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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRP5_the-old-school-house_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
On this site, 6200 South and Redwood Road, in the year 1905 stood the 64th District School House. It was a red brick building consisting of two large rooms on the west side and a single large room on the east side.
The name of the school was c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQWZ_calders-park_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
In the early 1860's George and Mary B. Calder built one of the first amusement parks on this spot. They cleared the land with oxen, planted grass and trees and converted a natural spring of water into a lake for boating. It was spanned by a pictur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQWW_english-fort_Taylorsville-UT.html
In 1853 the settlers west of the Jordan River were advised by President Brigham Young to build a fort, to protect them from Indians. Thick walls of rock and adobe, with one gate surrounded two acres of land. Adobe partitions separated dwellings th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP22_granite-settlement_Sandy-UT.html
In the 1860's, a town named Granite was located at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon by ore miners of Alta, Silverton, and Tannersville. Its desertion began as the mines closed about 1882. the surrounding country had been settled by Latter-day…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP20_warm-springs_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
July 26, 1847, President Brigham Young and others descended Ensign Peak and located Sulphur Springs. Thomas Bullock wrote: "About 1½ miles north of the Temple Block is a sulphur spring which I dug out and made into a beautiful place." A bathh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO37_st-marks-episcopal-cathedral_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Begun in 1870-1871, Completed 1882-1902.Architect Richard Upjohn, founder of A.I.A.Utah's oldest non-Mormon churchin continuous use.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO28_hollywood-apartments_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Built in 1909, this imposing 31-unit apartment building, notable for its construction of rusticated and decorative ashlar concrete block, is the only remaining example of its type in Salt Lake City. All of the apartments have built-in Murphy beds,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO12_lincoln-arms-apartments_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
Apartments such as this were a new type of residential building that emerged during the early 20th century as Salt Lake City developed into an urban center. Dozens of multi-story brick apartments were constructed in the neighborhoods near downtown…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0X_west-jordan-pioneer-church_West-Jordan-UT.html
In 1859, to replace a log church house, Bishop Archibald Gardner chose Elias Morris as architect of this red sandstone and granite church. On May 15, 1861, the cornerstone was laid. Proceeds from a military ball attended by L.D.S. authorities incl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0V_central-warehouse-building_Salt-Lake-City-UT.html
This reinforced concrete warehouse with a brick facade was built in 1929 for George E. Chandler, founder of the Central Warehouse Company. Part of the Warehouse District in the Salt Lake City Multiple-Resource Area, this structure helps document t…