Neils B. Adler House

This one-and-one-half-story hall-parlor house of locally fired yellow brick was built in the mid-1870s. A rear addition was added in the 1890s. Adler, born in Sweden, was a convert to the LDS Church. He and his wife arrived in Salt Lake City in 1858. They later moved to Spring City where three of their children were born.

Located at 296 South Main Street in Spring City, Utah

From Sanpete.com:
This one and one half story yellow brick house was one of the first fired brick houses in Spring City. It is a hall-parlor plan with a rear lean-to addition. Neils Adler (1828-1921), an early Utah immigrant, joined the LDS church in 1853, was in Spring Town by 1867 and died at the age of 93 in Castle Dale, Utah.

Alex Justesen House

In 1898 Alex Justesen purchased the land from Simon T. Beck and built this brick Victorian cottage. The brick used to construct this house was fired by H.H. Omansen. Several outbuildings remain, typifying the agrarian pattern of the Mormon village. The house has been in the Watson family since 1909. Two rooms were added to the rear of the house in 1916.

Located at 187 North Main Street in Spring City, Utah

As is typical of the “Mormon Village” idea, the property has several outbuildings on the 1.06 acre lot. The small outhouse and wood granary were built along with the main house in 1900. Sidewalk viewing only.*

William Ford House

William A. Ford, a blacksmith, built this frame and adobe house with clapboard siding about 1880. The house is a hall-parlor plan with a rear addition. Ford’s blacksmith shop was located west of the house. The house was sold to Edward Sahlberg about 1920. John R. Baxter purchased it in 1927, and it still remains in the Baxter family (as of 2001).

Located at 13 North Main Street in Spring City, Utah

From Sanpete.com:
William Ford, a blacksmith, owned this adobe-lined, wood frame house. The hall-parlor has a rear addition, form that is not uncommon to the area. Ford’s blacksmith shop was likely situated to the west of the house. The house was sold to Edward Sahlburg about 1920. John R. Baxter, Jr.(1888-1978), owner and operator of the nearby confectionery and Lyceum Theater lived here for many years. Baxter’s descendants still own the home.

Lauritz Larsen House

Lauritz Larsen built this one-and-one-half-story adobe hall-parlor house in the 1860s. The house was later stuccoed. Lauritz passed the house on to his son and daughter-in-law, Lauritz O. and Deseret Anderson Larsen. “L.O.” was a merchant, manager of the Young Men’s Co-op, and LDS Bishop from 1904 to 1913. The house was later occupied by the town music teacher Ernest B. Terry. Terry was the LDS Bishop from 1942-1947. The house was owned from the late 1970s to the late 1990s by the notable Sanpete County painter, Ella Peacock.

Located at 12 East 300 South in Spring City, Utah

John Frantzen House

One of the better examples of a vernacular folk building in Spring City, this symmetrical one-and-a-half story Hall and Parlor house was constructed in 1873-74 by John Frantzen. An early convert to the LDS Church, Mr. Frantzen emigrated from Norway to Utah in 1857. Frantzen served a two-year church mission in Denmark, was a first counselor to the Spring City LDS Bishop for fifteen years, and he practiced polygamy – marrying two wives.

Located at 73 South Main Street in Spring City, Utah

This one and one half story hall-parlor house was built by John Franzten (1837-1905). It is one of the few remaining adobe houses along Main Street. A Mormon convert, Frantzen immigrated from Norway in 1857, settling first in Lehi, then Spring City in 1860. Active in the LDS church as first counselor to the Spring City bishop for 15 years, he was a practicing polygamist with two wives and served a jail term for cohabitation. It is likely that one room of the house served as the first store in town.*

This elegant stone house was built in 1883 for Isaac Behunin, one of the first settlers in Sanpete County. Mixing Gothic style inspired dormers with Greek cornice detailing, the house exemplifies the decorative eclecticism found in Mormon domestic architecture of the period. Behunin sold the house to Simon T. Beck in 1887 for $1,200. Mr. Beck was a wealthy sheepman.

Located at 19 East 100 North in Spring City, Utah

This large stone house was built in 1883 by Isaac Behunin, who explored what became Ephraim. He was an original Sanpete County settler and moved to Spring City in the 1860s.*

Rasmus Justesen House

Rasmus Justesen was a sheepman and polygamist who built this 1-1/2 story stucco-over-adobe for his first wife, Sarah Shepherd and her family. In addition to his sheep business, Rasmus fought in the Black Hawk Indian War, sat on the Spring City Council in 1876 and was elected mayor twice, in 1880 and in 1897.
(text from the marker on the house)

Located at 12 North Main Street in Spring City, Utah

This one and one half story adobe house was originally stuccoed and scored to resemble cut stone, including simulated quoins. The house was built for Rasmus Justesen’s (1842-1917) first wife, Sarah A Shepherd (1842-1933), who raised nine children here. Justesen, mayor from 1898-99, took a second wife, Annie Marie Larsen (1859-1942) who had a house elsewhere in Spring City. Rasmus also homesteaded in Emery County. Artist Susan Gallacher purchased and restored the house in 2002.
(text from sanpete.com)

RASMUS & SARAH JUSTESEN HOUSE, 12 N. Main ca. 1875:
This one and one-half story adobe house was originally stuccoed and scored to resemble cut stone. One of the better examples of vernacular folk building and one of the few remaining adobe houses along Main Street. Built for Justesen’s first wife. Susan Gallacher purchased and restored it in 2002. Owned by Susan Gallacher.
(text from the Friends of historic Spring City tour pamphlet)