National Register of Historic Places
Spring City Historic District
Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah
The record
- Listed
- October 21, 2022
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly bounded by city corporate boundary., Spring City
- County
- Sanpete
- State
- Utah
- Period of significance
- 1850 to 1924
- Contributing resources
- 282 buildings, 4 structures, 3 sites, 1 object
- Coordinates
- 39.47819, -111.49162
- Reference number
- 80003957
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The story
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The Spring City Historic District is in Spring City, Sanpete County, and is roughly bounded by the city corporate boundary. Dated buildings in the district run from 1862 to 1978.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register under criteria A and C, with state-level significance in exploration and settlement, architecture and agriculture.
Physical character
The houses include one-and-a-half-story hall-and-parlor types with three openings across the front, gable-facade plans and L-plans. Walls are log, adobe, stone, brick or frame, on stone foundations, under gabled or hipped roofs. Changes to individual houses include a brick rear T added in 1909 and clapboard siding that obscured log walls in 1919. Farm buildings include a nineteenth-century log barn, a square log granary, a three-bay English barn with a side opening and a typical Spring City hay barn.
Historical context
In 1870 lots were deeded to Reuben W. Allred, Jr., Samuel Allred and George D. Robinson. In 1878 the Spring City Female Relief Society sold a lot to the Spring City School District, and a school building is dated to that year. A frame barn was built about 1940 to replace a log barn that burned about the same time. About thirty ranch-style houses were built in the 1970s, and thirteen trailers stood in town in 1973.