111789

Page 18

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 14 Spring City Historic District (Addition Documentation), Spring City, Sanpete County, UT Across the street from the Osborne Merc, Strate’s Garage, also built in 1927, is the largest commercial building on Main Street. The brick building features a stepped parapet and corner storefront. The façade has been covered in stucco and it is now used as an art gallery. Kelsey’s Garage, at 407 N. Main, is a service bay building from 1940 [Photograph 46]. The building was built from concrete block, with metal-sash windows, and a stepped parapet hiding a low-pitch gable roof. The only alteration has been a new garage-bay door. The Andersen Slaughterhouse/Beef Gallows was located within the district at approximately 650 N. 100 East [Photograph 47]. This contributing site includes remnants of a building and the original wheel hoist. 34 The booming livestock industry of the period is represented by three contributing structures. One is a corral with associated outbuildings located just northeast of the slaughterhouse site. Two largescale corrals are located at 700 East on either side of the canyon road. The larger south corral was built circa 1915 for sheep. The north corral was built for cattle, probably in the 1940s. 35 Several production-scale agricultural buildings from this period are located within the historic district. For example, the Sorensen farm has two large frame chicken coops, built circa 1930. The poultry business must have been doing well as the 1894 farmhouse was updated with asbestos-cement siding in the 1940s or 1950s. The two long turkey coops located at 405 N. 100 East, were built circa 1940, with concrete block walls [Photograph 48]. Though partially collapsed, they represent the beginnings of a regional turkey industry that lasted many decades. The 1940s barn behind the 1895 house at 260 N. Main is similar to older barn types in plan. The barns that have survived were maintained during this period. A good example is at 323 E. 500 North. One farmstead that has been continually used throughout this period adjoins the townsite at 725 E. 300 North. The farmhouse was built circa 1915 and updated in 1955. Not limited by the size of a townsite lot, the complex includes a mix of old and new outbuildings in use today as a four-acre market garden farm. One of the most unusual outbuildings of the period is the two-story plank grain cleaning shed, built circa 1930, at approximately 250 E. 100 North [Photograph 49]. Fifty-five residences were identified from this period, with 41 contributing and 14 non-contributing due to out-of-period modifications. In-period modifications to older houses were common. The stone house at 112 W. 200 North has a 1940s concrete addition [Photograph 50]. The earliest house from this period is the Freeman Allred home, which sits angled to the corner at 121 E. Center Street. This late Victorian-style brick cross wing was built in 1912 [Photograph 9]. 36 Bungalows were common in Utah between 1910 and 1925, but out of twelve, Spring City has very few pure examples of the style. The brick bungalows at 125 S. Main and 147 N. Main have similar Arts & Crafts porches (circa 1914-1915) that may have been taken straight from a builder’s pattern book, but most examples are highly individualized [Photograph 51]. A pyramidal cottage, built in 1914, is a pattern book hybrid of the Victorian and bungalow eras (181 E. 300 North). An unusually large bungalow is the Beck house at 287 S. 100 East (built 1920). The bungalow’s triple-gable façade has been updated, but the type is unmistakable. The historic district features several older residences with bungalow-style porches. For example, the circa 1880 hall-parlor at 80 W. 300 North, was updated to the clipped gable bungalow style in the 1940s. A clipped gable cottage at 190 E. 500 North is a one-of-kind frame example from 1941[Photograph 52]. The district’s four period revival cottages were all built during this period. The large home at 80 N. 100 East, built in 1937, has been evaluated as significant as an excellent example of the English cottage style, executed in purple brick [Photograph 53]. The smaller red brick house, built in 1948, at 94 W. 400 South is a rare post-war residence in Spring City [Photograph 54]. There were only six contributing residences identified in the district in the post-war period, prior to nearly a decade of no building activity in the 1950s. Spring City has one example of a “hope” or basement house, 34 It was associated with the Andersen Meat Market just north of the stone Spring City Co-op (the co-op store was destroyed by fire in 1934, the meat market was demolished in 1968 as part of a city beautification program). 35 The north corral does not appear on the 1939 aerial of the city. The corrals were not included in the original nomination but have been included in this amended nomination adjacent to the townsite grid. Small corrals on the town lots were not evaluated as primary resources but contribute to the historic integrity of individual properties. 36 Freeman Allred was a surveyor, who situated his home, not for the views, but based on what he said were the true cardinal points of the compass.