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Show Page 6 Thursday, January 31, 1980 H istorical ociety N ames 198 0 Goals u ".., - ; . . -vT? ? - - ; v If I'M tyr'Jf&i- .j I. 'I- swear- , I t' , 1 1 i ' I. I I J I I it- i r QtyH It's a sign of the times, er Times. Park City's boom has in the last month been spotlighted in two nationally distributed publications: The Los Angeles Times newspaper and U.S. News & World Report magazine. In the Dec. 31 issue of U.S. News & World Report. Park City rated a three-quarter page spread. "(The) born-again born-again mining town." reads the article, "is making its mark as a model for resorts across the United States . . . r-l f. ' r A h a r a ir its The Limelight (by offering) year-round array- of activities that , appeal to virtually all ages and many interests." The. magazine quotes Mayor Ma-yor Jack Green, Warren King, Sweetwater Resident Brian Swinton and pharmacist pharma-cist Dan Parker Then, in the Jan. fi Los Angeles Times. Park City was the subject of the lead story of the paper's real estate section. Headlined as "Mining Town Taps a New Vein. Strikes It Rich", the Park City Historical Society President Patricia Smith last week announced the 1980 long range goals and upcoming upcom-ing projects, as the group continues to explore methods to document and preserve the town's past and coordinate coordin-ate the integration with the present and future. First on the calendar is a Feb. 15 general membership meeting of the historical society to be held at noon at the Kimball Art Center. Ms. Smith encouraged any interested inter-ested Parkite to attend the meeting and lend ideas or support to implement projects. pro-jects. She noted various committees will be formed throughout the season and . ""ZrZLZ' i .... . article spreads from the front page through four inside pages, sketching Park City's mining era rise and fall and its rebirth into a ma jor ski resort undergoing a real estate boom. Major new projects like Deer Valley Resort and the Depot Project are highlighted. Thirteen photographs of Park City buildings, slopes and people accompany the text. Local photographer Pat McDowell and The News-pupvi News-pupvi s alar contributing ' ah FOOD Featuring CHALUPAS made from masa (corn meal) and filled with meat (beef or chicken) ranch sauch 6V topped with sour cream. Open Daily 430 Main Street 5-10 p.m. 649-6900 volunteers to help research, document and coordinate activities will gratefully be accepted. The president said one of the top priorities of the society will be the clean-up, repair and documentation of the cemetery to the east of the Crescent Ridge condominiums. condo-miniums. She noted the project could begin as soon as the snow melts in the spring, with the first step fencing the cemetery to keep out vandals. In April, a four-hour preservation preser-vation workshop will be offered to anyone interested in historic property. The workshop will be presented by four members of the Utah State Historical Society, including in-cluding preservation director direc-tor Wilson Martin, historians Kent Powell and Phil Notor-ianni, Notor-ianni, and preservation architect arch-itect Larry Jones. All four men have graciously donated donat-ed their services to the local historical society. The workshop will be held on a Saturday and will include a walking tour of four Park City historic structures, each exemplifying exemplify-ing a typical problem with older structures. Included will be the Park Avenue residence of Dusty Orrell, the Catholic Church on Park Avenue, the Armstrong barn west of the golf course, and the former Day's Market on Main Street. The purpose of the workshop is to point out The Catholic Church, a Park Avenue residence and the former Day's Market will be subjects of an upcoming Historical Society workshop. '4 ' film shooter. Phyllis M. Rubenstein. provided the photographs and are credited. credit-ed. The Times article ends with the note. "Considering the quantity... and quality of snow, lift expansion possibilities, possibil-ities, accommodations and other factors. Park City couid surpass Sun Valley and other famous ski areas virtually in every respect within a few years." Of Course, Parkites have known all that for some time. THENTIC EXICAN potential trouble areas and to recommend repair and restoration work and funding fun-ding opportunities available. Ms. Smith said the Melbourne Mel-bourne Armstrong barn, build in 1926, now needs shoring and stabilizing and will be an example of engineering problems in historic his-toric structures. Once the biggest dairy barn in the state, the Armstrong structure struc-ture will receive expert attention from the four historians. Dusty Orrell's house on Park Avenue is an example of an historic structure whose original building materials ma-terials are hidden under modern siding. Ms. Smith said while the previous owners thought they were preserving the original wood with aluminum siding "they actually were writing the building's death warrant," by hiding deterioration. The historians will discuss the best technique for restoring the home. The Catholic Church on Park Avenue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is eligible for state funds through a grant program. Father Pat Carley has been researching roof restoration and window repairs re-pairs for the church. During the workshop, the state historians will suggest materials ma-terials to replace the deteriorating deter-iorating tin roof that dates DATS r r W J ft .Trmmm, VfrW.ii back to the earls Hioos, The church was built in 1884. and Ms. Smith said it will likely receive state f inds since structural repairs of historic buildings are a high priority. The former Day's Market on Main Street recently was purchased by Jody Bernolfo. who intends to remodel the food store into a restaurant. He hopes to take advantage of a two-part grant program offered through the Park City planning office by the state historical society. The program offers grants for architectural services in 1980, with building stabilization stabiliza-tion and facade restoration beginning in 1981. Ms. Smith said the historians histor-ians will point out during the workshop areas that will be covered through the grant, including architectural drawings and advice for facade changes and suggestions sugges-tions for implementation of the restoration. "The point of the workshop is to encourage participation of City Council and Planning Commission members, historic his-toric property owners, real estate people anyone interested in what is going on in the preservation of historic histor-ic buildings," Ms: Smith said. "This is going to be great. During the tour of the sites, the historians will give insight about preservation preserva-tion principles, safe cleaning methods for masonry, priority prior-ity repairs, materials for restoration and repair. MARKET R I! S I f Best Salad Bar in Town Serving Prime Rib nightly 649-7100 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FOR DINNER Monday-Thursday. 5:30 p.m.-l():00 p.m. Friday & Saturday. 5:30 p.m.-l 1 :00 p.m. Sunday. 5:00-10:00 p.m. GRUB STEAK 7:00a.m. - sources lor things like hand-milled hand-milled matching trim, safe paint remover. You name it. We hope we'll see in the four siles every kind of situation and problem associated with historic buildings and how to cope with them." Next on the agenda is Park City's Preservation Day, May 20. Among other activities activi-ties planned for the day, Ms. Smith said of special importance import-ance will be the framing of an historic photo collection. The negatives were donated by Nick Nass, who bought the Main Street business of the original town photographer photo-grapher named Webb, whose camera work came with the shop. Once framed, Ms. Smith said the collection will be available to the community commun-ity for display at special events to liven up walls and offer visual insight into the town's past. In all there are about 40 old photographs that local photographer Vin-nie Vin-nie Fish printed from negatives nega-tives in New York and mounted. One ongoing project will be the formation of a public record by the historic society. so-ciety. Ms. Smith said office space for the currently homeless society will be needed to begin the project. The plan is to invite senior citizens in three days a week to identify photographs and to record stories on tape. "We would like to ask local senior citizens to come in for lunch and chat about Park A I R A N I BREAKFAST 10:00a.m. City's past and try to identify and document the tidbits we have into an organized public record," Miss Smith said. We've applied for a grant to the National Endowment Endow-ment for the Humanities to help fund the project. But in the meantime, we'd like to set up shop, and we hope to get assistance there from the city. We hope the City Council will take it under advisement and see where the historical society could be appropriately housed. My favorite places would be the Depot building, the Senior Citizens Center, the Memorial Memor-ial Building, or the Miners Hospital, if the restoration is not too far off. We'd be happy with a temporary office to get started with the public record." Ms. Smith said she has requested space on the Feb. 7 City Council agenda to appraise city officials of the society's projects and goals "and to enlist their assistance assist-ance to help save Park City's history." Also on the society project list is the development of an overlap map that would identify historic structures in Park City. Ms. Smith said the map hopefully would be used as a tool by the Planning Plan-ning Commission during new construction site review to see what buildings are adjacent to the lot. Ms. Smith commented com-mented that at this point only new structures are reviewed without a knowledge of surrounding structures. "We also need advisory resources to talk to developers develop-ers about the alternatives to demolition." Ms. Smith commented. com-mented. "The commission doesn't know now what buildings might have to be demolished to erect a new one, and the overlay map could help there. But we need to let people know about rehabilitation, restoration, or even moving a building rather than destroying it." Planned in June is another golf tournament fundraiser similar to last summer's barn bash that was financially financial-ly successful as well as popular. Plans for the fundraiser fund-raiser will be announced as details are ironed out. ,t "We look forward to a very productive year for the historical society," Ms. Smith said. "This is a group dedicated to preserving Park City's past and we welcome any new members interested in helping us. Park City is growing fast and it's more important now than ever to preserve its colorful past." J. |