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Show OMS No. 1024-0018 NPS Form Il>-lIOO-a (8-86) Utah WordPerfect Format Un;ted States Department of the Inter;or National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 1 Dallin House, Springville, Utah County, UT. The second floor consist 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 dinning room (one room in front and two in the rear). The house has a sellar with a stair entrance in the leanto addition. There are two rooms, one beneath the original kitchen and one beneath the parlor. With the exception of the 1938 addition, all of the interior floor are 3" inch wide tongue-and-grove pine flooring. The house was constructed c. 1905 by the American sculpture and Springville native Cyrus E. Dallin, for his parents Thomas and Jane Dallin; notwithstanding the focus of the gift being primarily the sculpture's mother. The house was allegedly designed and built by Springville contractor-architect Lewis J. Whitney (1874-1954).5 The house remained in the Dallin family until 1938, when it was purchased by J. Lewis Bird, a Springville businessman. Shortly after the Bird family acquired the house, the rear kitchen-bathroom addition was constructed and the house's original sellar was enlarged. B After the death of J. Lewis Bird in 1975, the house suffered benign neglect. Numerous roof leaks and broken rain gutters caused extensive damage to the foundation and walls, both on the exterior and interior. Throughout much of the house, sections of the plaster (both ceilings and walls) either separated or detached from the adobe walls. 7 In 1992, the house was purchased by J. Douglas and Naomi Bird, a son of J. Lewis Bird. 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 dry-wall board throughout, using twelve ft. sheets of this material. 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 built in 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, after 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 found. 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 5 Rell G. Francia, 'Cyrus E. Oallin and hla Paul Flewre Statue, Utah Historical Quarterly 44:1 :5-39; Francia, cyrua E. Oallln, 162 and 226; and obHuaty, Lewis J. WhHney, Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) , September 19, 1954. In 1922 WhHneyvolunteered his service. to Springville City and Cyrus E. Oailin to build a foundation pedestal for Oallin'. WOridWarl monument VIetat}' Memorial, 1910 that was Installed on the ground. of the Springville Municipal building. The pedestal haa since been replaced. 6 Interview by the writer wtth the present owner J. Douglas Bird, who I. a IOn of J . lewis Bird, 23107/93. See also the tHle search form attached, the Predevelopment Evaluation which was conducted by the writer, and the Intensive Survey (1984) flndlng., SHPO OffIce, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City. 7 This damage revealed the following: the wall., the plaster was applied directly to the edobe brick. two wythea of adobe brick were tied 10 the eKlerior Idln dried brick wtth pieces of barb wire. On the load bearing |
