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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. 8 Page 14 Spring City Historic District (Addition Documentation), Spring City, Sanpete County, UT 1987. The school was dissembled and moved from Chester, three miles west of Spring City, and reassembled within the historic district (non-contributing). Summary of Areas of Significance The Spring City Historic District (Additional Documentation) was originally listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 (NRIS #80003957). This amendment provides additional documentation refines the period of significance from 1859 to 1972. This amended nomination also updates the NRHP eligibility of each primary resource within the district, delineates historic contextual periods, and refines the boundaries to better support the significance and integrity of the district. The Spring City Historic District (Additional Documentation) is significant at the local level under Criterion A for the district’s association with broad patterns of history in the areas of Exploration/Settlement, Agriculture, and Community Planning & Development. The historic district is also significant under Criterion C in the area of Architecture for embodying the distinctive characteristics of rural Sanpete County architecture throughout the historic period of significance Spring City was the first historic district in Utah to encompass an entire town. The additional documentation provided in this amendment documents the district’s continuing historic integrity of location, setting, design, and feeling, which has not changed substantially since 1980. Spring City is still a quintessentially rural village. The town’s layout, architecture, agricultural outbuildings, streetscapes, and landscapes, continue to contribute to its overall historic character, which was described in the original nomination as the “best example of Mormon village development” in the Sanpete Valley.