Plant Auto Company Building

Many people owned the property that would later become the Plant Auto Company. The property was deeded to Beason Lewis in 1875, then passed through many individuals before Henry T. Plant Jr. and Edith Louisea Webb purchased the property from Thomas Spackman.

Henry Thomas Plant Jr. was born in Richmond to Henry T. Plant and Violate Whitehead in 1889. Henry attended Utah State University in 1911 and married Edith Louisea Webb in 1912. At the time, Henry was a coach from North Cache High School before he established Plant Auto Company in 1916. The company closed its doors in the 1960's, and the building was passed to Henry's son Ross Plant and his wife Favell Roskelley. Ross and Favell sold the property of Veldon and Glenda Bair in 1974, then to their son Stephen and Marlene Bair in 1983, then to Dee and Marlene Bair in 1987. Dee used the building for automobile restoration and storage.1 In the late 1990's or early 2000's, Maverik Gas purchased the building and started using it for storage.2

The Plant Auto Company Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 for its "events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history" and "embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significate and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction." Areas of significance are commerce, transportation, community planning and development, architecture, and social history.1

During the winter of 2010, the building's roof collapsed on itself, possibly due to heavy snowfall. Cache County Sheriff's Department Lt. Chad Jensen witnessed the disaster and the multiple powerlines that were destroyed at the Maverick gas station.2 After it was completely removed that same year, the Plant Auto Company was unlisted from the National Register of Historic Places.

1. United States Department of the Interior. National Register of Historic Places (2004, July 15). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Plant Auto Company Building (Korral Broschinsky). National Archive Catalog. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71999256

2. (Feb 19, 2010). Cache County Building to be demolished collapses on itself. Desert News. https://www.deseret.com/2010/2/19/20097318/cache-county-building-to-be-demolished-collapses-on-itself/