Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall
This Greek Revival temple-form building was constructed in
1867 using local stone. The belfry, added sometime after 1874, is
Picturesque in style and has lathe-turned posts accentuated by
scroll brackets, a distinctive spindle band, and a slightly bellcast
pyramid roof. The hall was built, according to a newspaper
article of the time, by the citizens of Tooele "for a dancing hall,
for dramatic representations and other social and intellectual
purposes." It was leased to William C. Foster and Thomas Croft
but was also used for holding court and other city and county
business. Live entertainment, however, proved financially
unsuccessful, and by 1871 the hall was utilized primarily as a
courthouse. In 1899 a new courthouse was constructed, and the
building became solely the city hall. In 1942, with the
construction of a new city hall, it was authorized for use as a
museum by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.
Marker Placed in 1991