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OMS No. 1024·0018 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) utah WordPelfec1 Format United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number ~ Page ~ Dallin House, Springville, Utah County, UT Paris Salon, 1888-90; an award at the Chicago Columbian Exposition, 1893; and the Gold Medal at St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Also by 1905, Dallin had a number of nationally recognized works installed, including Brigham Young and the Pioneers, Salt Lake City, 1892 and 1900; the bust of Sir Isaac Newton at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1895; and the equestrian statues Signal of Peace in Lincoln Park, Chicago 1890 and Medicine Man in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1899. During the 1895-96 school year Dallin was invited to teach at the Drexel Institute in West Philadelphia. In 1900, Dallin began teaching sculpture at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Arlington, a position he would hold for over forty years. Dallin's 1905 gift of a new house offered to his mother and father came in the wake of this growing success. The house was reportedly designed and built by Springville contractor-architect Lewis J. Whitney (1874-1954).13 After 1905, Dallin would embark on some of his most celebrated sculpture works -the equestrian statue Appeal to the Great Spirit (began 1905, installed 1909 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts) and the municipal Revolutionary War monument, Soldiers and Sailors (began 1906, completed and installed 1910, Syracuse, New York).14 The Dallin House is distinctly associated chrprologically with Dallin's most productive and celebrated career period (1900-1944). Dallin resided in Arlington, Massachusetts, during most of his professional life, yet the artist made frequent trips, often Yffrly, to visit his mother, extended family, and his native city of Springville. Throughout his adult life Dallin had essentially "two homes," the first! Arlington Heights and the greater Boston area and the second, Springville, Utah. 7 After building the house, Dallin also financially supported his parents (as he had done previously); his father until his death in 1909, his mother until her death in 1919, and his younger brother Samuel and his family who lived with and cared for their aged mother until her death. Samuel Dallin eventually acquire title for the house in 1922; his widow sold the ~ See continuation sheet 13 Interview with Rell G. Francis by the author, January 4, 1994. See also Francis C~us E. Dallin, Let Justice Be Done, 162 and 226 and obituary, Lewis J. Whitney, Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah), ~ptember 19, 1954. In 1922 Whitney volunteered his services to Springville City and Cyrus E. Dallin in building a foundation pedestal for Oallin's World War I monument Victory Hemorial 1910. The pedestal has since been replaced. 14Francis, CyrUS E. Dallin, 241-251 and Swanson, 85. l~allin continued as a popular sculptor until his death although other rising American sculptors gradually eclipsed Oallin's (and his contemporaries') reputation among art critics beginning in the 1910s. Swanson,85101. 16Francis, CyrUS E. Oallin, 163. 17Swanson, 102. Dallin's devotion to Springville is also exemplified in the many art works donated to the c0ll111mity. (See Springville Art Museum registry also in Swanson.) Dallin was also involved in various business ventures with his family which required his attention in Springville. Francis, CyrUS E. Dallin, 162-164.