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Show LOOKING BACK Four sites from across the state have been approved for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, announced the Utah State Historical Society. "Listing in the National REgister calls attention to the historic, cultural, and architectural significance of buildings in our communities," said A. Kent Powell, coordinator of historic preservation research at the Historical Society. The buildings recently listed are the Edwin Robert Booth House in Juab County, the Judge Building in Salt Lake City, the Nunn Power Plant in Utah County, and the Wasatch Wave Publishing Company Building in Wasatch County. The National Register status of these buildings now qualifies them to apply for federal matching grants-in-aid for preservation work and tax incentives for money spent on preservation work. The preservation office of the Historical Society may be contacted for further information about these programs. The Edwin Robert Booth House is a two-story brick Victorian house constructed in 1893 at 94 West 300 South in Nephi. Booth, a businessman, was active in local governmental activities. He served as Nephi City Recorder, a councilman in Nephi's first city government, govern-ment, and was elected mayor of Nephi in 1899. Booth's house stayed in his family until 1931 . Since then it's had several different owners and was left to deteriorate. The new owners are already restoring the home. The Judge Building, 8 East 300 South in Salt Lake City, is a significant structure because it is a symbol of the contribution of the John Judge family to the economic history of Utah. The seven-story structure was built in 1907, has 228 rooms, and is brick-faced. The Judge family fortune was made in mining and was used by Mary Judge to invest in many buildings in downtown Salt Lake and to support numerous charitable institutions in and around Salt Lake City. The Judge Building is also historically significant because of the building's contribution to the creation of a Gentile financial center. The Nunn Power Plant, located in Provo Canyon in Utah County, is significant to the development of longdistance long-distance trasnmission of electrical power for commercial com-mercial use. When completed in 1898, the plant successfully suc-cessfully transmitted 40,000 volts of power over a 34-mile 34-mile line to the mining community of Mercur. At the time, it was the largest plant in terms of power and had the longest distance transmission lines in the United States. The electrical power supplied by the Nunn Plant to the mining communities of Mercur, Eureka, and Bingham greatly enhanced the operation of the mines and served to hasten the electrification of much of Utah. The Wasatch Wave Publishing Company Building55 West Center Street in Heber City, is historically significant because of its importance in the development develop-ment of communication in Wasatch County. It is also one of the oldest newspaper offices in the state of Utah and one of a handful of unaltered wood Victorian boomtown storefronts in the state. The building was the home of the local newspaper, the Wasatch Wave, from 1901 until the early 1970's. Dorothy Rogers |