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Richmond War Memorial
Located at Richmond City Hall at 6 West Main Street in Richmond, Utah
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Richmond War Memorial
Located at Richmond City Hall at 6 West Main Street in Richmond, Utah
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Cache County, DUP, museums, NRHP, Relic Halls, Richmond, Tithing Offices, utah
Built in 1907, the Richmond Tithing Office is significant as one of 28 well preserved tithing buildings in Utah that were part of the successful “in kind” tithing system of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon church) between the 1850s and about 1910. Tithing lots, which usually included an office and several auxiliary structures, were facilities for collecting, storing, and distributing the farm products that were donated as tithing by church members in the cash-poor agricultural communities throughout the state. Tithing offices were a vital part of almost every Mormon community, serving as local centers of trade, welfare assistance, and economic activity. They were also important as the basic units of the church-wide tithing network that was centered in Salt Lake City, This building is also significant as one of about ten tithing offices which, having been built according to standard plans issued from church headquarters, represent the first known instances of centralized building administration in the LDS church.
The Richmond Tithing Office is now the Richmond D.U.P. Relic Hall, James & Drusilla Hendricks Camp, located at 25 South State Street in Richmond, Utah. It was added to the National Historic Register (#85000256) on January 25, 1985.
In January 1907, Stake President Alma Merrill and Bishop Thomas H. Merrill of the Richmond Ward, submitted a request to the Presiding Bishopric of the LDS church for approval to construct a new tithing office which would also serve as offices for the stake presidency and a meeting place for the stake high council. Land for the new building was provided on the tithing lot in the center of town. Although plans for the building were provided by church headquarters in Salt Lake City, detailed instructions for constructing the building were not given. The Presiding Bishopric offered the following explanation for those omissions: “…regarding specifications for tithing office no. 3, will say, that no specifications were provided other than the bill of material listed on the plans, owing to the fact that the different stakes erect the office of the material at their disposal. ” A local builder, James Lewis Burnham, was reportedly hired to construct the tithing off ice, 3 which was completed by December 1907 or January 1908. In February 1908, Bishop Merrill applied to the Presiding Bishopric for help in furnishing the office. Construction of a fence around the new building and planting grass on the property were finishing touches to the new tithing office that were recommended by the stake clerk in June 1908, but it is unknown whether or not they were ever accomplished.
The design of the Richmond Tithing Office was one of at least three standard tithing office plans that were developed at church headquarters around 1905 and sent out to a number of wards in the state that requested to have a new tithing office built. Those plans were perhaps the first examples of what eventually became a policy with the church – developing standard building plans at church headquarters rather than having each ward generate its own. In addition to the Richmond Tithing Office, other tithing offices in the state that were built according to the plans of “tithing office no. 3” are those in Manti, Sandy, Panguitch, and Hyrum, all of which were built between about 1905 and 1910.
The Richmond Tithing Office was owned by the Richmond Ward of the LDS church until 1968, when it was sold to Richmond City. The city has allowed the local chapter of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers to use the building as their relic hall.
The Richmond Tithing Office is a one story square red brick building with a pyramid roof, a coursed ashlar foundation, and a projecting gabled pavilion on the façade. It was designed from one of at least three standard plans which were created for tithing offices about 1905, two of which have been identified. The design of the Richmond Tithing Office has been identified as type No. 3, and is almost identical to the design of the Sandy, Manti and Panguitch Tithing Offices. It is also very similar to the Hyrum Tithing
Office. The façade is symmetrically arranged with a gabled pavilion centered between pairs of one over one double hung sash windows. The pavilion has a flat arch opening. Above the opening is an inset rectangular panel above which is an enclosed semi -circular vent. Pilasters are attached to the corners of the pavilion. Two doors open off the pavilion, each set at an angle into the wall under the pavilion. The arrangement of openings on the other three sides of the building is irregular, but is very similar to that of
other tithing offices of this type. Decorative elements include a wide frieze which wraps around the building below the cornice line. It consists of string courses of brick which project at different levels. Rock-faced brick highlights the relieving arches of the windows. A small domed cupola structure tops the building. The Richmond Tithing Office is unaltered, is in good condition, and therefore maintains its original integrity.
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inBuilt in 1913-14, the Richmond Carnegie Library is significant as one of sixteen remaining Carnegie libraries of the twenty-three built in Utah. Thirteen of the sixteen library buildings maintain their original integrity and are included in the Carnegie Library Thematic Resource Nomination. In addition to making important contributions to public education in their respective communities, these libraries are Utah’s representatives of the important nation-wide Carnegie library program, and they document its unparalleled effect in the establishment of community-supported, free public libraries in Utah.
Located at 38 West Main Street in Richmond, Utah and added to the National Historic Register (#84000147) on October 25, 1984.
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The Richmond Carnegie Library was built in 1913-14 with an $8,000 grant from millionaire/philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie funded the construction of over 1650 library buildings in the U.S., 23 of which were built in Utah
communities. The major conditions upon which all Carnegie grants were given were that the recipient community donate the building site and provide an annual maintenance budget of at least 10% of the grant amount.
On July 1, 1912, a special election was held in Richmond to determine public
support for a city library tax. Approval for the tax was overwhelming, with
95 of 107 voters chosing to support the move. Five days after the vote, a
special session of the city council was held to appoint members of the Board
of Directors for the Public Library. Three months later, on October 14, 1912,
the city council passed a resolution accepting an $8000 grant from Andrew
Carnegie for the construction of a library building, concurrently accepting
the accompanying $800 annual maintenance commitment.
Although the town received the Carnegie grant in the fall of 1912, it was not until the fall of 1914 that the building was completed. Land for the library was purchased in March 1913 from Mary J. Hendricks for $800, and in April library board members traveled to Salt Lake City to inspect the library facilities there in order to get a better idea what they wanted in their own library. The architectural firm of Watkins & Birch were awarded the design contract for the building, and August S. Schow was given the construction contract. The building was officially opened on October 20, 1914, and Lulu Burnham was appointed librarian.
Watkins & Birch, a Provo, Utah based architectural firm, actively pursued Carnegie library contracts throughout the state and were responsible for designing several other library buildings besides this one. Their design for this and other library buildings conformed to the rectangular, one-story with raised basement design recommended by the Carnegie Library Board as being the most efficient and economical plan for a small town library. Other library buildings designed by the firm include those in Ephraim, Provo, Eureka, Manti, Cedar City, and possibly Garland, since it closely resembles this building in Richmond.
Although the Richmond Carnegie Library was apparently not the first library in
the town, it has continued to serve as the town’s library since its
construction up to the present, and it is the only building in town known to
have served as a library.
The form of the Richmond Carnegie Library is similar to that of many other Carnegie Libraries in Utah. It is a one story yellow brick rectangular building with a raised basement and a flat roof. It was designed in no particular style, but the symmetrical facade, the division of the facade by pilasters, the raised basement, the capitals of the pilasters, the wide
cornice, and the parapet above the cornice reflect Classical Revival influences.
Pilasters with simple geometric capitals divide the building into bays. The façade is five bays wide, the center bay being a projecting pavilion with the main entrance set into it. Each of the window bays is a large three pane opening with a transom that is also divided into three panes. The entrance pavilion not only projects beyond the rest of the wall, but it is framed by brick piers which have geometric capitals that differ from those on the rest of the building. Into each pier is set a small rectangular window, each highlighted by a band of red brick. The entry itself is also framed by thin bands of red brick. The original door has been replaced by a modern glass door, and the transom has been filled in.
The ends of the building are two bays wide, again defined by pilasters, and there are two oblong three part windows per end. The rear of the building like the façade is divided into five bays. The pilasters along that wall, however, have no capitals and there are no distinctive decorative features on that side of the building. There are small square windows in four of the five bays, and long, narrow windows have been set into the central bay.
Red brick which contrasts with the yellow brick of the building, has been used to provide visual interest and is the key to the decorative scheme of the building. Narrow strips of it have been arranged to create the geometric capitals, to frame the rectangular windows in the entrance piers, and to frame the entrance area. Red brick has also been used to outline rectangles of yellow brick on each end of the building and to create a keystone centered in the lintel of each window on the front and sides of the building.
Except for the change made to the entrance, the exterior of the building is virtually unaltered. That change in no way affects the original integrity of the building.
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inFrom OnlineUtah: Lewiston, Utah, is located in the geographic center of Cache Valley, twenty miles northwest of Logan and ten miles south of Preston, Idaho. The town occupies a triangularly shaped land area of approximately 24 square miles, with a base along the Utah-Idaho state boundary in the north, and extends southward between the Bear River on the west and the Cub River on the east to a point where the two streams join in the south. The area is almost entirely flat and contains some of the most productive agricultural land in the state.
Lewiston has always been an agricultural community. The dairying and livestock industries are predominant, and most crops are grown to support them. Some acreage is devoted to supplying vegetables to canneries in the area, but wheat, barley, and alfalfa are the major crops produced. Sugar beets, an important crop for many years, declined in importance after the town’s sugar factory closed in 1972. Many residents supplement their farm incomes by working in local factories or through other non-farm occupations.
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Brower Springs, Cache County, City Creek, Forts, Richmond, utah
A D.U.P. Marker in Richmond, Utah.
In July 1859 under the leadership of John Bair (Interpreter and Guide), sixteen families settled here. They built log cabins and dugouts between City Creek and Brower Springs. The following spring, other families arrived and a permanent fort was built for protection against Indians. The Fort consisted of two rows of houses running east and west, facing each other, with corrals and sheds for livestock back of the homes. This monument, built in honor of the Pioneers of 1859 and 1860, marks the southwest corner of the fort which ran 3000 feet east by 465 feet north.
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Richmond is in the Logan, Utah area and is the townsite that was put together in 1860, after the Richmond Fort.
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