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Show Roger V. Roper " W eight- c~ linkrH ollier c( li-.. . was stocked with pirui. skns, I tools, and einer* geizc: llo i~ i'fjtg eui- generally, wzd the thieee of zu stni- ted fir the tlzousand- milt. ride, nlost rd flie road new to us, and ( 111 three etzfl~ rrsedw it17 the spirit of adzjentfrre." I11 October 1919, the Hotel fifonthlv published an account ol' this round- trip automobile trek from Salt Lahe Ci6 to the Grand Canyon. Automobiles were ne\\ f:~ ngled and capricious at the time. Roads were even Inore unpredictable. Still the hotel : uld tourism industries saw the potential boon1 automobile travel would generate. I Jpbeat accounts of successfi~ lj ournejs were needed to boost die new industry. Hotel industiy insiders took on this assignment. John \\' illy, publisher of the John Willy Hotel L) itactoty and The Hotel Monthly, his son Jhight Willy, and <; eorge Kelf, manager of Salt Lake City's premier eshhlishment, Hotel Utah, set out on the auto-mobile adventure in Relf's Hollier motor car. Excerpts ft- om their eleven- da) trek offer a glimpse of LJtah's hotel suld travel conditions of the period. Surprisingly, many of the same facilities they encountered are still standing today, almost 80 years later. SPRTNGVILLE 1919: " At Springz~ illea, b o u t j i . ~ i) n iles soz~ flz( $ Salt Lake City, we nrvt and dined with the vetei- agz caterer George Hap-$ pison, knozefn thr- otcghozrt this secztiott as Be~ fiteakH (~~ risonH. e keeps th. e Kearns Hotel c. 1990 prior to rehab. Iicln* zson Ifotel, which he built thirty- nine years ago, with twelve t- oojns, has kept it ever- since, and made a wide repz~ tntionfo r lzis cooking, in prrrrticzilar ofbeefsteak. . . . Hotel Ifnrrisotz is Awzet- icatz pluiz, $ 3.00 tr, rl~ y.. . . " The noon- day menzc on the duy of our call was: Choice of beef stealz or roast lr~ mh; corn on cob, nzashed potatoes, string beans, sliced tomatoes, cczntcrloz~ pete, cr of- coffee, bread and butter. The old UTAH PRESERVATION gentleman greets his guests, and is pleased when they come with the healthy appetite." 1998: Though the Harrison Hotel has been demolished, its chief competi-tion from 1919, the Kearns Hotel, has been admirably restored. In 1990, Craig Lott and partners purchased the vacant building that had served most recently as a bus depot. Despite the dingy paint and unflattering remodel-ings, they glimpsed the potential of the c. 1890 Victorian hotel. And once they stripped the paint from the brick, exposing the warm red tones with yel-low- brick accents, people in town start-ed to take notice and drive by to check on its progress. The Kearns Hotel reopened as a bed & breakfast in 1992. The follow-ing year, the Utah Heritage Foundation recognized the project with an award of merit as an exem-plary restoration project. The hotel currently operates as the Victorian Inn, and though it doesn't serve a beefsteak meal at noontime, it does provide a breakfast to satisfy even the most " healthy appetite." MARYSVALE 1919: " As we were coming out of the Marysvale Canyon of the Sevier River, about five miles north of Marysvale, we experienced engine trouble that brought our car to a dead stop . . . . After a wait of an hour. . . a keen hoking, athletic young fellow came along and quickly diagnosed the trouble, and towed us into Marysvale. He would accept nothing for his service, for, he said, quietly, ' It is a courte~ of the road.' ' As it was getting dark, we all put up at the Grand Hotel. . . . The hotel accommo-dations at Marysvale could be improved. At the time of our visit the house was crowded. We were assigned three in a room, with two beds and two towels for three persons. The dinner was beans and pork, steak, potatoes, bread and butter, pear preserves, cake. For breakfast we had the saltiest bacon we have ever tast-ed. The landlord came to us at the table and said the breakfast would only costfify cents, as he was unable to serve eggs." 1998: Had the 1919 travelers arrived earlier in the evening they may have found more pleasing accommoda-tions at the nearby Pines Hotel. It tout-ed itself as " The popular and up- to- date hotel of Marysvale" in advertisements of the day. Today it is one of the most pleasant bed & breakfasts in the state. It is set back from the highway in a grove of overarching cottonwoods, with beckoning lawns and shady front porches. Randy and Katie Moore have restored the c. 1882 hotel ( reputedly the oldest in Utah) to a level of comfort and quality that would please even the most critical traveler. When they purchased it in 1994, the hotel had been virtually unoccupied for years. First they sought the advice of preservation archi-tect Kim Hyatt, then they rolled up their sleeves and got busy reversing decades of neglect and decline. Friends and family pitched in. Though the work was grimy, everyone fell in love with the project. " We would fall into An award- winning rehabilitation brought the Kearns Hotel back to life. It is now The Victorian Inn, an acclaimed bed- and- breakfast just off Springville's Main Street at 94 W. 200 South. Inset: The Pines Hotel, c. 1912. Above: The roof and upper windows of the two- story section were modified after a c. 1920~ fi re. Randy ( wearing hat) and Katie Moore spent untold hours restoring the hotel and became rehab experts in the process. 4l7 UTAH PRESERVATION Early automobile travelers, such as these in 1921, found pleasant accommodations at the old Hotel Highway. The hotel has since been demolished. bed exhausted at night," Katie recalls, " but wake up in the morning ready to get going again. That was a sign we were doing the right thing." After 15 months of upgrading, they opened Moore's Old Pine Inn in October 1995. The success of their new venture surprised even themselves. " We figured it would take a few years to reach the level of business we started getting in our first full year." Their trepidation at " taking the plunge" and leaving their careers and home in Davis County quickly subsided. Now you couldn't drag them back to the Wasatch Front. The road trip continued through Panguitch, where dare- devil cowboys attempted to ride a saddled buffalo at the Garfield County Fair ($ 500 prize money!), and spectacular Bryce Canyon. Trying to push on to Kanab in the waning light, the weary travelers queried a taci-turn local along the way, " What is the next town?" " There ain't any," he replied, then, after a pause, " till you get to Kanab." KANAB 1919: " We found excellent accommoda-tions in the little Hotel Highway, kept by WS. Rust, and very soon were eating a din-ner of beefsteak, corn on cob, baked pota-toes, tomatoes, good bread and butter, peach preserves, cake, coffee, tea, or milk; the meal cooked by the landlord's wife and served by his young daughters; as appetix-ing and delicious a meal as we have ever eaten. There was also a clean bath tub available, and although the water was not running just when needed ( the supply com-ing from central plant at intervals) we were notified when the hot water was on.... A bell was rung when time to get up, and a second bell when breakfast was ready. The charge for dinner, lodging, and breakfast was only $ 2.50 per person." 1998: The " little Hotel Highway" and its delectable meals are long gone, but an even older hotel in Kanab has survived. Located just off the main road, the Cole Hotel has re- emerged from years of neglect under the careful nurturing of Arthur and Alice Brown. The Browns, who live in California, have spent the last several years restor-ing the long- neglected structure as a part- time residence. The Italianate style " hotel" was actu-ally constructed as a home in 1884 for Kanab's old Cole Hotel ( 54 S. Main), now just a residence, is re- emerging from decades of decline. 41 UTAH PRESERVATION Above: The Bradshaw Hotel, located at 85 S. Main in Hurricane, was restored in the early 1990s to serve as a museum. ( West elevation) Below: The house c. 1909, just before the Bradshaw family started taking in hotel guests. ( SW corner) polygamist William D. Johnson and his four wives. The twelve- room house. 1889. Turn- of- the- century proprietor Mrs. Eleanor A. McAllister is noted in local histories as " a very considerate and hospitable hostess [ who] served splendid meals." I After tr- aversing- throug- h the Knibab National Forest to the North Kim ($ the (; rand Cutzyon, the travel el*^ returned to Kanah. They were towed the last 30 miles because there was " something radically wwng with tlze car" ( neither tlze fi15t nor tlze last tnechatzical pl- oblem they would encozmte- r). Il'lze next duy, cEfer extensive repairs, they set out fot- Hurricane, 7.5 miles to tlze west. The rocrds were ahy. smal. They UTAH PRESERVATION had to pull themselves out by rope a half-dozen times and in some places used shov-els and brush to build a solid road base. HURRICANE 1919: " At Hummcane we stopped at the little Bradshaw Hotel, secured two clean rooms, and ate a hearty evening meal, the menu, except for the canned salmon, all of native foods: cottage fried potatoes, melon, a big dish of sliced peaches and cream, grapes, honey, native black currant sauce, very good bread, butter, tea, milk. There were no locks to doors or windows. We fetched our o m water for the lavatory. After a good night's rest, with doors and windows open, the land-lady gave us a good breakfast of oatmeal and cream, boiled eggs, toast, honey, stewed native figs and black currants, melon, coffee. Roses were in bloom in the little garden back of the hotel, and the orchard trees were laden with peaches, plums, apples, and other fruits, ours for the picking. When asked for the bill, she said it was ' six- bits each for lodging, and fmcr- bits for meals;' that is, 75 cents and 50 cents respectively." 1998: In 1990, a handful of deter-mined local residents saved the Bradshaw Hotel from becoming a " training exercise" for the fire department. The building was boarded up and vacant at the time. Most in town didn't know or didn't care that the building was Hurricane's Grst permanent home, constructed in 1906 for Ira E. and Marion Hinton Bradshaw, when the town was just getting established. The Bradshaws offered their home for school and church purposes in the early days, then opened the town's first hotel there in 1910. It's an irreplaceable part of the town's history. Promising to do something with the sony old building, local preservationists won a stay of demolition. They quickly set to work reversing unsympathetic remodel-ings and raising funds for a thorough reha-bilitation. Within a year the house was looking as good as new ( even better say some) and was being put to use as a visitor information center and museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 and is currently one of the showpieces of the community. Afer several more adventures and mis-adventures with the vehicle and the roads, the travelers returned to Salt Lake City eleven days after their departure. SALT LAKE CITY 1919: " We returned to Salt Lake City about six o'clock in the evening, and com-pleted the most interesting journey we have ever made. The porcelain tub bath in Hotel Utah was refreshing indeed; and the evening meal in Hotel Utah with the Relf family differed from any we had sat down to in the last eleven days, for the reason that chicken was served. We recalled that not since we had left Sab Lake had chicken been served at any meal." 1998: Hotel Utah closed its doors in 1988, much to the consternation of many Utahns ( no more hard rolls for which the hotel's restaurants had been renowned). But the LDS Church, owner of the hotel since its completion in 1911, resolved to keep the building. Though it wasn't viable as a hotel, it could be put to productive use. Local architect FFKR oversaw a multi-year rehabilitation that included converting several floors of hotel rooms to ofice- type space ( desks with computers for genealogi-cal research), restoring the grand lobby and " public" rooms on the main levels, and re- installing two roof- top restaurants. The terra cotta exterior was also refurbished and preserved. The newly renovated structure was renamed the Joseph Smith Memorial Building ( in honor of the founder and fwst president of the LDS Church). It re-opened in 1993 to rave reviews and gar-nered a prestigious Heritage Award from the Utah Heritage Foundation. In keeping with tradition, the building's restaurants continue serving the popu-lar hard rolls. CONCLUSION " Utah has come to the front splendidly with good roads. . . . Of the 800 miles we trav-eled over in Utah [ not counting 200 in Arizona], only fifteen could be classified as bad road.. . In a thousand miles of automobile travel, leisurely made, and taking up eleven days and ten nights, we found comfortable sleeping quarters in all but one place, and only two meals that were not satisfactory: and we did not miss a meal." Fine praise indeed for the fledgling automobile travel industry in the early 20th century. Today's travelers can follow the same roads and even visit some of the same hostelries the first generation of automo-bile adventurers enjoyed. They're now off the beaten path though - just where you may want to be as the 20th centu-ry accelerates toward the 21st. *:. Roger Roper is the historic preservation coordinator for the Utah State Historic Preservation Office. tah [ c. 192O's) provided wt telers uam thelr return ta Regency Royale: ArchitecVDesigner Shomom Regency Royale ArchitectlDesigner Showroom 331 So. Rio Grande # I01 Salt Lake City, UT 841 01 ( 801) 575- 6525 FAX: ( 801) 575- 6141 egency Royale is a specialty floor cover- R, in g showroom, which is deliberately tructured to be a resource for the design pmfessional in the community," explains Kathleen Wagstaff- Emery, president of Regency Royale. We are extremely interested in restoration work and have the resources, with the manufacturers we work with, to do extensive archival research. When repli-cating a historical piece, we will go to any lengths to see that the match is as exact as possible, even to the extent of hiring someone to examine antique rug fibers at their bases to determine their true original dye colors." Kathleen has been with Regency since its inception in 1983 and is passionate about histo-ry. " It is crucial that we work to preserve our crafts-manship and our history," she emphasizes, " so that our children and their children will know who we were." Regency Royale has overseen the re- creation of handmade rugs for the Gold Room at the State Capitol Building, the Governor's Mansion, Kingsbury Hall and various special projects for the LDS Church. Regency's offerings extend far beyond all styles and types of area rugs, with an inviting showroom featuring extensive selections of wall-to wall broadloom including those of Axminster and Wilton construction. Regency Royale has maintained strong relationshps with the U. 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