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Show OMB No. 10024·0018 NPS Form lO-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 7 Page 1 Kearns Hotel, Springville, Utah County , UT Narrative Description The Kearns Hotel, at 94 W. 200 South in Springville, is located at the edge of the downtown commercial district. The only building on the property, it is a Victorian Eclectic, cross-wing structure, with a two-story, hipped roofed main block and a 1 ~ story gabled wing to the east side of the main block. The original building was enlarged sometime between 1908 and 1925 with a two story rear wing. This wing is slightly lower than the main block. 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 on over one double-hung type, 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. This was a common feature in cross wing type buildings. An additional entrance to the building is a basement entry on the west side of the house. The entrance, reached by stairs, accesses additional hotel rooms in the basement. The second floor of the original wing is frame construction with wood weatherboard siding. A strip of fishscale wood siding flares out above the first story in the area below the second floor windows. Another, frieze-like, strip of fishscale wood siding adorns the area above the tops of the windows. The fishscale siding 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. Principal alterations to the hotel include 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. It is of frame and clapboard construction of both stories. The shingle stylistic elements of the main block's second story are continued in the addition. Other alterations, probably dating from the same period as the addition, include a replacement front porch and small extension to 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 |
