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Show C wcc ? dj 168__________________________________________________ Architect/Builder: Methodist Church contracted this erection_______________ Building Materials: frame Building Type/Style: vernacular —————————————————————————————•———————————————————————————————————————— Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) H x o 5 This house is all that remains of the old Methodist Church and School. This was the living quarters wing, especially for the teacher of the school. Statement of Historical Significance: >j O tJJ X D Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture Q/Archrtecture a The Arts Q Commerce D n Q O a Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry , D D Q D a Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation w O D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation The Methodist Church stood directly east of the present structure. It was also frame and extended southward until reaching the sidewalk. Grades one through eight were taught in the one large room of the church. There was a single teacher. On Sundays a preacher from Mt. Pleasant traveled to Spring City to conduct services, The original school bell now hangs in the old public school building and is owned by local camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. City officials paid teachers seventy-cents per month to ring the bell at 8:30 P.M. signaling curfew, (Jan. 20,1900 city council minutes). The school probably closed in 1913 and the present occupants moved into the remains of the building in 1926". Lot purchased by Women's Home Missionary Society in 1886 for seventy dollars. |
