Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...

has many

historic History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

and notable sites within its immediate borders. Although the entire

Salt Lake City metropolitan area The Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau currently define the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical ...

is often referred to as "Salt Lake City", this article is concerned only with the buildings and sites within the official city limits of Salt Lake City.

Neighborhoods and councils

* The Avenues * Bonneville Hills * Capitol Hill *

Central City In urban planning, a core city, principal city metropolitan core, or central city, is the largest or most important city or cities of a metropolitan area. A core city is surrounded by smaller satellite cities, towns, and suburbs. A central city ...

* Downtown * East Bench * East Central * Fairpark * Federal Heights * Foothill/Sunnyside * Glendale * Guadalupe * Highland Park * Jackson Square * Jordan Meadows * Liberty-Wells * The Marmalade District * People's Freeway * Poplar Grove * Rose Park * Sugarhouse * Sunnyside East * University Park * Wasatch Hollow *

Yalecrest Yalecrest is an affluent residential neighborhood located on the East Bench of Salt Lake City and is known for the architectural variety and rare collection of turn-of-the-century homes – all within a six block radius bordered by the South ...

* Yuma View

Parks and attractions

Artesian Well Park Artesian Well Park is a small urban park in downtown Salt Lake City that contains a natural artesian spring fed by an underground aquifer. It occupies a quarter acre on the southwest corner of the intersection between 800 South and 500 East. Peop ...

- contains a natural artesian spring in use since pioneer days. * Gilgal Sculpture Garden - a small park featuring eccentric Mormonism-based stone carvings. *

Hogle Zoo Utah's Hogle Zoo is a zoo located in Salt Lake City, Utah. It houses animals from diverse ecosystems. It is located at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. Hogle (pronounced "ho-gul") is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariu ...

- far east in the foothills. By most of the hospitals in northern Salt Lake * International Peace Gardens - founded after

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

to promote peace. Located in Glendale. *

Liberty Park Liberty Park is a elevated public park at the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City, overlooking the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan. The park, which opened on June 29, 2016, is located above the World Trad ...

- public park featuring an

aviary An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds, although bats may also be considered for display. Unlike birdcages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages. Avi ...

and other attractions. * Main Street Plaza - parcel of land that was once Main Street, which the LDS Church controversially bought to make a pedestrian thoroughfare and connect its major properties. * Memory Grove -

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and war dead memorial park. *

Red Butte Garden and Arboretum Red Butte Garden and Arboretum consists of a botanical garden, arboretum, and amphitheatre operated by the University of Utah, in the foothills of the Wasatch Range in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is open year-round to the public. Red ...

- located in the foothills of Salt Lake City, has many exhibits and holds concerts in the summer. *

Salt Lake City Cemetery The Salt Lake City Cemetery is a cemetery in northeastern Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, that is one of the largest city-operated cemeteries in the United States. Description The cemetery is located above 4th Avenue and east of N Street in ...

- Largest cemetery in Utah *

Sugar House Park Sugar House Park, also known as Sugarhouse Park, is located between I-80, 2100 South, 1300 East, and 1700 East in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The park is at the heart of the Sugar House neighborhood. ...

- site of the first state priso
See Utah State Prison history
*

Temple Square Temple Square is a complex, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah. The usage of the name has gradually changed to include several other church facilities that are immediately ...

- A downtown religious campus for

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ch ...

(sometimes called the LDS Church). *

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

- campus on east side of the city. *

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), formerly known as the Salt Lake Art Center, is a contemporary art museum. Located in Downtown Salt Lake City, the museum presents rotating exhibitions by local, national and international contemporary ...

- contemporary and formerly modern art museum located in downtown Salt Lake City, founded in 1931. *

Utah Museum of Fine Arts The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is the region's primary resource for culture and visual arts. It is located in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building in Salt Lake City, Utah on the University of Utah campus near Rice-Eccles Stadium. Works ...

- home to over 20,000 individual artworks housed inside the museum's 20 galleries, one of the largest permanent collections in the

Western United States The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the We ...

. * Utah Museum of Natural History

Olympic attractions

* Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron Plaza - Located at Rice-Eccles Stadium, home of the 2002 Winter Olympics cauldron *

Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Legacy Plaza Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantiti ...

- Located at The Gateway, features the Olympic fountain, with a water show set to music every hour.

Buildings

Religious, particularly

LDS LDS may refer to: Organizations * LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, US Religion * Latter Day Saint movement (LDS movement), a collection of independent church groups **The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest group within t ...

buildings, are prominent in Salt Lake City. Settled by

Brigham Young Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as ch ...

and 147 other pioneers on July 24, 1847, these

Latter-day Saint Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several ...

s were fleeing persecution after the death of Joseph Smith. Young originally intended the city and territory to be a religious

theocracy Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs. Etymology The word theocracy originates fr ...

. Although the government has long been secular, and even though less than 50% of residents in Salt Lake City are LDS, the city has a large number of religious buildings. It is the headquarters of

. Unless noted, all of these buildings are in or around Downtown Salt Lake City.

Religious

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ch ...
(LDS Church)

* 19th Ward Meetinghouse and Relief Society Hall - Old and unusual LDS

ward Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...

house on Capitol Hill featuring an

onion dome An onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the tholobate upon which they sit, and their height usually exceeds their width. These bulbous structures taper smoothly to a point. It is a typ ...

steeple In architecture, a steeple is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religi ...

, now home of the small, professional Salt Lake Acting Company. *

Beehive House A beehive house is a building made from a circle of stones topped with a domed roof. The name comes from the similarity in shape to a straw beehive. Occurrences The ancient Bantu used this type of house, which was made with mud, poles, and c ...

- another of Brigham Young's historic homes, next door. *

Conference Center A convention center (American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typica ...

- spacious new meeting hall that replaced the Tabernacle as the venue for General Conference. * Garden Park Ward - stately LDS

house surrounded by beautiful gardens and

duck pond A duck pond is a pond for ducks and other waterfowl. Duck ponds provide habitats for water fowl and other birds, who use the water to bathe in and drink. Typically, such ponds are round, oval or kidney-shaped. An example is the lily pond in th ...

with stream formed from the Red Butte Creek. A popular location for

wedding photography Wedding photography is a specialty in photography that is primarily focused on the photography of events and activities relating to weddings. It may include other types of portrait photography of the couple before the official wedding day, suc ...

in the Gilmer Park area of the city *

Joseph Smith Memorial Building The Joseph Smith Memorial Building, originally called the Hotel Utah, is a social center located on the corner of Main Street and South Temple in Salt Lake City. It is named in honor of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. I ...

- formerly the elegant Hotel Utah. *

LDS Church Office Building The Church Office Building is a 28-story building in Salt Lake City, Utah, which houses the administrative support staff for the lay ministry of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) throughout the world.Taylor, Scott"For 3 ...

- skyscraper and world headquarters of the LDS Church * Lion House -

's home and death place. *

Salt Lake Assembly Hall The Salt Lake Assembly Hall is a building owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which sits on the southwest corner of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. It has seating capacity for an audience of approxima ...

- another historic building on Temple Square. *

Salt Lake Tabernacle The Salt Lake Tabernacle, also known as the Mormon Tabernacle, is located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, in the U.S. state of Utah. The Tabernacle was built from 1863 to 1875 to house meetings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa ...

- innovative domed pioneer-era meeting hall on Temple Square. Lent its name to the

Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is an American choir, acting as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for ov ...

. *

Salt Lake Temple The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. At , it is the largest Latter-day Saint temple by floor area. Dedicated in 1893, it is the sixth templ ...

- possibly the most significant building in

Mormonism Mormonism is the religious tradition and theology of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 1830s. As a label, Mormonism has been applied to various aspects of ...

, on

Other faiths

* Cathedral of the Madeline - Salt Lake City's

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominatio ...

in the lower Avenues. *

First Church of Christ, Scientist The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the administrative headquarters and mother church of the Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as the Christian Science church. Christian Science was founded in the 19th century in Lynn, Massachusetts ...

First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City
- second oldest non-Latter-day Saint church building in Salt Lake still in use. * Holy Trinity Cathedral - a

Greek Orthodox Church The term Greek Orthodox Church ( Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also cal ...

in Greek Town * St. Mark's Cathedral - oldest non-Latter-day Saint church building in Salt Lake still in use; cathedral of the Utah diocese of the

Episcopal Church in the United States of America The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop o ...

. * White Memorial Chapel - historic LDS chapel, now a non-denominational church house on Capitol Hill.

Government

Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse The Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse (originally known as the United States Post Office and Courthouse) is a historic United States federal courts, United States federal courthouse and federal building in Salt Lake City, Utah. The courthou ...

- federal courthouse (UA Government) *

U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah The Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States is a United States federal courts, federal courthouse located at 351 South West Temple Street in downtown Salt Lake City, on the corner of 400 South and West Temp ...

(opened 2014; 351 South West Temple Street) - federal courthouse (UA Government) *

Salt Lake City and County Building The Salt Lake City and County Building, usually called the "City-County Building", is the seat of government for Salt Lake City, Utah. The historic landmark formerly housed offices for Salt Lake County government as well, hence the name. History ...

(opened 1894; 451 South State Street) - historic seat of Salt Lake City government. (Salt Lake City and County Government) * Salt Lake City Council Hall (opened 1866; 300 North State Street) - old city hall, on Capitol Hill (Salt Lake City Government) * Scott M. Matheson Courthouse (opened 1996; 450 South State Street) - houses

Utah Supreme Court The Utah Supreme Court is the supreme court of the state of Utah, United States. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. The Utah Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, an associate chief justice, ...

;

Utah Court of Appeals The Utah Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Utah. It began operations in 1987. Jurisdiction The court's jurisdiction is complementary to that of the Utah Supreme Court. The Court of Appeals hears all app ...

, Utah State Law Library (Utah State Government) * Utah Governor's Mansion (also known as the Thomas Kearns Home) (built 1900; 603 East South Temple Street) - governor's mansion, on South Temple at the foot of the Avenues. (Utah State Government) * Utah State Capitol (completed 1916, renovated 2004-08; 350 North State Street) - on Capitol Hill, modeled after the nation's Capitol. (Utah State Government) *

Utah State Correctional Facility Utah State Correctional Facility (USCF) is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Prison Operations. It is located in the northwestern corner of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It replaced the former Ut ...

(state prison opened July 2022) *

Abravanel Hall Abravanel Hall is a concert hall in Salt Lake City, Utah that is home to the Utah Symphony, and is part of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. The hall is an architectural landmark in the city, and is adjacent to Temple Square and the ...

- Performing Arts hall (Salt Lake County Government) * Marriott Library- Library at University of Utah (Utah State Government) *

Kingsbury Hall Kingsbury Hall is a center for the performing arts located on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. History Kingsbury Hall was designed by Edward O. Anderson and Lorenzo Snow Young and built in 1930. It was named after Joseph ...

- Performing arts center at The University of Utah (Utah State Government) * Park Building - administrative and iconic building of the

. (Utah State Government) *

Salt Lake City Public Library The Salt Lake City Public Library system's main branch building is an architecturally unique structure in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is located at 210 East, 400 South, across from the Salt Lake City and County Building and Washington Square. Hi ...

- large new Main City Library designed by

Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...

. (Salt Lake City Government) * Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre - large

proscenium theatre A proscenium ( grc-gre, προσκήνιον, ) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor ...

, home of the

regional In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...

Pioneer Theatre Company; on the campus of the University of Utah. (Utah State Government) * The Leonardo - former library building, now an arts center. (Utah State Government) *

- museum at the University of Utah specializing in Mountain West artwork. (Utah State Government) * Utah Museum of Natural History (Utah State Government) * Jon M. Huntsman Center - main indoor arena at the University of Utah (Utah State Government) * Rice-Eccles Stadium - football stadium for the University of Utah; site of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

; also the former home to the Major League Soccer team

Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake, often shortened to RSL, is an American professional soccer franchise based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Western Conference. RSL began play in 2 ...

(Utah State Government) *

Salt Lake City International Airport Salt Lake City International Airport is a civil-military airport located about west of Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. The airport is the closest commercial airport for more than 2.5 million people and is within a 30-min ...

- west of Rose Park, but only 5 miles from Downtown (Salt Lake City Government) *

Salt Palace The Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center, more commonly known as the Salt Palace, is a convention center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Named after Utah's 11th governor, Calvin L. Rampton, the name "Salt Palace" was previously used by two ...

- large convention center (Salt Lake City Government) * International Peace Gardens - founded after

to promote peace. Located in Glendale. (UA Government) *

- public park featuring an

and other attractions. (Utah State Government) *

- located in the foothills of Salt Lake City, has many exhibits and holds concerts in the summer. (Utah State Government) *

- Largest cemetery in Utah (Salt Lake City Government) *

- site of the first state priso
See Utah State Prison history
(Salt Lake City Government) *

- campus on east side of the city. (Utah State Government)

Educational/arts

Jan 14 06 interior Salt Lake City library 2 UT USA

- home of the

Utah Symphony Orchestra The Utah Symphony is an American orchestra based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The orchestra's principal venue is Abravanel Hall. In addition to its Salt Lake City subscription concerts, the orchestra travels around the Intermountain West serving c ...

. *

Clark Planetarium The Clark Planetarium is a planetarium and science museum situated within The Gateway at the intersection of 400 West and 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The Clark Planetarium opened in April 2003, replacing the hi ...

- new planetarium at the Gateway. * Capitol Theatre - home to Utah Opera Company, Ballet West, and frequently host to large-scale touring productions. * Clift Building - home of the Off-Broadway theatre, which features plays and Utah's longest-running improv comedy troupe, Laughing Stock. * Eccles Theater- touring Broadway and performing arts theater *

Family History Library The Family History Library (FHL) is a genealogical research facility in downtown Salt Lake City. The library is open to the public free of charge and is operated by FamilySearch, the genealogical arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

- largest genealogical library in the world, maintained by the LDS Church. * Hansen Planetarium - historic building old main library and home to the planetarium before it moved to the Clark Planetarium. * Marriott Library - University of Utah library. *

- center for the performing arts located on the

campus. * Park Building - administrative and iconic building of the

. *

- large new Main City Library designed by

. * Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre - large

, home of the

Pioneer Theatre Company; on the campus of the University of Utah. * The Leonardo - former library building, now an arts center. *

- contemporary and formerly modern art museum located in downtown Salt Lake City, founded in 1931. *

- home to over 20,000 individual artworks housed inside the museum's 20 galleries, one of the largest permanent collections in the Western United States. * Utah Museum of Natural History *

Villa Theatre The Villa Theatre is a now-closed movie theater in Salt Lake City, Utah, located at 3092 S. Highland Drive. The theatre was open from December 23, 1949 to February 18, 2003. It now serves as a location for Adib's Rug Gallery. History The Villa fir ...

- A now-closed movie theatre famous for its design and history

Commercial

* 111 Main - LEED Gold-certified skyscraper in Downtown Salt Lake City, currently the state's 3rd tallest building. *

222 South Main 222 Main a high-rise office building in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, that was Utah’s first LEED Gold-certified high-rise. Description The structure stands 22 stories high and is located at 222 South Main Street in the Central City ...

- Utah's first LEED Gold certified high-rise, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. * 95 State - also colloquially referred to as ''Tower 8'', or ''Big Blue'' by locals; a commercial skyscraper currently under construction on 100 S and State Streets. The tower will be the state's third tallest upon completion, which is set for 2022. *

City Creek Center The City Creek Center (CCC) is a mixed-use development with an upscale open-air shopping center, office and residential buildings, fountain, and simulated creek near Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is an underta ...

- shopping, dining, and residential complex along Main Street just south of Temple Square. Replaced Crossroads Mall and ZCMI Mall. * Deseret News Building - former home of the daily '' Deseret News'' * First Security Building - 1950s international style skyscraper * The Gateway - pedestrian mall * Jon M. Huntsman Center - main indoor arena at the University of Utah * Kearns Building - built by mining magnate and U.S. Senator

Thomas Kearns Thomas Kearns (April 11, 1862 – October 18, 1918) was an American mining, banking, railroad, and newspaper magnate. He was a US Senator from Utah from 1901 to 1905. Unlike the predominantly Mormon constituents of his state, Senator Kearns w ...

. For years it was considered the center of business in Salt Lake City *

One Utah Center One Utah Center is a skyscraper in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by ...

- twenty-four story

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...

-clad skyscraper * Rice-Eccles Stadium - football stadium for the University of Utah; site of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the

; also the former home to the Major League Soccer team

Rio Grande Depot The Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot, commonly referred to as the Rio Grande Depot, is a former train station on the western edge of Downtown Salt Lake City. History The depot was constructed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in ...

- historic railroad station, originally built by

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad , often shortened to ''Rio Grande'', D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Railroad classes#Class I, Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a narrow-gauge l ...

in 1910 and also used by the

Western Pacific Railroad The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route dire ...

Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was a rail company in California, Nevada, and Utah in the United States, that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities (Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, California), via Las Ve ...

and

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

between 1986 and 1999. Today the headquarters of the

Utah State Historical Society The Utah State Historical Society (USHS), founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History, encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the ...

. *

Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot is a building on the western edge of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Built in 1908–09, it dates back to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. As Salt Lake Uni ...

- another historic railroad station, originally named the Union Station, built jointly by the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake and the Oregon Short Line Railroads. *

- west of Rose Park, five miles from Downtown * Salt Lake Regional Medical Center - hospital built around Sisters of the Holy Cross Chapel, originally Holy Cross Hospital *

- large convention center * Tribune Building - Main Street (across from Kearns Building) named for '' The Salt Lake Tribune'' which had long inhabited it *

Vivint Arena Vivint Arena (stylized as vivint arena), formerly known as Delta Center, EnergySolutions Arena and Vivint Smart Home Arena, is an indoor arena located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The arena serves as the home venue for the National Basketball Assoc ...

(formerly the Delta Center/Energy Solutions Arena) - home of the

Utah Jazz The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference (NBA), Western Conference, Northwest Division (NBA), ...

NBA basketball team *

Walker Center Walker Center (formerly Walker Bank Building) is a skyscraper in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Description The building was opened on December 9, 1912, taking a little over a year to be built. At the time of its completion, it stood as ...

- national historic skyscraper constructed in 1912 *

Wells Fargo Center Wells Fargo Center may refer to: *Wells Fargo Center (Los Angeles), California *Wells Fargo Center (Sacramento), California * Wells Fargo Center (San Francisco), California * Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California * Wells Fargo Cen ...

- current tallest skyscraper in Salt Lake City, constructed in 1998 *

ZCMI Center Mall The ZCMI Center Mall was a shopping center near Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that was owned by Zions Securities Corporation (now Utah Property Management Associates), which opened in 1975 and closed in 2007. At the time of ...

- a former downtown mall with façade of old

ZCMI Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (typically referred to as ZCMI) was an American department store chain. It was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 9, 1868 by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First De ...

department store

Residences

* Alfred McCune Home - lavish turn-of-the-century Capitol Hill mansion. * David Keith Mansion - partner of

in the Silver King Coalition Mine. * George M. Cannon House - 1890 mansion in the Forest Dale section built by George Mousley Cannon, the developer of Forest Dale and a member of the

Intermountain West The Intermountain West, or Intermountain Region, is a geographic and geological region of the Western United States. It is located between the front ranges of the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada on the wes ...

's prominent

Cannon family The Cannon family is a prominent U.S. political family in the states of Utah, Nevada and Idaho which descends from the 19th century marriage of George Cannon and Ann Quayle before their emigration from Peel, Isle of Man. The family's most notabl ...

. *

Mansion- built by mining magnate and U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns. Now the Utah State Governor's Mansion, the largest in the United States. * Walker-McCarthey Mansion * Woodruff-Riter-Stewart Home - another Capitol Hill mansion.

Fraternal

* Salt Lake Masonic Temple - seat of Freemasonry in

and Masonic government in

First condominium in the United States

Monuments

* Brigham Young Monument - monument south of the Main Street Plaza to

and the original 147 pioneers. * Eagle Gate - gate remnant to the original

city wall A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications with towers, bastions and gates ...

. *

Seagull Monument The Seagull Monument is a small monument situated immediately in front of the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Monument commemorates what some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS ...

- LDS monument celebrating the Miracle of the Gulls. *

This Is The Place Monument The This is the Place Monument is a historical monument at the This is the Place Heritage Park, located on the east side of Salt Lake City, Utah, at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. It is named in honor of Brigham Young's famous statement in 1 ...

- monument high in the east near Hogle Zoo commemorating Brigham Young's words when entering the valley: "This is the right place, drive on."'This is the place': Historic monuments of Salt Lake Valley's 'Pioneer View'
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Transportation

* ''

FrontRunner FrontRunner is a commuter rail train operated by the Utah Transit Authority that operates along the Wasatch Front in north-central Utah with service from the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center in central Weber County through Davis County, Salt ...

'' - UTA

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system that runs the entire length of Salt Lake County, extending north through

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to Pleasant View on the northern edge of Weber County and south to Provo in the center of

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, on a route roughly paralleling

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. ''FrontRunner'' has two stops within Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Central (Salt Lake Intermodal Hub) and North Temple. * TRAX -

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(UTA) light rail system running nearly the entire length of

Salt Lake County Salt Lake County is located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 1,185,238, making it the most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. The cou ...

. The north-south line begins at the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub (Salt Lake Central) in the western part of Downtown Salt Lake City and runs south to the center of

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. There are also lines that run east to the

, west to the

, west to

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, and southwest to South Jordan. There are currently 23 TRAX Stations within the limits of Salt Lake City proper. ** 900 East, 900 South, 1940 W North Temple,

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, Central Pointe,

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, Courthouse, Fairpark,

Fort Douglas Camp Douglas was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. I ...

, Gallivan Plaza, Jackson/Euclid,

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, North Temple Bridge/Guadalupe, Old GreekTown, Planetarium,

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, Stadium,

, Trolley, University Medical Center, University South Campus *

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- UTA operated

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(formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar) opened for service in December 2013 and connects the

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area of Salt Lake City with the city of South Salt Lake, as well as the TRAX system. Phase I of Sugar House Streetcar has 3 stops within Salt Lake City, but Phase II (all of which will be in Salt Lake City) has a yet to be determined route and number of stops.

References

External links

Salt Lake City official website
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City visitor's guide
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Walking tour of Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City Religious Architecture Photographs
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University of Utah Digital LibraryMarriott Library Special Collections
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