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[e-mail]_!n~:ittfS:i~Pi;f~it.ftb:i~:JlmmWJW:Mllf:lm:1J~f@:tWf:~t:t:~:~:~fM1~j~mj~j~j~:~~~j~:~:~:~:mtj~:~:~j~j@mlj~l:tftffttt@~rttttfjtttjlltltl:tj~jttftmt: Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: ..L locally _ nationa lly statewide A _X_B Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) _ Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) ART A B o C C o E F G Significant Dates c.1905 Period of Significance c.1905-1938 Cultural Affiliation N/A Significant Person Dallin, CyrUS E. (1861-1944) Architect/Builder architect: Whitney, lewis J. (1874-1954) builder: Whitney, lewis J. State significance of property. and justify criteria. criteria considerations. and areas and periods of significance noted above. This house is significant because it is historically associated with Cyrus E. Dallin, late 19th and early 20th century American sculptor who built the house for his mother Jane Hamer Dallin in c. 1905. Dallin arranged and paid for its design and construction, having the substantial brick house built beside his parents two room log cabin, Dallin's late adolescent home. 3 Although a resident of Arlington, Massachusetts during most of his professional life, Dallin made frequent trips, often yearly, to visit his mother, extended family, and his native city of Springville. Dallin's constant attention to his native Utah was motivated by his mother, who inspired and encouraged his early artistic skills, and secondly, to return to the mountain hamlet of his birth and to the surrounding Wasatch Mountains. Dallin had, as his biographer wrote, "an almost occult fascination for the Utah County mountains whose "living force" influenced both his life and art".4 Dallin's western retreat, to his mother and to this childhood locale, was centered around this house he built for her and the little log cabin that was once located beside it. Although Dallin's Arlington, Massachusetts house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (his adjacent studio was destroyed by fire), this Springville house is the only surviving, most closely identified structure ~ See continuation sheet 3 Dallin was born in another log cabin, located first in Springville's pioneer fort. later this same cabin was moved to 350 East 100 South, also in Springville. Dallin's father Thomas Dallin, who was a business speculator and miner, purchased the lot discussed here in 1888. A second family cabin was either moved onto the site or built on it prior to Thomas Dallin's purchasing the lot. This second cabin was later moved from this site to Casillia Hot Springs, a resort owned by Dallin and a branch of his family, located near the mouth of nearby Spanish Fork Canyon (Utah County, Utah). The whereabouts of this cabin, if it still exist, is not known. Rell G. Francis. C us E. Dallin let Justice Be Done (Springville, Utah: Springville Museum of Art and Utah American Revolution Bicentennia Comm ss on, 197 -4 and 162. 4 Dallin made frequent statements to this end, i.e., "When asked from what source came the greatest inspiration for his work, Dallin pointed to the massive form of Mt. Flaunet (more commonly known as Sferra Bonita) that towered above the Springville landscape. 'I always heard the voice of the mountain calling to me to be lofty and to achieve lofty ends.'" Also, "I was born in the West in the mountains," he said, "but never in my life have I been able to return to them without breaking down and weeping." Also, "To those who are born and reared amid these circling hills I have little need to tell what a potent spell they have, and as whatever little I have done has been directly traceable to their influence, you can well understand how they are intimately connected with the most sacred part of my being." Francis, 149, 152-53. 160 and 163 and Francis, "Cyrus E. Dallin and His Paul Revere Statue," Utah Historical uarterl 44:1:5-36. See also this earlier reference National Cyclopedia of American Biograp y Ann Ar or Mlchigan, Un versity Microfilms, 1967) v. 14:47879.