Spring City, City Hall

Spring City is the rare Utah pioneer town that modernity mostly passed by — and that neglect turned out to be a gift. The whole settlement is now a National Historic District, block after block of nineteenth-century stone and adobe houses preserved at a completeness you almost never see, because the town was never prosperous enough to tear its old buildings down. The old City Hall is one of its anchors. This marker honors a place that became, almost by accident, a living museum of how a Sanpete Valley farm town actually looked.

What the plaque says

National Register Spring City Historic District City Hall Local carpenters and stonemasons constructed this building in 1893 to serve as a civic meeting hall. It was also used as a schoolhouse until the big school was opened in 1900. The simple forms, symmetrical facade, and Greek Revival style cornice are typical of nineteenth-century civic buildings in Utah. The building served as the city hall until 1988. Marker placed in 1989 Division of State History N-359-5

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring City — 0.2 mi
  An entire pioneer town preserved on the National Register
• Mount Pleasant — 5.2 mi
  A National Register Main Street and Utah's oldest boarding school
• Skyline Drive — 9.1 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau
• Ephraim Co-op — 9.5 mi
  The 1871 cooperative store that outlived the economy it was built to replace

More markers nearby

• Spring City — steps away
• Spring Town — steps away
• Spring City Pioneer Cemetery — steps away
• LDS Meeting House — 0.2 mi