The Lehi Main Street Historic District is a
historic district
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in
Lehi
Lehi (; he, לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל ''Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi'', "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang,"This group was known to its friends as LEHI and to its enemie ...
,
Utah
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, United States, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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(NRHP).
Description
The district includes work dating from 1891, and includes
Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
and
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
architecture. The listing included 19
contributing buildings
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
.
[
According to its 1998 NRHP nomination, the district is significant "for its association with and physical representation of Lehi's growth and development through two of the major periods of Lehi's history."][ and ]
The 19 contributing buildings are:
* 4 West Main Street (1910), Cotter's Grocery
* 12 West Main Street (1920)
* 24/32/36 West Main Street (1915), Racker Block
* 40 West Main Street (1934), Jones Dental Office
* 46 West Main Street (1901), Dorton Butcher Shop, Mountain States Telephone
* 60 West Main Street (1899), Dr. Robert E. Steele
* 68 West Main Street (1914), Lehi Banner Office
* 72 West Main Street (1898–99), Dr. E.G. Merrihew
* 98 West Main Street (1900), Merrihew Drug Store/State Bank of Lehi, separately NRHP-listed in 1982
* 101 West Main Street (1893), Lehi Slaughtering Company Meat Market
* 116 West Main Street (1891), Comer/Knight/Hosier Saloon
* 120 West Main Street (1893–94), Dorton Brother's Meat Market
* 155 West Main Street (1903), Log Cabin Saloon, Larsen's Market
* 162 West Main Street (1919), Lehi Drug Store, Rose Cabaret
* 164 West Main Street (1929), Hertell Building
* 169 West Main Street (1891), Senate Saloon, Lehi Public Library
* 181 West Main Street (1912), Racker Mercantile
* 189 West Main Street (1900), Racker Mercantile
* 51 North Center Street (1918–26), Lehi City Hall[
]
See also
*
References
External links
Gothic Revival architecture in Utah
Italianate architecture in Utah
Historic districts in Utah County, Utah
Buildings and structures in Lehi, Utah
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
National Register of Historic Places in Utah County, Utah
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