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This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. 24W MAIN RACKER BLOCK / PORTERS PLACE LEHI. UTAH COUNTY LEHI MAIN STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT UTAH STATE HISTORY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50017 5661 HISTORIC SITE FORM (UHCS version) Utah State Historic Preservation Office UHCS 10#: 1. Identification 350117 Property Name: RACKER BLOCK / PORTERS PLACE Address: 24 City: LEHI W MAIN County: UTAH COUNTY 2. Documentation/Status Dates Surveyed or Added to SHPO Filing System: /91 General/Miscellaneous File: Reconnaissance Level Survey: 09/92 Intensive Level Survey: 08/97 Evaluation: (A) ELIGIBLE/SIGNIFICANT National Register Status: LEHI MAIN STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT National Register Listing Date: 981210 Delisted date: Thematic or Multiple Property Affiliation: 3. Building Information Date(s) of Construction: 1915 Original Use: COMMERCIAL (GEN.) 1 PlanlType: 1-PART BLOCK REGULAR BRICK Constr. Material(s): Architectural Style(s): Height (# stories): OTHER/UNCLEAR STYLE VERNACULAR Theme(s): Comments: 3 BAYS; 24,32,36 W MAIN Outbuildings (total/contributing): / 4. Other SHPO File Information 106 Case No.: Grant No.: HABS/HAER Record No.: State Tax Project No. (s): Federal Tax Project No.: Printout Date: 12116/98 RACKER BLOCK: ADAMS' DRUGSTORE MALAN UNDERTAKING PARLOR M. S. LOTT PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL LEHI FREE PRESS WATHEN'S MODERN SHOE REPAIR WORL TONIDA VIS DENTAL OFFICE PORTER'S PLACE Constructed: Address: Present owners: 1915 24, 32, and 36 West Main Kip/Paula Peterson (32,36 West Main) Robert Trepanier (24 West Main) pusiness (1915). In 1932 George P. Price established the Lehi Free Press, which remained in .. this spot until 1981 when the owners consolidated production facilities with the American Fork Citizen. Alpine Publishing Company, now owned by Kip Peterson, occupies 24 West Main today. He shares his facility with Timpanogas Credit Union. M. S. Lott expanded his business to the east portion of the Racker Block (24 West Main) in 1921. From 1931-38 the Lehi Sun maintained its office here. Despite being next- door neighbors, the publishers of the Sun and Free Press were anything but cordial. Words flew like fur in a cat fight. Although no lives were lost in Lehi's newspaper war, the situation did result in nasty litigation. The Sun moved to 10 1 West Main in 1938, its former office then became Dr. W. L. Worlton's dentist office. From 1959-61 Dr. Kent Davis leased it. In July of 1971 Frank and Dennis Huggard remodeled the former dental office into Porter's Place, a restaurant inspired by Porter Rockwell one of Lehi's most notorious historical citizens of the past. Russ Schneider purchased Porter's in the late 1970s. From 1986 until now, Robert Trepanier has owned the restaurant. Porter's Place has met with considerable success over the years. On a Friday or Saturday night one can hardly find a parking place on Main Street. When you saunter mto the restaurant you immediately sense atmosphere. High above the spittoon-equipped bar (salvaged from a Montana saloon) hang two huge likenesses of the famed Porter Rockwell, which seem to beckon "Welcome folks, sit down and eat, or else!" .The Racker Block, now occupying 24. 32, and 36 West Main. waS built in 1915, during World War 1, by local merchant W. E. Racker. Racker, who had established Racker Mercantile in 1904, bought the Anders Peterson property in 1913. The historic adobe home on the site was demolished. Construction on the Racker Block began. The fifty-six feet wide and sixty feet long office complex was divided into three comparttnents. When the facility was completed in 1915. the comparttnent on the west end (36 West Main) was Leonard Adams's drugstore. During this period of Prohibition much of a druggist's business consisted of filling liquor prescriptions--purely for medicinal purposes, mind you. N.O. Malan 's Undertaking Parlor was established on the premises in 1921 . Subsequently the place has housed M. S. Lott's plumbing and electrical business (1931), Gilchrist Hardware (1933), and Lehi Hardware-Glen and Alva Wing (1937). When the Wing brothers moved in 1941 their former quarters were taken over by Utah Power and Light Company which maintained a local office there until the local National Guard unit took up quarters on the premises in the fall of 1949. When the Guard moved elsewhere. 36 West Main became home to Orlin Wathen's Modem Shoe Repair in 1953. After Wathen moved elsewhere in 1960, his former quarters became the Utah Finance Company. Since then it has been Palmercraft (1975), Timberline (1979), Artworks Plus (1983), Kyle Hutchings' Furniture Refinishing (1983-1991), and Peacock's Studio (1991-1997). 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"The newspaper was issued .from tha:~ office un til 1981, wheri the owners consolidated productiorf facilities c with the American Fork Citizen.' Alpine Publishing Company,. now owned .hyKip ·Peter sori, occupies 24 West Main in 1991. Until 1990 he leased space to the Lenj Free; ~, which maintained a part~; time office there for editor Bettjl Fowler." ,'., '; . . . , " .' ."~~ij " M. S~ Lott expanded his busi~ ness to the east portion of the Racker i Block in 1921. From 1931-38 the i l&hi Sun maintained its office here. . Despite being next door neighbors,:, These three businesses at ~::su~~~~:r~y~~~~;t~t:;~~,l ' 24j 32, a~d 36 We~t Main 1915, ;" ., ' .. . ., ' ,,', .. it until 1986, when Robert Tre- ',. Quak~r" Shake. Many parched ", Choice, Prophet's Place, panier, a Porter Rockwell aficio- - ~' throats have been soothed by such :: r;and The Destroying Angel ("giant; · nado, became the new. owner. , -.!ntriguing cure-all's as Wild Delir- : :o.ne-pound bur?er for them thJI'( \Vhen yo.u saun.ter mto P orter S lU m, ' One-Eyed Jack, , Swamp-~a-·.f.l : lIkes.to eat, ~~mk and be ,meTf/.. Place you ImmedIately sense at~. . ter, Skull Valley Soda, and Tim ~ f' mak~ any VIslt to Porter s y~ ~ mosphere. The floor's ca;;peting is . Vmogos Snow Drift. m~ble . . "" ~ resplendent with beehives symbolic .. But most people (what about .. , of pioneer dreams of Deseret and ' . those weekend crowds!), come to" .. Mormo'n industriousness. ." t:le restaurant for more than alf i, This . well -worn but intriguing ' Iro nport or Sarsaparilla. "Supper,~ c, floor covering was originally in- ' time at Porter's" features steak~)v stalled in the Hotel Utah in 1911 ~~ h:llibut, shrimp, chicken, pork chops, . an d it is like no other anywhere. ' a:l d Alaskan snpw crab legs. " ..' High above the spittoon·equipped i" ; All dinners include soup or allbar (salvaged from a Montana sa- : you-can-eat salad bar; choice of . • .~PI}h:~~~kc~~·y, ;,:c; :..:.;';~ ' ~;,;~ ·r.. .." ., ;r..:,.:; loon) hang two huge,likenesses Of ,. b; iked potaJp, frontier potatoes or d . Words flewlikefurin acatfight" , Although no lives were lost in · Lehi's newspaper war, the situ- : ation ultimately resulted in nasty . ·litigation. . ." : ' .;,;! . After the fum moved to 101 West~: Main in February 1938, the former :' newspaper office became the new.i.'i ,~ental par.lor of Dr. W. L. Worlton.::' · 1;;19.59, : after Worlton's sudden .:' · death; Dr: Kent Davis leased the ' .,:Office? He','rTlIiinfain ed his ' dental"~ ~ p~actiCe h~~ for two years before . : moving to.·his new medical/dental , · office :huildingat 323 East First ; i - ·~~~~J~~~~Y~~~~R:;~!l\~~hr.~~r~k~~~j~;~~;b~\i~~~~'::~' ~~~ldobe~~lf~;:a~(:h~~t~~~~:e~"" . . rf~rm.er:iWorlt.Qn'lDavisdentist of~;fic,e"mto Porter's Place, a restau, rant inspire,d by the Orrin Porter . ; Rockwell, ; ~e. rtai.n!y one of Leh}'s · ~ost notoTl~!ls CItIzens of the pas;. ;<"':"'::r'h e alle~way between Porter s : pla.a:andPrice Brot?er'sIGA, where Ius~~.tqpark.my b~ke when down, town',2was. closed In .. by ,the Hug. gards and converted mto the Long . ?rari~h,an ice cream parlor. , .. . . ',:" Russ Schneider purch ased Por· \ ; ~~',~.i~,~?,e,lat~}~::9~ and ope~ated 1 ~ :inany called '"The Destroying An < ' or sour-dou~n) and honey; and.all :gel," shows the frontiersman in his the trimmings. . . " ."!. younger years. The other, a grand..Lite dinners from $2.99 to $3:99 fatherly benign image of flowing are also available for diet-conscious ,white beard and hair, is a studied patrons. ' . ': coritrast in the man who outgun\ Porter's steaks, char-broiled to ~:.. .. ned dozens of desperados. , . perfection, range .fr.om $.5.95 to ·;, ! : :.' While · contemplating " PorteT . $18.95 ("to split with the deputY'). V .IWckwell's ambivalent images one Not only are the pr)ces1'ight, but.. ;, . ca n sit at the 1881-built bar on the steak's names are as savory as ... re'd dish tractor seats, spoon down the fare . a ;bowl of "Celestial Ice Cream High Noon SandWiches with such ' P~lights" or sip a Mormon Malt or fun monikers as Brigham Burger, :,