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Show Architect/Builder: John Frantzen House _j ? fc> Building Materials: fldnhp ^tiirmaH Buildin9 Type/Style:_________ Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) One-and-a-half story hall and parlor house type with a symmetrical five opening facade.. Stove chimneys are located on gable ends. "T" rear section. A new hipped porch and aluminum awnings grace the front. . Statement of Historical Significance: > O <J> I D Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture • Or Architecture D The Arts D Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D n D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation Significant nineteenth-century vernacular architecture. One of the best twodozen or so excellent examples of folk building in Spring City. Most of the early homes have been torn down on main street, -this house remains as one of the few sur viving along the central street. 1870 deed to John Frantzen, keep through 1890. John Frantzen built the house around 1880. John Frantzen was born in Norway in 1837. He converted to Mormonism in the early 1850's, he emigrated to Utah in 1857. After first settling at Lehi, Frantzen moved to Spring City in 1860. In 1873 Frantzen served a two year* miss ion for the IDS Church in Denmark. He was a first counselor to the Spring City Bishop for fifteen years and married two wives under the polygamy practices advocated by his religion. |
