The Spence Confectionery and Dance Hall, built in 1917, is a one-part block located at 81 E. Main Street in Wellsville, Cache County, Utah. The one-story brick building features the tall windows of a Victorian commercial storefront but is devoid of any ornamentation beyond some modest corbelled brick, and therefore, an example of the Commercial style. The building faces south to Wellsville’s Main Street and is flanked by a one-story store (circa 1925) to the east and a one-story pool hall to the west (circa 1929). In 1982, the confectionery and the pool hall buildings were combined and converted to a reception center with a Western-themed plank false front. The building and a circa 2005 metal shed addition at the rear filled nearly all of the 0.05 acre rectangular parcel. The faux façade and the non-historic shed were removed by the current owner in 2023, creating a small patio space. The building was recently rehabilitated as a federal historic preservation tax credit project, restoring much of the historic integrity in the qualities of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. The property contributes to the history of Wellsville’s one-block wide commercial district.
