripped out the watRr- renovation will run out in been restoring the original The same holds true for exterior by polishing stucco lifetime Lehi residents Leo activated elevator, ~here about two months without off the bricks, which was some women in the area have additional funding from and Edna Loveridge, who plastered on as a Work Pro- also gave birth to their four told Vincze they almost had grants and donations from jects Administration project children at the hospital. their babies because the eleindividual investors. during the depression. vator was so slow.Vmcze says While none of the children The building qualifies for In the process, they he is restoring the 7,OOO-foot are twins, two of the some federal grants because uncovered one renmant of building not only because it Loveridge children were itis on the National Register the building's best-known will be his home, a bed and born on April 4 and two on of Historical Places, and designation - old-fashioned Oct. 21, something they like breakfast, a salon, a photo Vincze is hoping to get donalettering on the 'south side to joke that they planned. studio and othe~ office spaces, tions from businesses. He is ofthe building that proudly but also to preserve the herThe way Leo Loveridge selling engraved sidewalk proclaims it to be the "Lehi itage of the area, something tells the story, he attributed Hospital," north Utah Coun- the regularity to his daytime that area residents have said pavers, which will include a person's name and birth date ty's primary health care job: "I tell people I was work- they are pleased about. facility for over 40 years. printed on, which he hopes to the chairman of "Being ing on production manageMany long-time residents ment in Geneva at the time." the Lehi Historical Preserva- sell to individuals who were remember the old hospital Outside of the painted let- tion Comnrittee; I'm pleased. born in the building, to supwith fondness. Vincze says port the renovation. In fact, I'm delighted," said tering on the building, .not he is constantly walking "I will finish the project. much is left of the old.hospi- John Rockwell, who was also through the building with I have to come up with an born in the Lehi Hospital tal. The faded blue sinks visitors who were born, gave . investor," Vincze said. along with his brother and birth, or had surgery there. . have been pulled out ofthe He has had two offers to equally faded blue scrubbing sister. Between the years of 1926 buy the building so far, but room, one of the few remainWhile folks like the and 1967, if a baby in the he says he won't sell it Loveridges have said they ing evidences of the hospital nb°rth ctohunty 3!tea wabsn't . unless he can't come up om a ome, 1 was om m that was shut down after the are excited to see the buildmore modern American Fork ing restored, Vincze is hoping with the money to finish it the Lehi Hospital. himself or a new owner will that area residents will also Hospital was built in 1967. "Half a dozen to a dozen help support the cause. Right let him finish all of the people stop by every day," Workers have hauled out almost 30 trash containers of now, Vincze is spending about work on the building. Vincze said. t· ~ ~ ~ t .J:." IL ~ "- 373·6827 373·6827 ! Harris Hearing ·Centers · ~£aring ~£fus ·.~cl~~s£ . 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" Others in the community agree with him. "I think what Todd is doing with the old hospital building is a wonderful asset to the community," said Richard Van Wagoner, Lehi's historian. "He's going to restore that to the condition it was when it was new, when it was the grandest building in Lehi. It has beautiful brick work, really intricate, interesting detail. There's nothing quite like it in town." The building at 206 E. State indeed has a colorful history. It was established in June 1891 with a capitalization fund of $50,000 as the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank. Then it became the Utah Banking Co. It was closed temporarily by the state bank examiner in 1911, reopened as the People's Bank and then shut down as a bank for good lof3 1122/20033:20 PM deseretnews.com http://deseretnews.com/dn/printl l , 1442,450027651 ,00.html in 1921. Before it was closed, the east room on the ground floor was used as a church meeting place and the large upper floor room for community dances. A dozen businesses had their offices in the building. When there was a classroom shortage in 1917 and again in 1919, the building provided badly needed space for primary school students. In 1923, N.O. Malan purchased the building and tried to combine an automobile repair shop and an undertaking parlor into a viable business. That effort did not succeed. Dr. Fred Worlton opened the Lehi Hospital on the second floor of the building in 1926, with 10 beds and an operating room. The hospital saw 150 patients in 1928, when he added another four beds, a reception room, a bathroom and a kitchen on the ground floor. Todd Vincze hopes to restore the building , pictured last week, to its former luster. After Worlton died, Dr. Elmo Eddington purchased the building from Worlton's widow and tried to open a practice. His first patient, after weeks of waiting, was actually a sick cow. A slow-moving water-powered elevator sometimes made it exciting to get a woman in labor to the second floor delivery room in time. Eddington's daughter once brought her horse up the elevator for help. In 1937, Eddington deeded the building to the city of Lehi so it could qualify for federal funds. A $14,000 Works Progress Administration grant helped pay for an upgrade to 18 beds. It remained in business for the next 35 years until competition took away most of the patients and it was condemned by the State Board of Health in 1965. It has since stood mostly vacant and for sale except for an occasional rental as a furniture outlet, a music store and an apartment. Vincze first saw it as the East Coast resident traveled through Lehi on business. He was immediately taken with what appeared to be a three-story white stucco structure. "I liked the bUilding. I saw the building. I had no idea what was underneath," he said. "I saw a price and said OK. Am I crazy? Probably." 20f 3 1/22120033 :20 PM deseretnews.com http://deseretnews.com/dn/printl1 , 1442,450027651 ,00.html The building is actually red brick and sandstone with a basement, two vaults and two upper floors. All of the wiring and plumbing will have to be replaced. Many of the interior walls and stairs will come out. The original window arches will be uncovered, and the oblique glass front will be replaced. "Not much of the interior is original," Vincze said. "We'll restore the exterior to what it was, but inside we'll add a place for nine guest bedrooms, a beauty salon, offices, a small florist shop and a photo studio. It'll become the ultimate bed and breakfast wedding stop for people who have family or friends getting married in the area." What Vincze needs help with now is information. He's hoping to talk with residents who were born in the hospital or who can recall staying in there so he can build a computer database of the building's history. He's looking for the original blueprints as well. He's also selling sidewalk pavers to anyone who wants to help with the restoration costs, which he figures will easily come to a million dollars. "I do have some investors and some money to do this," Vincze said. "But it would be nice to have some help." To reach Vincze, call 427-1046. E-MAIL: [e-mail] © 2003 Deseret News Publishing Company 30f3 1/2212003 3 :20 PM TITLE SEARCH FORM [Obtain information from title abstract books at County Recorder's Office) Addres s : CtrI"'-c..r-" S\ ...\r~ <4. ~~. City: L,ek.)u\-e..k Current Owner: ~ II\.~ I ~ '?, !~l.\ Address:$£i 't. <'FP~c $~ ~z.qS- "2>",,'w:>l.-~ TRANSACTION DATES Tax Number: c>\: O~~~~ t::...l Legal Description (include acreage): o.?~ ~. --n. )~),~ ~'iD93 GRANTOR (SELLER) GRANTEE (BUYER) TYPE OF DOLLAR TRANSACTION AMOUNT ,/I-i/77 {!)l~ J~a..~e.. -0.. A.t~ "I""",,~ \'E. 'e~l "-'YUoc. wV l/z~h3> &~;l G~( ~\? 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When young Ed Ross was questioned as to the whereabouts of his grandfather, William Clark, the jesting boy replied, "He has gone as far as you can run north, and as far as you can run west with your mouth full of chicken manure."56 Another ten-year-old Lehi wit, grilled by an officer, reportedly volunteered to take the man to the hiding place of a polygamist: Thinking that at last he was about to make an arrest and secure the accompanying reward, the visitor quickly dismounted and eagerly followed the boy around the house. Gravely leading him to the barn and with the utmost caution opening the gate to the object of their search; and there with head erect and in the midst of his cowering wives, stood the polygamist - a rooster,57 Despite whimsical accounts depicting federal officers as buffoons, marshals were successful in capturing at least twenty-four Lehi polygamists, all of whom spent timein prison. The well-coordinated early-morning raid of 8 December 1886 was particularly fruitful. Marshal Dyer and seven deputies swept through town arresting Bishop Thomas Cutler, Edward Standring, James and George Kirkham, John L. Gibb, John Hart, Samuel James, and William Yates. 58 While some of Lehi's much-married citizens were receiving free room-and-board at the Sugar house Penitentiary, approximately two hundred couples attended the gala 1887 Christmas Eve opening of Louis Garff's new opera house on Main Street. This large two-story "blue-rock" building (where the Lehi Drug Store stands in 1989) hosted most of Lehi's social activities for the next two decades. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, and a line from Salt Lake City was brought to the uptown store of the People's Co-op in 1887. Toll service was available to businesses and private individuals. On 7 October 1893 C. A. Granger, superintendent of the Lehi Sugar Factory, became the first to install a home phone. By October 1895 the town boasted nine subscribers and Rocky Mountain Bell installed a central switchboard in the Union Hotel. 59 The 1890s was a decade of vigorous business expansion as America's railroads fueled the nation's industrial might. No other single decade in the history of Lehi was filled with so many important occurrences. In September 1890 twenty-six kerosene lamps were placed at strategic points about town, lighting up what had been a dark village at night. By far the single most important event, not just in the 1890s but in the entire economic history of Lehi, was the construction of the Utah Sugar Company's first factory at Mulliner's Mill Pond. Sweeteners were critical to the otherwise bland diet of Utah pioneers. Sucrose preserved fruits, jams and jellies, made hot drinks and mush palatable, and other 13 confectioneries possible. Mormon Church leaders stressed home industries - producing what was needed rather than importing from the East. To satisfy their sweet cravings Lehi's earliest pioneers boiled down the juice of carrots, table beets, and parsnips. In the 1870s sorghum molasses became highly favored. But the ideal was always granulated white sugar. Utah's earliest efforts to make sugar in 1852 failed. Later investigation, however, convinced Mormon Church leaders that sugar could be obtained in commercial quantities from sugarbeets. To that end the Utah Sugar Company - chiefly owned by the church - was organized in 1889. The new company investigated several sites for constructing a sugar factory. On 20 August 1890 the Lehi City Council offered a $1,000 bonus to build in the town. This tender, as well as the excellent supply of water from the Mill Pond, nearby railroads, and a close source of limestone, convinced the company to build the plant in Lehi. On 22 November ground was broken, and on 26 December Mormon Church President Wilford Woodruff and his counselor George Q. Cannon laid the cornerstone. Though all that remains of the Lehi Sugar Factory in 1989 is the 184-foot smokestack, coal pits, and a large warehouse, the facilities at the time of the plant's 1924 closure covered acres of ground, employed scores of men, and consisted of more than a dozen buildings. The economic shockwaves of the sugar factory's opening impacted Lehi everywhere. Farmers, though wary at first, found the sugarbeet a viable cash crop. Most of the hundreds of men who built and operated the plant spent their money in Lehi. "Every man has plenty of work to do," the 29 May 1891 Lehi Banner reported, You see no loafers on the streets ... real estate is rising rapidly, new buildings are being erected in all parts of the town. The carpenters are kept busy from day light till dawn . The people have taken a great step in progress, and we do not mean to stop, or let go, till Lehi shall have become one of the leading towns of central Utah. This sugar money actuated the building of the People's Co-op Livery Stable (1890), Lehi Saloon (1890), Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank (1891), Union Hotel (1891), Peter Larsen Meat and Fish Market (1891), Murdock Resort (1891), Senate Saloon (1891), Comer Saloon (1891), Lehi Restaurant (1891), Lehi Cafe (1891), Barnes Ice Cream Parlor (1891), Boston Clothing Store (1891), Lehi Barbershop (1891), Salznar & Gray Brick Yard (1891), Dr. E. C. Merrihew's dental practice (1891), Dr. L. Lambert's dental practice (1891), Dr. J. B. Hoshaw's medical practice (1891), Central School (1892), Union Drugstore (1893), Dorton Building (1893), Keenan Canning Factory (1893), Kirkham & Sons Mercantile (1893), Stoker Cash Grocery Store (1893) Lehi Slaughtering Company Butchershop (1893), Thurldon/Broadbent Photography (1893), Hosier Saloon (1894), and Osterloh Bakery (1895). 16 OVERVIEW Work began on what Lehi residents term the Pumps on 21 June 1902. By summer's end four forty-eightinch Byron Jackson centrifugal pumps, each driven by 100-horsepower motors, were installed. In the summer of 1903, when the station was in full operation, the four units were pumping 400 cubic feet of water per second (approximately 3,000 gallons). This operation was so successful that new land was opened for cultivation and soon even more water was needed. Consequently, in 1905 another pump was installed. In 1907 two more pumps with the same capacity as the original four were brought on line. In 1911 a sixty-inch pump, driven by a 250 horsepower motor, with a potential for delivering 1,600 gallons per second, was installed. When this pump was put into operation, the plant had the capacity for delivering 700 million gallons of water every twenty-four hours. It was believed to be the largest pumping plant in the world then,and in the fall of 1920 a $185,000 construction project doubled its pumping capacity. An unusual political event in 1903 was the "excommunication" of the Lehi wing from the Utah Socialist Party. During the late 1800s, several European and American socialist political parties formed an international organization with a single set of beliefs inspired by the writings of Karl Marx. Claiming that free enterprise systems are inefficient and wasteful, socialists believe that capitalism leads to such problems as unemployment, poverty, business cycles, and conflicts between workers and management. In Lehi municipal elections of 5 November 1901 the Democratic and Socialist parties combined to wrest away the recorder and marshal positions from the Republicans. In the fall of 1903 Lehi's small socialist party, consisting of W. S. Evans, Edison Whipple, John Whipple, Henry East, Mr. Sims, Robert Gilchrist, and F . Wilcox, endorsed Democratic mayor candidate John Snow. This action violated the "fusion clause" in state and national Socialist constitutions and resulted in the revocation of the local charter. During the Christmas season of 1903 Thomas R. Cutler retired as Lehi's bishop, a position he had held for the previous twenty-four years. The people dearly loved him, a sentiment that was reflected in a 24 December 1903 Banner editorial: In the retirement of Bishop T . R. Cutler the people of Lehi have the deepest regret. No Bishop has ever stood higher in the estimation of any people than does bishop Cutler with the people of Lehi . No bishop has ever done more for the advancement and betterment of his people than he. Few men, if any, are blessed with a more generous disposition. In this regard he is a most extraordinary man, for he shows a broadness of mind and a bigness of heart that is seldom found in any man. His business ideas are among the best of Utah's financiers, and in a financial way he has done more to bring Lehi to the front than any dozen men. During the twenty-four years he has been bishop there has hardly been a jar in any of the different organizations. He has never ruled the people with an iron hand, but with a love which knows no bounds, and when of late he would mention in any manner his intention to retire there would be a feeling of regret spring from every heart. But that time has come and he has retired and the people with one voice and with one heart wish him the greatest success during his whole life. After Bishop Cutler's resignation the Lehi Ward was divided into four wards. On 1 January 1904 members of the new First Ward, comprising the southern part of town, were assigned to meet in the Meeting House under the direction of Bishop Andrew Fjeld. The Second Ward, the north central part of town, held its meetings in the basement of the new Tabernacle under Bishop James H. Gardner's leadership. The Northwest Branch building became Third Ward Bishop Henry Lewis's stewardship. Bishop John Stoker's Fourth Ward congregation, consisting of the northeast quadrant of town, met in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank building on the southeast corner of State at Second East. During the first five years of the twentieth century large numbers of Lehi citizens moved away from the community, seeking their fortune elsewhere. "Lehi is becoming the city of homes without occupants," noted the 18 February 1904 Banner. "Some of the old timers say Lehi is the deadest it has been for twenty years," the paper added; "nervous people who need a quiet rest are advised to come here." The success of the Lehi Sugar Factory had resulted in the building of new company plants at Garland, Utah (1903), Idaho Falls, Idaho (1903), Sugar City, Idaho (1904), Blackfoot, Idaho (1904), and Nampa, Idaho (1906). Many local men, trained in Lehi's factory, moved to these areas to establish and operate the new plants. Homesteading opportunities in Alberta, Canada, also attracted Lehi farmers and ranchers and many moved to the Magrath and Raymond areas. Despite notable business failures and the exodus of some families from the community, Lehi's commercial district continued to grow. Dentist E. C. Merrihew erected an office at 72 West Main (1898), and Ned Darling remodeled the old Jonas Holdsworth home into a restaurant and hotel at 159 West Main (1899). Also that year Dr. Robert Steele built his medical office at 60 West Main, and the Lehi Creamery opened for business on East State Road. In 1900 the People's Co-op built a large building at their downtown branch at 189 West Main. The just completed Bennett/Bradshaw Building at 106 West Main became Kirkwood and Whitman's Log Cabin Saloon. Jodie Dorton opened a new meat market at 120 West Main. Bert Merrihew erected his large drugstore building at 98 West Main. The following year Joseph E. Dorton built a butcher shop at 46 West Main . The Lehi Mercantile opened in the Garff Building at 154 West Main. The massive Ross Block, 86 West Main - home of Ross & Ross Mercantile, Wadsworth's Book & Paper Stand, Asher Photog- MAKING OF A CITY raphy, and the Lehi Post Office - was completed in early 1902. This same year J. A. Robinson opened Corner Grocery in the Yearance Building at 102 West Main, E. A. Beers started a millinery shop, Frank Fagan opened a restaurant, and the People's Co-op constructed their spacious building at 151 East State. Gus Slade opened his new Senate Saloon in the Ball Building, 155 West Main, on 3 December 1903. Two weeks later J. E. Cotter purchased the Corner Grocery at 102 West Main. In June 1904 a group of Lehi investors purchased the Provo Knitting Mill, moved the plant to Lehi, and established the Standard Knitting Factory Company in the Kirkham & Sons Building on Sixth North at First East. One month later the Lehi Cash Store opened at 86 West Main, and the People's Co-op sold their entire downtown branch to William Racker, who established Racker Mercantile. Roberts and Brems opened a meat market at 217 East State in 1905. Their business quickly failed and was assummed by Peter Larsen. During 1906 druggist T . J . Wadsworth opened his store at 101 West Main, the Bank of Lehi was established in the Ross Building, and Hammer Brother's Livery expanded their business by constructing a new thirtysix-by-fifty-six-foot stable. To promote Lehi interests a group of local men organized the Lehi Commercial Club on 22 May 1905. Charter members of this association were George Austin, Parley Austin, Joseph Broadbent, J. E. Cotter, John F. Cutler, A. J. Evans, Morgan Evans, W. S. Evans, Andrew Fjeld, Charles Friel, James Fyffe, James H. Gardner, S. 1. Goodwin, Mr. Green, George Hammer, Robert Howard, M. W. Ingalls, Edward Karren, Homer Kendall, James M. Kirkham, William Knight, Henry Lewis, J. H. Manderfield, A. C. Pearson, Alex Piper, W. E. Racker, John Roberts, Nate Rockhill, S. W . Ross, O. A. Slade, John Y. Smith, J. E. Standring, Dr. Robert Steele, Dr. W . M . Stookey, S. J. Taylor, T. J. Wadsworth, Dr. Westphal, J . H. Wootton, George Webb, Thomas Webb, and S. G. Wells. As set forth in the organization's preamble, the purpose of the club was to foster the business interests of Lehi, encourage new industry, and furnish social diversion. This active organization first established a fiveroom suite in the Lehi Commercial Bank and Savings Building, meeting there until 1911 when new rooms were established on the second floor of the Ross Building. The group's efforts were beneficial to several Lehi projects, and were directly responsible for initiating the Lehi Mill and Elevator Company (1906), Mount Pickle Factory (1906), the Central Experimental Farm (1906), and the Lehi Waterworks (1907-09). While the Commercial Club was anxious to see Lehi move forward, another group of men were looking backward into the past. In 1905 the last remaining section of the mud wall of Lehi's old fort was demolished . Bishop Andrew Fjeld initiated the formation of a committee to erect a monument commemorating the his- 17 toric structure. "Let it be of the rugged unpolished granite," Fjeld wrote in a 9 April 1908 letter to the Lehi Banner, "with suitable inscriptions, planted on the line of the old wall on the grounds of the Primary School, where it will stand as a memorial and a witness to the patriotism, zeal and courage of the pioneers of Lehi and builders of the old Fort Wall." A mass meeting was called on 21 April 1908 and not a single dissenting voice opposed the plans. The Lehi Pioneer Committee, consisting of Andrew Fjeld, George N. Child, Hamilton Gardner, W. S. Evans, A. B. Anderson, and Martin Bushman, offered a prize for the monument's design . The Elias Morris Company of Salt Lake City submitted the winning proposal, and the contract for the stone work was given to local stonemason Arthur Bradder. The base was made of Utah granite, and the shaft of Vermont granite. The sixteenfoot-high completed work had two polished surfaces, one containing a map of the fort wall and the other inscribing a brief history of the settlement. Dedicatory services for the $650 Pioneer Monument were held on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1908. After a program in the Tabernacle, the monument was unveiled by Azubia Cox Hardwick, first baby born in Lehi. The dedicatory prayer was offered by Apostle J . H . Smith. Three days before the dedication, a fifteenby-fifteen-by-six-inch copper box was placed in a cavity in the base of the monument. This time capsule contained the following items: A piece of the old Fort Wall and two coins (Hy Kirkham) Beet sugar made in Utah in 1850 (T. F. Trane) Sugar made by Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. (James Kirkham) Grand Army Badge and five coins (F. G. Hoffmire) Photo of David Evans and wife Rebecca (R. Evans) Two coins (Fred and Millan Kirkham) History of Lehi, a Sunday School badge, Beet Contract of 1906 (M. B. Bushman) Lehi Banner. Xmas 1907 (Andrew Fjeld) Early edition of Deseret News; $1.00 Brigham Young College scrip; Lehi Rustler, 19 Feb. 1897; Try Square used by Thomas Ashton on Nauvoo Temple; two ox shoes used in crossing the plains, two nails made by J . W. Taylor in 1854 (Edison Whipple) Sketch of life of Joseph Dorton (J. E. Dorton) U.S . Calvary belt buckle worn by W. S. Willes (John S. Willes) Views of Lehi (1. C. Cotter) Thousand-dollar check to be paid in 2008 and a ten-cent coin (W. S. Willes) Post Card views of Lehi (James M. Kirkham) Scrip on Provo People's Co-op Store, scrip on S. S. Jones's Store in Provo, two bread tickets and a piece of gingerbread (H . E. Osterloh) One Black Hawk Veterans Badge (Mathias Peterson) English coins dated 1806-17, photos of W. H. Taft and J. S. Sherman , copies of Election Laws of 1908, copy of Inter-mountain Republican, and a dry farm potato (William Asher) Deseret News (T. J. Wadsworth) School books and educational papers (A. B. Anderson) 18 OVERVIEW Salt Lake Herald, photos of W. J. Bryan and J. W. Kerns, letter heads and papers.71 The monument remained on this site until December 1932 when it was moved one block east onto the Carnegie Library property when First North between Center and First West was closed. Obtaining drinkable water has been a historic problem for Lehi. During the first half-century of settlement, culinary water came not only from surface wells, but also from irrigation ditches. Both were constant sources of contagious disease. In 1885 James Hardwood, using sledge-hammer driven pipe, was the first townsman to strike a flowing well.72 By the turn of the century many homes had these wells; those who did not could purchase water from the People's Co-op. During the summer of 1907 the Lehi Commercial Club became actively engaged in bringing a community water system to Lehi . Initially Grove Springs near Alpine was considered as a water source. But further investigation proved this to be both insufficient and unsuitable. Engineer Richard R. Lyman drew up plans to develop Schoolhouse Springs which would involve the three communities of Lehi, Alpine, and American Fork. American Fork, desiring to develop its own system, was not interested in the proposal. Alpine, however, with its small population and limited resources, was anxious to cooperate with Lehi. During a 14 September 1907 meeting of the Lehi Commercial Club a motion was passed "That it be the sense of this club that we offer to Alpine $3,000 in cash for four-fifths interest in the water that they have in the School House Springs, with privilidge of developing said springs and each of the cities Alpine and Lehi to install their own water system."73 A financial glitch apparently developed in this plan and in the summer of 1908 a committee from the Commercial Club met with the city council urging political action. On 21 July 1908 city officials and interested citizens met with engineer Lyman at Schoolhouse Springs for a field study. On 28 July a mass meeting was called and citizen approval obtained for offering the Alpine City Council $8,000 for the springs and five-sixths of the flow, estimated at one million gallons per twentyfour-hour period. The Lehi City Council passed a supporting resolution on 11 August, and a favorable 14 September 1908 election approved the issue of $26,500 worth of water bonds to finance the system. Two additional bonding elections were held on 26 July 1909, and 11 April 1911 because the cost of the water system had escalated to $53,000. The city also sold its twelve thousand shares of Utah County Light and Power stock to meet the financial obligations of the waterworks. 74 Enough of the bond money was available in early March 1909 to begin the project under the direction of engineer Lyman. W. S. Evans supervised the installation of the collection system at the thirteen springs and the laying of the pipeline to Lehi . The ruggedness of the area surrounding the springs made work difficult. New roads had to be made, brush, timber and boulders removed, and most of the pipe transported in on horseback. At Moyle's Hill in Alpine a weir split the water into Lehi's five-sixths share and Alpine's one-sixth. Lehi's eight-mile pipeline came across the benchland (to the top of present-day Sixth East) where the water was stored in a 324,000 gallon concrete settling tank. 75 By late summer 1909 Lehi had more than enough water to quench its thirst. Those citizens who desired a drink of something stronger, however , found the town again teetering on the brink of Prohibition. On 11 August 1909 representatives of city councils in Utah County met and agreed to pass a uniform Prohibition ordinance to take effect on 1 January 1910. "LEHI HAS COME IN LINE," screamed the 16 September 1909 Lehi Banner, as the city council agreed to make Lehi a "dry town" beginning with the new year. In 1917 Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, which made the entire country legally dry until 1933 when Utah voters, along with Americans nationwide, rejected Prohibition. With the closure of Lehi saloons in 1910, two large downtown buildings became vacant. The New Log Cabin Saloon at 155 West Main became the Isis Theater. On 8 February 1910 the old "blue-rock" Senate Saloon building at 169 West Main, which had closed during the dry years of 1898-1900, became the city's first public library. In addition to two new recreational facilities, Lehi's youth had a new school as well. The Primary School had been built on the southwest corner of Center and Second North in 1905. During the summer of 1910 the new Grammar School was erected just west of the Primary School. The year 1911 brought a singular mixture of good and bad news. The Utah Banking Company, which formerly had been the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, was closed by order of the State Bank Examiner. The bank reopened a year later, as the People's Bank, but closed permanently in 1921. The State Bank of Lehi was issued a charter, and from 1921 until 1980 was the only bank in the community.76 Some good news for the town in 1911 was that the federal census reported Lehi's population as 2,964, the state's eleventh largest city. The publicity bureau of the Commercial Club projected that in five years the town would have 5,000 people, and a population of 10,000 by 1920. Though Lehi did not reach the projected 5,000 mark until the 1970s, the town continued to project a progressive image. During the week of 5-11 June 1911 the city celebrated its first Homecoming. Plans had been in the making for months. Mayor Edward Southwick proclaimed 3 Mayas "Cleaning-Up Day," and the city was spiffedup to greet former residents. Huge banners at both railroad depots greeted guests with "Welcome Home, Lehi MAKING OF A CITY two from wounds received in action, five from pneumonia or influenza contracted stateside, and four in accidents before going overseas. The folks back home were doing their part for the war effort. Lehi citizens purchased their share of the $23 billion in Liberty Bonds, Victory Bonds, war savings certificates and thrift stamps that were sold. Townspeople also " Hooverized" themselves, as part of the campaign waged by U.S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, and pledged "wheatless Mondays" and "meatless Tuesdays." While Lehi people, like red-blooded Americans everywhere, were making sacrifices for the Allied war effort, the town also benefitted from the conflict. War demands for sugar resulted in extensive improvements at the sugar factory. In late 1914 a huge warehouse with a storage capacity of 14,000,000 pounds was completed. And in early 1915, $100,000 worth of improvements were made including the installation of the 184-foot tall smokestack (which still stands in 1989). Utah-Idaho Sugar stock, which sold for $5 per share in the 1890s, shot up to $29 per share in 1916. Beet growers, who were paid $5 .50 per ton in 1916, saw their payments increase to $12 per ton by 1920. On Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, at 11 :00 A.M. -the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the guns fell silent. The war was over. American casualties were 112,000 dead and 237,000 wounded. Returning soldiers were welcomed home by jubilant townspeople. Lehi's vets were paraded about town and feted at a "welcome home celebration" in the Tabernacle, and a permanent memorial in their honor was deemed appropriate. During a 17 December 1918 city council meeting, a "Sailors' and Soldiers' Memorial Building Committee" was appointed. The combined efforts of virtually the entire community resulted in the completion of the first municipal building in the United States to be erected in memory of World War I veterans. The Spanish-mission-styled center included not only a memorial hall, but also a Carnegie Library, and the city hall. The catastrophic influenza epidemic of 1918-19 killed many Lehi citizens and more than 500,000 nationwide. Louise V. Turner, who expired 5 May 1916, was the town's first flu death. Another victim died in 1917, but during the final three months of 1918, thirty-three people (l percent of Lehi's population) succumbed to the disease. The Lehi Sun ceased publication for two weeks in October 1918 and virtually all businesses were closed during this period. Lehi schools closed during this time and did not re-open until February 1919. 86 While its importance paled by comparison to local flu deaths, the most disastrous hailstorm in the city's history occurred on 7 August 1920. Businesses and homes sustained thousands of dollars of damage. The Lehi Floral alone lost seven thousand square feet of glass during the onslaught. 87 21 In 1921 Lehi City first adopted a budget system. Drainage districts were formed to dry out swampy areas of town. Former Lehi Mayor Edward Southwick, while serving as state senator, authored Utah's first "AntiCigarette Bill," signed into law on 8 March. The People's Bank was closed by the State Bank Examiner on 4 May, and the Lehi Canning Factory on Third North and Fourth West was converted into the Lehi Cereal Mill in April. Construction started on the new Lehi High School building (southeast corner of Center and Second North) on 9 August. On 22 October the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company settled a four-day strike at the Lehi Sugar Factory by creating three eight-hour work periods instead of the two twelve-hour shifts system that had existed since 1891. The Carnegie Library was dedicated 30 December. 88 In 1922 W. E. Racker, who had been a Lehi merchant for more than forty years, retired and sold Racker Mercantile to his sons, who divided the business into two new concerns - the Winchester Store and J . E. Racker Mercantile. Ned Darling retired from the lodging business in May and sold the Darling Hotel to his son Walter. The 1920s brought prosperity to most Lehi citizens as to Americans across the country. People called it the "Coolidge prosperity" in honor of the U.S. president. But 1925 was an apprehensive time for many Lehi residents as the sugar factory, for the first time in thirtyfour years, did not open for the fall campaign. Widespread infestations of nematodes and white flies had resulted in a failure of the local sugar beet crop. Though efforts were made as late as 1930 to contract the necessary four thousand acres of beets to operate the plant, it remained closed. While the insect problem was eventually overcome and sugar beets were again grown successfully, they were processed at other Utah facilities. By 1939 the Lehi Sugar Factory had been dismantled. Soon after the Memorial Building was dedicated on 31 May 1926, city officials turned their efforts towards completing Lehi's Municipal Electric Lighting Plant at Third North and Fifth West. Mayor Joseph S. Broadbent's administration had initiated these plans in June 1925 when Utah Power & Light Company notified the city of a monthly rate increase from 90<1: to $3 .00 for each of the town's 183 street lights. The opening of the diesel-powered generating plant was formally celebrated on the night of 15 June 1927 when the city sponsored a "White Way Celebration." Though initially for State and Main Street lights only, the generating plant supplied most homes until 1946 when the city again began purchasing electricity from Utah Power & Light. 89 In August 1929 plans for a large athletic field in the heart of Lehi were jointly announced by the Lehi Lions Club, Lehi City, and Alpine School District. Laid out just west of the Memorial Building, the project necessitated the closing of First North street between Center MAKING OF A CITY "The Great Society" was the name Lyndon Johnson gave to his New Deal-like programs, and by 1965 most of them were in effect. Medicare helped pay the medical bills of citizens over sixty-five. Medicaid provided money to states for covering the medical expenses of the poor of all ages. Johnson also declared a "war on poverty" to assist all Americans who lived below the poverty line. In 1964 Congress passed the Economic Opportunity Act and Johnson created the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish more housing for low- and middle-income families. In the meantime Lehi officials were engaged in upgrading their own community with $500,000 worth of improvements to the city waterworks. New watermains were installed, a new million-gallon storage tank built near the old settling tank on the bench, and more than fifty new fire hydrants placed throughout the city. In July Bee Jay Food Center was opened by owners Bill and Ja Neane Jacob in the former Davis Market Building at 36 South Second West. On 28 August nineteen miles of 1-15 between Lehi and Provo opened for traffic, reducing travel time between the two cities by half. After ten years of community fund-raising activities, the John Hutchings Museum was officially opened on 8 May 1965. On 6 July the Post Office moved to temporary quarters at 98 West Main while the former building was being demolished. A new $75,000 postal building, on the same site as the old structure, was completed in January 1966. The 15 July 1965 Lehi Free Press carried the news that after thirty-three years in the cafe business, W. D. and Eunice Watkins, famed for their tasty family cuisine, had sold Wattie's Cafe to Leon Brown who reopened under the name Star Cafe. In February 1971, local men Dick Smith, Ned Wilson, and Wayman Winslow purchased the place and renamed it the Pelican Cafe. In the fall of 1965 Lehi Elementary Principal Dale Burgess conceived the idea of a community ice skating rink on the school property just north of the Hutchings Museum. The Lehi Lions Club under the direction of Joseph Forrester guided this project to completion just before Christmas. The popular rink was eventually landscaped, provided with a water hydrant for flooding the pond, and lighted for night skating. While the winter season was superb for ice skating, it also brought tragedy. On 27 November 1965 an Edde Airlines DC-3 chartered by the BYU Cougar Club crashed during a blinding snowstorm just west of Camp Williams, killing all thirteen persons aboard - many of them prominent Salt Lake physicians. In early 1966 the State Bank of Lehi opened its expanded and remodeled facilities which included driveup windows. During May crews from the city and the local National Guard unit demolished the old bandstand at Wines Park to make way for new restroom facilities. W. T. Piper, Sr., founder of the Piper Aircraft Corporation, dedicated the Carter Airport on the 31 Lehi Bench in August, and Jo Zimmerman opened Jo's Fashions, a beauty salon, in the old Julian Drug building. During a 26 September 1966 city council meeting approval was given for the Lehi Auxiliary Police to construct an addition to the Memorial Building, south of the jail, for housing the ambulance. An innovative new businessman, Steve Straw, purchased Larsen's Market from the Larsen family in October 1966. He changed the store's name to Silver Dollar Market, later expanded into both buildings now occupied by the Colonial House, and eventually built a large new supermarket on the southwest corner of Main and Second East. Big news in early 1967 was the permanent closing of the city-operated Lehi Hospital, which had served the community since 1926. The two-story building, which had been built for the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank in 1891, had been condemned by the State Board of Health in 1965. Though talk had circulated for some time that either an extensive remodeling project would be undertaken or a new facility built, city officials felt that either proposal was beyond the city's financial capability. During the spring and early summer of 1967 a David Wolper Productions movie, The Devil's Brigade, was filmed in and around Lehi. Depicting the famed Allied guerilla unit of World War II, more than three hundred members of the Utah National Guard worked as extras. The movie starred William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vincent Edwards, Dana Andrews, Andrew Prine, and Claude Akins. Director Andrew MacLaglen had a saloon set, "The Golden Nugget," built inside the Lehi National Guard Armory. A wild fight scene in the movie was purposely punctuated by a punch thrown by world champion boxer Gene Fullmer, who served as bartender in Lehi's most famous wateringhole. In May 1967 Wallace and Arlene Olsen purchased and renovated the Cutler Mansion on State Street, and opened their business Outpost Antiques in the old stone Co-op building at 193 East State. This historically oriented couple eventually purchased many of Lehi's oldest buildings - including the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank building, the old Comer Saloon, and the Dorton Butchershop at 106 and 116 West Main (where their antique business is located in 1989). Few years had as much long-term impact on America as 1968. The year was "pivotal and messy," wrote journalist Lance Morrow, wrought with "deaths of heroes, uprisings, suppressions, the end of dreams, blood in the streets of Chicago and Paris and Saigon, and at last, at Christmastime, man for the first time floating around the moon."110 On 23 January the American spyship U.S.S. Pueblo was captured by North Korea. One week later the Viet Cong launched the massive Tet Offensive in Vietnam which knocked America's military system reeling. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced to startled Amer- CEMETERIES Lewis's daughter, Verda, reported that from then on many people walked blocks out of their way rather than pass the shop. Despite the fears, there were always people with a morbid enough sense of curiosity that they could not resist a look into the undertaking parlor windows. Young Verda Lewis and a few friends periodically staged some of Lehi's supreme pranks by having a live body repose in an open casket near the front window as churchgoers were heading home from evening services. When an unsuspecting busybody arrived on the scene for a quick peek, the person in the coffin would slowly rise to a sitting position. Lewis recalled "one woman almost dumped her baby and buggy in the old ditch, others would scream and run. There got to be too many stories going around, so father put a stop to our fun."15 By late 1914 Bishop Lewis was anxious to devote his full energy to real estate work so he sold his mortuary business to Leo W. Goates. Goates established his undertaking parlor in the "blue-rock" building at 169 West Main which most recently had been the Lehi Public Library, although it was originally the Senate Saloon in 1891. In August 1918 Goates sold out to N. o. Malan, who moved the business to 36 West Main, the west portion of the Racker Building which had been built in 1915. The adroit Malan, who also owned an automobile repair shop and a hot dog stand, purchased the old Lehi Commercial & Saving's Bank at 206 East State in November 1923. The effort to combine Malan Undertaking with Malan Service did not catch on. Malan advertised in the 24 September 1924 Lehi Sun that he had moved his undertaking parlor to the Leiter Building at 68 West Main; a structure that had originally been the Lehi Banner office. Actually Malan had sold the mortuary business to Olpin & Sons of Pleasant Grove. Or so it seemed. He took out an ad in the 2 October 1924 Lehi Sun introducing the new "licensed embalmers" to townspeople. But Lehi native Alva Wing, who had been employed the previous three years by George W. Larkin & Sons of Ogden, also announced in the same newspaper that he was "Now Located in Lehi and Ready for Business" in the Taylor Building on Main Street where Goates had been located. These quarters were only temporary, however, for Wing noted that after October 16 he would be permanently located in the Leiter Building, where Malan had been established. Wing remained in the Leiter Building until 1925 when he established A. H. Wing Mortuary in the stately Lewis Garff home at 118 East Main, which had most recently been the George Robinson residence. In 1946 Wing, who was widely recognized for his organizational and musical abilities as well as his compassion, moved from Lehi and turned his business over to his son Ralph, a 77 recent graduate of a California mortuary service program. As the population of Lehi grew, Wing Mortuary expanded. Until 1958 most Lehi funerals were held in the various Mormon chapels or the Tabernacle. On 20 September 1958 dedication services were held for the new Wing chapel (which was built as an addition to the north portion of the old Garff home). Since that time hundreds of Lehi funerals have been held there, though many continue to be held in Mormon wards. Ralph Wing is now semi-retired. His son Lenard, trained in mortuary science like his father, directs most funerals in Lehi. Local funeral customs have changed considerably since the earliest days of Lehi settlement. While the funeral still serves as a formal, socially recognized statement and recognition of the death of a person, the late twentieth-century has formalized and sanitized the practice. Most people now die in a hospital. A nurse or doctor calls the funeral director, who soon arrives to take the body to a mortuary where it is professionally embalmed and prepared for viewing. Though wakes are no longer held, the evening before the funeral and one hour before the services the body is usually displayed in an open casket while friends and family members file past to pay their final respects to the deceased and offer condolences to the bereaved family. The typical Mormon funeral begins around noon and includes a private family gathering where a prayer is offered, last goodbyes given, and appropriate adjustments made to the temple clothing. The casket is then closed and wheeled into the general funeral assembly. The bishop or counselor of the deceased's ward usually conducts the funeral. This customarily consists of prayers and traditional music numbers such as "In The Garden," "Going Home," "Beyond the Sunset," or "Sunrise, Sunset." A medley of the deceased's favorite songs is often played and a brief biographical sketch is generally read. Eulogies that favorably recall the departed and proclaim a celestial afterlife are then given by family members, close friends, and the presiding church leader. After the services are concluded, a hearse transports the coffin to the cemetery, where it is situated over the grave on a motorized hoist. Pallbearers seldom have to carry the body for more than a few feet. After the site is dedicated by a Melchizedek Priesthood holder, family and close friends usually gather at the ward, where a luncheon is served by the Relief Society. Meanwhile back at the cemetery, the coffin is lowered into a cement vault (now required by law), and the grave filled in by the sexton's backhoe. The flowers are then arranged to cover the neatly mounded earth, and life goes on for the living while the dead enter their reward. MEETING HOUSES scarce hamburger. Creative women in the ward designed and built miniature floats for the Lehi parade, and the city paid them for their efforts. Near the war's end the building fund had grown to $13,000. A building site was selected across the street northwest from the old building.89 Unfortunately, things bogged down at this point and in 1949 new Bishop Harold W. Barnes again gave out financial assessments. Fund raising efforts were stepped up. When $33,000 had been raised, the Presiding Bishopric gave approval for building the new chapel. By this time, however, a different site for the new building had been selected. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held on 14 June 1950 at 1095 North Third West. Prior to the ceremony the area had been roped off into "rooms" and chairs were placed for the congregation on the exact spot where the assembly hall would be built. Old-time Third Ward members who were given the opportunity to turn a shovel full of earth at the building site included Ormus O. Bates, Luther Coates, James C. Gough, Margaret Brems, Charles A. Turner, Mary Turner, George F. Barnes, and James H. Gray.90 Plans for the new building were designed by William Fredrick Thomas, and the $103,000 contract was let to the Oakland Construction Company. Before the facility was completed Lehi Stake leaders announced during a 19 October 1952 meeting in the Tabernacle that they wished to realign the town's five wards into seven. This ward division took place on 28 December 1952. The Sixth Ward was assigned to share a chapel with the First Ward, and the not-yet-completed Third Ward building became the home of the new Seventh Ward as well. 91 The first meetings held in the Third/Seventh Ward chapel were in April 1953, though the facility was not yet paid for. Dedication services were on Sunday, 15 May 1955. Elder Clifford E. Young, an assistant to the Council of the Twelve, offered the dedicatory prayer and sermon. Another modification was made to the building in the late 1950s to accommodate Junior Sunday School facilities, which had been overlooked in the original plans. In 1980 when the new Lehi West Stake Center was completed at 1900 North Fifth West, the Third Ward moved into the building along with the Fifteenth Ward. In 1985 an extensive $600,000 dollar remodeling project on the original Third/Seventh Ward building completely changed both the interior and exterior of the place. This facility now houses the Seventh, Twelfth, and Eighteenth Wards.92 The original Third Ward chapel was sold for a residence to the Ned Yeater family in 1953. The family lived in the newest portion of the building while the old part was used for a woodworking shop. Ross and Jean Lamb later bought the property for their family residence. The small building to the east, which served first as a Relief Society granary and later a Junior Sunday 109 School room, is presently the residence of Jean Lamb's mother, Greta Miller. Lehi Fourth Ward When the Fourth Ward came into existence on 20 December 1903, Bishop John Stoker with counselors Samuel A. Smith, James B. Clark, and ward clerk Joseph J. Gill constituted the bishopric. For nearly nine years the ward met in the east room on the ground floor of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank (206 East State). Curtains were stretched across the large hall to divide it into Sunday School class rooms. The resulting cacaphony of several teachers and students talking at the same time made the presentation of lessons an arduous task. Eventually Sunday School was again held in the Sego Lily School, where it had been conducted prior to the division of the Lehi Ward. One of the most interesting aspects of the establishment of the Fourth Ward was the way the Relief Society leadership was selected. In January 1904, three weeks after the Lehi Ward had been divided, the Alpine Stake Presidency and bishoprics of the First, Second, and Fourth Wards met with the Relief Society sisters of these wards in the Meeting House. After instructions were given by President Stephen L. Chipman, the women divided into their representative ward groups. Each woman then wrote a secret ballot listing in numerical order her choices for the ward Relief Society presidency. Winning the Fourth Ward election was Juliet A. Brown, president, with Amelia Russon and Armitta Clark, counselors. 93 Bishop Stoker and other leaders did not intend for the Lehi Fourth Ward to remain in the bank building and the Sego Lily School for so long. But with the Lehi and Alpine Tabernacles requiring such extensive financial contributions there was little extra money to build a Fourth Ward meetinghouse. Plans for a new chapel were first presented to a ward priesthood meeting on 1 November 1908. A finance committee consisting of Bishop Stoker, George Comer, James Peterson, J. Gilchrist, Elisha Peck, Jr., and John Brown was appointed to "procure means to assist in the building of the ward meeting house."94 The following spring a piece of property was purchased on the west of Bishop Stoker's home. The money for this transaction was earned by the Relief Society under the capable leadership of Julia Brown. The group held a six-day bazaar in the Lehi Opera House, where they sold enough hot meals and household items to produce a profit of $700. Unfortunately the water table of the property the building committee purchased was too high for digging a foundation. The lot was sold to Harry Stoker for $500 and new property one block east, on the southeast corner of Seventh East and Ninth North, was purchased from Newburn Butt. Excavation work, under the supervision of James Clark, was completed by 8 MERCANTILES Co-op scrip. But as the sugar industry boomed, cash began to flow more freely into town. On 16 July 1891 the Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank, under president Thomas Cutler, was temporarily established in the People's Co-op while a new bank building was being built on the site of the original People's Co-op store (206 East State). The following month, for the first time in the firm's history, the quarterly dividends of the Coop (3 percent) were paid in cash rather than scrip. Much of this was likely deposited in the new bank, which was paying 5 percent interest. 21 Manager Cutler, who lived across the street from the uptown Co-op, did not ignore the interests of the downtown store. The Branch, though with a smaller inventory than the main store, also had a shoe shop and a butcher shop. During the fall of 1889 the old shoe shop on the east of the main building was demolished and a new general merchandise store built. On 29 April 1893, Cutler (who was also general manager of the Utah Sugar Company) resigned as superintendent of the People's Co-op. William E. Racker, who had been serving as assistant superintendent at the Co-op for some time, was selected to be Cutler's successor. Prosperity continued under Racker's management. The 28 December 1893 Lehi Banner extensively detailed the business of the uptown Co-op at the end of Racker's first year of management. The firm was stocked with $75,000 worth of goods. Twenty clerks were employed and the previous Saturday's sales were reported as $1,500. By 1896 the 1878-built store had become the grocery and hardware department. The 1882-built stone addition housed the shoe and dry goods concerns, where cloth sold for 2~ to $2 per yard. The 1890-built brick building to the west was stocked with clothing and furnishings. The building farther west was the furniture and stove department, where "everything is kept from the common kitchen chair to the fine upholstered parlor suit." The stove line included selections from the "one burner coal oil stove to the latest improved steel ranges." To the rear of the furniture and stove building in 1896 was a large assortment of farming implements, barbed wire, heavy hardware and iron, and pipe of all sizes and descriptions, as well as a full line of oils and paints. The lumberyard in 1896 offered customized "field and fancy fencing" in addition to a large stock of fir lumber from Oregon and redwood from California. The harness and shoe factory at this point was employing four men full time. The entire uptown Co-op then had a staff of twenty-five men and girls.22 In 1899 the People's Co-op capitalization was increased to $100,000, of which $60,000 was fully paid. In the first two years of the new century Racker supervised dramatic expansions of both the uptown and dOwntown stores. In the spring of 1900 the original downtown building (T. & W. Taylor/Lehi Union 127 Exchange) was demolished and a large two-story brick facility started. This building (presently the west half of the Colonial House) at 189 West Main was completed in early 1901 . The 1889-built portion of the store then became the hardware department. In 1902 the Co-op management initiated construction of a 22,000-square-foot building at the uptown site (161 East State). This structure (Christensen's in 1989) was completed in the spring of 1903. It was one of the first stores in Lehi to be wired for electricity. The 4 June 1903 Lehi Banner commented that it was a pleasure to do business there because there were "no dark corners." The building was also the first in Lehi to have cement sidewalks. "This is something new in our city," commented the 9 April 1903 Lehi Banner, "and we hope to see our merchants on main street soon do likewise and help make our city look more metropolitan." W. E. Racker was called on a mission to Denmark in early 1903. A festive retirement party was held on his behalf in the Union Hotel. After dinner Co-op president Thomas Cutler presented Racker with a $240 gold watch. Samuel!. Goodwin, who was succeeding Racker, gave a speech. Afterward the group moved to the dancing room in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank. 23 When Racker returned from his mission in the summer of 1904 he purchased the downtown Co-op branch. This $9,000 transaction included the lumberyard and all the buildings in the 108-foot frontage- but none of the store goods. Racker Mercantile opened for business on 6 August 1904. To advertise the consolidation of its business interests, the People's Co-op announced in the 4 August 1904 Lehi Banner that "The 'Branch is dead,' long live the MAIN STORE of People's Co-op on State Street." The following year the Co-op divested itself further by selling its livery business to George and Joseph Hammer. 24 In 1912 the People's Co-op, under manager Goodwin's direction, purchased nearly an entire block of property immediately to the west of their large store. This included the Union Hotel, Peter Larsen's Butcher Shop, and the three Wines' Cottages on the west side of First East. The company then moved their lumber and coal yards from north of the railroad tracks to the northeast corner of State and First East (Peck Lumber Company in 1989). One of the most interesting features at the old lumberyard had been a pneumatic tube connection to the main store. This system, which carried cash and small packages, was also installed at the new lumberyard location in 1924. The Union Hotel, which had been only marginally successful under its previous ownership, was remodeled and refurbished by the Co-op management. But it never regained its former popularity and in 1914 was converted into a movie house - The Royal Theatre. The place achieved immense success under Sam Goodwin's management. Four years after the theater opened the CAMP HOUSES/HOTELS was stopped by word from county attorney King, who said it was not necessary. The Hammer Hotel had four rooms, which were designated "single front," "double front," "bunk room," and "George Jay's room" (bachelor George Hammer's sleeping quarters). The bunk room could accommodate several persons, each usually providing his own bedding. By 1907 both the Hammer Hotel and the Hammer home to the west were listed on the Sanborn Map as offering "lodgings," though within two years only the house itself was still being used as an inn. Photos of the day show a hand-painted sign above the doorway which advertises "Meals and Lodging, 2511:." After 1909 the Hammer building was the home of a long list of businesses. In 1909 George Lott had a plumbing shop on the premises. Charlie Umbach, Bill Barnes, Charlie Brown, and Jack Crookston maintained successive barbershops there. Edward Dean owned a bakery, Ray Carson a battery shop, and Comer/Hedges an ice cream parlor. For nearly thirty years the Addis family lived in the rear of the east half of the building while Mr. Addis maintained a shoe shop in the front portion. The Hammer building was demolished in 1949 and the Hammer home was removed in the early 1980s. In 1989 the site of the two historic structures is the vacant area west of the Lehi Bakery.4 Sugar Factory Boarding House The construction of the Lehi Sugar Factory required two hundred men. Many of them were from out of town and to accommodate them the company built northwest of the factory a huge boarding house which had a capacity for one hundred men. This two-story frame building, thirty by sixty feet, contained fifteen rooms, including a twenty-nine-by-sixteen-foot kitchen. Even after construction work was completed, and many of the men moved on to other projects, the boarding house remained the home for single men who were connected with the sugar factory.5 Union Hotel The building of the sugar factory also gave a rise to the Union Hotel on State Street. Thomas R. Cutler, Ira D. Wines, and William E. Racker purchased the property from Mons Anderson in 1890. The 14 August 1891 Lehi Banner advertised for construction bids on the building, which was designed by Clements and Company of Salt Lake City. The work progressed very rapidly. Two weeks later the 28 August Banner noted that the foundation work was nearly completed and the brick work was ready to commence. The completed building, like the Lehi Commercial and Savings Building (also owned by Cutler, Wines, and Racker), built at the same time, is one of the most elegant commercial structures ever erected in town. A good deal of the fancy brickwork, including the immense arched-lobby 149 window on the west side, can still be seen on the building at 121 East State. The two-story building with basement had stone steps and a handrail leading upwards into the lavish lobby. The fifteen sleeping rooms on the second floor were mostly occupied by traveling men heading south to other towns or railroad men staying over after their run. The kitchen and dining room area to the rear of the lobby prepared and served hearty meals. The Union Hotel was more than a hostelry. Many social functions, including weddings, missionary reunions, and professional functions, were held in the dining room. After guests had eaten the party could adjourn to the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building one block east, where a large ballroom was available for dancing. Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company's central switchboard, operated by Birdie Stoddart, was in a portion of the building from 1892 to 1906 (see chapter 54). T. J . Wadsworth leased the Union Drug Store on the premises from 1892-98 in the former clothing room of the People's Co-op. A. H. Gattis, representing Western Grocery Company of Kansas City and Denver, had a wholesale grocery business in this west room after Wadsworth vacated the premises. A barbershop operated by Sam Peterson and a billiard room were in this location in later years. Robert Stoddart and his wife Ada were the managers until the Union Hotel closed in November 1905. In August 1908 Ira D. Wines bought Thomas R. Cutler, W. E. Racker, George Austin, and John Y. Smith's interests in the closed hotel. He had the building thoroughly renovated and hired a Mrs. McDonald to manage it for him. When the building opened during the week of 17 September, it offered steam heat, electric lights, hot and cold water, sanitary ventilation, baths, and toilets. The large sample room, which had formerly been the grocery store, was converted into a parlor, and the former bar area was remodeled into small sample rooms. A porch was also added to the front of the building where guests could sit in the evening and watch State Street happenings. Mrs. McDonald retired in May 1909 and was replaced by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor of Iowa. 6 The Union Hotel was the site of scenes of human misery as well as of pleasure. On 26 June 1905 Marshal Newburn Butt was called to the Samuel Briggs residence near the hotel to "take care of a man who was acting very strangely." Butt determined that William Boswell was wanted in American Fork for leaving town without paying a boarding bill. While the marshal was making a phone call from the telephone central in the Union Hotel, Boswell popped a cyanide pill in his mouth and fell senseless to the floor, where Dr. Steele pronounced him dead. Notes found on the body told the investigators where the man's family lived and he was shipped home to Michigan. CAMP HOUSES/ HOTELS Genevieve Gray and Jennie Wanless leased the Darling buildings in August 1930 and opened the Hotel Lehi, which featured a connecting restaurant. In the early 1940s the restaurant portion of the building was the Southwick Cafe. Other businesses in the three Darling buildings over the years included Turner and Whipple's Tin Shop and Bicycle Repair Shop (1938), Bank's Appliance (early 1940s), Bob Roberts's Barbershop (1945-46), the Bishop's Storehouse (see chapter 9), Howard Dettmar's Radio Shop in the early 1950s, and the Glade Berry/Delbert Huggard Music Studio (1960s). The 149 West Main portion of the building (the original B. C. Earl Tinshop) was torn down in the late 1940s. The other two buildings (157 West Main and 161 West Main) were demolished in the 1960s. The area is a parking lot in 1989. Child's Hotel Little is known of this hotel except for a 2 February 1905 advertisement in the Lehi Banner: "The Hallway of the Child's Hotel Looks Like the Receiving Ward of a Hospital Filled With the Sick and Afflicted to See Dr. Morris - The Deaf made to Hear and the Lame to Walk - Nothing Like it ever seen in Lehi Before." The article went on to explain that Dr. Norris and staff of the Sherman Medical Institute of San Francisco could treat successfully the following diseases: "Paralysis, Catarrh, Deafness, Big Neck, Bladder and Kidney Diseases, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Loss of Manly Vigor, Female Diseases, Bowel Complaint, Debility, Dropsy, Heart, Liver, Nerve Diseases, Tape Worm and all Ear and Eye Diseases, Cancer, Piles and fistula cured without cutting or pain; and all kinds of chronic diseases, at prices within the reach of all." On 31 January Dr. Norris and his staff lectured to an attentive audience in the hotel. The Banner noted that "many promises were made which seemed utterly impossible to believe," but when the doctors invited the deaf to come forward, Richard Smith, who had been hard-of-hearing since the age of thirteen, responded. He "was made to hear a whisper in a few seconds," noted the paper, and "to say the audience was astonished would be putting it mildly. The doctors were warmly congratulated. It seemed like a dream, but it was real." Unfortunately for Richard Smith, the author's grandfather, this was not the case. Whatever chicanery the doctors performed on that stage in the Child's Hotel had no permanent effect on his hearing. Grandfather Smith lived until 1936, not quite deaf but nearly so. Reltuc Inn Few Lehi men had as much impact on the town in the nineteenth century as did Thomas Cutler. His management skills and business acumen were legendary throughout Utah and much of the West. In March 1878 Cutler moved from a small home near the original 151 People's Co-op store and bought a seven-room house from Samuel Briggs at 150 East State. By the turn of the century Cutler, through his interests in the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, People's Co-op, Union Hotel, Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, Provo Woolen Mills, Cutler Brothers, Utah State National Bank, Continental Life Insurance Company, and other wise investments, was one of Lehi's wealthiest citizens. In 1900 Cutler began construction of a $14,000 home on his State Street property - a home that is a near duplicate of the Jesse Knight Mansion in Provo, which was designed by architects Ware and Treganza. The 19 July 1900 Lehi Banner noted that Charles Ohran and Olaf Holmstead were doing the masonry work on the new fifteen-room mansion, which was later stuccoed and the plaster scored to resemble stone. "The Cutler Mansion," as Lehi people have usually called the Colonial Revival box-style home, was the "finest residence south of Salt Lake," reported the 17 J anuary 1901 Lehi Banner when the place was completed. The interior features hand-carved oak woodwork throughout, oak floors, a large sixteen-by-twenty-fourfoot dining room, a vestibule which opens into a front hall and stairway, front parlors with oak sliding doors, and handsome main stairway with stained-glass halfcircle window above a regular window on the landing, and numerous fireplaces with oak mantles and tile hearths. Three years after the mansion was completed the Cutler family moved to Salt Lake City, where Thomas could be closer to his management responsibilities with the new Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. He retained the Lehi home and various married Cutler children lived there periodically. Hoping to take advantage of the increased automobile traffic on State Street, G. Marion Cutler remodeled the Cutler Mansion into the Reltuc Inn (Culter spelled backwards). The 25 April 1914 Lehi Banner described the place as a dream come true for weary travelers: "The expansive shady lawns, the big double decked veranda, the wide hallway and classic staircase; the big parlors with the open fireplaces, the long sunny dining room capable of seating thirty or forty people and the comfortable, luxurious bedrooms, gives the place an air of elegance and at the same time makes one feel at home when he sleeps inside." Despite the splendor of the place and the plush new furniture, things did not go well from the beginning. The evening of 20 April, when Marion and Nellie Cutler were hosting an open house, the scene read like "Nightmare on State Street." While the Lehi Silver Band was entertaining the guests, a young man named Williamson startled the crowd by falling to the ground in an epileptic seizure. Meanwhile young Dolph Hunger was riding his bike nearby when he struck an unseen surveyor's stake, flipped a sommersault, knocked out three teeth, and "badly disfigured his countenance." LIVERY STABLES boarded by the day or week. Order your carriages by telephone at our expense. Horses & mares for sale. For terms apply to H. Barnes, Mgr." By October 1891 John William Wing, Jr., had leased the livery business from the Co-op, changing the name to William Wing Livery and Feed Stables. The following month the firm was advertising "the only hearse in the north end of Utah County." A brief ad in the 7 July 1892 Lehi Banner noted that Wing had two hacks, two double rigs, and six buggies, all of which had been employed the entire day on the Fourth of July. In 1893 Wing entered into a partnership with Mike Ryan, and the place became "Wing and Ryan Livery and Feed Stable." But two years later Wing bought him out and began using the trade name The Lehi Livery Stable. 5 Wing was considered one of the best judges of horse flesh in town. He was a lover of fine animals and introduced the Percheron breed to Lehi. A 16 April 1896 article in the Lehi Banner, ignoring the equally popular Hammer Livery, wrote that Wing's livery was "known and patronized by every traveling man that visits Lehi and the genial nature of the proprietor has made him one of the most popular men in the city." In the spring of 1901 Wing purchased five new Studebaker livery rigs and harnesses, for which he paid nearly $1,000. A 9 May 1901 Lehi Banner description of the conveyances noted that they "surpass anything in town and are what the boys call daisies." One of the described rigs was a three-seated outfit guaranteed to "charm the young people who like to cut a dash." To keep the rigs clean Wing installed a one-half horse power motor to his surface well under the carriage housethus becoming the first person in Lehi to utilize electricity in pressurizing his well. 6 Wing continued to upgrade his business. In late summer of 1903 he purchased two new buggies which, with the harness, cost $250. "Mr. Wing is one of those 171 fellows who spares no means to have the best kind of rigs," noted the 13 August 1903 Lehi Banner. In January 1905 Wing was called on an LDS mission to England and Will Kirkham became his manager for approximately one month. On 9 February 1905, Hans Hammer purchased the business for his sons George and Joseph. The Lehi Livery Company The Lehi Livery Company, under the management of Elam Foutz, bought Hammer Brothers' lease on the Co-op livery barn in October 1908. The following spring he purchased the real estate and intended to demolish the old livery building. Instead on 1 May it was announced that Hammer Brothers had bought the property from the Lehi Livery Company and intended to remove the old barn and stables and build a new establishment east of the Utah Banking Company building (206 East State). This was eventually done, though the business under Foutz's management was only moderately successful. 7 Johnson & Sons Livery N. Peter Johnson and his sons briefly operated another Lehi livery stable near the Denver & Rio Grande depot on Fourth West and First North. Like Hammer Brothers, Johnson & Sons were driven out of business by the Orem Interurban Railroad. The 9 January 1915 American Fork Citizen reported that after making an extensive trip through Sanpete and Sevier Counties, Johnson decided to reestablish his business in Richfield. Embarking on the three or four day trip, Johnson fastened all his conveyences together as trailers. He then towed them to Richfield, where he had made arrangements for "a good barn in the rear of the leading hotel." CHAPTER 21 eZBanks~ Lebi Commercial and Savings Bank Prior to the 1891 opening of the Lehi Sugar Factory, local farmers took their products to the People's Co-op, where they would be given a due bill for the value of the goods. This scrip could then be exchanged for provisions, clothing, or merchandise - but only at the Co-op's two stores. No money changed hands during these transactions. After the sugar factory was completed, farmers took their beet crop to the factory and received money for it. Cash purchases became commonplace for the first time in Lehi. Responding to the necessity for a bank, local businessmen Thomas R. Cutler, Ira D. Wines, William E. Racker, William Clark, Ole Ellingson, and Thaddeus Powell, along with Salt Lakers Francis Armstrong, P. W. Madsen, J. E. Jennings, and M. E. Cummings, established the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank in June 1891 with a capitalization of $50,000.' The bank opened its doors in the People's Co-op on 16 July, though this was only a temporary measure. Construction began immediately on a large two-story brick structure on the former site of the original Co-op building (206 East State). Cashier Ole Ellingson began soliciting local business with a series of ads in the Lehi Banner. "Prepare for a rainy day," one admonished, "by placing your money in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank." "Now look here, friend!" another one pleaded; "Save your money and deposit it." "Do not put your money in an old stocking," he advised in still another, "when you can have it compounded and made more by putting it in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank." The institution initially paid 5 percent interest compounded quarterly, though it later dropped 1 percent. By 14 August 1891 the bank had $18,000 in savings accounts. Six years later the deposits totaled $63,000. This sum, which did not include funds from the Utah Sugar Company, (banked in Salt Lake City), represented the savings of seven hundred depositors - most of them local farmers. 2 Business gains for the 1905 fiscal year were 60 percent higher than the previous twelve months. Eighty percent of the bank's business at this point came from outside the community. In July 1905 new officers were elected, including Thomas R. Cutler, president; Thomas Webb, vice-president; John Y. Smith, cashier; William Clark, George Webb, and David Smith, executive committeemen; Thomas Cutler, Thomas Webb, David Smith, George Webb, William Clark, A. R. Anderson, George Austin, A. J. Evans, and John Y. Smith, directors. Utab Banking Company People's Bank of Lebi In the fall of 1906 American Fork businessman James H. Clarke and others canvassed that town to raise money and enthusiasm for establishing a bank in a building just completed by the American Fork Co-op. More than fifty "monied men" of the town purchased stock in the new venture. The Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank, with $350,000 worth of business on their 1906 books, had a substantial clientage in American Fork and wished to join with this new venture. So the directors of the Lehi institution submitted a proposition to the American Fork investors which promised to deliver half the capital stock of the Lehi bank at a price of $130 per share. The A.F. group agreed to the terms and the articles of the bank were amended, changing the name of the organization (effective 1 November 1906) to The Utah Banking Company. Thomas R. Cutler remained the bank's president and his son in-law John Y. Smith became the Lehi cashier. 3 Winds of financial discontent began to blow across America in 1907. Officers of the Utah Banking Com- BANKS pany ran a series of what they hoped would be comforting ads in the Lehi Banner. In a 12 December 1907 issue they noted their capital as $50,000 and their surplus as $15,000. To allay patron fears they explained, "our Cash Securities, Escrows, and Safety boxes are all fully protected against Robbers or Burglars by the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company of New York." Unfortunately it was fear of a different nature that worried depositors. "Don't Let Fear Ruin Business" was the title of a Chicago Tribune article reprinted by the bank in the 23 January 1908 Lehi Banner. "At present this country stands face to face with a most absurd enemy," the article warned; "that enemy is fear." "There is no reason why merchants or anyone else should be alarmed," the article continued; "the backbone and foundation of this nation is its integrity and natural resources, which are in most superb condition . . .. The only trouble is the people (or some of them) are scared stiff." When it came to the Utah Banking Company, however, those fears were justified. On 23 January 1911 State Banking Examiner C. A. Glazier posted a closure notice on the bank's door. Bank president Ira Wines and cashier Charles C. Friel published the following explanation in the 28 January 1911 Banner: [We] are having many inquiries, and a great many rumors are afloat with reference to the standing of the bank and the causes for its suspension. It has been thought proper by its Board of Directors to make a statement of its true condition and the causes for its suspension. One of the causes has been a steady withdrawal of deposits because of the stringency in the moneymarket, and being unable to make the necessary collections, promptly, sufficient to meet our present demands from limited amount of its matured notes. A very large amount of its paper consists of long time notes well secured by real estate mortgages. The bank has owing to it $363,776.00 in notes and mortgages, and stocks, and the bank is owing on demand and savings deposits and borrowed money $298,360.00, leaving a balance of $65,416.00 above all the liability for deposits and borrowed money, not including its building, furniture and fixtures and real estate; the real estate being valued at $20,000.00. The Directors of the bank, representing 271 shares out of 500 shares of its Capital Stock, at its meeting held January 23rd, 1911, agreed to pay in cash 50 per cent of their present holdings, on condition that the balance of its holders will do the same and a meeting has been called for February 4th, 1911, for the purpose of consummating this deal and when this is done the bank will reopen for business with ample funds to meet all demands and every asurance that the affairs of the bank will be handled in the most careful and conservative manner. The bank at present is in the hands of the State Bank Examiner, who will, in a few days undoubtedly have a receiver appointed until arrangements can be made satisfactory with the stock holders for the resuming of business. 179 But the bank remained closed. On the evening of 10 July 1911 a host of angry depositors met in the Tabernacle with Judge Booth, County Attorney Jacob Evans, and Receiver C. C. Friel. After questions had been answered and the three men had left, a group of depositors remained to have a meeting of their own. Near hysteria was the prevailing mood and some felt the bank officers and directors should be held personally accountable for their mismanagement. The consensus, however, was to appoint a group to investigate the bank affairs further. Alma Greenwood, R. L. Bolitho, J. P. Aydelotee, S. I. Goodwin, Dr. W. T. Hasler, and Henry Moyle became this ad hoc committee. 4 The bank finally re-opened on 1 May 1912 under the leadership of Ira D. Wines, president; Thomas Webb, vice-president; Charles, C. Friel, cashier; Thomas R. Cutler, A. J. Evans, William Thornton, George T . Odell, J. H. Storrs, and S. L. Wells, directors. "The association of these business men is a guarantee," wrote the 4 May 1912 Banner, "that its affairs in the future will be conducted along absolutely safe and conservative lines." The 1914 annual report by cashier William E. Evans demonstrated that the bank was in its best condition in years and was "rapidly getting back to the former position it held as one of the leading financial institutions of the state."5 Unfortunately the bank had invested $90,000 in Price River Irrigation Company Land and Water. When a primary dam was blown up by agitators during World War I the loss to the Utah Banking Company was devastating. The institution tried to recover by reorganizing under the name People's Bank of Lehi in 1917, but losses were too great. Adding insult to injury, the Bank's vault door was blown open by safecrackers in March 1919. When cashier Herbert Taylor entered the bank the following morning he found the "vault door ... open with the lock blown to pieces." Everything of value, including cash, liberty bonds, and thrift stamps was taken from the vault and the safety deposit boxes. 6 The culprits were never discovered. On 4 May 1921 C. J. Thatcher, state bank examiner, again suspended the bank's operations and placed it in receivership. The institution's liabilities were listed as: current liability, $5,976.08; time deposits, $45,000; time certificates, $51,000; saving deposits, $38,000; borrowed money, $11,000. Noted assets were: $139,000 in notes; $15,000 in real estate, and $4,900 in cash on hand. 7 By 1 December 1921 the People's Bank had repaid 45 percent of its debts. Another 10 percent was paid in September 1922. On 20 January 1923 the bank stockholders received notice from the law firm of Willey & Willey informing them of their personal liability: We are requested by the State Bank Commissioner to inform you that he deems it necessary to call upon you as 180 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT a stockholder for your additional stockholder's liability provided by law. You are the owner of record of - - shares of the capital stock of said bank of the par value of ($100 per share) and as a stockholder therefore you are liable to the creditors of said bank in an additional s11m of (No. shares owned times $}OO.OO). We ask that you remit this amount to the State Bank Commissioner within ten days otherwise it will be necessary to enforce this liability by appropriate remedy at law. Despite hardship, most stockholders complied with the directive. The final settlement and closing of receivership of the defunct bank did not occur, however, until December 1929. By then the building had been sold to N. O. Malan who had purchased it in November 1923. He operated a funeral parlor and automotive repair service on the main floor until 1925, when Dr. Fred Worlton converted it into a hospital, which it remained until 1967 (see chapter 47).8 In addition to being a bank, a hospital, a funeral parlor, and a garage, the large building was also home to nearly a dozen other businesses, which included Utah Sugar Company offices (1891-92, 1895-97), Lehi Leaching Works (1892), Deseret Telegraph Company (1893), Mosiah Evans-Notary Public (1894), A . O. U. W. Lodge Room (1895), A. J. Evans-attorney (1905), Lehi Commercial Club (1905-11), Union Pacific Offices (1973), Ray Baldwin Photography (1975), and Studio Five (1986-87) . There was also a large ballroom on the main floor where scores of social functions were held in earlier days. The Lehi Fourth Ward met in the building for years while their chapel was being completed. In 1917 and again in 1919 a serious classroom shortage hit Lehi, and an upstairs room of the bank building was used for school. In 1989, except for an apartment in the southwest corner, the building is vacant and for sale. Bank of Lehi State Bank of Lehi Deseret Bank In September 1906, to counter the merging of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank with American Fork interests, W. S. Chipman (cashier of the Bank of American Fork) announced that his firm was establishing a branch office in Lehi. In October he leased the compartment next door west from the post office in the Ross Block (Laney's in 1989). On 2 November 1906 the bank opened for business with Chipman as cashier. 9 In early 1911, when the Utah Banking Company went into the hands of a receiver, a movement started to incorporate the Bank of Lehi. James Chipman, Sr., and W. S. Chipman purchased $10,000 of the stock and asked Lehi boosters to buy the remaining $15,000 worth. Lehi men who purchased stock were Phineas Allred, A. B. Anderson, J. E. Bone, Joseph S. Broadbent, William Carson, G. N. Child, J. E. Cotter, John Devey, Morgan Evans, William S. Evans, Andrew Fjeld, James H. Gardner, Dr. W. T. Hasler, Charles Herron, Dr. Horace Holbrook, Charles Ohran, W. E. Racker, S. W. Ross, A. O. Slade, Edward Southwick, and John Stoker. lO The charter for the new State Bank of Lehi was issued in late April of 1911. Founding officers were James Chipman, president; James H. Gardner, vice-president; and W. S. Chipman, cashier. The bank remained in the Ross Block for another eight years. On Saturday morning, 14 November 1914, when cashier Chipman and his assistant George A. Goates tried to open the bank's safe, the time-lock malfunctioned and they could not get any money out. They expected thousands of dollars of sugar beet checks to be cashed during the day, so quickly ordered several "sacks of gold and silver" to be shipped on the first Orem Interurban train from Salt Lake. In the meantime, local experts tried to open the safe. When they all failed, the bank entered into a contract with three Salt Lake City safecrackers. The yegmen worked sixteen hours a day for six days, exhausting hundreds of drill bits trying to bore a hole through three inches of super-hardened steel. Even after they finally punched through, much effort was required to hook a wire under the tumblers to position them for opening. A huge sigh of relief was heard when the heavy safe door finally swung open. II In 1919 the State Bank of Lehi moved two doors west into the former Lehi Drug Store building at 98 West Main. A report in the 20 January 1921 Lehi Sun listed bank resources of $321,985.75. Bank directors that year were James Chipman, William E. Racker, James H. Gardner, Edward Southwick, William S. Evans, John F. Bradshaw, and J. E. Cotter. James Chipman died in 1928 and W. S. Chipman was elected bank president; Emmett L. Chipman became cashier. To accommodate the bank's continuous growth, a new addition was built onto the north of the building in August 1930. This new area comprised a directors room, furnace room, and rest rooms. When two American Fork banks and one in Midvale failed in mid-January 1932, the directors of the State Bank of Lehi closed their doors to protect the institution from a bank run. Bank President W. S. Chipman declared that although the bank's papers and affairs were in a "perfectly safe condition," meeting "every requirement of the state banking regulation," the bank would remain closed until "public confidence is restored." The re-opening took place on 28 July 1932 and the bank has never had to close its doors since that time. 12 "NOW 'WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF?' " advertised the State Bank of Lehi in the 4 January 1934 Lehi Free Press. The institution had just received a Western Union telegram from Washington, D.C., informing them that they had been awarded mem- SERVICE STATIONS/ GARAGES/ AUTO PARTS STORES Malan was decidedly one of Lehi's most colorful personalities. When he was not fixing flats and pumping gas, the man of action was likely downtown slapping mustard on hot dogs at his confectionery. Malan was also the town's undertaker. He nearly enhanced his mortuary business on 20 August 1921. Cruising along First East in a new Dodge automobile, Malan smashed into a buggy driven by Elizabeth Webb and three accompanying children. Although it was raining and visibility was reduced at the Fourth North intersection, the chief cause of the accident was Malan's momentary distraction by the girlish charm of two well-proportioned sidewalk strollers. Mrs. Webb and her three children (Karl, Dean, and Zada [Phillips)) were shaken up but uninjured though the horse had to be destroyed and the fancy automobile towed to Malan Service for repair.2 In November 1923 Malan moved the sales and service portion of his automotive business, along with his undertaking parlor, to the People's Bank of Lehi building (206 East State) he had just purchased. Apparently mixing the two types of body work did not catch on. In 1925 Dr. Fred Worlton purchased the place and converted it into the Lehi Hospital. Meanwhile Malan also sold his "Keep off the Grass" service station in August 1924. The new owners, Kelly and Guy Wilson, established the New Car Agency which offered Durrant and Star Cars at prices ranging from $890 to $2,400. The building burned down in 1927 and contractor W. W. Dickerson built a new $4,000 brick structure on the site in June of that year. When the two-pump station opened on 3 July it sold Pep 88 gas. Round-the-clock service, a first for Lehi, was also provided. Dean Powell managed the station until the fall of 1933, when he took over his father James Powell's station at Fifth West and Main. Young Powell was succeeded at State Street Service by Max Herron. Next came Sylvester Clark, who was soon followed by Francis Grant. For a time after World War II Larry Glathar operated the station until Dean Powell re-leased it from Vtoco in 1948. When Powell leased a second station downtown his wife and son continued to operate the uptown facility for a time. In May 1953, however, the building became an Arctic Circle. A dilapidated eyesore for many years, the building burned down in the summer of 1989. Henry Sorenson erected a service station in October 1921 on the former site of William Trinnaman's blacksmith shop (489 West State). Park Service was managed by several different gas jockeys and mechanics. In August 1933 Kelly Wilson, who had been managing Lehi Motor on Main Street, became the proprietor of Park Service. For a time in the 1930s after Prohibition ended it was also Claude's Place, a beer tavern owned by Claude Fickes. The building became a Sinclair service station in the 1940s under the management of James Buchanan and H. "Jockey" Johnson. Don Harris oper- 209 ated the last service station there in the late 1970s. His father, Blackie Harris, then established North Steel- a structural steel fabrication business. J & G Trailer Sales was the last occupant of the building. At the time of this writing in 1989 it is vacant. 4 For a time in the mid-1920s Norman A. Holmstead operated a service station called Norm's Place one mile west of town on Bridge Road (Main Street). A picture of the place shows a roadster filling up with PEP 88 in front of two lumber buildings, one of which is advertised as a lunch room. Edward "Ted" Larsen and Elmer Cloward erected a service station at 108 East State in April 1927. It was originally a Continental Oil Company franchise, though numerous operators leased the station over the years. Adjoining motor lodges were developed to the south in the late 1920s. Bob Edwards leased the franchise in the early 1950s. In 1953 a new building was erected on the site by Vtoco. Frank Bailey was the first operator of this franchise. While driving to the station early one 1963 morning, Bailey apparently fell asleep at the wheel and was killed when he slammed into the 1-15 underpass on State Street. Vern Rowley then assumed management of the station until 1967. Pleasant Grove native Lynn Walker subsequently took over the station for a time. Rinehart Oil, a Phillips 66 Company, eventually purchased the property and remodeled the place into Hart's Gas & Food - a popular convenience store and filling station in 1989. 5 Press Auto Service, a Conoco franchise, opened for trade on the northeast corner of State and First East Gust west of Lehi Lumber} in June 1927. This evolved into Central Service Station, which was managed by Don Holdaway in the early 1930s. Buck Peterson and Lynn Milne became the managers in late 1933, followed by Lamont Fotheringham in 1936. Gene Wilson opened Kelly's Service (featuring Texaco products) in this station on 16 July 1937. For one year (1950-51) Glen Wanlass had Glen's Service #2 there. When Wanlass ceased operation the property was purchased by Lehi Lumber (which later razed the old service station}.6 During the early 1930s both the Lehi Drug Store on Main Street and Broadbent's had gasoline pumps installed in front of their stores. They offered no automotive services, just gas. One can easily envision a wife running into either of the stores to pick up a few items while the husband stayed outside to gas up the car, check the oil, and perhaps kick the tires a time or two while impatiently waiting. Francis Grant operated four service stations in Lehi during his forty-five-year tenure. His first establishment was the Malan Service building. Next he leased a Shell Oil station at the Forks of the Road. His third station, Grant's Highway Service, was a truck stop and wholesale delivery station at 647 West Main. The last of his stations, built at Fifth West and Main (where Dean Powell had formerly been) was first called Grant's Bee- CHAPTER 32 e..;c Artisans and Tradesmen ~ Masons/Bricklayers All of Lehi's earliest artisans by necessity worked at their trade only part time. There was not enough work for a man to engage in his craft without supplementary income. J. Wiley Norton, who arrived in Lehi in 1853, was the town's pioneer mason. He was also a policeman and later the city attorney. Many of the walls of early adobe homes were built by him. He and a Mr. Howe were the principal masons on the construction of the Lehi Meeting House in the late 1850s. The mortar used in those structures was a clay and sand blend that would not weather well unless properly mixed. At least three of the unusual two-story homes he built in the 1860s are still standing in 1989. The house Norton built for his daughter Amanda and her husband J. Edgar Ross (338 North First East) is now the Ray Hardman home. John Beck's home (791 North First East), which Norton built in 1863, is now Lloyd Strasburg's home. And the John Zimmerman house (86 South Center), built in 1866, is presently owned by Ray Southwick. Other early masons in town were Frenchman Abraham Enough, who also organized the Lehi Fife and Drum Corps in 1860; Norwegian John Andreason who came in 1863; and Englishman Henry Goodey, Who arrived the following year. Carl Carlson emigrated from Sweden in the early 1870s to round out the town's international corps of artisans. Carlson, Norton, and Andreason, in addition to constructing many Lehi homes, in 1878 and 1882 also built the three People's Co-op stone buildings still standing at 189-193 East State Street. In 1883 they erected the New West School at 55 West Main and in 1887 rocked up the Lehi Opera House, then the largest building in town. In 1875 Dane Peter Johnson erected the first brick home in Lehi for fellow Scandanavian Peter Christof- ferson. This building at 99 West Main in 1882 became the quarters of the New West School. Another mason of this era was Joseph Kirkham, who in 1876 was called to work on the St. George temple. Olaf Holmstead, who grew up at Pelican Point, left home when he was eighteen (1888) to apprentice as a brickmason in Salt Lake City. He followed this trade in the summer and returned to Pelican Point in the winter to help his father in the family fishing business (see chapter 29). Olaf achieved national attention when he was featured in a 14 May 1940 John Hix syndicated column, "Strange As It Seems." The article noted that forty years after Holmstead's masonry work on the Lehi Sugar Factory, he handled the salvaged brick again when it was used to build the Joseph Smith Memorial Building at Brigham Young University. For more than fifty years Holmstead plied his skills in and about Lehi, working until 10:00 a.m. the morning of his 2 December 1944 death. Among his best known Lehi jobs is the Cutler Mansion (1900), which he and Charles A. Ohran bricked up. But there was scarcely a commercial building in town that he and his long-time friend and partner, Andrew Fjeld, did not either lay brick for or repair. Andrew Fjeld apprenticed as a bricklayer in the 1880s under Carlson, Norton, and Andreason. In 1891 he formed a partnership with Charles Ohran, who had come to Lehi to lay brick on the Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank (206 East State). The two men, along with Olaf Holmstead, worked together for twenty years constructing many homes and commercial buildings, including the Lehi Slaughtering Company butchers hop (1893-still standing at 101 West Main); the Northwest Branch/Third Ward Chapel (1894-stiII standing at the northeast corner of Fifth West/Twelfth North); Lehi Fire Station (1901-166 West Main), the Joseph E. Dorton butchershop (1901 - still standing at 46 West • 318 CIVIC SERVICE Dr. Worlton's medical studies began at the University of Utah in 1908. After completing two years of training he entered Rush Medical College in Chicago and received his M.D. in 1912. He then interned at the Red Cross Hospital in Salida, Colorado. When he returned to Lehi in March 1914 he lease.d the 1902built John Y. Sm;+\... - . ' ~ First East), :t such facilwhere he opened tl 1elM~' ~ downstairs ity in the town's / residence for his fa (Y.~ w ....'\" , ed an operating room and fou cond floor. Seven months later ;t home in ~ast State), the city, the Thomas which had most n Inn. Dr. Worlton relocated 1 ital there. Ten patient rooms a ere estabIi shed in the upstain t for the The 13 October 1 first time x-rays wen ___ .... cne Lehi Hospital by a representative of the Victor X-Ray Corporation. "Some wonderful pictures of almost every part of the body have been secured," the paper wrote; "people should feel proud of the fact that a local institution maintains such a machine as few cities of our size can boast of a like outfit." In 1925, the year he served as president of the Utah County Medical Society, Dr. Worlton purchased the former Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank Building (206 East State) and remodeled the upper floor into a hospital. During 1928 more than 150 patients received medical or surgical treatment in the Lehi Hospital. The following year Dr. Worlton remodeled the building to fully utilize the ground floor. When completed the fourteen-bed hospital boasted-in addition to an operating room - a bathroom, reception room, and kitchen. Unfortunately Dr. Worlton lived only three more years to enjoy the upgraded hospital. While duck hunting in Ogden on 22 October 1931 he suffered a heart attack and died. 16 Dr. Elmo Eddington, born in Morgan, Utah, 19 March 1895, served in the medical corps of the U.S. Navy during World War I. After the war he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, receiving his M.D. in 1924. Upon completing his internship at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh, he passed the Illinois state board examination and opened a practice in Chicago. It was here that he received a phone call from his brother that would bring him to Lehi. While driving along State Street Eddington's brother had hit a small boy riding a bicycle. He rushed the slightly injured lad to the hospital, where he learned that Dr. Fred Worlton had recently died. Eddington phoned his brother in Chicago, told him of the circumstances, and within a month Dr. Eddington had relocated to Lehi, purchased the hospital from Dr. Worlton's widow, and established his living quarters and office in the facility. \.1) 1 Business in the early years of the Depression was very slow for Dr. Eddington. "I waited and waited for days," he later remembered, "and not one patient showed up." One day he saw a man coming across State Street and he thought, "Hurray, I have my first patient." Actually the man's cow was sick with milk fever . But once the doctor demonstrated his skills with this udder patient his practice began to grow. Another frustrating aspect of Dr. Eddington's early practice was that Prohibition regulations required the doctor to obtain special permission from the city council to use alcohol to soak his instruments in. Many townspeople didn't like to visit the doctor in his hospital office, so Dr. Eddington began making house calls to enhance his practice. One day during a fierce blizzard he made eight home visits, for which he received just $3. Depression prices for tonsilectomies were $15, and maternity care was only $35. These fees required strict hospital economy. The doctor's wife bottled fruit to feed to inpatients. Despite the financial difficulties of the 1930s, Dr. Eddington desired an upgrading of the hospital. Federal grants required that a building be owned by a municipality before awarding WPA funds. Accordingly Dr Eddington deeded the Lehi Hospital to the city in 1 after which a $14,000 grant allowed the facility to remodeled into an eighteen-bed hospital. Construction work, under the direction of W. Dickerson, began on 1 July 1937. The landmark atop the old bank building was removed and the rior brick walls stuccoed. The eastern portion of ground floor was remodeled into a waiting room, a room, a nursery, a delivery room, an emergency ating room, x-ray facility, and kitchen and dining The west portion of this floor became the business Dr. Eddington's office, his reception area, and examination rooms. The upper story consisted of private and semi patient rooms, an operating room, labor room, bathrooms, nurses' offices, nurses' bedroom, and ets. In addition to central heating and air \,.VIIIUIUV1UUO'. a water-powered elevator was added to the UUIIU1l1t> south side. Dr. Boyd Larsen, who saw patients in hospital for nearly thirty years, remembered "the vator rose slowly going to the second floor but more quickly when descending." Unfortunately the room was on the second floor while the birthing was on the first floor. "If the water pressure in the tern was low," Dr. Larsen recalls, "the transfer to delivery room was a close race." This system was verted to a hydraulic one in 1956. 17 In addition to Dr. Eddington's practice in the pital, he was paid $15 per month for serving as quarantine physician. His responsibility was to epidemic diseases and to stress public sanitation. A ical address to the community was included in the November 1933 Lehi Free Press: 318 CIVIC SERVICE Dr. Worlton's medical studies began at the University of Utah in 1908. After completing two years of training he entered Rush Medical College in Chicago and received his M.D. in 1912. He then interned at the Red Cross Hospital in Salida, Colorado. When he returned to Lehi in March 1914 he leased the 1902built John Y. Smith mansion (518 North First East), where he opened the Lehi Hospital- the first such facility in the town's history. Maintaining a downstairs residence for his family, the doctor established an operating room and four patient rooms on the second floor. Seven months later he purchased the largest home in the city, the Thomas R. Cutler mansion (150 East State), which had most recently been the Reltuc Inn. Dr. Worlton relocated his family and the hospital there. Ten patient rooms and an operating room were established in the upstairs of this facility. IS The 13 October 1921 Lehi Sun noted that for the first time x-rays were taken in the Lehi Hospital by a representative of the Victor X-Ray Corporation. "Some wonderful pictures of almost every part of the body have been secured," the paper wrote; "people should feel proud of the fact that a local institution maintains such a machine as few cities of our size can boast of a like outfit." In 1925, the year he served as president of the Utah County Medical Society, Dr. Worlton purchased the former Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank Building (206 East State) and remodeled the upper floor into a hospital. During 1928 more than 150 patients received medical or surgical treatment in the Lehi Hospital. The following year Dr. Worlton remodeled the building to fully utilize the ground floor. When completed the fourteen-bed hospital boasted - in addition to an operating room - a bathroom, reception room, and kitchen. Unfortunately Dr. Worlton lived only three more years to enjoy the upgraded hospital. While duck hunting in Ogden on 22 October 1931 he suffered a heart attack and died. 16 Dr. Elmo Eddington, born in Morgan, Utah, 19 March 1895, served in the medical corps of the U.S. Navy during World War I. After the war he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, receiving his M.D. in 1924. Upon completing his internship at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh, he passed the Illinois state board examination and opened a practice in Chicago. It was here that he received a phone call from his brother that would bring him to Lehi. While driving along State Street Eddington's brother had hit a small boy riding a bicycle. He rushed the slightly injured lad to the hospital, where he learned that Dr. Fred Worlton had recently died. Eddington phoned his brother in Chicago, told him of the circumstances, and within a month Dr. Eddington had relocated to Lehi, purchased the hospital from Dr. Worlton's widow, and established his living quarters and office in the facility. Business in the early years of the Depression Was very slow for Dr. Eddington. "I waited and waited for days," he later remembered, "and not one patient showed up ." One day he saw a man coming across State Street and he thought, "Hurray, I have my first patient." Actually the man's cow was sick with milk fever. But once the doctor demonstrated his skills with this udder patient his practice began to grow. Another frustrating aspect . of Dr . Eddington's early practice was that Prohibition regulations required the doctor to obtain special permission from the city council to use alcohol to soak his instruments in. Many townspeople didn't like to visit the doctor in his hospital office, so Dr. Eddington began making house calls to enhance his practice. One day during a fierce blizzard he made eight home visits, for which he received just $3. Depression prices for tonsilectomies were $15, and maternity care was only $35. These fees required strict hospital economy. The doctor's wife bottled to feed to inpatients. Despite the financial difficulties of the 1930s, Dr Eddington desired an upgrading of the hospital. Federal grants required that a building be owned by a munic- · ipality before awarding WP A funds. Accordingly Dr Eddington deeded the Lehi Hospital to the city in 1 after which a $14,000 grant allowed the facility to remodeled into an eighteen-bed hospital. Construction work, under the direction of W. W Dickerson, began on 1 July 1937. The landmark atop the old bank building was removed and the rior brick walls stuccoed. The eastern portion of ground floor was remodeled into a waiting room, a room, a nursery, a delivery room, an emergency ating room, x-ray facility, and kitchen and dining The west portion of this floor became the business Dr. Eddington's office, his reception area, and examination rooms. The upper story consisted of private and patient rooms, an operating room, labor room, bathrooms, nurses' offices, nurses' bedroom, and ets. In addition to central heating and air l;UlllUJIUU'lU"~" a water-powered elevator was added to the uU" ....··D south side. Dr. Boyd Larsen, who saw patients in hospital for nearly thirty years, remembered "the vator rose slowly going to the second floor but more quickly when descending." Unfortunately the room was on the second floor while the birthing was on the first floor. "If the water pressure in the tern was low," Dr. Larsen recalls, "the transfer to delivery room was a close race." This system was verted to a hydraulic one in 1956.17 In addition to Dr. Eddington's practice in the pital, he was paid $15 per month for serving as quarantine physician. His responsibility was to epidemic diseases and to stress public sanitation. A ical address to the community was included in November 1933 Lehi Free Press: AMUSEMENT HALLS Southern Depot, Garff's Hall, Lehi Commercial Savings and Bank, Union Hotel, and the city-owned Pavilion are all noted in various accounts as being the scene of balls, Virginia Reels, hornpipes, quadrilles, cotillions, and the like. In a 1915 reminiscence of dancing in Lehi, old-timers, who had gathered for a reunion in the Meeting House, recalled that they danced in their bare feet in these pioneer halls. Many recalled suffering from slivers received from those rough wooden floors. Dancing often went on throughout the night. Sometimes merrymakers would end the fest by sitting down together at breakfast. The dress for men and boys was usually "overalls and hickeny shirts" and a "young man in high top boots was considered the best dressed man in the hall." Reflecting on . the shyness of young men at the time, the account noted that "often in those days a bottle hid behind a fence post was considered a necessary requisite."35 The floor manager was an important official at these dances. Each male was given a number when he purchased his ticket; because the early dance floors were small, only a limited number of couples could dance at a time. It was the floor manager's business to announce the numbers at the beginning of each dance and to keep order. Early dancer Andrew Fjeld remembers "the most popular [square] dance was the Plain Quadrille, followed by the French Four and the Lancers." While round dancing was at first frowned on by Mormon Church leaders, Fjeld recalls "the Waltz was the most favored, followed by the Schottische, the Polka, the Danish slide off and 'Suveann.' "36 The first dance hall in Lehi specifically planned for that pastime was built in 1913 by Walter W. Dickerson for musician James P. Carter and his sons Ray, Josie, and Darrell. The building'S grand opening event was the 20 June 1913 wedding dance of Nydia Taylor and George P. Price. The new Mrs. Price was given the honor of naming the dance hall; she selected "The Arcade" because it meant a place of amusement or entertainment. The Arcade was located on the west side of Fifth West at its intersection with State Street. The forty-byseventy-five foot building was of frame construction with a ticket office and anteroom. Initially the entrance was on the southeast, but this was later moved to the north end of the building, where a row of black locust trees had been planted-one still remains in 1989. Sliding glass windows could be opened in warm weather and shutters would close the building up during the winter. The slightly raised hardwood dance floor was finished to a smooth satin gloss and waxed for extra slickness. The bandstand, which was three feet higher than the dance floor, was in the south end of the Arcade. Regular dances were held every Thursday for 50<1: a ticket. There were also a host of special dances which included Halloween Costume Balls, Fireman's Balls, Red 283 Cross Dances, wedding dances, children's holiday dances, and a farewell dance for World War I volunteers. Neither of the town's two meetinghouses had recreational halls in those early years, so a multitude of Primary and Mutual socials were held in the Arcade. Like owners of other dance halls of that era, the Carters had to be versatile to remain in business. The 29 April 1914 Lehi Banner announced that "the Arcade is becoming famous as a picture house. Manager Carter is running movies same night as dances." To transport potential customers to his place, James Carter also operated a jitney service. He kept hacks on service outside the Lehi Opera House and other places from which dancers might need transportation. As automobiles became available, Carter purchased a new Studebaker and offered free rides to and from the Orem Interurban DepotY Basketball games, wrestling matches, and roller skating were varied activities that drew the public to the Arcade. The biggest calling card, however, was dancing. Though bands from Salt Lake City and elsewhere occasionally played there, music was usually provided by the Carters themselves. They established a family orchestra tradition that continued long after the Arcade was razed. In June 1918 Carter sold the Arcade to Allen E. Doll, who had recently moved to Utah from Ohio. Doll remodeled the building, lowering the dance stand and adding a restroom. He drew large crowds by hiring a black orchestra from Salt Lake City, though the Carter Orchestra continued to play for most regular occasions. Business began to deteriorate in the pre-Depression years. The price of tickets dropped to 25<1: a couple, so the Carters, playing for a percentage, sometimes made less than $2 per night before the hall was finally closed in the early 1930s. The Arcade stood empty for several years except to host roller skating - which had ruinous effects on the floor. Finally the building was demolished, although much of the lumber was salvaged to build chicken coops on the Doll property. The hardwood floor on which so many couples had danced away the night was sold to the Lehi Fourth Ward. It was installed in the church basement during a remodeling project. 38 Smuin Dancing Academy Since 1888 James Smuin had owned a large corner lot on the northwest corner of Center and Second North. In 1913, with the coming of the Orem Interurban Railroad to Lehi, this talented musician decided to take out a loan from the State Bank of Lehi to build a dance hall. "Lehi will soon have the finest dance hall in the state," announced the 4 October 1913 Lehi Banner, as the Smuin Dancing Academy neared completion. The grand opening dance, with music provided by the seven-piece Smuin Orchestra, was held on Halloween night of 1913. The sixty-two-by-one-hundred-twemy- SCHOOLS Fourth Ward meetinghouse. By 1913 the population of the surrounding area required a twenty-four-by-twentyfour-foot addition to the east side of the school. Genevieve Dransfield, who attended school in this building and later taught there, remembered that when the addition was built onto the school "the narrow steps and wooden banisters were replaced by wide cement steps. Two new grades were accommodated, making this a four grade school of about 60 pupils. This was much better because the children were a little older when they had to go 'downtown' to school. There were no school buses then."32 The Sego Lily continued to be used as a school until 1929, when it was closed and all children transferred to the Primary and Grammar Schools. In 1933 the vacated building was sold to the highest bidder, James Clark, for $410. It was then converted into the Arnold Dransfield residence. At the present time the building has been impressively restored by the Haruo Miyagi family, who reside there. Primary and Grammar Schools When the Sego Lily School was completed it was anticipated that sufficient classroom space would exist in Lehi for many years to come. By 1905, however, plans were approved for another elementary school. Trustees purchased property on the southwest corner of Center at Second North. The 18 May 1905 Lehi Banner reported teams were already hauling rock for the foundation. The large eight-classroom Primary School, fronting to the east on Center Street, was dedicated on 27 January 1906. Simon P. Eggertsen, a longtime Lehi educator gave the dedicatory prayer. The $20,000 building, which furnished facilities for four hundred children, provided many firsts for Lehi schools: indoor plumbing, central heating, and landscaped grounds. Children were required to wait outside the school until 9:00 a.m., at which time they marched (in somewhat orderly fashion) into the building to a lively piano accompaniment. During the summer of 1910 the Lehi School District erected another elementary school building on the northwest quadrant of Block 49, just northwest of the Primary School. In 1879 this area had been the city estray pound - where stray animals were corralled by the pound keeper until owners either paid appropriate fines or the strays were sold for damages. In 1893 the estray pound was moved elsewhere and a city jail was constructed on the site. In 1909 this jail was demolished and the eightroom Grammar School, which faced north on Second North, was built by Lehi contractors Charles Ohran and Andrew Fjeld at a cost of $30,000. A coal-burning heating plant for both the Primary and Grammar Schools was built to the west of the Primary School. Despite the additional sixteen classrooms made available in the Primary and Grammar school buildings, forty fifth-graders of the 765 students who showed up 303 for school the first day in 1910 had to be sent home due to lack of space. Officials quickly fitted up the southeast room in the second story of the Utah Bank building (later Lehi Hospital) as a fifth grade classroom for Mrs. Sydney Gilchrist. Ten students during the war years of 1917-18 also attended school taught by Miss Velma Shelley in the old adobe boarding house at Saratoga Resort. 33 When the Lehi Elementary School was completed in 1952 both the Primary and Grammar Schools were vacated. As with other empty school buildings, vandals quickly began their works of destruction. School officials warned that the buildings had not been abandoned. "[We] want to be prepared for the future," district officials explained, "by keeping the old elementary buildings in good condition for possible future use. [We] will need the cooperation of the citizens in this effort. Help stop this needless and expensive destruction of property."34 The officials' pleas were largely futile. The 6 November 1952 Lehi Free Press, while announcing the dedication of the new Lehi Elementary School, noted that Police Chief George Ricks had compiled a list of twenty juveniles responsible for breaking out virtually every window in the old school buildings as well as causing extensive damage to the interiors. Boarded up with sheets of plywood, the school buildings were never used again. A spectacular fire caused by an out-of-control rubbish burn, destroyed the Grammar School building on 9 August 1954. Two months later prominent Lehi educator Junius Banks, in an open letter to the Alpine School Board, complained of the "abandoned" look of the old schools. "The grounds are covered with tall, dead ragweeds, and dry tree trimmings," Banks pointed out; "the shrubs are dying from lack of water, the partially tumbled down and burned buildings all combine to create, right in the center of town, a most dreary prospect." Later that year Lehi brothers, Julian and George Clover were awarded an $887.75 contract to raze the Grammar School. 35 Glen Chadwick was granted a $1,900 contract to demolish the Primary School in early 1956. By late summer all that remained on Block 49 to remind former students of their school days was the heating plant with its smokestack and a small cement drinking fountain north of the tennis courts. Lehi High Schools As early as 1905 Lehi citizens anticipated the town would have a new high school. While discussing construction of the Primary School the 18 May 1905 Lehi Banner reported that the property immediately northwest of this school was to be reserved for a high school. But needs for 'elementary education were more pressing, and in 1910 the Grammar School was built on the site. By 1920 the Central School building, housing high school students, was bursting at the seams with 249 312 CIVIC SERVICE And that good old Souve Ann. Plain Quadrille, March Quadrille, And the once popular Chicago Glide Schottish, Polka, Waltz Quadrille, All done to a musical stride. 'Twill be an evening grand, With that old Kirkham Band To step lightly just once more I cannot miss such an eve of bliss To dance as we did of yore 1B Smuin Orchestra Another popular musical group in the early days of Lehi was the Smuin Brother's Band, which was formed by James and Joseph Smuin, cousins of the Kirkham Brothers. The two groups were contemporary and as early as 1880 Smuin Brothers were playing for dances in the Lehi Music Hall, with James Kirkham serving as caller for the square dancing. 19 For a time in the mid-1890s, the Kirkham and Smuin Brothers string bands combined forces to increase their flexibility. But this joint venture eventually was discontinued and the groups went their separate ways. In addition to the Smuin Brothers, James Smuin's children Melvin, Lester, and Marne eventually joined the orchestra as did his son-in-law Henry Thomas, and a nephew, Marvel Comer. Over the years, other oldtime band members included James B. Gaddie, George Kirkham, John W. Jones, John Potts, William Kirkham, and James Carter. Most of the musicians in the Smuin Orchestra, including their violin-playing leader, were self-taught. Jim Smuin was a deliveryman for the People's Co-op, though music was his first love. At most, band members never made more than $5 per person playing for dances. Moreover, in the days of the horse and buggy a trip to and from Cedar Fort or Fairfield was a major journey. On one occasion while returning home from Cedar Valley in a blizzard, band members feared they would become lost in the terrible storm. Miraculously a strange light appeared immediately in front of the horse and the animal followed the glow home into the Smuin barn.20 After more than thirty years of playing for dances at Saratoga, Murdock Resort, the Pavilion, the Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank, the Union Hotel, and other places far and near, Jim Smuin decided to build his own dance hall. The Smuin Dancing Academy, at 65 West Second North, opened on Halloween Night, 1913, with a dance sponsored by the seven-piece Smuin Orchestra. The modern sixty-two-by-one-hundredtwenty-five-foot facility complete with a spring dance floor, hosted hundreds of dances until it was converted into an apartment house during World War II. The Smuin Band continued playing for dances at the Academy and elsewhere until it was discontinued during the Depression. Members at the time of the group's demise were James B. Smuin, Wayne Thomas, Audrey Thomas Wilson, Sam Webb, and Jay Garden. Smuin, the band's founder, died in 1939. Carter Orchestra James Carter was born in Lehi in 1867. Though he worked in the Lehi Sugar Factory and for many years farmed and operated a custom threshing business, he was a musician at heart. For a time he found an outlet in the Silver Band and Smuin Orchestra. But in 1909 Carter formed a group which included his sons Ray, Josie, and Darrell. For nearly fifty years they were popular entertainers at Lehi Old Folks Parties, dances, clubs, weddings, and birthday celebrations. In June 1913 the family opened the Arcade Dance Hall on Fifth West and State Street. For five years the Carter Orchestra played for a multitude of dances in this hall. In addition to the Carters, band members were Edris Asher and Fern Gough Johnson on the piano, Bill Asher on the violin, and Bill Kirkham on the banjo. Regular dance night at the Arcade was Thursday. The cost of a ticket was just 50<!:. Special dances such as Halloween Costume Balls, Fireman's Balls, Red Cross Dances, and weddings were also popular. In 1918 Carter sold the Arcade to Allen Doll, who continued to operate it successfully until 1927, when he began to encounter financial difficulties. During the Depression years before the hall closed, Carter's Orchestra, playing for a percentage of the revenue, made as little as $1.50 for a dance. James Carter died on 3 January 1934, but his sons and daughter Nessie continued to entertain under the name Carter Brother's Orchestra. As late as the 1960s this group, under the direction of Ray Carter remained a popular dance orchestra. Since the tradition of "old time" dance music had been passed down through the group they were often requested to play music for such numbers as the Plain Quadrille, March Quadrille, Waltz Quadrille, Rag Quadrille, Polka Schottische, Two Step, Chicago Glide, Baltimore, Minuet, and Three Step. At the time of the dissolution of the band its members were Ray Carter, Darrell Carter, Nessie Carter Wilde, Jim Carter, Vivian Carter, and Leon (Red) Kirkham. 21 During the 1960s another popular Lehi dance band was the Bud Hutchings' Orchestra, which played "big band sounds" for many Lehi Dance Set functions, Gold and Green Balls, Lehi High School formal dances, and other social activities. In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, when rock n' roll and country western bands predominate, colorful Lehi groups have included The Four Bits, Jonah and the Whalers, the Vendettas, the Sundowners, Sandstone, and Saddle Boogie. Other Bands Throughout the years other Lehi bands occasionally were noted at various parades, celebrations, and polit- 330 CIVIL SERVICE provide companionship and pleasure for its members, or it may be set up to furnish clubmen with such benefits as life, accident, and health insurance. The Ancient Order of United Workmen (A.O.U.W.), founded by John Upchurch in 1868, was the first fraternal society in the United States to pay substantial insurance death benefits to a deceased member's family. Many fraternal organizations are secret lodges with unusual names, passwords, ceremonies, and initiation rites. Lehi has had at least three such groups. An A.O.U.W. lodge was established in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank (206 East State) as early as 1895. The following year when Louis Garff built a two-story frame building at 162 West Main, the upper part became a lodge room for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (1.0.0.F.) and the Knights of Pythias. The Odd Fellows remained there only briefly before moving to the former A.O.U.W. lodge rooms in the Commercial Bank building. When Bert Merrihew completed his large two-story drug store building (98 West Main) in 1901 the second floor became the new quarters for both the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of the World. The last reference to a fraternal order in Lehi was in the fall of 1903, when the local newspaper announced that the Odd Fellows were fixing up a hall in the second story of the Ross Block (80 West Main).5 Black Hawk Indian War Veterans "Forced by [the] starvation of his people," as he put it, Chief Black Hawk led numerous Ute tribesmen on a series of raids on Mormon settlements in 1865-67. The Black Hawk War resulted in the loss of 5,000 head of cattle, ninety settlers and militiamen, and untold numbers of Indians. Of the more than 2,500 Utah militiamen called to active duty, thirty-six were from Lehi. 6 On 22 August 1894 the first annual encampment of Black Hawk veterans, attended by 2,000 people, was held at Holdaway's Grove in Provo. 7 Although more than a dozen Lehi men and their wives attended the Provo function, the Lehi Post of the State Encampment of Utah was not organized until 31 January 1903, when a group met in the Lehi City Hall. Charter officers of the organization included Captain D. W. Thomas, Lieutenant T. F. Trane, Adjutant James Kirkham, Quartermaster William Bone, and Chaplain John Worlton. The group remained inactive from 1909 until 1 August 1929, when a reorganization took place. The new name became the "Sons and Daughters of Pioneers and Indian War Veterans of the State of Utah." New officers of Lehi's Post 13 were Captain Joseph Anderson, First Lieutenant James H. Gardner, Second Lieutenant Sadie Trinnaman, and Secretary and Treasurer Blanche Roberts. This group was responsible for coordinating the 12-15 August 1930 state Black Hawk Encampment (on the site of the new city athletic field west of the Memorial Building) held in connection with Lehi's Sugar Day cele- bration. Since then several state Black Hawk Encampments have been held in Lehi, usually at Wines Park in connection with the Lehi Roundup. The Lehi post again became inactive in the 1960s. Lehi Commercial Club Whenever businessmen have been reasonably free to carryon trade, they have formed commercial and industrial organizations for various purposes. On 22 May 1905 Abel J. Evans, Andrew Fjeld, Charles Friel, James Fyffe, S. I. Goodwin, M. W. Ingalls, James M. Kirkham, Henry Lewis, Alex Piper, W. E. Racker, John Roberts, S. W. Ross, Dr. Robert Steele, Dr. W. M. Stookey, and George Webb met in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank and organized the Lehi Commercial Club. The purpose of the club was to foster the business interests of Lehi, encourage new industry, advertise local products, and furnish social diversion. By the time the group incorporated, additional club members included Parley Austin, Joseph S. Broadbent, J. E. Cotter, John F. Cutler, Morgan Evans, W. S. Evans, James H. Gardner, Mr. Green, George Hammer, Robert Howard, Edward Karren, Homer Kendall, William Knight, J. H. Manderfield, A. C. Pearson, Nate Rockhill, O. A. Slade, John Y. Smith, J. E. Standring, S. J. Taylor, T. J. Wadsworth, Dr. Westphal, J. H. Wootton, Thomas Webb, and S. G. Wells. The first order of business for the Commercial Club was appointing a committee to meet with the Denver, Rio Grande Railway to encourage the construction of a spur near the depot. During the second meeting a secret ballot was held for electing a board of governors, and George Austin (president), John Y. Smith, and W. M. Ingalls were selected to serve one-year terms. A. J. Evans, S. I. Goodwin, James H . Gardner and W. M. Stookey were elected to two-year terms. During the 19 June 1905 meeting nine committees were formed: Admission and Grievances, Finance and Auditing, House and Property, Reception, Rules, Manufacture and Industry, Ways and Means, Laws and Legislation, and Good Roads (Irrigation and Entertainments were added later). The group was successful in bringing several important industries to Lehi, including the Agricultural College Central Experimental Farm (1906), Mount Pickle Factory (1906), and the Lehi Mill and Elevator Company (1906). Club members also sent a train car of supplies to earthquake-devastated San Francisco in 1906. Perhaps the most important undertaking of the Commercial Club, however, was the groundwork it laid for establishing the Lehi Waterworks (1907-1909). Additional interests and involvements of the group over the years included the pumping station at the mouth of the Jordan River, extending Lehi School District boundary lines to Pelican Point (to include the proposed town of Bostonia - "the town that never was"), an interurban railroad, Redpath Lyceum Bureau Lec- This former Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building was the Lehi Hospital from 1926-67. (Courtesy Glen Wanlass.) ~IM c.o.,..--~ (t d -"0 Dr. W. L. War/ton Dentist Office in the 1950s is now Porter's Place. The Davis/ Miller Medical plaza in 1989. I i • • • -CjU'M_ This former Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building was the Lehi Hospital from 1926-67. (Courtesy Glen Wanlass.) Dr. W. L. Worlton Dentist Office in the 1950s is now Porter's Place. The Davis/ Miller Medical plaza in 1989. 370 COMMUNICA TJON the contradictions of Mormonism. Thousands of years behind us in some of their customs; in others, you would think these people the most forward children of the age. They close no career on a woman in Utah by which she can earn a living."l When the Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank was built in 1891 (206 East State), the local Deseret Telegraph Company office, managed by Mosiah Evans, moved there. From the start it was not intended that the company be self-sufficient. Charges for social messages via telegraph were nominal; news passed over the wire to all settlements almost as cheaply as it was received in Salt Lake City. And church correspondence - sermons, circulars, and queries - were transmitted without charge. The company was subsidized by the tithing office until its sale to Western Union in 1900. Local operators received their financial support from donations collected by ward teachers. While telephone and fax machines have replaced much of the telegraph's former function, it is by no means obsolete. Millions of miles of land-wire circuits and ocean-cable circuits are in operation throughout the world. Reports, charts, graphs, weather maps, time signals, and many other types of information flow over these communication circuits. In 1979 the Federal Communications Commission voted to end the monopoly over telegraph service that Western Union had held since 1943. Local Telephone Companies The invention receiving the greatest acclaim at the U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 was the telephonethe brainchild of transplanted Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell. Millions of visitors picked up the oddly built contraptions he had assembled and chatted with companions elsewhere in the room. Young men at the fair dropped a hint of what was to come by "ringing up" young ladies standing across from them, thus respectably striking up conversations that would have been unacceptable face to face without proper introductions. Bell, a teacher of the deaf, perfected the telephone in his quest for a hearing aid for his deaf wife. Unable to interest Western Union in the device, he established a pilot company in New York and the telephone quickly seized the American imagination. Rutherford B. Hayes put a telephone in the White House in 1878. By 1880, only four years after they had first heard of the thing, 50,000 Americans were paying monthly fees to use it. By 1890 there were 800,000 phones in the United States. By 1900 there were 1.5 million. The first telephone in Utah was installed in Salt Lake City in 1879. The first exchange opened in Ogden the following year. The Utah Telephone Company, with less than a hundred subscribers, was organized in April of 1881. Two years later Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company purchased the Utah Telephone Company. Lehi's first telephone was a non-electrical system which connected the uptown People's Co-op (193 East State) and the branch store downtown (189 West Main). Coop employee W. F. Butt later wrote that a wire was stretched between the two stores - a distance of nine blocks. A brass button in the center of a piece of "hog skin" as taut as a drum was enclosed in a "square flared box like a horn or speaking trumpet." To signal attention a mallet was struck on the box several times until someone from the other end responded likewise. Butt noted that a speaker's voice could be heard throughout the receiving room. During windy conditions, however, an annoying humming noise often distorted the sound. 2 This mechanical system was replaced on 13 August 1887 by a connection with the main Rocky Mountain Bell telephone line between Salt Lake and Provo. The first instrument was installed in the People's Co-op and maintained as a toll station. "We now have the use of the telephone," wrote a Lehi reporter in the 22 November 1887 Deseret News, "which we find a very handy affair." Clarence A. Granger, superintendent of the Lehi Sugar Factory, was the first person in town to have a home phone. As more people began to subscribe, Rocky Mountain Bell installed a switchboard in the Union Hotel (121 East State) and hired Birdie Stoddart to operate the system. In April 1894 telephone service from Lehi was extended to Mercur. The line left the Salt Lake-Provo linkage at the Union Pacific Depot. It was strung down Second East to Main Street and then westward paralleling the Pony Express route to Fairfield. In the spring of 1902 Rocky Mountain Bell installed a new central switchboard in the Union Hotel. In addition to doubling the capacity of the system, the unit also had a fire alarm attachment whereby Miss Stoddart could call everyone on the line at once and tell them of the emergency. "Hello girls" like Birdie Stoddart often viewed themselves as the "most abused persons in the business world." An account in the 26 May 1904 Lehi Banner reported that callers often asked the operator for such information as the time, election results, train schedules, "the highest mountain in the state," and the outcome of local fisticuffs. "Abused!" the writer exclaimed, "Well I should say the telephone girls are." As if early operators did not already have enough trouble dealing with difficult callers, their connections were initially made by name only. "Miss Stoddart could you ring me up Wadsworth's Drug Store?" and "Birdie, would you connect me with my mother" were typical of the calls received daily by the local operator. It was also possible to listen in on party-line calls - an occurrence that spread gossip like wildfire. Rocky Mountain Telephone Company published the first state-wide telephone directory in 1904. Like most new ideas the apparently sensible practice of assigning a telephone number was vigorously resisted by some as RAILROADS Franklin D. Roosevelt did not even stop for three minutes on 13 July 1938 when his ten-car special rolled through Lehi at 3:50 a.m. Extensive security measures had been taken to protect the popular president. A pilot car preceded the engine by approximately thirty minutes and watchmen were stationed at every crossing as the president traveled across the country.23 Local citizens remember huge quantities of war materials moving on the D. & R.G. during World War II. In the midst of the war, however, the Utah Public Service Commission allowed the railroad to discontinue its Lehi station on 15 February 1943. Agent Leo B. Brown, who had been preceded by W. A. Ford, W. F. Welsh, James O. Meiling, C. J. McKellar, and Floyd H. Greene, sold the Lehi depot building and it was moved to approximately 780 North Fifth West, where it still serves as a private residence. Though D & R.G. trains still roll through Lehi, the majority of company business is freight. East and westbound Amtrack trains also travel daily through town on the D. & R.G. route. According to the Encyclopedia of North American Railroading, in 1980 the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad was operating almost 300 locomotives, over 10,000 freight cars, and nineteen passenger cars on 1,868 miles of track between Denver and Pueblo in the east and Salt Lake City and Ogden in the west. As early as 1902 voices were raised that an electric interurban railroad would be built though Lehi. Interurbans were a direct outgrowth of city transit systems in the late nineteenth century. Trolley cars could be built for higher speeds than those feasible in local service. While common speeds were forty-fifty miles per hour, some systems could run even faster. Interurban cars were usually bigger, more powerful, and more luxuriously furnished than city trolleys. Electric railway cars could negotiate steeper grades and sharper curves than steam engines, and interurban lines were usually cheaper to build and could compete with steam roads by offering cheaper fares as well as more frequent and convenient service. The 3 April 1902 Lehi Banner noted that Lehi booster Samuel R. Thurman, along with Reed Smoot, Jesse Knight, and C. E. Loose, had petitioned Utah County commissioners for an electric railway franchise to run from Lehi to Payson. But the entrepreneurs were unable to put this deal together. Lehi City Council Minutes note that at least four additional companies who were given franchise rights also failed to bring an interurban railway through Lehi. A group of Utah capitalists under the leadership of Walter C. Orem finally succeeded in building the Salt Lake and Utah Electric Railroad which eventually linked the business district of Salt Lake City south to Payson. Five hundred trackmen were employed by the Utah Construction Company laying the "Orem Interurban." It reached Lehi's western border in March 1913. Though 391 most citizens supported the railway, they did not want the line running down the middle of their street. When railroad workers began to lay track down the center of Third North, virtually every property owner living on that street opposed construction. Prominent citizens Dr. Horace Holbrook, S. W. Ross, and James H. Gardner presented a petition to the city council which threatened they would hold Lehi City responsible for "any depreciation of our property by the building and operation of said railroad if constructed on Third North Street, and will institute proceedings to collect damages therefore. City officials halted construction of the line while citizen representatives and railroad officials worked out their differences. A compromise was quickly reached and construction of the line continued eastward on Third North before turning south near Seventh East. The average cost per mile of the entire line was $38,000-$40,000, but 3,000 feet of tresting across the marshy Mill Pond area southeast of Lehi cost $50,000. 24 Lehi citizens, particularly children, were fascinated by construction of the interurban through town. Of prime interest were the daily comings and goings of two women driving a team of black and gray horses hitched to a white-top buggy. "One of the ladies is a business looking woman, rather inclined to stoutness and apparently about 45 years of age," the 22 November 1913 Lehi Banner reported. "The other is a fine speciman of maidenhood and apparently about half the age of the older woman." As it turned out the women were Mrs. W. M. Smith, owner of the railroad construction firm, and her daughter Irene, who was learning the business. Mrs. Smith, purportedly the only female railroad contractor in the world, had been involved in similar construction projects for the previous ten years, amassing a personal fortune of half a million dollars. Asked if she carried a gun for protection, Mrs. Smith responded, "carry a gun? Why I am not afraid. The men always treat me fine and when payday comes around I always see that the money is protected." She stressed her feminity, insisting she was "not a Suffregette" and thought that "women, even if they are in business, should have a home and children."25 The first passenger car of the Orem Line arrived in Lehi on 16 February 1914. This was an inspection vehicle, filled with company officials, and traveled only as far as Second East before returning to Salt Lake. One month later the line was officially opened to Lehi when two hundred visitors from Salt Lake, including Governor William Spry, arrived in town on three interurban cars and were welcomed by the Silver Band, high school students, and officials of the Lehi Commercial Club. A program was held in the Tabernacle and responses were heard from S. W. Ross and W. K. Hopkins of the Lehi Commercial Club, W. C. Orem, Governor Spry, A. J. Evans, W. G. Farrell, and Mayor William Gurney. M. LANDMARK LEHI HOMES 423 JOHN Y. SMITH MANSION Built - 1903 (brick) Address - 518 North First East Present owners - Larry ILisa Michaels Brief History- John Y. Smith, married to Emerett Cutler, was an ambitious man. Director of the Lehi Silver Band, cashier of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, and an eventual Utah State senator, Smith erected this fine home in the block south of his father-in-law, Thomas R. Cutler. In March 1914 the home was leased by Dr. Frederick Worlton who established a residence on the ground floor, and Lehi's first hospital on the second floor. Six months later Worlton moved the hospital to the Cutler mansion and the Smith home became a residence which it remains today. The Glade Dalton family restored the home when they purchased it in 1964. Portions of the 1984 movie, Footloose were filmed here. Larry and Lisa Michaels, present owners, are currently renovating this mansion. CHRISTIAN KNUDSEN HOME Built-1909 (brick) Address - 22 East First South Present owners - Mike/ Sandee Schanderl Brief History-Christian Knudsen, born in Norway in 1856, opened his huge Victorian home as a half-way house for Scandinavian travelers on their way to and from Salt Lake City. He built the house well, intending that it remain standing until the Millennium. Recognized as one of Lehi's hardest working farmers and stock ranchers, Knudsen fell from atop a hay wagon on 19 June 1926 and died of a broken neck. The family sold the home in 1935. During World War II it served as a detention center for several Japanese families and was then converted into an apartment house which it remained until purchased by V. J. and Jessie Carter in 1964. When Mike and Sandee Schanderl bought the home they began a systematic restoration of the home which is ongoing. * * * LIDF' Land Information Display System * * * Year: 1988 •.• Tax District #: 010 Acres: 0.17 Property Serial Number: 01:083:0011:003 Locator/Old Serial No.: A / A-500-1-1 ----------------------------- Owner Information: Name: ~ Name: Address: INNES, E RUSSELL & PHEBE W TEES 1996 ... 2295 SUBLETTE PL SANDY UT 84093-1050 Property Information: : Date Effective: Date Recot~ded: Last Entt~y #: Addt~ess 11, /0'+/87 10/2c~/87 39351,;87 Date Deleted: 00/00/00 Date Cr~eated: 12/31/76 Previous Serial Number: ----------------- Taxing Description: Pr~O per~t y C I ass: 10121 Date Updated: 07 /c~0/89 (Not For Legal Documents) -------------- COM. AT P1 IN W LINE BK 86, PLAT A, LEHI CITY SUR; SD PT BEING N 1 46' W 163.78 FT ALONG BLK LINE FR SW COR LOT 3, BLK 86; N 1 46' W ALONG BLK LINE 114.74 FT TO NW COR OF SD BLK 86; WITH N-LY LINE OF BLK S 62 55' E 94.33 FT; S 1 25' E 69.23 FT; S 88 14' W 82.26 FT TO BEG. t")cre en Pt~ i nt ed: Requested By: 06/11/97 INFO at 11:08:47 T22;::~05 EVALUATION SHEET National Register Nomination Utah Office of Preservation Name of Property: Lehi MPS Address: Main Street Historic District and 10 individual MPS nominations City, County: Lehi. Utah Certified Local Government: Lehi Submitted by: Nelson Knight Date: Feb. 1998 Evaluation: ~ Approved by staff -- Submitted to the Board of State History Returned for corrections or additional information (see below) Rejected by staff (see below) Evaluated by: Julie Osborne Date: Feb. 1998 Checklist of items required for each nomination _x_ * * * * _x_ _x_ Nomination form completed per National Register guidelines (Bulletin 16A) • Completed CLG approval letter (if located within an active CLG) . U.S. Geological Survey map (7.5 or 15 minute only) with location of the site marked in pencil. At least five, 35 mm color slides showing all sides of the structure and significant interior details. At least two, high-quality 7" x 10" full-frame, glossy, black-and-white, photographs with accompanying negatives. Photos should show principal facade and rear and/or side elevations. Name and mailing address of the property owner. Copy of all research materials. Comments Good nominations. Photos and maps en route. ()18 NPS Form 10 ·900 (Oct . 1990) Utah WordPer fect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) No. 10024· 0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of el igibility for individual properties or di stricts . See instructions in How t o Carplete the National Register of Histor ic Places Form (National Regi ster Bulletin 16M . Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested . If an item does not apply to the property being documented. enter "N/A" for "not applicable ." For functions. architectural classification . materi al s . and areas of significance . enter only categori es and subcategories from the instructions. Place additiona l entri es and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter . word processor. or computer to complete all items. historic name Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank other names/si te nlnber ---ILLe5i hJJiL-llHil%llisoloLiutLliaul _______________________________ street &number 206 East State Street ci ty or town _L~e5ilhJJi_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ state Utah code -....UL county _L...,e.....h.ui_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ code -HLA- not for publication -HLA- vicinity ~ zip code 84043- As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this -X-nomination ___'request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property -X-meets ___does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant ___nationally ___statewide -X-locally. ( ___ See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official/Title Date Utah DiYision of State History_Office of Historic preseryation State or Federal agenc and bureau In my opinion, the property ___meets ___does not meet the National Register criteria . continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official/Title ( ___ See Date State or Federal agenc and bureau I hereby certify that this property is: ___ entered in the National Register. See continuation sheet. ___ determined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. ___ determined not eligible for the National Register. ___ removed from the National Register. ___ other, (explain:) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action Lehi. Utah County. Utah City, County, and State Lehi Commercial and Sayings Bank Name of Property Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) ~ Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count . ) -2L building(s) Contributing Noncontributing 1 buildings ___________________________________ sites _ private public-local _ public-State site _ public-Federal structure object district _ Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing . ) Historic and Architectural Resoyrces of Lehi. Utah Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) COMMERCE/TRAPE; financial institytion ___________________________________ structures ___________________________________ objects _ _ _....L..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-l0"--_ _ _ _ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register N/A Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) VACANT/NOT IN USE COMMERCE/TRAPE; business HEALTH CARE; hospital HEALTH CARE; medical business/office Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN Materials (Enter categories from instructions) foundation walls Sandstone BRICK STUCCO roof ASPHALT other _________________________________________ Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) -2L See continuation sheet(s) for Section No. 7 Lehi Commercial and SaYings Bank Name of Property Lehi. Utah Coynty. Utah City, County, and State Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" on one or more lines for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) ~ A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. o Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" on all that apply.) Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Property is: A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. 0 a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. COMMERCE HEALTH/MEPICINE Period of Significance 1891-1947 Significant Dates 1891 1925 1937 Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder Charles Ohran. mason W.W. pickerson, contractor on 1937 renoyation Narrative Statement of Significance (EXplain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) -X- See continuation sheet(s) for Section No.8 Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): ___ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested ___ previously listed in the National Register ___ previously determined eligible by the National Register ___ designated a National Historic Landmark ___ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # ----..,.--- ___ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # ________________ Primary location of additional data: -X- State Historic Preservation Office ___ ___ ___ ___ Other State agency Federal agency Local government University Other Name of repository: -X- See continuation sheet(s) for Section No.9 Lehi Commercial and SaYings Bank Name of Property Acreage of property Lehi. Utah County. Utah City, County, and State 0.17 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) A -1LZ- 4/2/8/2/8/0 Zone Easting C-'-- 11111 4/4/7/1/8/7/0 Northing 111111 B--Ls11111 Zone Easting D--Ls- 11111 I I I I I I Northing I I I I I I Verbal Boundary pescription (Describe the boundaries of the property.) Commencing at a point in the west line of Block 86, Plat A, Lehi City Survey; Said point being N 1 deg. 46' W163.78 feet along block line from SW corner Lot 3, Block 86; N 1 deg. 46' Walong block line 114.74 feet to NW corner of said Block 86; with N-ly line of Block S 62 deg. 55' E 94.33 feet; S 1 deg. 25' E 69.23 feet; S 88 deg. 14' W82.26 feet to beginning. Property Tax No. 01:083:0011:003 ___ See continuation sheet(s) for Section No. 10 Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected.) The boundaries of the nominated property include the entire parcel currently and historically associated with the bui lding. ___ See continuation sheet(s) for Section No. 10 name/title Nelson W. KnightlArchitectural Historian organization Smith Hyatt Architects street & number 845 S. Main Street city or town """'Bo,.,u...n.llt...i....f""'u...l _______________________ date July, 1997 telephone [phone] state ~ zip code 84010' Submit the following items with the completed form: • Continuation Sheets • Maps: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and/or properties having large acreage or numerous resources. • Photographs: Representative black and white photographs of the property. • Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items.) name E. Russell and phebe W. Innes street &number 2295 Sublette place telephone [phone] city or town _Sotlail1nd~y_________________________ state ~ zip code 84093-1050 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nooi nate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing. to list properties . and to amend existing listings . Response to this request is required to obtai n a benefit in accordance with the National HistoriC Preservation Act . as amended (16 U.S .C. 470 et seq.>. Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 1B.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions. gathering and maintaining data . and completing and reviewing the form . Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief. Administrative Services Division . National Park Service . P.O . Box 37127 . Washington. DC 20013-7127 : and the Office of (J18 NPS Form 10· 900·a Utah WOrdPerfect 5. 1 Format (Revi sed feb . 1993) No . 10024·0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. ~ Page-1- Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, Lehi, Utah County, UT Narrative Description The Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building, located at 206 East State Street in Lehi, was built in 1891 to house the bank's offices. The building stands at the southwest corner of State and Second East Streets, which intersect at an oblique angle. The bank building occupies the irregular corner site resulting from this intersection. The building is an example of the two-part block type of commercial building in the Victorian eclectic style, as outlined in Thomas Carter ' s and Peter Goss ' s book Utah's Historic Architecture . 1847-1940. 1 Although the building's designer is unknown , Charles Ohran, a local mason who was prolific in Lehi and Utah County, was the builder .2 The original appearance of the building was more decorative and elaborate than it is today. The rock -faced sandstone foundation walls supported red brick walls . The main entrance, on the east side of the building, was (and remains) en framed by square sandstone pilasters in a roughly Doric style. These pilasters support a projection that continues up through the second story . The bank building is encircled by a pressed metal Classical cornice. An approximately two foot high parapet wall (now badly deteriorated) once flanked a round cupola , topped with a dome , that accented top of the projecting east entrance. The south half of the rear facade is clipped away to accommodate the irregularity of the corner site. An entrance on this clipped portion of the facade once provided access for additional tenant offices . The north facade, also prominent from both State and Second East Streets, is adorned with an arcade of arched windows on the first story. A line of one over one double-hung windows run along~ the second story of the north facade, as on the east facade. The interior of the building was once divided into space for the bank offices (on the north end of the building) and a large first floor meeting room and second floor tenant offices (on the south end) . The bank occupied both floors of its end of the building. 3 In 1925, the building was renovated to house a hospital on its second floor . In 1929 the hospital was expanded into the first floor . The newly created 1Thomas Carter and Peter Goss, Utah's Historic Architectyre. 1847-1940, (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture and Utah State Historical Society, 1991) pp. 62, 127. 2Richard S. Van Wagoner, Lehi. portraits of a Utah Town, (Lehi, Utah: Lehi City Corporation, 1990), 223. Unless noted otherwise, the histor ical material in this nomination is taken from Mr. Van Wagoner's book. 3See Sheet 2 of the 1907 and 1922 Sanborn Maps of Lehi for a simplified floor plan of the building. Lehi Hospital accommodated 14 patients and included an operating room, bathroom , reception room and kitchen.4 The exterior remained much as it was when built, until 1937. At that time the building was renovated using $14 ,000.00 in WPA funds to better serve its hospital functions. Workers under the direction of W.W. Dickerson removed the dome on the east facade and stuccoed the brick exterior walls. The first floor doors and window openings were reworked and topped with stepped brick lintels. The interior was reworked, as well: the eastern portion of the ground floor was remodeled into a waiting room, a rest room, a nursery, a delivery room, an emergency operating room, an x-ray facility, and kitchen and dining rooms. The west portion of the first floor became the business and doctor's offices, a reception area , and three examination rooms. The upper story became private and semi-private patient rooms, and operating room, labor room, shower, bathrooms, nurses' offices, nurses' bedroom, and closets. In addition to central heating and air conditioning, a water powered elevator was added to the building's south side . The elevator was converted to a hydraulic system in 1956. The building remained in service as a hospital until 1967, when it closed . The building was used for offices and as apartments sporadically for several years. Although stripped of hospital equipment, the interior layout remains as it was after the 1937 remodeling. The exterior remains much the same, as well. As of 1997 , the building has been vacant for several years, and is deteriorating. -X- See continuation sheet 4Van Wagoner, 318. <H! No . 10024-0018 NPS Fom 10-900-. Ut.h WordPerfect 5.1 Format (RevIsed Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, Lehi, Utah County, UT Narrative Statement of Significance The Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building. located at 206 East State Street in Lehi) Utah. is nominated as part of the "Historic and Architectural Resources of Lehi City. Utah " Multiple Property Submittal . The building 45 significant is significant under criterion A as the first bank in Lehi . as the home of other businesses important in Lehi's history . and as the Lehi Hospital from 1925-1967. Established July 16 . 1891. the bank is associated with Lehi ' s increasing prosperity that arrived with the advent of the sugar industry in the 1890/ s . The sugar factory bought its raw material . sugar beets . from local farmers. who were paid in cash for their crop. This switch from a barter-based to a cash-based economy yielded a need for a local bank. The buildi ng at 206 E. State was built as the first permanent home of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank. which occupied the building for 31 years . Additional space in the building was rented to other businesses . such as the Lehi Commercial Club . and the Lehi Fourth Ward of the L.D.S . Church. which met in the building from 1903 unti l 1911. In 1925 . after the bank closed . the building was converted into the Lehi City Hospital. It served in that function until 1967 . when the hospital closed. The economy of early Utah was based on bartering. Little cash was available. especially outside of the large towns in the Territory. In Lehi . most farmers exchanged their crops for credit at the People's Cooperative Mercantile. The Co-op was part of the cooperative movement instituted in Utah in the 1870 vs by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint (LOS . or Mormon Church). Although the cooperative movement was not successful. many of its stores were privatized and retained the popular name Co-op. The People ' s Co-op gave each farmer the value of their crops in scrip that could be exchanged for goods only at the Co-op's stores . located on State Street and Main Street in Lehi. The exchange of this scrip served as a local means of exchange for many years .s In 1891. The Lehi Sugar Factory was completed . Farmers who sold their beets to the factory were paid in cash . instead of scrip . The infusion of cash into the Lehi economy prompted the need for a local bank . In response. a group of Lehi businessmen. many of whom also had an interest in the sugar factory. founded the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank in June . 1891. Initial capital for the bank was SVan Wagoner, 178. $50,000.00. 6 Initial officers included businessmen Thomas R. Cutler , Ira O. Wines, William E. Racker , William Clark Ole Ellingson , and Thaddeus Powell , all of Lehi , and Salt Lake businessmen Francis Armstrong, P.W. Madsen , J .E. Jennings, and M.E. Cummings. Work immediately commenced on a new building for the bank . The bank purchased a small piece of property for the new building from William W. ~Taylor, at the corner of State Street and Second East , across State Street from the People's Cooperative Mercantile. The two story brick building, crowned with a cupola facing State Street , was built by Charles Ohran , a local mason who , in partnership with Andrew Fjeld, would go on~ o construct many of Lehi 's buildings constructed in the early twentieth century ~ The building housed the bank 's offices and extra office space to be rented. Nearly a dozen other businesses occupied this extra space, including the Utah Sugar Company (a number of whose officers also served in official functions at the Bank, 1891-92, 1895-97), Lehi Leaching Works (1892), Oeseret Telegraph Co. (1893), Mosiah Evans-Notary Public (1894) Ancient Order of United Workmen (A.O .U.W.) Lodge (1895) , A.J. Evans - Attorney (1905), and the Lehi Commercial Club (19051911) . ~The Lehi Commercial Club, in particular , played a sizable role in Lehi 's history. The Club ~ s founded on 22 May 1905 at a meeting in the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank . 1he initial members of the all-male club were Lehi ' s most prominent businessmen , including John Y. ~ Smith, Cashier of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank , who was elected to the first Board of Governors of the Club . The Commercial Club was formed to encourage new industry in Lehi, foster the interests of Lehi 's existing businesses, and to furnish social diversion for its members. The club was successful in its mission , bringing the Mount Pickle Factory and the Lehi Mill and Elevator Company to town in 1906. Most importantly , the Club was instrumental in establishing a water system in Lehi, which was constructed 19071909 . 8 In addition to office space, there was a ballroom on the first floor of the bank building. This was used for community functions for many years, including serving as a meeting hall for the Fourth Ward of the LOS Church , who met there from 1903 until 1911, when the ward members moved their meetings into a newly completed buil di ng . By August, 1891, the bank had $18,000.00 in savings accounts. The bank continued its success in the community over the next fifteen years. In 1897, the bank deposits had increased to $63,000.00 , most of it from small local depositors. By 1905, however, the financial makeup of the bank had changed, with depositors from outside the community now making up eighty percent of the bank ' s business. Despite this shift of focus of the bank's mission, the institution enjoyed healthy growth: business gains in the 1905 fiscal year were sixty percent higher than the previous year 's. In 1906, the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank extended its interests into the neighboring community of American Fork, consequently reorganizing in November, 1906 as The Utah Banking Company . The reorganization , however , occurred during a period of economic downturn in the United States. De s ~i t~ efforts to reassure its ~~JtMaclt "van Wagoner, 178. 7Van Wagoner, 178. Bvan Wagoner, 330. ~\~#lf>?y'\<) depositors, such as a December 12, 1907 advertisement published in the Lehi Banner, which stated that the bank possessed a surplus of $15,000.00 .9 Despite such efforts , the bank fell into financial trouble and was placed in the receivership of the Utah State Bank Examiner in January of 1911 . In the statement of financial affairs published after the bank was closed by the examiner valued the bank ' s building at $20 ,000.00. A reorganization of the board and officers of The Utah Banking Company helped re -open the bank in May 1912, under the leadership of Ira D. Wines, president , Thomas Webb , vice-president, and Charles C. Friel , cashier. A period of stable financial footing ended in 1921 when the bank, now renamed the People's Bank of Lehi , again was closed by the Utah State Banking Examiner . This time the bank remained closed. In 1923, the building was sold to N.O. Malan, who owned a nearby auto garage. Malan used the building for his unlikely business pairing of automobile garage and funeral parlor for only a short time . In 1925 , the Lehi Hospital moved into the upper floor of the building. Previously, it had been housed in the nearby Thomas R. Cutler Mansion, located nea ~ the bank building. In 1929, The hospital , under the leadership of Dr. Fred Worlton, renovated the building into a fourteen bed hospital with operating room and space for Dr . Worlton ' s offices. 1o Dr. Worlton died in a duck hunting accident in 1931. His replacement , Dr . Elmo Eddington, bought the hospital from Dr. Worlton ' s widow. Another upgrade was needed , and in 1937, in order to secure Works Progress Administration funds for a remodeling, Dr. Eddington deeded the hospital to the City of Lehi . A $14,000.00 grant from the WPA funded expansion of the facility into an 18 bed hospital. The renovation transformed the building to its present appearance. The landmark dome on the west facade was removed and the building was stuccoed. The interior was reconfigured to house an up-to -date hospital facility . New heating and air conditioning systems were added , as well as a wat ~ r powered elevator housed in a brick additio ' lding's south side :- The ~spital uwa s l_eh t~_~j)nl y health care facility for many year . In 1967 , the building was closed, falling victim to new hospitals in nearby Utah County and south Salt Lake County communities . For several years, the building housed apartments and offices, but is vacant and for sale as of this writing . -X- See continuation sheet ~an Wagoner, 179. IOVan Wagoner, 318. ()18 HPS Fo,.. 10-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5. 1 Format (Revi sed Feb. 1993) No . 10024 -0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No _ ~ Page Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, Lehi, Utah County, UT Bibliography Arrington . Leonard J .. Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. 1891-1966. Seattle. Washington : University of Washington Press. 1966 . - - - . Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints. 1858l2frQ. Cambridge . Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1958. Carter. Thomas and Peter Goss. Utah ' s Historic Architecture. 1847 -1940. Salt Lake City . Utah: University of Utah Graduate School of Architecture and Utah State Historical Society. 1985 . Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Utah County . Memories That Live: Utah County Centennial History. Springville. Utah : Art City Publishing . 1947. Kirkham. Thomas F.. ed. and compo Lehi Centennial History 1850 -1950 (including reprint of Hamilton Gardner's History of Lehi [Salt Lake City: Deseret News . 1913J) . Lehi . Utah : Lehi Free Press Publishing Co .. 1950. "Lehi Reconnaissance Level Survey ." prepared by Allen Roberts . AlA . for the Utah State Historic Preservation Office. October. 1992 . and February. 1994. Copy on file at the Utah SHPO. Owens. G. . Salt Lake City Directory . Including a Business Directory of Provo . Springville. and Ogden. Utah Territory . Salt Lake City. 1867 . Polk . R.L.. &Co . . Provo City Directory. Salt Lake City: 1903-1987. R.L. Polk &Co .. 1891-92 . Polk . R.L .. &Co . . Utah State Gazeteer and Business Directory . Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co . . 1900-1931 . Reeder. C1 arence Andrew. Jr . . "The Hi story of Utah's Rail roads. 1869-1883 . " unpublished Ph .D. dissertation . University of Utah. 1970. Sanborn Map Company. New York . Insurance Maps of Lehi . Utah . 1890 . 1898. 1907. 1922 . 1934 . Richard S. Van Wagoner. Lehi : portraits of a Utah Town. Lehi. Utah: Lehi City Corporation. 1990. See continuation sheet (J18 NPS Form 10-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5. 1 Format (Revised Feb . 1993) No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. PHOTOS Page ~ Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, Lehi, Utah County, UT Photo No. 1 1. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank 2. Lehi. Utah County. Utah 3. Photographer: Kim A. Hyatt 4. Date: June. 1997 5. Negative on fi 1e at Utah SHPO . 6. NE e1evat i on of buil di ng. Camera faci ng SW . Photo No. 2 1. Lehi Commerci a1 and Savi ngs Bank 2. Lehi. Utah County. Utah 3. Photographer: Kim A. Hyatt 4. Date: June . 1997 5. Negative on fi 1e at Utah SHPO. 6. N e1evat i on of buil di ng. Camera faci ng S. Photo No. 3 1. Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank 2. Lehi. Utah County. Utah 3. Photographer: Kim A. Hyatt 4. Date: June . 1997 5. Negati ve on fil e at Utah SHPO. 6. SE elevation of building. Camera facing NW . See continuation sheet LEHI COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS BANK LEHI HOSPITAL Constructed: 1891 Address: 206 East State Present owner: Max Chapman Prior to the 1891 opening of the Lehi under new management the following year, but Sugar Factory, local farmers took their products to continued to have difficulties. The institution was the People's Co-op, where they would be given a reorganized under the name People's Bank of Lehi. due bill for the value of the goods. This scrip could In 1921, however, the bank's operations were ~~uspended by the state banking examiner. The then be exchanged for provisions, clothing, or merchandise-but only at the Co-op's two stores. building was purchased by N. O. Malan in No money changed hands during these transactions. November 1923. He operated a funeral parlor and After the sugar factory was completed, , automotive repair service on the main floor for two farmers took their beet crtll:i' f01he I actOJY and •.,,;t years ~:-:'l "'-- ' . . . . . : ;IDC.-_ received money fot'-'i t. .- cashpuidUlSeS:'became ' ~.c ~." i~:~'fhi~tion to being a bank, a hospit8('-a""' ··· . . funerat arlor, and a garage, the building was alSo-commonplace for the first time in Lehi. Responding to the necessity for a bank, several home to nearly a dozen other businesses. These local and Salt Lake City investors established the included Utah Sugar Company offices (1891-92, Lebi Commercial and Savings Bank in June of 1895-97), Lebi Leaching Works (1892), Deseret 1891 , with a capitalization of $50,000. Telegraph Company (1893), Mosiah Evans-Notary The bank opened its doors in the People's Public (1894), A O. u. W. Lodge Room (1895), A. Co-op on July 16th, though this was only a 1. Evans- attorney (1905), Lehi Commercial Club temporary measure. Construction began on a large ( 1905-11 ), Union Pacific Offices (1973), Ray two-story brick structure on the fonner site of the Baldwin Photography (1975), and Studio Five original Co-op building at 206 East State. (1986-87). In the fall of 1906, American Fork The facility also had a large ballroom on businessman James H. Clarke and others canvassed the main floor where scores of social functions were that town to raise money and create enthusiasm for held in earlier days. The Lehi Fourth Ward met in the building for years while their chapel was being establishing a bank in the building just completed completed. In 1917, and again in 1919, a serious by the American Fork Co-op. More than fifty classroom shortage hit Lehi, and an upstairs room "monied men" of the town purchased stock in the new venture. of the bank building was used as a classroom. The Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank, In 1925 Dr. Fred Worhon purchased the with $350,000 worth of business on their 1906 building and remodeled it into a hospital. After the books, had a substantial clientele in American Fork doctor's untimely death, the building was purchased and wished to join with this new venture. So the by Dr. Elmo Eddington. Despite the financial directors of the Lebi institution submitted a difficulties of the 19305, Dr. Eddington desired an proposition to the American Fork investors which upgrading of the hospital. Federal grants required that a building be owned by a municipality before promised to deliver half the capital stock of the awarding WPA funds. Accordingly Dr. Eddington Lehi bank at a price of $130 per share. The AF. group agreed to the terms and the deeded the Lehi Hospital to the city in 1937, after articles of the bank were amended, changing the which a $14,000 grant allowed the facility to be name of the organization (effective 1 November remodeled into an eighteen-bed hospital. The 1906), to The Utah Banking Company. Thomas R facility provided uninterrupted service to the Cutler remained the bank's president and his son-incommunity until 1967, when its doors were closed. Since then the building has principally been used as law, John Y. Smith became the Lebi cashier. Winds of financial discontent began to a one-unit apartment. blow across America in 1907, causing the ultimate demise of the bank in early 1911. It re-opened p 44 - . Lehi Hospital in 1950 Lehi Commercial and Savings/Hospital building today 43 A GUIDE TO LEHI CITY'S HISTORICAL SITES AND PLACES Published by the Lehi Hisrorical Preservation Commission 1997 funded hv grants from the I ' tah :-'Iatc Historical Society <I ud Lch i ( ' it~' Corporati()n AUG 0 5 1992 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service [phone] LEHI FREE orne -: .- ~ . ~..,~ ...." - .., .,' .' .("if,,? · .- . ~h;~ld a~o~e o~ ,,~i,~?titutions 0 .,, ~. Unfortuna ,.; vested $90,Ot) . ' g~tion Comp! :~' When' a prima agitators c . the loss to the ywas deva tried to rec th,{ n'a n i in 1917, hi- of vah bonds, an from the v ' d~posit boxes.' n'~ver discoverec '~' ; On May 4, 19 bank exaI p~nded the ban~ 'tl~~Nf; -I~~111"--ICOl"ln~~:e~~~~:iitih~~~~afa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~; ~ ~,~,~~~~~"~~~-,,: placed it in\iab .~ ,i ill!stitution's rE . . • ; .' .r, . i, !: as: current \iahHi' U .'¢\;1." ~ "ertai1i, ~'s(i'vi1igs~"-7,/¥t;b~;~!~i~~~ <' "11 ~,. ~ t- .~~ ~ , ;1 ~~ !j bbrrowed TI:loney ,,~ ._ •. - ,,, _ .. ... - " . • - i'., I. n .. ./ -r ·'; lY~iti~~l~~1 busin~ss wi~h" a series l a,s sets ~ere: $1: ~~iYrhy'i"~ii' "f~?E~~J~~~~i£~ln~~s~l:; ~VUUl';r~i:o\>,;" ;~ ;\>:"'.'~fJif;/fl':\~S'~~ ~}~&¥ j,""'Si':~ inbrS Bank.''' '·.·. ' . , -' " . ~{.1~othe: 1,0 percen ··,·.'·"Now look here, friend!" another i. ' r " 7 < one pl~a,ded; ):~.~~ey,?ur mon'ey and b:- . deposl~ .~~'l:r' tv " . _.:.~,;. ~:: ~ ~.' .,f ". "Do not put yourmoney in an old }~ stocking,": he 'advised in: still an- . other, ."when you can have it com- ' pounded and made more by putting ',,' it ili'the Lehi Comrn'ercial and Sav- . ingS Barik~" .:';;;" -; i ; ' .' /. ' ~.' ' . . The institutlon initiallypafd fiJ'e ': percent interest compounded quar- , . t erly,_tho\.1gh it later dropped one I:. percerlt: By Aug."-14 the bank' had .$18,000 insavings :S:Ccounts> Six ~·. years"' later"' the'!deposits' : totalt~d ' " See YESTERYEARC;n~ P I' ~r <> ' ·1 's um did ;:-i-'C•• h e 1922. On Jan. 20, State Bank ·Commi ••ioner, Utah Sugar' .Com- '.: Safety bou. are . resenting" 271 ' .hare. out .tockholdera ' within ten daya otherwioe It will be pany;. . in SalfLake City. ' against Robbera or by the shares of It. Capital Stock. the law finn ofWilley neceUlry toenron:ethi. liability by which' represented the savin go of United States Fidelity and Guara'l' meeting held January 23rd. 1911; vested $90.000 in Price . infonning,th.m of their . appropriate remedy at law,· '700depositori - mo.tofthem looal ' .' tee Company of New York." agreed to pay in cash 50 per cent or gation Company Land and .': liability: ' 'c.,'" . '..' .•... : DHpite hard.hip. moot .Iock· farmer8. -1 '/.' ', . 'l;" I '. :./, t· '~ ,,:} ;, .~ ,, ):,. Unfortunately it 'wail fear of a - their present holdings, on condition: ' When a primary .d am wal blown up ~ ,,~' r We are req~e.ted the State ,j holdencornplied. with thedirectjve. ,,,. Bu.ihe•• gain. for the 1905 fi.- ; :.clifTer.nt nature that worried d.. that the balance or ill holdera will { . by. agitatoTl during World War .I,':1 Bank Commisal0ner to Inform you ' The final ..ttlement and eiooing of 'cbl ' year were ' 60 "percent high.r "'" pooitora, ·Don·t Let F.ar Ruin Busi- do the .ame and a meeting has bMri " 'the 1091 to the Utah Banking Com- j . that he deem. it neceaaa!'Y to can receiv....hipofth.defunct bank did . thantheprevious12months,Eighty .' n•••• was the titl. of a "Chicago . called for February 4th. 1911, for :., pony W8I develtetln!!. The institu- . upon you al a .tockholder ~or y~ur . not occur, however, until December , 'per~nt of ·th,fbank·1 busine.s·'s!':") Tribune· article ' reprinted by the the purpose of consummating thil .' tion lried tQrKOv.r by reorganizing . additional ltockholder·. lIabIlity 1929. By then the building had been 'this point cam. from outside-the " bank in ' the Jah. 23 1908 "Lehi deal and when this is done the bank' 'under the name Poopl.'. Bank of ':; provided by law. , . ,; oold to N, O. Malan who had pur· community . . .( ". , ~·,~~;:':\ ~·'·; B.nneT." ·~'/. ·I· : ':"":':";~ 'f '. . willreopenforbu9inesswithampie" Lehi in 1917, but loseee were too ~.; "·You8retheownerofrecordof· chased it in November 1923. H• .' In July ,1905 new officers were \ -At present this country standa funds to meet all demands and ev.l. . great. ,: .\"':'":I~' t ·.;" ," ;'141.:'; ~i_ . ; ~_ shares of the capital.rock ofleid operated a funeral parlor and "u~·., elected, including Thomas R. Cut- : ' face to face with a most absurd eTY assurance thatthe 8tfaiTlorthe'~':- .' Adding insult to injury, ~ the ~' bank of the par value of($100' per . ,motive repair eervice on the maIn ler,:president; Thomas Webb, vice- enemy," the Article warned; "that bank will be handled in the most ~: ~ BAnk's vault door was blown open shAre) and as a atockholdeor there· noor until 1925, when Dr. Fred .. president; John Y. Smith, cashier; ,1' enemy ill fear. There is no reason careful and conservative manner,l:.~ 'by' safe-crackerl .. in March 1~19. fore you are liahleto the creditors of Worltonconverted itintoahoepital, William Clark, George Webb, and .{ why merchants or ar:'yone else "The bank at present i. in , th~~ ! When clUJhier~ Herbert .Taylorfen ... 1, .aid bank,in an additional sum of : whichitremainedunti11967. Ple&s8 / , David Smith, executive committee- ! IIhould be alarmed," the artic1econ- handllofthe State Bank Examiner: ~ . . tet-ed the bank the following morn.' ~ (No. Iharell owned times $100). We join menen week for c:hapter two of' men;ThomasCutler, Thomas Webb, " ~inued; -the backbone and founda- . who will, in'a few daYII undoubtedly::" inghefound the"vaultdoor . .• open . ~sk that you remit this amount to this building's history. I?avid Smith, George Webb, WiI- :', ti~n of this nation is its integrity , have a receiver appoiAted unti1 'ar~""!' \\:,ith the lock blow~ to pieces." Ev.,. ~ ham Clark, A. R. Anderson, George .. j and natural resources, which are in rangempnts c~n be made sfttisf8~ F~ e.ryth ing of val~e, including cash, Austin, A. J. , Evans, and ,John Y. '. most superb condition. '•.. 'The only tory with the stock holders for the ':; liberty bonds, and thriftlltamps was , Smit~ ...directore. . ." trouble is the people (or some of resuming of business." i .: " ' .' taken from the vault and the safety , Inthefallof1906AmericanFork " them)arescaredstitf." , ., But the bank remained c:losed.j'f deposit boxes. The culprits were bU8ine ••manJames H. Clarke and ' "", Wh.n it came to the Utah Bank· On the evening of July 10, '1911 'I .\ never discover.d. .. .,.-,"'. otherecanvassed that town to raise ingCompany, however, tho~e fears ' host of angry depositors met in the . ~ ~ On May 4, 1921 C. J . Thatcher, money and ertthusiasm for estab~ . were justified. On Jan . 23, 1911 Tabernacle with Judge Booth; state bank examiner, again IUSIiahing a ,bank in a building just '. State Banking Examiner C, A. Gla· 10 County Attorney Jacob Evanl. and .'( pended the bank'. operation. and completed .b~ ~he' f\rneriean Fork . zier posted a closure notice on the . ,~ ReceiverC.C. FrieL Aft.erquestiona]: ! p.1~ced it in receivership. The Co-op. More than 50·moniedll)en~.•~ bank~I.~door.!,. Bank: president ·Ira had been answered and the thr~ in.titution's liabilities were listed ~~ of the town purchased stock, if1 ,tpe::·,,)Vines and CA,shier Charles C. Friel men had left, a group of deposi~ra. l.; as: current liability, $5,976.08; time ~.: \. new venture,;lt.'·· I , : ,~"">. ;'f ;"'ih-;1 publishedthefollow-h,gexplanation remained to have a meeting. ;''''~I , f'if7 ~ depo!its,$45,OOO;timec:e~ific:atesf ' " " 1, The Lehi Conimercial &.Savings in the Jan . 28, 1911 ~Banner": Nearhyste'ria was theprevaiJing ' $51,000; saving deposits, $38,000; ! Bank. with $350.000 worth of bu. i· ' , . ",W.I are having many inquir' mood and lome felt the bank omc. ·;.•. bOrrowed money. $11.000, Noted ., ',.ness ()n theit. ' 1906 books, had ' a · ies, and" great many:rumors are ere and dire:c:tors should be held. {: assets were; $139,000 in notes; substantial clientag. in American anoat with r.ference to the stand- personally ' accountable (or their ' $15.000In real ••tate. and$4.900in 1 Fork 'and wished to join with this ingofthebankand thecausesforits mismanagement. The consensus,: ', cash on .hand. '. newventure.. So the directors of the ·suspension . It has . been thought however, was to appoint a group to ' '. By [)(.c. I , 1921 the Peop,le'sBank , :Ii Lohi institution lubmitled a propo· ,proper by it•. Board of Directors to inve.tigateth.bank afTair. furth.r. '.' had repaid 45 percent of ,.ts d.bts. ) . ~: • • itjon to the American Fork 'inves~ make a IItatement of its true condi- Alma Greenwood, R. L. Bolitho, J~!~:e Another 10 percent was paId 10 Sep- br ! > <' .; ;t,~~:8c:~Ac~ ::~:;tt~~~:~~rnta~~\ :~~~.a8~et~~ :~:::~~: ~:ss~~n~ ~: ~!~~~,~d~!~~~o;~~i!~:~: r ' . _"' pric. of $130 per .hare . . " . .ateady withdrawal of deposits be- . this ad hoc committee, . , .. ... . ' ..; ( j~" ,fJlteAmericanForkgroup agreed . cause of the stringency in the money ::; t i l . The bank finally re-opened ort ,.' to' the terms and the articles of the market, and being unable to make , May I, 1912underthe leadership of" :., ' ~ bank l were :amended, changing the ' thenecessarycollections,promptiy, Ira D. Wines, president; Thomas:: ·: · name of the organization'(effective . sufficient to meet our present de- Webb, vice-president; Charles C; -' !Nov. 1,.1906) to ·T he Utah·Banking mands from limited amount of its . Friel, cashier; Thomas R. Cutler, A.: l,Company., Thomas R. Cutler re- , matured notes. Avery large amount J, Evans, William Thornton, George : mained the bank'a:.president 'and ,. of its paper consists of long time T. Odell, J . H. Storrs, and S.' L::~ '; his 8On.,in-law. John Y. Smith be- " notel well secured by real estate . Wells. directors, " I . . , .: .... ' • . '(1 . came the Lehi cashier: ' j;, I • " I ; mortgages, The bank hasowingtoit '. "The association of" these busi· ',,< .{ ',' Winds · of financial discontent $363,716.00 in notes and mortgages; ness men is a guarantee," wrote the ' it! :' began to blow acro" 'America in and ~tockl, and the bank i. owing 4 May 1912 "Banner," "that it. af· ..{ i 1907 .. Officoro oUhe Utah Banking on demand and lavingo deposits fairs in th.future will beconducted " Company ran aleri •• of what they and borrowed mon.y $298.360.00, along absolutely aafe and con.erva' "I' . hoped would be comforting ad. in leaving a balanc. of $65.416.00 tiv.lines." · . , r " " ' :'.; .: ", ':lthefLehiBoinn.rollk, ." "oi,'¥ ,.,~I "01Iobov. all the Iiability :for deposito " 'i f'The'1914 anhu~l, repOti'by\!a"h ".jl; L r( j[n:-u ~ ·Deo.; ; ;12, : . 1907.~ leflu~1h·ey ;:": and borrowed Iifon e:Y ~ 'not inc1udihlJ ~~' 'je,r Wmiam E. Evans demon ~ trat~~' u noted their capital as $50. ,OOO 'a'nd ': 'iits 'building, furniture'and fixture. ~ ' that th-: b.ank was in its best corldi,, -,I ~. their surplus aa $16,000. To allay 'and real estate; the real estate be': tion in years and was ·rapidly get- :. · patron fear' th.y .xplained, ·our ing'valued at $20.000,00, . ting back to t/le fonner position it, · ," ;: (, ,,~. . . - ','. . . ~ < 7 . r _. - . -- . " Centennial History 1850 - 1950 (A HisJory of Lehi for One Hundred Years) PRINTED IN TWO PARTS (1-11:?-1 , '-, _.- , C::-:< ;'; ;J' I Compiled u.n d WHtten BY ~.-, - ~ PART I RepI:int of First Publication of "HISTORY OF LEHr' LEHI CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE ,C(.:__.. 185U- 1913 PART II HISTORY OF LEHl - - INGLU)jIt:/G BIOGRAPHlQAL SECTION UP TO 1950 ' .- Published 011 FREE PRESS PUBLISHING CO. LEHI, UTAH September. 1950 298 HISTORY OF LEHI In 1846, they crossed the Mis, sissippi River and sta rted for th e west. They crossed the pla ins in the company of which A. O. Smoot The family consisted of eleve n children as follo ws : Arthur Merit, J ames, Harri et Elizabeth (Mrs. Alonzo Rhodes), Julianne (Mrs. Edward Ka rren), John, Jr., Henry T., Harry Jasper, Margaret, Benjam in, and Samuel. WILLIAM W. TAYLOR. JOHN STEWART LYDIA M. STEWART was captain of 100 and Samuel Rolfe was captain of t en. They arrived in Salt Lake City, September 16, 1847, and on the 12th of February, 1851, Lydia was married to John Stewart by Heber C. Kimball. In response to a call from President Young, they left for California a week after their marriage and settled in San Bernardino. In 1858 they were recalled by President Young, when they returned to Utah, locating in Beaver. In 1861 the family moved to Camp Floyd and in 1868 they came to Lehi, where they have since re, sided. Mr. Stewart was a carpenter and builder and during the years of his residence in Lehi helped to build many of the residences and other structures. He died July 12, and was follow ed by his wife November 26, 1912. William Whitehead Taylor was born in T etlow Fold, Oldham, La ncashire, England, December 12, 1828, being the youngest of the seven children of Samuel and Sarah Whitehead Taylor. He had little education, but was fond of books and spent most of his evenings at hom e reading. He was converted to the Mormon faith by his brother, J a mes, who presided over the Oldham Conference, and sa iled for America Sep, tember 5, 1849, on the ship "Berlin." During the voyage, cholera broke out a nd in twenty days forty-fiv e death occured. He landed at New Orl eans, October 22, and proceeded up the rive to St. Loui.s, where he was met by his brother, J a mes and Thomas, who had left England the previous year. For two and one-half years he lived at Council Bluffs and suffered much at times for want of food. On the 6th of April, 1852, Mr. Taylor started for Utah in Isaac Bullock's company. While on the plains, he became lost and was found by an Indian, who took him to the Indian encampment and treated him kindly. Thi.s hospitable red skin had his squaw provide food for the white ma n's supper, al.so skins for a bed, and the next morning conducted him to his own com, pany, also r eturning two horses which had strayed away. The company reached Salt Lake City, September 25, 1852. For a year Mr. Taylor lived in Salt Lake City, helping to build the Fifteenth Ward schoolhouse, and t o excavate for the t emple, whose corner stone he saw laid BIOGRAPHICAL and ded icated. In Oct ober, 1853, he move~ to Lehi, where he has since led a busy and industrious life. For a time he follow ed farming, taking the Fotheringha m farm on shares, later beco mfng the owner of this and several other valuable pi eces of r eal estate. In connection with . his brother Thomas he f ounded the mercantile firm of T. a nd W. Taylor, which conducted the fi rst .s tore in Lehi. During the latter years of his life, he engaged in the dairying business. In 1853 he married Nannie Strandring, who was born in Layton, La ncashire, England, July 24, 1826, being the da ughter of James and Mary Halliwell Strandring; and four years later he married Charlotte E . Legg ett, a daughter of Conrad a nd Louisa Le ggett, who was born October 9, 1837, in Ohio, and who was the mother of five children. In May, 1855, he was a member of th e White Mountain expedition and from the spring of 1869 to the fall of 1870, was absent upon a mission to England, where he labored as traveling elder in the Manchester conference, and afterward presided successively over that and the Leeds conference. He returned home on account of ill health. He was secretary of the Lehi Dramatic Association, the pioneer dramatic organization, and one of the leading players. He was at one time a member of the City Council and also connected with the local military organization. Although he preferr ed a quiet life and was never much of a public ma n, yet he was one of the staunch and sturdy men of the community, ever ready to help in every worthy cause. Charlotte E. L. Taylor died Februa r y 20, 1909". . Na nnie S. Taylor died June 15, 1913. Wm. W. Taylor died November 17, 1907. 299 SAMUEL R. TAYLOR. Samuel Rogers Taylor, son of J ames and Ann Rogers, was born August 11, 1840, in Oldham, Lancashire, England. When eight years of age, he, with his pa rents, left England and came to this country. The winter of 1848 he lived in New Orlea ns, and in the spring of 1849, he moved to St, Louis where he lived until 1851. At that time they moved to P adu, ca, Kentucky. After two yea rs they returned to St. Louis. Early in the spring of 1853, he and his parents started for Utah, arriving in Salt Lake early in September, shortJy afterwards he came to Lehi, where he has since made his home. During 1855 and 1856, he helped build the old Meeting House. On November 1, 1861, he married Martha Ann Fox. They were one of the first three couples from Lehi to be married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. In 1866 he was ca lled to Sanpete County, where he served about 60 days in the Black Hawk War. He has served in nearly every public office, having been elected first as captain of police in 1871. From 1879 to 1880 he was alderman; 1881, 1882, 1885, 1886 was city councilor; 1889, 1890, he was Mayor; 1898, 1899, 1902, 1903 he was agin a member of the Council. In addition to these he served two terms as Justice of the P eace; and one term as deputy assessor. He was a charte r member of the Lehi Brass Band, also the old Enough Band, being a member of these organization for about 20 years. He followed the blacksmith trade for many years until his health became impaired after which he engaged in farming. He died Sep, tember 1, 1911. 520 HISTORY OF LEHI the reverses that had caused its previous closing. The blowing up during World War I of the Price Reservoir in which the bank had considerable investment, resulted in the bank again being in severe circumstances. In an attempt to alleviate this difficu'ty, a reorganization by the same owners was effected in 1917 and the bank continued under the title of Peoples Bank of Lehi with Herbert Taylor as Cashier. A casualty of the post was business recession, the bank closed its doors permanently in 1921. The imposing building built for the banking interests on State Street has for many years been the home of the Lehi Hospital. The experiences of the bank started on Main Street by the Chipman interests, and known since 1912 as the State Bank of Lehi, has been more cheerful. This bank began in the Ross Building now occupied by Leany's Mercantile, moving into its present location at the corner of Main and First West Streets in 1919. The new quarters which had previously housed the , drug store, were remodeled for the bank at this time and have since been added to and improved as the bank continued to grow. With James Chipman as the first President, James H. Gardner, Vice President, W. S. Chipman, Cashier, and William E. Racker, Edward Southwick, H. C. Holbrook, and Morgan Evans as the first Directors, the bank began to prosper. Excepting for the bank's closing for a six months period during the trying times of 1932, the State Bank of Lehi has given uninterrupted service to the people of Lehi. On the death of ,James Chipman in 1928, W. S. Chipman was elected President of the bank. At this time, Emmett L. Chipman, who had been associated with the bank since its beginning, became cashier. He held that position until his death in 1946, when he was succeeded by Calvin H. Swenson. Also playing prominent roles as officers or directors of the bank at various times throughout its history, were many of the prominent men of Lehi. Included in this group are W. S. Evans, John F. Bradshaw, J. E. Cotter, Dr. F. D. Worlton, S. I. Goodwin, Stephen L. Chipman, A. Car:os Schow, D. R. Mitchell, Dr. Elmo Eddington, H. W. Jacobs, and Junius A. West. The last two men purchased the Chipman interests in 1939. At the time of this writing (1950), the officers and staff of the bank are as follows: Junius A. West, President, D. R. Mitchell, Vice President, Calvin H. Swenson, Cashier, Melba G. Clark and S. Rex Zimmerman, Assistant Cashiers, Howard W. Robin~on, Teller, and Lucile Rhodes, Bookkeeper. DOCTORS, NURSE8, MIDWIVES AND HOSPITALS 521 The fine service rendered by all of these people and others who have at various times been employed by the bank, together with the loyal confidence given by the people of Lehi, has made their bank a strong, sound institution. Early Doctors, Nurses, Midwives and Hospitals By George S. Peterson .,f History tells that Lehi was first settled · in 1850. At that early date there were very few real, bona fide, graduate doctors in the West. However, the frugality and courage of the pioneers was evident and pronounced even in the field of medicine and surgery. In the early days of pioneer life in Utah they practiced a form of surgery which would be considered very crude in this modern age, and yet in many cases, it gave very satisfactory results. The writer of this article has in his possession a small instrument called a steel lance. This little instrument, which has a very sharp blade, is set on a steel spring trap. The sharp blade was placed directly over a blood vessel on the wrist of the patient and then suddenly released by the touch of the finger. The sharp blade sank quickly into the blood vein and blood flowed freely from the cut. This treatment was known as the bleeding cure and, as stated above, was a very effective cure in many cases. Alonzo D. Rhodes, grandfather of the Rhodes families of this community, was the man who performed this feat of surgery in Lehi from 1851 to 1860. Joseph Dorton came to Utah in 1857 and was sent by Brigham Young to Lehi to be the first butcher and help out in the new settlement. A very interesting story is told elsewhere in print of how Mr. Dorton saved the life of a great Indian chief whose abdomen had been ripped by a rifle bullet. The story goes that the Indian came to Joseph's dugout at night and pleaded for help. Joseph laid the Indian on the floor of the dugout and with common needle and thread sewed up the wound. He told the Indian to stay in the dugout until morning. When Mr. Dorton arose next morning to check his patient, the fellow had slipped out during the night. The Indian returned several months 522 HISTORY OF LEHI DOCTORS, NURSE8, MIDWIVES AND HOSPITALS later and brought to Mr. Dorton, as a token of appreciation, a large, beautiful trout and told Mr. Dorton that he was a heap good doctor and had saved his life. The first real doctor to practice in Lehi was Dr. Joseph Smith Wing. It is said of him that he was very much married and a very unique character. His family lived at Springville, while he practiced in Lehi. At odd times he prospected in near-by hills and in Cottonwood Canyon. He was one of the first promoters of mines in Cottonwood and, at one time, he sold his interests there for $35,000.00. He divided this fortune among his numerous family in Springville. Many of the first medical professional men in Lehi came from Provo. Among the first of these, as we remember, was a Dr. Roberts. A very interesting story in the life of Dr. Roberts is th a t he purchased the body of Chancy Miller, a convicted murderer, for a pound of candy which Chancy nonchalantly ate while the firing squad was making ready for the shooting wf'l'ich would end his life. It was about 1898 when Lehi was favored with her first real bona fide and certified doctor. Dr. Robert E. Steele came to Utah from the East and selected Lehi for his fi eld of labor and practice. Dr. Steele was honored and respected by all who knew him as a fine gentleman and great doctor. He soon won favor in the homes of Lehi with his modern and skillful ways. He enjoyed a large and successful practice for a number of years until he moved to Salt Lake City where he died before he reached old age .. Dr. R. E. Steele, assisted by his brother, Dr. Frank Steele, performed the first operation for appendicitis in Lehi. Joszph Hammer was the patient and the operation was successful. It might be said that the people of Lehi looked with admiration and amazement at the seeming great skill of these two young doctors. Dr. Pike was another doctor who was often called to Lehi from Provo and was well known here from 1880 to 1895. Dr. Thomas S. Wadsworth (father of T. J. Wadsworth) came to Lehi in 1881 and practiced here until 1889 when he moved to Morgan, Summit County, where he died in 1926 at the age of eighty-two. Dr. Seabright will be remembered by many Lehi people. It is said of Dr. Seabright that he was not a graduate doctor but a graduate druggist. However, after setting up a drug store and effectually training one of our home town boys, David Ellingson, to ma nage it for him, he fitted out a doctor's satchel and could be seen on the go day and night to the homes of th e sick. He brought hundreds of babies into the world with the help of a good midwife. Dr. Seabright brought his wife and daughter with him to Lehi. His wife died a few years after. Later he married a Lehi girl, Eva Child. He built the brick home on the corner of Center Street and First North. In this list of early-day doctors, we must not forget Dr. (Cap) Hart (John). Like many of the early-day practitioners, he too was not a full-fledged doctor. Before coming to Lehi from the East, he operated a river boat on the Mississippi River and, as Captain of the boat, he naturally acquired the title Captain or Cap. He was the type usually referred to as a Homeopathic Doctor (one who prescribed the little white, sugar-coated pills put up in ro))s) . Dr. Hart had quite an extensive practice in Lehi and American Fork. 523 Early in the Twentieth Century, Lehi wa!ij cared for by a number of doctors . They were nearly all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and worked in many church and civic capacities. Among those who came in 1902-3-4 were : Dr. W . T. Hasler, now of Provo, Utah; Dr. Horace C. Holbrook, father of our fellow townsman, Garn Holbrook; Dr. W. M. Stookey, and Dr. Cliff. Dr. Cliff did not stay here very long, but the others were here for a number of years and were all fine citizens and able physicians. It was after years of schooling and training at Rush Medical College and his year as intern at a large hospital in Salida, Colorado, that Dr. F. D. Worlton returned to the city of his birth and began a great career in medicine and surgery . More will be said about him in this article in connection with the Lehi Hospital. To make the history complete, there are a few other doctors who had short stays in our city: Dr. Hanks ,a nephew of the late Ira D. Wines ; Dr. Mabey, a brothel' of former Governor Charles R. Mabey; Dr. Karl Beck, now of Provo, Utah; Dr. Sundwall, now of Murray, Utah; Dr. Guy Richards, now of American Fork; Dr. George Cochrane. now of Salt Lake City, and Dr. Thorpe, who was here for a short time. The first midwife to practce in Lehi was Lucy Smith Cox Dawson. She was a distant relative of the Prophet Joseph Smith ( her maiden name was Smith). She was the wife of Daniel Cox with whom she lived in the first fort at Sulphur Springs in the winter of 1850-51. Here, in a wagon box, she gave birth to a son the first white child born in Lehi. In her day and generatio~ she was the most popular and successful midwife in Lehi. During the forty years, 1850 to 1891, she helped bring into this 524 HISTORY OF LEHI world over 1,100 babies with very few mishaps. Her usual charge was $1.50 which paid for the delivery and the care of the mother for two weeks. Very, very often she received nothing for her work, but undaunted she never refused to go when called. Another early and successful midwife was J ohannah (Grandrna) Jacobs, as she was called. She was a Norwegian lady and the grandmother of about all the Jacobs families who lived in Lehi. Her time was 1852-1870. She also was popular in her day. Time and space will not permit us to go into detail for all of these grand women, but this record would not be complete without the following list of names, many of whom not only did a splendid job of nursing among the sick and the afflicted, but in that day when we were without undertakers, these fine women went into the homes during times of diphthlJ:ia epidemics, etc., a~d washed and laid out the dead and prepared them for burial. If we miss any who helped in this great work we offer now our apology: Mrs. Elizabeth Bushman, Mrs. Martha Southwick, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Henry Simmons, Mrs. Lydia Jane Titcomb, Mrs. Alice Steele, Mrs. Kate Allred, Mrs. Mary Long, Mrs . Annie Goates, Mrs. Bateman, Mrs. Vilate Sharp, and perhaps many others. This brings us to a time when it became quite the proper thing to have a man doctor attend a woman in chi'dbirth so the services of midwives became obsolete. The history of Lehi's modern hospital goes back to the year 1914 when the late Dr. F. D. Worlton obtained the John Y. Smith home, corner Fifth North and First East, for use as a hospital. In October 1914, Dr. Worlton purchased the Thomas R. Cutler home on State Street which served as a hospital for twelve years. In 1926 he purchased the old Bank Building on State Street which he remodeled and made into a modern hospital, utilized by many other doctors. Dr. Worlton died suddenly while duck hunting at the Gun Club west of Ogden October 22, 1931. At this time, Dr. E. Eddington, who was enjoying a very fine practice in Chicago, began negotiations by telephone and telegraph with Dr. Worlton's widow, Lena V. Worlton Peterson, for the Lehi Hospital. Dr. Eddington arrived with his family in December 1931, and took over the Lehi Hospital. Dr. Eddington owned and operated the hospital very successfully for several years. During the depression years, one of the requirements for the improvement of buildings through the RFC, PW A, and WP A was that the building must be owned by a municipality or corporation. As improvements were necessary, if the hospital was to maintain its position among good hospitals, it was de- DOCTORS, NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HOSPITALS cided that Lehi City should take charge of ths hospital. It was 1939 when the city purchased the hospital from Dr. Eddington. An elevator, cooling system, laundry, and other improvements were made ::>.t that time. Dr. Eddington still has his office and service rooms on the lower floor for which he pays rent. In April 1948, the city hired George S. Peter1sbn to act as manager of the hospital. Under his management improvements h a v e been made to the interior and grounds. The exterior has just been newly painted. The Lehi Gadren Club has planted a beautiful rose garden on the grounds. Shrubs and laws have been planted, and the grounds have been attractively I and s c a ped. The nursing staff, under the direction of Ml's. Ethel Ball, is rendering a splendid service. 525 ENTRANCE TO LEHI HOSPITAL Front row (left to ril>"ht): EVil Smith. Ethel Ba ll (head nurse) Hazel Dunsdon. Center row: Mary J. Loose, Edith Strasburg, Clara Clover. Back row: Dr. E. Eddington Rnd Mgr . Geo. S. P e terson. Among the doctors who utilize the facilities of the hospital are: Dr. Eddington, Dr. Boyd J. Larsen, Dr. Guy S. Rich~ ards, Dr. Guy A. Richards, Dr. Grant Y. Anderson, Dr. Vern Houston, Dr. Kenneth Noyes, Dr. Thompson, Dr. Hicken, and others. Lehi can point with pride to this splendid institution. Dentists in the History of Lehi By George S. Peterson Out of the past comes the story of how Brother John Woodhouse Sr. and Brother Soren Sorensen Sr. took care of the toothache trouble in the early days of Lehi. A little later on Dr. Wadsworth and Dr. Seabright relieved the nerve-racking pain of toothache by extracting or pulling the offender. However, none of these did anything about bridge work or filling or making false dentures. It was not until Dr. E. C. Merrihew came to Lehi in about 1897 that Lehi had her first real Dentist. Follow- '1 "J \,;'1',\1\ PRESS ASSOCIATI()\ Clipping Serrice [phone] LE III F R EE Free Press - WI patient, Mrs. James King, ~as transported to University Hospital by a mbulance. .' A discussion ofthe Lehl Hospltal would not he com plete without men· tioning the compassionate and efficient nursingcarerendered by such stalwart. a. Ethel Ban, Dorothy Bennett, J uliet Lolt Black, An Ole Bone, ClarnClover, Hazel Dun sdon, Marjorie Harris, Louise Johnson, Mabel J ones, Jennie Losee, Jena Mitchell, Melba Rothe. Eva Sherwood, Eva Smith. Valora Sm Ith, Edith and Laura Strasbu rg, and Clifta Varney. Alta Clark, Mae Daly, Clara Jorgenson, and Twita J ohnson al so deserve credit for years of preparing the hospital's tasty meals. This early 1950s photograph shows the Lehi Hospital in its prime. For many years structure served .~',(s hospital for Lehi community Leh.Yesteryears By-RICHARD VAN WAGONER In addition to being a bank, a hospital, a funeral parloT, and a garage, the large buildings till standingat206Ea.tStatewa. alsohome to nearly a dozen other businesses, wh ich included Utah Sugar Companyoffioes(1891-92, 1895-97), Lehi St. Franci. Hospital in Pitt.burgh , Leaching Works (1892), Deseret h e passed the Illinois state board Telegraph Company(l893), Mosiah examination and opened a practice Evans--Notary Public (1894), A. O. in Chicago. U. W. Lodge Room (1895), A. J. It was here that he received a Evans--attorney (1905), Lehi Com- phone caB from his brother that mercial Club (1905~11), Union Pa~ would bringhim to Lehi. While drivcitic Offices (1973), Ray Baldwin ing along Stnte Street Eddington'S Photography(1975), and Studio Five brother had hit a .mall boy rid ing a ( 1986-87). bicycle. He rushed the .Iightly in The facility also had a large ball· jured lad to the hospital, where he room on the main floor where scores learned that Dr. Fred Worlton had of social functio n s were held in ear- recently died. lier days. The Lehi Fou r th Wa rd Eddington phoned his brother in met in the bUllding for years while Chicago, told him of the circumtheir chapel was being completed. stances, and wi thin a month Dr. In 1917 and again in 1919 a serious Eddington had relocated to Lehi, classroom shortage hit Lehi, and an purchased the hospital from Dr. upstair. room of the bank building Worlton's widow, and established was used for school. his living quarters an d office in the To those of my generation , many facility. of whom were born in the building, Business in the early yearsofthe the .tructure is best remembered Depress ion was very slow fo r Dr. a. the Leh i Hospital. In 1925, the Eddington . "I waited and waited for year he served a8 presi dent of the days," he later remembered , "and Ut ah County Medical Society, Dr. not one patient showed up." Fred Worlton purchased the former One day he saw a man coming Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank across State Street and he thought, Building a nd rem odeled the upper "Hurray, I have my fi rst patient." Actually the man's cow was sick floor into a hospital. During 1928 more than 150 pa- with milk fever. But onee the doctor tiente received medical or surgical demonstrated his skill s with this treatment in the Lehi Ho.pital . The udder patient his practice began to following year Dr. Worl ton remod- grow. eled the building to fully utilize the Man y townspeople didn 't like to ground floor. visit the doctor in his hospital ottice, When completed the fourteen - . 0 Dr. Eddington began maki ng bed hospital boasted .- in additio n ho use calls to enhance his practice. to an operating room .- a bathroom, One day during a fierce blizzard he receptionroom,andkitchen .Unfor- made eight home vi sits, for which tunatelyDr. Worltonlivedonlythree he received just $3. Depression more yeaTS to enjoy the upgraded pricesfortonsillectomieswereS15 , hOlpital. While duck hunting in and maternity care was only $35. Ogden on Oct. 22, 1931, he .utTered These fees requ ired strict hospital eco nomy. The doctor's wife bottled a heart attack and died. Dr. Elmo Eddington, born in fruit to feed to inpatie nts. Morgan, Utah, March 19, 1895, . Despite t he fina ncial difficul tie s served in the medical corps of the of the 1930's, Dr. Eddington desi red U.S. Navy during World War I. Af- an upgrading of the hospi tal. Fedter the war he enrolled in the Un I· era! grants required th at a building v8nity of Penn sylva nia Medical be owned by a municipality before School, receiving hi. M,D. in 1924. awarding WPA funds. Accord ingly Upon completing h is internship at Dr. Eddington deeded theLehi Hos- pital to the city in 1937, after which a $14,000 b'1'ant allowed the facility to be remodeled into an HI·bed haspital. Construction work, under the dire<:tion ofW. W. Dickerson, began on July I, 1937. The landmark dome atop the old bank building wa. removed and the exterior brick walls stuccoed. Theeastern portion of the ground noor wa. remodeled into a waiting room, a rest room, a nursery, a delivery room , an emergency oper· ating room , x-ray facility, and kitchen and dining room • . The west portionofthisnoorbecamethebusiness oflice, Dr. Eddinbrton's ollice, his reception area, an d threeexamination rooms. The upper story consisted ofprivate and semi-priva te puti(>nt rooms, an ope rating room, labor room, shower, bathrooms, nurses' omce-s, nurses' bedroom, and closets. In addition to central heating a nd air conditioning, a water-pawered elevator was added to the building's south side. Dr. Boyd Larsen, who saw patients in the hospital fo r nearly 30 yt"srs, remembered, "The e levator rose slowly going to the second noor but moved more quick ly . . . hf'n descending." Unfortunately t he labor room was on the second floor while the berthing room wa~ on the first noor. "If the water pressul'e in the sys· tem was low," Dr. Larsen rE'eRII:;, "the transfer to the de\i\'e-ry room was a clo'5e race." This syste-m was cor.vened toa hydraulic one in 1956. in 1940 Lehi City establi.hed a hospital board consisting of H. A. Anderson, Virgil Peterson , E. B. Garrett, Sadie Russon, Essie Worlton, J osep h E. Smith, E. N. Webb, William Hadfield and Dr. Eddington. In ea rly 1942 the hospital, which had been leased and opera ted by Dr. Eddi ngton since 1937 , came under the controlofthe hospita l board. Most of the bw~in~~s management during this time was assumed by Head Nuroe Ethel Bal l. In April 1948, however, businps9' man GeorgeS. Peterson, marrie-d to Dr. Fred Worl ton'. widow, wa •• pSee YESTERYEARS on pare 2 At the time of closure the Hosp ital Board con sis ted ofJ r Strong (chair man ), Dr. Kc r Davis (city councilman ), I Broadbent and Basil Dorton (h tal manager). Dr . Eddington , had discontinued his private tice was Director of the Cc H e~lth Department in Provo. Dr. Boyd Larsen began 8 ' ting hi s patients to the Arn e Fork Hospital (where he serv e director from 1978-84), and Dr E. Meyers , who since Oc:ober h ad maintained an offlceln th, Hospital, moved with his farr Pennsylvania. Dr. Eddington returned tl in 1967 nnd reE"st Rblishcd hi ~ in the old hosp ita l build ing. r~;~~~S.4~;~~~~~;E;,~~;~~~~";~~~:~~~~s~~:~~~J:~;~,~'~~":~: Dr . Eddington still maintained an vlded yeoman serVIce to the com- hospital admissions in 1954 were by ambulance. oflice in the hospital, other physi- munity until 1967. . 12.5 percent lower than the previA discussion ofthe Lehi Hospital cia ns who attended patients there In early 1952 T. F. Kirkham was QUS year, while operating room use would notbecompletewithoutmeni ncl ude d Dr. Boyd Larsen an d appointed hospital manager. When had decreased 50 percent. Hospital tioning the compassionate and em· Ame ri can Fork doctors Guy S. he became city clerk in July of that revenue was $27 ,006.28, e xpenses cientnuTsingcarerendered by such Rich ar ds, Guy A. Richards, Grant year, N. LaVell Jorgenson was ap- were $28,540 .47 -- the venture was stalwarts as Ethel Ball, Dorothy Y. Anderson, Vern Houston and pointed hospital manager. He was a losing financial proposition. Bennett, Juliet Lott Black, Annie Kenq eth Noy es. succeededbyAlvinSchow, then Ned The 1961 hospital board, con- Bone,ClaraClover, HazelDunsdon, Dr. Boyd Larsen, who grew up Wilson, followed by Basil Dorton. sisting of Alice Broadbent, Elma Marjorie Harris, Louise J ohnson, working in hi. father's Main Street Meanwhile problems With the Christofferson, Calvin Swenson and Mabel Jones, Jennie Losee, Jena grocery store, was the second Lehi- Lehi Hospital continued. Duringan Harold Ellison, met with the city Mitchell, Melba Rothe, Eva born phys ician after Dr . Fred October 1954 meeting of the City council in March to report that the Sherwood, EvaSmith, ValoraSmith, Worl ton to achieve acclaim in local Health Council , Drs . Elmo state de partment of health would Edith and Laura Strasburg, and med ical andciviccirclea(both served Eddington and Boyd Larsen ex- close the hospital in the near fut ure Clifta Varney. wi th distinction on the Alpine School plained that the hospital was "Ios- because of its outdated faciliti es. Al ta Clark, Mae Daly, Clara Board). ing patients at an alarming rate, Though the hospital lost its Ii· Jorgenson, and TwilaJohnson also Whe n he returned from an LDS and 80methingmustbedone soon if cense in 1965, it remained open deserve credit for years of preparmissio n toDenmarkin 1937,Larsen Lehi is to remain in the hospital until March 1, 1967, when the last ing the hospital's tasty meals. married his high school sweetheart - n-v..-...... ~...-n .~Q.") . ... _ _ ...... orking in Dr. Edd i n ~n 's office at that time. En rollmg 10 .t he physical science p.rogfam at Brigham You ngUniver_ Slty, you ng Larsen tirst intended to . W.O . .",,,, A•••" >2, "., . ..... fo rge a career in physics . . F ortunatelyforthousandsofLehi cl.tlz ens who have benefitted from h,s c?mpsssiona te medical care(in. At t he tIme of clos ure the Lehl th e property was sold the follOWing eluding the a pproximately 3000 Hospital Board consis ted of Jame s year, Eddington opened a home of· persons he has atten ded at bi~th ) Strong (chairman ), Dr. Ken t B. fice at 1015 E. 900 North. He rehe cha nged his major to zoology I~ Davis (city councilman ), Alice main ed in practice at that location Ihe rail of 1940 he entered the UniBroadbent and Basil Dorton (hos pi - until his 1975 death. '.r:'ty of Utah School ofMedicine. tal manager ). Dr. Eddington, who Wally Olsen, new owner of the Anatomy was like studying a had discontinued his private prac- old hospital building, first rented a f(J re1 b'T1 langua ge," he later wrote . tice, was Director of the County section to a company which manu"pnth?lo6'Y was worse, physiology Health Depa'rtm e nt in Provo. factured a health elix ir. Afumiture ~ n d b ~ochemi:itry were equally difDr. Boyd Larsen began adm it- upholstery business was later eah cu~t. But the ambi t ious student, ting his patients to th e American tablished there . Max Chapman ina n ~ I OU ~ to pass his future exams, Fork Hospital (where he served as a tended to make an apartment house qUit h iS weekend job in Larsen director from 1978-84), and Dr. J ohn out of the building when he bought Urother's Market and lowered his E. Meyers , wh o ~i n ce October 1964 it, but he was denied. a multiple· nose to th e ~i ndsto ne. had maintai ned an office in the Lehi housing permit. Russell Daly operS uccessfully completi ng the twoHospital, moved with his family to ated his Studio Five (music) in the yea r Uta h progra m in th e midst of Pennsylvania. building during 1985. World War ll, Larse n packed his Dr. Eddington return ed to Lehi Though an apartment exists on bags and moved with his wife to St in 1967 and reestablished his office the ground floor today, the rest of Lou is, Mo. There he en tered Wash : in the old hospital building. When the structure is presently vacant. in!,<ton Universi ty School of Medicine. Much of h is clinical work was in the S t. Louis City Hospital where in addition to the usual med icai fa re, he attended many births. The matemi tyuni t w8Son the 11th floor. Th~ e levator assent was long and ted iOU S a nd many young Missourians e ntered this world on that slow ri de. After graduation in December 1943 Dr. Larsen began his intern. hip at the Salt Lake General Hospital and then served as a medical officer in t he U.S. Navy until July 1945. He returned to Lehi in the spnng of 1946 and filled in for Dr Eddington, who was on an extended vacation. On July 1, 1946 he was hired as company physician for the Geneva Works of U.S. Steel. .Thirteen yeaTS later he was ap pOinted Medical Director ofthe Utah l operations -- a position he would reta in until his retirement in 1980. In addi tion to his work at the ~ t.eel plant dispe nsary, Dr. Larsen mai nta ined a private practice in Lehi . Initially h e established an office in November 1946 above Dea n Damico's Deluxe Shoe Repair(1l6 West Main}. But within a year or t. wo he moved into the fonner post ollice building at 80 West Main (La ney's in 1992). In 1954 Dr. Larsen and his wife Ih>berts , who serve d as office nurse fo r his 34 years of private practice hu ilt a newhome at 700 North Cen: te r in Lehi. The family residence was on th e upper story, while the lo wer floor was the medical office. H is patients were admitted to the Lehi Hospi t al, where his major surgical cases were attended by Dr Mart in C. Lindene, a board-certi: tied su rgeon from Salt Lake City. Wl despread ci tizen support for constructing a new Lehi Hospital ma~ifested itselfin the early 1950's d urmg th e adm inistration of Mayor George W. Leany. Duringa21 March 195 1 meeting attended bycivic,c1ub, c~ urch , and business representa. t lves, Dr. Eddington outlined three alternatives. The present building cou ld be remodeled, though he felt thIS would be d ifficult and impractical. The citizens could "roll up our s lee ves and build a new one."Or the hospi tal cou Id be closed and citizens sent elsewhere for their hospitaliz ation . A si x·man committee consisting F~. p~" '1 I ~",~~.~_n ~Br~~~b~nt (ch~i~man). CORRESPONDENCE GARY R. HERBERT Governor Brad Westwood Director SPENCER J. COX Lieutenant Governor Jill Remington Love Executive Director Department of Heritage & Arts March 30, 2018 TODD A. VINCZE PO BOX 522 LEHI, UT 84043-0522 Dear Mr. Vincze: This letter is to notify you of the removal from the National Register of Historic Places of the Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank (NRIS #98001537) formerly located at 206 E. State Street, in Lehi, Utah, which was demolished. According to 36 CFR (Code of Federal Regulation) 60.15, properties may be removed from the National Register for a number of reasons, but primarily because of demolition or loss of historical integrity. The property was officially removed from the National Register on March 26, 2018. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact Cory Jensen at 8011245-7242 or at [e-mail]. Sincerely, ~ ROgerRoP:~ Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer cc: Mayor Mark Johnson, Lehi City -II a ~ Arts 300 S. Rio Grande Street • Salt Lake City, Utah 8410 1 • [phone] • fucsirnile [phone] • history.utah.gov GARY R. HERBERT Governor Brad Westwood Director SPENCER J. COX Lieutenant Governor Jill Remington Love Executive Director Department of Heritage & Arts February 6, 2018 J. PAUL LOETHER, DEPUTY KEEPER AND CHIEF NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1201 EYE ST. NW, 8TH FL. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005 Re: Removal of Properties from the National Register of Historic Places Dear Mr. Loether: Pursuant to 36 CFR 60.15, we are requesting the removal from the National Register of Historic Places the following properties, which have been demolished or have lost integrity: SEE A ITACHED LIST Demolitions and integrity were verified by SHPO staff (see enclosed UT SHPO Request for Removal forms and accompanying photographs). Notification regarding the pending action was sent to property owners and local government officials. A period of at least thirty days was provided for comment regarding the removal; however, no comments were received. Should you have any questions about this request for removal, please contact Cory Jensen of the Historic Preservation Office at 8011245-7242, or bye-mail at [e-mail]. Thank you for your assistance. ~~~ Roger Roper Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Enclosures -II f.k_ &'Arts 300 S. Rio Grande Street • Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 • [phone] • fucsimile (801) 355'{)587 • history.utah.gov REQUESTS FOR REMOVAL REASON FOR REQUEST BUILDING ADDRESS Planing Mill of Brigham City Merc. & Mfg. Assoc. (89000454) 547 E. Forest St. Demolished Brigham City, Box Elder Co. Hyrum Stake Tithing Office (85000251) 26 W. Main St. Hyrum, Cache Co. Loss of Integrity (Multiple Additions) Plant Auto Co. Building (04001129) 38 S. 200 West Richmond, Cache Co. Demolished Morgan Elementary School (86000737) 75 N. 100 East Morgan, Morgan Co. Demolished Erekson Artillo Dairy Farmhouse (15000677) 5419 S. 900 East Murray, Salt Lake Co. Demolished Thomas Cunningham House (84002250) 139 Main Street Park City, Summit Co. Demolished Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank (98001537) 206 E. State Street Lehi, Utah Co. Demolished Clotworthy-McMullin House (99000216) 261 S. Main Street Heber City, Wasatch Co. Demolished North Ogden Elementary School (85000822) 474 E. 2650 North North Ogden, Weber Co. Demolished Sidney Stevens House (77001326) 2593 N. 400 East North Ogden, Weber Co. Demolished Rose Apartments (87002160) 302-308 27th Street Ogden, Weber Co. Demolished Downing Apartments (87002160) 357-359 27th Street Ogden, Weber Co. Demolished GARY R. HERBERT Go vernor Brad Westwood Director SPENCER J. COX Lieutenant Governor Julie Fisher Executive Director Department of Heritage & Arts August 25,2016 TODD A. VINCZE PO BOX 522 LEHI UT 84043-0522 Dear Mr. Vincze: This letter is to notify you of the pending petition to the National Register of Historic Places for the removal from the Register the Lehi Commercial & Savings Bank (NRHP Listing #98001537), formerly at 206 East State Street, Lehi, which was demolished. According to 36 CFR (Code of Federal Regulation) 60.15, properties may be removed from the National Register for a number of reasons, but primarily because of demolition or loss of historical integrity. The Utah State Historic Preservation Office is required to notify owners of properties listed in the Register, as well as local elected officials and local historic preservation commissions when there is a request to have a property removed from the Register. These parties are given at least a thirty-day period in which to provide comment to our office regarding this matter. The removal request will be reviewed by the Board of State History at its meeting to be held at 12:30 pm, Thursday, October 27,2016, at the University of Utah, Thomas S. Monson Center, located at 411 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact Cory Jensen at 8011245-7242 or at [e-mail]. Any comments should be received by our office before the Board meeting. Roger Roper Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer cc: Mayor Bert Wilson, Lehi City; Steve Marchbanks Lehi Certified Local Government Utah D!'partment of •• . ~~~&Ms 300 S. Rio Grande Street. Salt Lake City Utah 84101 • [phone]· facsimile [phone]· bjstoO'-!Ilab eay ' - abonal Register Weekly List 12124/98 1155-1229 Fountain Court, Memphis, 98001531, LISTED, 12117/98 (Memphis MPS) TENNESSEE, SHELBY COUNTY, St. Paul Avenue Historic District, 751-53 to 775-77 St. Paul Ave., and 558 Boyd St., Memphis, 98001533, LISTED, 12117/98 (Memphis MPS) TENNESSEE, SHELBY COUNTY, Strathmore Place Historic District, Strathmore Circle East, North, and South, and 280 and 292 East Parkway, Memphis, 98001532, LISTED, 12117/98 (Memphis MPS) UTAH, SALT LAKE COUNTY, Morrison-Merrill Lumber Company Office and Warehouse, 205 North 400 West, Salt Lake City, 98001534, LISTED, 12117/98 (Salt Lake City Business District MRA) UTAH, UTAH COUNTY, Lehi Commerical and Savings Bank-Lehi Hospital, 206 E. State St., Lehi, 98001537, LISTED, 12117/98 (Lehi, Utah MPS) WASHINGTON, SPOKANE COUNTY, Globe Hotel, The, 204 N. Division St., Spokane, 97001080, LISTED, 12117/98 (Single Room Occupancy Hotels in the Central Business District of Spokane MPS) WEST VIRGINIA, GILMER COUNTY, Ruddell General Store, 6 Court St., Glenville, 98001469, LISTED, 12115/98 WEST VIRGINIA, HARDY COUNTY, Stump Family Farm, WV 7, Southfork of the Potomac R., Moorefield vicinity, 98001471, LISTED, 12115/98 age UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY State Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society (6,1 Michael O. Leavitt Governor 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City. Utah 84101-11 82 (801 ) 533-3500 FAX: [phone] roD: 533-3502 [e-mail]. us December 24 1998 Max J. Evans Director I - , SINCE 1897 E. RUSSELL AND PHEBE W. INNES 2295 SUBLETTE PLACE SANDY UT 84093-1050 Dear Mr. & Mrs. Innes: It is my distinct pleasure to inform you that the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank at 206 East State Street in Lehi , nominated by the Utah Board of State History and the Utah State Historic Preservation Officer, was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on December 17, 1998. In recognition of the listing of your property, we would like to present to you an official National Register certificate. It contains the name of the site, the nature of its significance, the date of listing, an embossed gold seal, and the signatures of the Governor, the chair of the Board of State History, and the State Historic Preservation Officer. There is no charge for this certificate. Please contact Cory Jensen in our Historic Preservation Office if you would like to receive this certificate. A public presentation can be arranged if you so desire. We also suggest that a marker be placed to give your historic property additional public recognition. Please contact our office for details if you are interested in purchasing a marker. Listing in the National Register is intended to encourage preservation as well as provide recognition of a property's significance. A 20 percent federal tax credit is available for substantial rehabilitation of residential rental and commercial properties. In addition, a 20 percent state tax credit is available for the rehabilitation of historic residential properties. (See attached fact sheets.) We would be pleased to assist you with either application process should you wish to apply. Please contact Cory Jensen at 801/533-3559, or bye-mail [e-mail] you have any questions or if we may be of assistance to you. Sincerely, ~~ ~ Wilson G. Martin Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and Program Manager Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future SUMMARY OF UTAH mSTORIC PRESERVATION TAX CREDIT The 1993 Utah State Legislature passed the Economic Incentives for Historic Preservation bill which created a tax credit for historic residential rehabilitations. The basic requirements of the historic preservation tax credit are explained below. What is the Utah Historic Preservation Tax Credit? A 20 percent non-refundable tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic buildings which are used as owner-occupied residences or residential rentals. Twenty percent of all qualified rehabilitation costs may be deducted from taxes owed on your Utah income or corporate franchise tax. Example: $22,000 in qualified rehabilitation costs = $4,400 state income tax credit Does My Building Qualify? Buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places which, after rehabilitation, are used as a residence(s) qualify. The credit is not available for any property used for commercial purposes including hotels or B&Bs (bed and breakfasts). The building does not need to be listed in the National Register at the beginning of the project, but a complete National Register nomination must be submitted when the project is fmished. The property must be listed in the National Register within three years of the approval of the completed project. What Rehabilitation Work Qualifies? The work may include interior or exterior repair, rehabilitation or restoration, including historic, decorative, and structural elements as well as mechanical systems. All proposed work must meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and be approved by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) before the work begins. Depending on the historic conditions and features, some examples of eligible work items include: • • • • repairing or upgrading windows repointing masonry repairing or replacing roofs new floor and wall coverings • • • • painting walls, trim, etc. refmishing floors, handrails, etc. new furnace, NC, boiler, etc. electrical upgrades • • • • plumbing repairs and fixtures reconstructing historic porches compatible new kitchens reversing incompatible remodellings Necessary architectural, engineering, and permit fees may also be included. The purchase price of the building, site work (landscaping, sidewalks, fences, driveways, etc.), new additions, work on outbuildings, and the purchase and installation of moveable furnishings or equipment (e.g., refrigerators, dishwashers, etc.) do not qualify for the credit. All of the work must meet the Standards or the tax credit cannot be taken on any portion of the work. A completed application should be submitted to the SHPO at least 15-30 days before beginning the project, along with photographs showing all areas of work (both interior and exterior) and any drawings or other technical information necessary to completely understand the proposed project. How Much Money Must I Spend to Qualify? Total rehabilitation expenditures must exceed $10,000. (The tax credit applies equally to this first $10,000.) The purchase price of the building and any donated labor cannot be included. The project must be completed within 36 months of the SHPO's approval of the proposed rehabilitation work. Utah State Historic Preservation Office (Utah Division of State History), 300 Rio Grande, SLC. UT 84101-1182 [phone] Phone Utah Historic Preservation Tax Credit Summary -- Continued When Can I Claim the Credit? The credit may be taken for the tax year in which the entire project was completed and the rehabilitation work and a National Register nomination form have been approved by the SHPO. (A certification number will be issued to the owner at that time). Credit amounts greater than the amount of tax due in that year may be carried forward up to five years. Are There Any Restrictions Placed on My Building? The only restriction is that all work done to the building during the rehabilitation project, and for three years following the certification of the project, must meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Please consult with the State Historic Preservation Office if you have any questions. How do I Take the Tax Credit? The original completed and signed form TC-40H, Historic Preservation Tax Credit, must be attached to your initial state income tax return. This form will be provided by the SHPO when the completed project is approved. If you carryforward this tax credit, you must attach a copy of the completed form, with the new carryforward amount, to your tax return. Note that carryforward amounts must be applied against tax due before the application of any historic preservation tax credits earned in the current year and on a first-earned, first-used basis. Please consult with the State Tax Commission if you have any questions. Original records supporting the credit claimed must be maintained for three years following the date the return was filed claiming the credit. For More Information or a State Tax Credit Application Contact: Charles Shepherd at [phone] or Barbara Murphy at [phone] Utah State Historic Preservation Office 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1182 For Tax-Related Questions Contact: Lynn Solarczyk at [phone] Utah State Tax Commission For Information on Low-Interest Preservation Loans Contact: Utah Heritage Foundation at [phone] Additional Local Requirements May Also Apply: Salt Lake City Landmarks Committee [phone] Park City Planning Department [phone] Qgden Planning Department [phone] The State Historic Preservation Office can provide additional local preservation contacts. SUMMARY OF FEDERAL REHABILITATION TAX CREDITS What are the Rehabilitation Tax Credits? There is a 20% Investment Tax Credit (ITC) available for rehabilitating historic buildings and a 10% ITC for renovating nonhistoric buildings constructed before 1936. In both instances the ITC is based on a percentage of the rehabilitation costs and does not include the purchase price. The tax credit applies to the building owner's federal income tax for the year in which the project is completed and approved. If it is not all needed in that year the ITC may be carried back 3 years or forward up to 15 years. Note: this is a tax credit not just a deduction. Example: 20% of a $50,000 rehabilitation = $10,000 tax credit Which Buildin2s Qualify? The historic rehabilitation tax credit (20%) is available for buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places which, after renovation, are used for commercial or residential rental use. The nonhistoric tax credit (10%) is available for any pre-1936 building being used for commercial but not residential rental purposes. The work does not have to be reviewed for the 10% credit. Neither ITC is available for the rehabilitation of a private residence. What Rehabilitation Work Qualifies? Any work on the interior or the exterior of the building qualifies for the tax credit. Landscaping or new additions to the building do not qualify. The work on a historic building must be certified by the National Park Service. This is done by completing an application and submitting it to the National Park Service along with "before" and "after" photographs showing all work areas (interior and exterior). How Much Money Must be Spent in Qrder to Qualify for the ITC? The rehabilitation expenditures must exceed the greater of either the "adjusted basis" of the building or $5,000. "Adjusted basis" is the purchase price minus the value of the land minus any depreciation already taken by the current owner of the building plus any capital improvements. Example (recent purchase): $60,000 (purchase price) - $7,000 (land) = $53,000 (adjusted basis); rehabilitation expenses must exceed $53,000 Example (long-time ownership): $60,000 (purchase price) - $40,000 (depreciation) - $7,000 (land) + $5,000 (capital improvement) = $18,000 (adjusted basis); rehabilitation expenses must exceed $18,000 When Can a Rehabilitated Buildin2 Be Sold? A building must be kept at least five years in order to avoid any recapture of the tax credit by the federal government. The recapture amount ranges from 100% of the tax credit it the building is sold within the first year to 20% of the credit if it is sold within the fifth year. More Information? Contact: Barbara Murphy (533-3563) or Don Hartley (533-3560) Utah Division of State History 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 r- "- ~ _ ) i)L"~i_~ Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Michael O. Leavitt Governor MaxJ. Evans Director 300 Rio Grande Sail Lake City, Utah 84101·1182 (801) 533·3500 FAX: 533·3503 TDD: 533-3502 cehistry. [e-mail] SINCE ISD7 December 24, 1998 MA YOR KENNETH GREENWOOD LEHI CITY PO BOX 255 LEHI UT 84043-0255 Dear Mayor Greenwood: It is my distinct pleasure to inform you that the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank at 206 East State Street in Lehi , nominated by the Utah Board of State History and the Utah State Historic Preservation Officer, was officially listed in the National Register of HistoricPlaces by the National Park Service on December 17, 1998. Listing in the National Register is intended to encourage preservation as well as provide recognition of a property's significance. A 20 percent federal tax credit is available for substantial rehabilitation of residential rental and commercial properties. In addition, a 20 percent state tax credit is available for the rehabilitation of historic residential properties. We are pleased to assist the owners of properties listed in the National Register with either application process should they wish to apply. We have also provided the owner with information about the National Register certificate and commemorative marker to aid in the public recognition of the significance of this property. Please contact Cory Jensen in our Historic Preservation Office at 533-3559 if you have any questions or if we may be of any assistance. Sincerely, Wilson G. Martin Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and Program Manager Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future UTAH STATE HISTORICAL , ...,.' .......... -.. ...... ~, " Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Michael O. Leavitt (}Qvernor 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1182 [phone] FAX: [phone] TDD: 533-3502 [e-mail] MaxJ.Evaos Director SINCE 1897 October 30, 1998 Carol D. Shull National Register of Historic Places Mail Stop 2280, Suite NC 400 1849 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find the registration form and documentation for the following nominations which have been approved by the Utah Historic and Cultural Sites Review Committee (Utah Board of State History) and the Utah State Historic Preservation Officer for nom i nation to the National Register of Historic Places: American Fork Historic District Lehi Multiple Property Submission Includes the following properties: Lehi Main Street Historic District Lehi Community Savings Bank Lehi North Branch Meetinghouse Lehi Tithing Barn People's Co-op Eddington, Elmo & Rhea, House Gardner, James & Rhoda, House Goodwin, Samuel & Olena, House Knudson, Christian & Sarah, House Smith, John & Emerette, House Webb, Thomas & Mary, House Thank you for your assistance with this nomination. Please call me at 801-533-3559 if you have any questions. Sin rely, Enclosures Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future UTAH STATE State of Utah Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Michael O. Leavitt Governor MaxJ.Ev8DS Director 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City. Utah 8410 1-1182 [phone] FAX: [phone] TDD: 533-3502 [e-mail] SINCE 18117 July 31, 1998 E. RUSSELL AND PHEBE W. INNES 2295 SUBLETTE PLACE SANDY UT 84093-1050 Dear Mr. & Mrs. Innes: We are pleased to report that the property known as Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank at 206 East State Street in Lehi has been approved by the Utah Board of State History for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Within the next few weeks, we will submit the nomination and documentation to the National Register office in Washington, DC, for final approval. This review typically occurs within six to eight weeks. If you have any questions or concerns about this National Register nomination, please contact Roger Roper of the Historic Preservation Office at 533-3561 or at the address listed above. We appreciate your interest in and support of historic sites in Utah. )]:;)y~ Wilson G. Martin Program Manager and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future ," ''''''''' -(,..,y-t'1 ~ ~'1 ',--"! t~ Gt..1.-:.. ~ . UTAH STATE ; : Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Michael O. Leavitt Governor MaxJ.Evans Director 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City, Utah 84\01 - 11 82 [phone] FAX : [phone] TOO: 533-3502 [e-mail] SINCE 18117 June 29, 1998 E. RUSSELL AND PHEBE W. INNES 2295 SUBLETIE PLACE SANDY UT 84093-1050 Dear Mr. & Mrs. Innes: We are pleased to inform you that the property which you own, known historically as the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank at 206 East State Street in Lehi , will be considered by the Utah Board of State History for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the federal government's official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. Listing in the National Register provides recognition and assists in preserving our Nation's heritage. Listing of a property provides recognition of its historic significance and assures protective review of federal projects that might adversely affect the character of the historic property. If the property is listed in the National Register, certain federal investment tax credits for rehabilitation and other provisions may apply. Listing in the National Register does not place limitations on the property by the federal government. Public visitation rights are not required of owners. The federal government will not attach restrictive covenants to the property or seek to acquire them. Enclosed please find a notice that explains, in greater detail, the results of listing in the National Register. It also describes the rights and procedures by which an owner may comment on or object to listing in the National Register. You are invited to attend the Board of State History meeting at which the nomination will be considered. The Board will meet on July 31 , 1998 at 2:00 p.m., in the Board Room of the former Denver and Rio Grande Depot located at 300 South Rio Grande (440 West), Salt Lake City. Should you have any questions about this nomination before the meeting, please contact Roger Roper of the Historic Preservation Office at 533-3561 . Wilson G. Martin Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and Program Manager Enclosure Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future RIGHTS OF OWNERS TO COMMENT AND/OR OBJECT TO LISTING IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Owners of private properties nominated to the National Register have an opportunity to concur with or object to listing in accord with the National Historic Preservation Act and 36 CFR 60. Any owner or partial owner of private property who chooses to object to listing may submit, to the State Historic Preservation Officer, a notarized statement certifying that the party is the sole or partial owner of the private property and objects to the listing. Each owner or partial owner of private property has one vote regardless of the portion of the property that the party owns. If a majority of private property owners object, a property will not be listed. However, the State Historic Preservation Officer shall submit the nomination to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places for a determination of eligibility of the property for listing in the National Register. If the property is then determined eligible for listing, although not formally listed, Federal agencies will be required to allow for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to have an opportunity to comment before the agency may fund, license, or assist a project which will affect the property (see below). If you choose to object to the listing of your property, the notarized objection must be submitted to Wilson G. Martin, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, 300 Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101, before the Utah Board of State History meets to consider the nomination. Other comments regarding the nomination of this property should also be directed to Mr. Martin prior to the meeting date. A copy of the nomination and information on the National Register and the Federal and State tax provisions are available from the above address upon request. RESULTS OF LISTING IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Eligibility for Federal tax provisions: If a property is listed in the National Register, certain Federal tax provisions may apply. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 revised the historic preservation tax incentives authorized by Congress in the Tax Reform Act of 1976, the Revenue Act of 1978, the Tax Treatment Extension Act of 1980, the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 , and Tax Reform Act of 1984, and as of January 1, 1987, provides for a 20 percent investment tax credit with a full adjustment to basis for the "substantial rehabilitation" of historic commercial, industrial, and rental residential buildings. (The former 15 percent and 20 percent Investment Tax Credits (ITCs) for rehabilitations of older commercial buildings are combined into a single 10 percent ITC for commercial or industrial buildings built before 1936.) The Tax Treatment Extension Act of 1980 provides Federal tax deductions for charitable contributions for conservation purposes of partial interests in historically important land areas or structures. Whether these provisions are advantageous to a property owner is dependent upon the particular circumstances of the property and the owner. Because the tax aspects outlined above are complex, individuals should consult legal or professional counselor the appropriate local Internal Revenue Service office for assistance in determining tax consequences. For further information on certification requirements, please refer to 36 CFR 67. Eligibility for State tax provisions: S.B. No. 42 passed during the 1993 General Session of the Utah State Legislature created a state income tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic (Le., National Register listed) residential buildings, either owner-occupied or rental. The credit is 20% of the cost of rehabilitation work totaling more than $10,000. All of the proposed rehabilitation work must meet the Secretary of the Interior's "Standards for Rehabilitation" and must be pre-approved by the State Historic Preservation Office. Rules implementing these tax provisions are still being developed. Contact the Historic Preservation Office for more information. Consideration in planning for Federal. federally licensed. and federally assisted projects: Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 requires that Federal agencies allow for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to have an opportunity to comment on all projects affecting historic properties listed in the National Register. For further information, please refer to 36 CFR 800 or contact the Regulatory Assistance section of the Division of State History. Consideration in issuing a surface coal mining permit: In accordance with the Surface Mining and Control Act of 1977, there must be consideration of historic values in the decision to issue a surface coal mining permit where coal is located. For further information, please refer to 30 CFR 700 et seg. Qualification for Federal or State grants for historic preservation when available: Presently, limited funding may be available through the Certified Local Government program. Direct grants to property owners are also occasionally available. For information about possible grants, contact the Office of Preservation, Utah Division of State History. ,':: c ~ ~ = . ~ , .... ~ - . Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Michael O. Leavitt Governor Mill[ J. Evans Director 300 Rio Grande Sail Lake City. Utah 84101 · 11 82 (801) 533·3500 FAX: 533· 3503 mD: 533·3502 cehisuy.ushs @email.state.u!.us SINCE 1887 June 29, 1998 COMMISSION CHAIR GARY HERBERT UTAH COUNTY 100 E CENTER STREET PROVO UT 84606 Dear Commission Chair Herbert: We are pleased to inform you that the following buildings in Lehi will be considered by the Utah Board of State History for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. James H. and Rhoda H. Gardner House at 187 East 300 North Samuel I. and Olena J. Goodwin House at 80 West 400 North Christian and Sarah Knudsen House at 123 S Center Street Lehi North Branch Meetinghouse at 1190 North 500 West Lehi Ward Tithing Barn/Centennial Hall at 651 North 200 East (rear) Dr. Elmo and Rhea Eddington House at 617 North 100 East Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank at 206 East State Street People's Co-op Store at 151 East State Street John Y. and Emerette C. Smith House at 518 North 100 East Thomas and Mary Webb House at 388 North 200 East In addition, the Lehi Main Street Historic District, comprising the following buildings, will also be considered. 4 West Main Street 12 West Main Street 20 West Main Street 24 West Main Street 32 West Main Street 36 West Main Street 40 West Main Street 46 West Main Street 60 West Main Street 68 West Main Street 72 West Main Street 96 West Main Street 101 West Main Street 102 West Main Street 110 West Main Street 115 West Main Street 120 West Main Street 130 West Main Street 151 West Main Street 154 West Main Street 155 West Main Street 162 West Main Street 164 West Main Street 169 West Main Street 172 West Main Street 175 West Main Street 181 West Main Street 189 West Main Street The National Register of Historic Places is the federal government's official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. Listing in the National Register provides recognition and assists in preserving our Nation's heritage. Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future Listing of a property provides recognition of its historic significance and assures protective review of federal projects that might adversely affect the character of the historic property. If the property is listed in the National Register. certain federal and/or state investment tax credits for rehabilitation and other provisions may apply. . Listing in the National Register does not place limitations on the property by the federal government. Public visitation rights are not required of owners. The federal government will not attach restrictive covenants to the property or seek to acquire them. You are invited to attend the Board of State History meeting at which the nomination will be considered. The Board will meet on July 31. 1998 at 2:00 p.m. in the Board Room of the former Denver and Rio Grande Depot located at 300 South Rio Grande (440 West). Salt Lake City. Should you have any questions about this nomination before the meeting. please contact Roger Roper of the Historic Preservation Office at 533-3561 . Wilson G. Martin Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and Program Manager ., '-' '", -- '. - .. ,. UTAH STATE -- -- "- .- J . ., -", ...... _ _ _ Department of Community and Economic Development Division of State History Utah State Historical Society Michael O. Leavitt Gilvemor Mill[ J. Evans Director I 300 Rio Grande Sal! Lake City, Utah 84101 · 1182 (801) 533·3 500 FAX: [phone] TDD: 533·3502 cehistry.ushs @emaiLstate.utus SINCE 1887 June 29, 1998 MAYOR KENNETH GREENWOOD LEHI CITY PO BOX 255 LEHI UT 84043-0255 Dear Mayor Greenwood: We are pleased to' inform you that the following buildings in Lehi will be considered by the Utah Board of State History for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. James H. and Rhoda H. Gardner House at 187 East 300 North Samuel I. and Olena J. Goodwin House at 80 West 400 North Christian and Sarah Knudsen House at 123 S Center Street Lehi North Branch Meetinghouse at 1190 North 500 West Lehi Ward Tithing Barn/Centennial Hall at 651 North 200 East (rear) Dr. Elmo and Rhea Eddington House at 617 North 100 East Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank at 206 East State Street People's Co-op Store at 151 East State Street John Y. and Emerette C. Smith House at 518 North 100 East Thomas and Mary Webb House at 388 North 200 East In addition, the Lehi Main Street Historic District, comprising the following buildings, will also be considered. 4 West Main Street 12 West Main Street 20 West Main Street 24 West Main Street 32 West Main Street 36 West Main Street 40 West Main Street 46 West Main Street 60 West Main Street 68 West Main Street 72 West Main Street 96 West Main Street 101 West Main Street 102 West Main Street 110 West Main Street 115 West Main Street 120 West Main Street 130 West Main Street 151 West Main Street 154 West Main Street 155 West Main Street 162 West Main Street 164 West Main Street 169 West Main Street 172 West Main Street 175 West Main Street 181 West Main Street 189 West Main Street The National Register of Historic Places is the federal government's official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. Listing in the National Register provides recognition and assists in preserving our Nation's heritage. Preserving and Sharing Utah's Past for the Present and Future Listing of a property provides recognition of its historic significance and assures protective review of federal projects that might adversely affect the character of the historic property. If the property is listed in the National Register, certain federal and/or state investment tax credits for rehabilitation and other provisions may apply. Listing in the National Register does not place limitations on the property by the federal government. Public visitation rights are not required of owners. The federal government will not attach restrictive covenants to the property or seek to acquire them. You are invited to attend the Board of State History meeting at which the nomination will be considered. The Board will meet on July 31, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. in the Board Room of the former Denver and Rio Grande Depot located at 300 South Rio Grande (440 West), Salt Lake City. Should you have any questions about this nomination before the meeting, please contact Roger Roper of the Historic Preservation Office at 533-3561. Sincerely, Wilson G. Martin Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and Program Manager cc: John Rockwell