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Show Architect/Builder: Building Materials: . . . Building Type/Style: commercial Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) Square store front building, BEfckk facade is faced with colored "bricks 'and rises about one foot above the flat -hoofed building. The front door is recessed and the flanking windows angel in toward the door from the sides. Rransom panels have been covered. R Statement of Historical Significance: '> O <J5 I D D ET D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture . The Arts Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation Historically significant as one of four or five remaining 'commercial structures in Spring City,. The architecture is pleasant if unspectacular. This lot has a completed history. Samuel Frost held the mayor's deed but sold the north part to Henry Puzey in 187*+. .Puzey bunt an adobe home on this section of the lot, a house which has been torn down. The Spring City Co-op Store was erected there. Niels Anderson also ac quired a strip in 1901 for his butchers shop. About 1900, Carl Hansen built a frame store an the extreme southern portion of the lot. In the nine teenth —-century, beginning at the northern corner of the lot, the street contained a house, a butchers shop, a Coop store, and Hansen's Store. Hansen sold in the early nineteen-hundreds to Issac E, Allred who ran a drugstore and candy store. Allred retired, and Pratt Osborne purchased the old frame store. About 1920, Osborne tore down the old "-building and erected the brick building which continues to stand. All the other structures on the -1 block a**e now gone. The new store was primarily a general merchandise type venture. |
