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NPS Form 10-900-a (8-a6) Utah WordPerfect Format OM8 No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number __7__ Page __1__ Dallin House, Springville, Utah County, UT original kitchen, now used as a library, located directly behind the parlor. Combined, the original central block plan consists of an entry hall, one front room and two rear rooms. The original floor plan and partitions on the first floor have not changed though the function of the left rear room has, apparently from kitchen to library. The current kitchen and first floor washroom is located in the c. 1938 lean-to addition. Access is gained through both the dinning room and library. The second floor consists of a landing, small hall and three bedrooms. The second floor rooms essentially match the first floor plan: the first room above the parlor, the second above the library and the third above the dining room (one room in front and two in the rear). The house has a cellar with a stair entrance in the lean-to addition. There are two rooms, one beneath the original kitchen and one beneath the parlor. With the exception of the c. 1938 addition, all of the interior floors are 3" inch wide tongue-and-grove pine flooring. Beginning in the 1970s, the house began suffering from neglect. Numerous roof leaks and broken rain gutters caused damage to the foundation and walls, both on the exterior and interior. Throughout much of the house, sections of the ~laster (both ceilings and walls) either separated or detached from the adobe walls. The current owners purchased the house in 1992. The substantial damage to the walls throughout the house made restoration prohibitive for the new owners, who elected instead to carefully cover the cracked and damaged walls with thin plaster board throughout. All of the original c. 1905 doors and wall trim (baseboards, window and door surrounds) have been preserved throughout. The kitchen-bathroom addition had numerous alterations since it was built c. 1938, the most recent refurbishment being completed by the present owners in the summer of 1993. This addition was built after the period of significance, which ended when the property was sold by the Dallin family. The present owners also built a second floor bathroom at the end of the hall, between the first and second bedrooms. This was accomplished by removing three contiguous closets (one from each adjacent bedroom and one from the hall) and by partitioning a small recessed area of the second bedroom. The bathroom door is located where the closet door was previously. With the exception of this sympathetically installed bathroom, the second floor plan has remained true to the original configuration. New and enlarged closets were built to replace the removed closets. See continuation sheet e This damage revealed that two wythes of adobe brick were tied to the exterior, kiln-dried brick with pieces of barb wire. On the load bearing walls, the plaster was applied directly to the adobe brick.