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Show Kaysville landmarks being renovated By DONETA GATHERUM KAYSVILLE One of Kays-ville's Kays-ville's oldest landmarks has just received re-ceived a new exterior renovation. The historic Williams Building on the corner of Main and First North has a new slimbrick front. Now the home of the Sno White Laundry and Cleaning Village, the old stucco and wood front has been covered with a special brick product pro-duct that is glued to the old surface. The Williams Building dates back to about 1876 when E. A. Williams Wil-liams built his one-story, one room brick building. At first the room was used as a hardware store but soon other stock was added as the demand for manufactured goods grew. A room was added for Mrs. Ada Evans Williams' millinery shop. In 1892 another addition to the building was made to accommodate accommo-date a drug store. With this new addition came an upper story that was used as a dance and meeting hall. Silent movies were shown in the Williams Hall and clubs and organizations found it an ideal site for their meetings. As the community needs changed, the uses for the Williams Building were modified. In 1939, the building became the Kaysville City Hall until the new city hall was completed in 1944. Later, Ralph Williams used the Williams Building for an automobile auto-mobile showroom and garage. The large garage door on the south side of the building still remains as a reminder of the automotive use the building once had. The present-owners present-owners said they left this door to help maintain the historic character charac-ter of the building. Many tourists camping at the Cherry Hills Park use the laundromat. They comment com-ment on the novelty of having a drive-through window at a laundromat. laun-dromat. The Williams Building was a laundromat and dry cleaners in 1972 when Glen and Judy Love-land Love-land purchased the business and the building. For many years they thought about renovating the front Nine months ago, they started this major project. Renovation of something as simple sim-ple as a store front can be difficult. Mr. Loveland says the wooden remains re-mains of the second story, wooden and brick walls from years of re-modelings re-modelings and additions Eind an old pioneer era foundation all combined com-bined to complicate the plans, techniques and materials that were used in the remodeling. The first step was to sandblast xJjicEc,u1,.,,,,,,tTT:.-.ii-. """y'V"'!!"7'''- '' "'r a . j ' gS Sgyp rrrrr rrrrrrrrrr rrrrr li lis s "r,''' '"""'"""I j "'j pg Wj E F": ; ' jgj j I p e MM p Lm liii ill , -ill ilifij The Williams Corner after the lower floor was remodeled to accommodate a garage. , Drawing by Jerry Stickney. the painted brick on the north side of the building. This wall is original. origin-al. The brick was made in Kay sville svil-le at the Samuel Ward Brick Yard. It was impossible to count the layers of paint that had been placed on The wall over the years. At one point in the sandblasting operation, an old Coca Cola advertisement was briefly exposed. Redesigning the front of the building required a different approach. Because of the basement base-ment and foundation structure, it was impossible to construct a simple sim-ple matching brick wall that would be compatible with the original north brick facade. Mr. Loveland went to the InterPace Brick Company Com-pany in Harrisville and ordered a special slim brick which could be glued onto the front. The match is very good. i . The remodeling was done by Ken Loveland, Glen's brother who is attending Weber State College and work ing on special projects to pay for his schooling. The finishing touches will come within the next month. A new ,- " ...".""m m, ,i -'-rn nil ig- - - rifiinMM I awning will be added and a sign indicating the building is the Sno White Laundry and Cleaning Village Vil-lage will be put on the front. This addition to Kaysville's Main Street is impressive. Kaysville Kaysvil-le is one of the few cities in the state that has successfully maintained a modern Main Street business district dis-trict with a turn of the century flavor. fla-vor. Merchants like Glen and Judy Loveland deserve credit for contributing contri-buting to the success of the Main Street renovation. |