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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 12 Spring City Historic District (Addition Documentation), Spring City, Sanpete County, UT The 1980 nomination noted three pair houses in the district. The Hansen house (93 N. 200 East, built 1874) and the Monson/Larsen house (85 N. 100 East, built 1883) are both stone houses. The third, an adobe house, was demolished in the 1980s. The Hansen house has been partially remodeled, but a stucco layer was recently removed to show the stone and the original plan is still discernable. The Monson/Larsen house has exceptional historic integrity with an original Victorian porch and balcony [Photograph 37]. The second floor was originally unfinished and used as a ballroom. There are numerous historic granaries in Spring City. The gable roof of the Moulter/Kofford granary extends three feet over the entry of the 1½-story stone granary, built circa 1870 as part of a larger farmstead at 194 N. 300 East [Photograph 38]. The associated buildings had been demolished by 1980. Another good example of an “inside-out” granary is at 55 E. 300 North, which is next to a circa 1900 “inside-out” barn. 30 One of the losses in the district has been the demolition of barns [Photograph 13]. In particular, at least three large log and frame barns with side stone stables, were demolished in the 1980s and 1990s, although some stones appear to have survived as garden walls on nearby properties. An extant example (circa 1890) is found at 115 E. 500 North associated with an 1881 house and a large “inside-out” granary. The partially collapsed barn behind a non-contributing house at 87 E. 200 North is believed to be the last historic stone barn in Spring City to use traditional Danish building techniques [Photograph 39]. During this period, summer kitchens were a popular improvement to the town lot, usually doubling as a wash house. The 1980 nomination noted five extant summer kitchens and the 2021 survey enumerated seven additional examples. However, there appear to be more surviving examples. Identifying summer kitchens that have been incorporated into rear additions is difficult and some look like sheds today. The frame building at 93 E. 100 North, is not a cabin or shed, but a circa 1890 summer kitchen left abandoned when the associated house was demolished. At 323 E. 500 North, a circa 1910 frame kitchen has been attached to the restored brick house with an enclosed breezeway [Photograph 40]. The 1884 stone house at 112 W. 200 North has a frame summer kitchen in the rear, which is not mentioned in the 1980 site forms and may have been moved in later [Photograph 41]. The Anderson house at 560 N. 200 East is a typical onestory adobe dwelling (built in 1880). Among the several outbuildings associated with the house is a summer kitchen, which is covered in stucco to match the house [Photograph 18]. In 1891, the Sanpete Valley Railroad (later Denver & Rio Grande) was completed one mile west of Spring City. The railroad altered the architectural landscape by providing access to decorative milled woodwork, manufactured windows, and builder’s pattern books that were more compatible with the possibilities of fired brick masonry. The Hansen house at 280 E. 300 South is a modest 1½-story cross wing built circa 1890 of fired yellow brick. The east elevation is a typical symmetrical hall-parlor with the pedimented window heads pervasive in Spring City. The north elevation features a Victorian-style covered porch tucked into the cross wing. The Justesen house features an unusual T-shaped footprint with an octagonal front wing (187 N. Main, built 1898) [Photograph 42]. The house is notable for its decorative Victorian woodwork and a collection of five contributing outbuildings. The Baxter house at 12 W. 200 North (built in 1903) is a central-block-with-projecting-bays house with equally elaborate Victorian Eclectic elevations facing Main Street and 200 North [Photograph 8]. The house was the closest rival to the Osborne Hotel in size and ornamentation for the period, and in fact, the family rented out rooms while they lived there. The red brick Victorian pattern book Pedersen house at 74 N. 300 East features the elaborate detailing typical of brick Victorians found in Utah’s more urban centers, though the construction date of 1910 is about ten to fifteen years later than the average age of a similar house in Salt Lake City. 30 The house associated with these outbuildings was demolished in the 1980s.