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Show 243 ________________ Architect/Builder: Erick Sandstrom wCC ? [•j Building Materials: adobe w/ stucco Building Type/Style: •———•——:———————'•————————————————————————————:—————————————:————• vernacular Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) . Hie Sandstrom house is very unusual in Spring City and probably represents a Swedish- American accomodation of building traditions. The house is one- story in height. There was a loft above the floor joists which was reached by an outside door (tax card photo) which was located on the south end/ The house separates the door and the two windows found opening into the south room. The chim ney is of the stove flue variety and is located on the partition divided the structure into two rooms of roughly equal size. Erixon, in his work on Swedish folk architecture, shows houses similar in floor plan arrangemnt and others exhibiting^ the low aysmn^trical front piercing pattern, yet no direct analogues can be found. Enough similarities exist to suggest that the house is a syncretism between old world Swedish tradition which Sandstrom knew well and the new cultural situation which Erick found developing in Spring City. Q Statement of Historical Significance: ->' O y> I D Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture ^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 D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation This house is a good example of the retention of ethnic identity by Spring City Scandinavian converts. Such immigrants were Mormons, but not so much as to ofscure their identity as Swedes or Danes. 1870 Erick Sandstrom has patent deed for lots 3 § 4 of block 58. |
