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Show 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. 60W MAIN STEELE/HOLBROOK/CHRISTENSEN MED OFFICE LEHI, UTAH COUNTY I I=HI MAIN ~TRI=I=T H I ~TOR I C DISTRICT UTAH STATE HISTORY 11111111111111 1111 1111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50017 5695 HISTORIC SITE FORM (UHCS version) Utah State Historic Preservation Office UHCS 10#: 1. Identification 350114 Property Name: STEELE/HOLBROOK/CHRISTENSEN MED OFFICE Address: 60 City: LEHI W MAIN County: UTAH COUNTY 2. Documentation/Status Dates Surveyed or Added to SHPO Filing System: 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: 1899 Original Use: COMMERCIAL (GEN.) 1 PlanlType: 1-PART BLOCK REGULAR BRICK Constr. Material(s): Architectural Style(s): Height (# stories): VICTORIAN ECLECTIC VERNACULAR Theme(s): Comments: A FJELD, C OHRAN MASONS 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 DR. ROBERT E. STEELE DR. HORACE HOLBROOK DR. HAROLD CHRISTENSEN UTAH LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY ROGER PRICE BARBER SHOP TUFF'S BARBERSHOP BAR-C TAXIDERMY BACKROOM ANTIQUES Constructed: 1899 Address: 60 West Main Present owner: Jetta Allred ',,~.t,.Main The still-standing building at 60 West (immediately .east of Reams) has a long January 1901, to protest the Board of Health's intimidation. The group drafted a petition to the . state leglStanlre"Which read ulpart: "We the people__ '_ of Lehi . . . are opposed to compulsory vaccination ." ;.':: .history of use as t)oth a medical office and a • barbershop. Dr. Robert E Steele, a graduate of Chicago's College of Physician Surgeons, was the first medical doctor to achieve a sustained period of respectability in Lehi. He came to town in 1896 and nailed up his shingle on a rented office. On 23 September 1899, he bought property from Dr. E C Merrihew, whose dental parlor was the next door west The 10 October 1899, Lehi Banner noted that "Dr. Steele's elegant new office is nearing completion. " While not likely to be called elegant today, this smallish brick structure, probably built by local masons Andrew Fjeld and Charles Ohran, is a sturdy example of fine craftsmanship-a signaturestyle of bricklaying rarely done anymore. The interesting facade, like that of several other tum-ofthe-century buildings constructed in Lehi was designed to make the structure seem more Imposmg. Dr. Robert Steele was no blue-ruin sawbones. Assisted by his brother, Dr. Frank Steele, he performed the first appendectomy in Lehi on Joseph Hammer. Despite the marvel of the young doctor's surgical skills. however, he could not convince reluctant Lehi citizens of the value of the smallpox vaccination during a local 1900 epidemic. The State Board of Health intervened and issued an order, implemented by the Local Board of Health, that all children must be vaccinated or prevented from attending schooL The Lehi School Board initially refused to honor the decree, but relented under threat of prosecution. A mass meeting was held in town on 17 ..:;j/l"-..,. . .• .., -.T"!'~ as not being a sure preventive to smallpox and believing it to be an infringement of rights and personal liberty and also believing vaccination to be a propagator of many diseases and suffering and often death." Smallpox essentially was erradicated from the earth through wide-spread education and vaccination. Dr. Steele moved to Salt Lake City in 1907 and sold his practice to Dr. Horace Holbrook Holbrook was a recent graduate of the Medical Surgical College of Philadelphia. He maintained his office at 60 West Main until 1913. It was Dr. Harold Christensen 's dental parlor until April of 1915. The structure was then remodeled as a branch office for the Utah Light and Power Company under the management of Alma Earl and his clerk, Effie Ross Day. The electrical utility, which eventually became Utah Power, remained in the Steele building until November of 1941 . In 1948 barber Roger Price bought the Steele building and opened a barbershop. Arley Edwards took over the place in early 1951 . The following year Wayne Allred bought the building, and opened Tuffs Barbershop. Tuff and his wife, Jena, opened Backroom Antiques in the rear of the barbershop in 1973. After Tuff gave up barbering because of his health problems, Larry Woffinden cut hair on the premises for awhile. Then Clay Calton maintained his Bar-C taxidermy shop there. At the present time the building houses a small antique shop. 58 60 West Main (middle building) c. 1910 ---------.... 60 West Main today 57 A GUIDE TO LEHI CITY'S HISTORICAL SITES AND PLACES Published by the Lehi H istol"ical Preser"ation Commission 1997 funded hy ~rants from the l la h Slale Historical Society a nd I.elli Cit~' C()rl'orati()n |
