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--- 0108 No. 10024-0018 Utah WOIdPorfec:I1.D FotmII ( R _ May 1997) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. L Page _1_ Johnson/Kearns Hotel, Springville, Utah County, UT Narrative Description The Johnson/Kearns Hotel, built in 1892 at 94 W. 200 South in Springville, is located at the edge of the downtown commercial district. The building is a Victorian Eclectic has a two-story, hip roof over the main block, and a one-and-a-half story gabled wing to the east side. The original building was enlarged sometime between 1908 and 1925 with a two story rear wing that is slightly lower than the main block. The building stands alone on a comer, set back from the sidewalk about three feet. The setback area is landscaped and there are mature trees in the parking strip. The first story of the original section of the hotel is brick, accented by a dogtooth soldier brick beltcourse at the foundation line and dogtooth soldier brick segmental arched window heads connected with another dogtooth soldier brick beltcourse at the line of the tops of the windows. The windows themselves are tall and narrow, and are primarily one-over-one double-hung, although the central window on the first floor of the front (south) wing is a fixed sash with a leaded glass transom window above. The hotel has dual front entrances; both doors face the front porch. An additional entrance to the building is through the basement on the west side of the hotel, which accesses additional hotel rooms in the basement. The second floor of the original wing is frame construction with wood shingle siding. A strip of fishscale wood shingles flares out above the first story in the area below the second floor windows. Another, frieze-like, strip of fishscale shingles adorns the area above the tops of the windows. The fishscale shingle pattern is continued on the gable end of the east wing. The windows on this level continue the fenestration pattern of the first floor, and are similarly tall, narrow double-hung type. A simple wood cornice with narrow, paired brackets, adorns both the hipped and gable roofed sections of the hotel, with asphalt shingles covering the entire roof. There is a two story frame addition with a one story utility porch at the rear (north end) of the structure. Sanborn Maps indicate this addition was constructed between 1908 and 1925. 1 It is of frame and clapboard construction. The shingle stylistic elements of the main block's second story are continued in the addition. Other alterations, probably dating from the same period, include a replacement front porch and small extension to the second floor above the porch. The porch possesses bungalow style elements such as massive square brick piers and a brick railing wall topped with a coping. The small extension at the second floor includes an access door to the porch root. The interior of the building has a room layout commensurate with its use as a hotel. The floor plan is highly compartmentalized, with public spaces and private living spaces for the owner on the first floor and private guest rooms on the second floor, with additional rooms in the basement. The 1992 renovation of the building added entrances to second floor rooms by a balcony on the north side of the building, and outside entrances to rooms on the west side through original doorways that once accessed public rooms of the building. _ See continuation sheet 1 It does not appear on the 1908 map and appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.