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Show 209 _____________________ Architect/Builder: Peter Rasmussen Building Materials: j2 {•} i- I o stone_____ Building Type/Style: vernacular Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) < One-and-a-half story five opening house. Hall and parlor, two front room plan. A rear "ell" extends to the east. The house is rather plain but has pedimented window heads and a hipped roof porch which was undoubtedly an afterthought. The house is currently in excellent shape and was restored on the outside by Craig Paulsen, a local contractor. David Allred and his wife have modernized the interior, g Statement of Historical Significance: >; O y> I a a a D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D D a D Q Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry a-/ Q D Q O O Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D a D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This house remains ^of the best stone houses in Spring City and is indicative of one of the many traditional designs available to the nineteenth- century early Utah architects. 1870 Christian Rasmussen; 1878 to Peter Rasmussen for fourteen dollars. Ras mussen built the house soon after this purchase. Rassmussen was married to Kristina Larsen and had a son named Peter who was born in Spring City in 1865. The Rasmussen family owned the house into the twentieth- century. The house has changed many times during the last forty years. David Allred, a great grandson of Spring City's original settler currently owns the house. |
