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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB No. 1024-0018, NPS Form National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 7 Page 9 Spring City Historic District (Addition Documentation), Spring City, Sanpete County, UT Christensen log house at 415 S. 400 East, built in 1875, has sat vacant for decades on its original lot. A frame section (circa 1885) extended the use of the cabin as a residence into the twentieth century. The historic stucco has partially dissolved over the years to reveal the willow twig lathe and hewn logs [Photograph 1]. The property includes a contributing log barn. Another example of a log cabin on its original lot, the Nielsen cabin (275 S. 200 West), was built in 1885 and was derelict by the 1970s. In the 1990s, it was shifted approximately 30 feet and turned 90 degrees before it was rehabilitated for use as a residence [Photograph 3]. 20 The log cabin at 205 E. 200 North is an example dating from 1880. It was moved one block east from an earlier site when a new home was built in 2012. The log cabin is believed to associated with the Borresen family and may have been the summer kitchen previously attached to their stone house [Photograph 16 & 20]. 21 Log was commonly used for outbuildings in this period, either by original design or repurposed. Among the nine contributing outbuildings associated with the 1892 house at 379 N. Main is a hog house built with logs. The 2021 survey of the district identified eight extant log granaries, all have a new use either as storage or rehabilitated as a guest cabin, for example, the log cabin next to the Gothic Revival stone house at 385 E. 100 South (built circa 1880). The 2021 survey identified seven extant log barns, although two have been partially disassembled. This number is down from the thirteen identified in 1980. Barns have been particularly difficult to preserve since the large size of a disused barn presents a greater safety issue than the smaller outbuildings. A good extant example is associated with the adobe brick house at 184 E. 200 South (built 1884) [Photographs 21 & 22]. In contrast to Spring City in 1980, today there are only a handful of extant buildings with exposed adobe walls. With the exception of the Olsen/Jensen addition of the previous period, all are outbuildings. Several factors contributed to the survival of this 1884 double-cell adobe house 184 E. 200 South [Photograph 21]. It was covered in stucco historically, which was painted and scored to resemble red brick. Frame and concrete additions made it livable for many years. After a period of vacancy, the house was restored in 2003. The adobe brick house at 87 W 200 North has been in continuous use as a residence. 22 During a recent rehabilitation, aluminum siding was removed to reveal the adobe brick, which was subsequently covered with stucco when a wrap-around porch was added. Spring City has a relatively high number of extant adobe outbuildings compared to other settlements of the same period. Examples include a shed (92 S. 100 West, circa 1884), a coop (323 E. 500 North, circa 1900), and a garage (488 N. Main, circa 1908, covered with stucco). Adobe brick was also used in the inner wythes of some fired-brick houses, a common Utah practice in late-nineteenth century construction. The Sanpete Valley did not have an abundance of trees capable of producing good quality lumber, so there are only fifteen contributing frame houses extant from this period. The most significant is the James Anderson Allred house built in 1874 (297 S. 100 West) [Photograph 23]. This two-story, Federal-style house has a central passage plan, unusual in Spring City, and a frame rear addition. The redwood siding was shipped from California. The property includes an excellent example of one of the most distinctive buildings in the Mormon rural landscape, the “inside-out” granary with the studs visible on the exterior walls [Photograph 24]. A more modest example of a frame house is the Robinson house at 95 E. 400 South (frame over log, built in 1875). This house features original wood siding and trim. It is among the numerous properties with multiple in-period resources, including a summer kitchen, hay barn, granary, and plank fencing. Later frame houses are typically cross-wing plans, such as the 181 E. 100 North (built in 1903). This pattern-book house has been recently sheathed in vinyl siding that somewhat resembles the original drop siding. The historic integrity of the This log cabin retains its historic integrity and is contributing. It was moved because it was on the property lines and did not comply with city code. 21 2021 Reconnaissance Level Survey List of Buildings. 22 The 2021 survey gives a 1913 date for this house, but it likely much older, as it appears as adobe on the 1917 Sanborn map. 20 |
