Salt Lake City and County Building - Salt Lake City, UT
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brwhiz
N 40° 45.575 W 111° 53.160
12T E 425215 N 4512447
This building has served city government, county government, state government, and as a courthouse. It was the first historic building to be outfitted with base isolators for seismic protection.
Waymark Code: WM9P1T
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2010
Views: 34
The plaque is inscribed:
Salt Lake
City & County Building
1891-1894, Monheim, Bird, & Proudfoot
The Salt Lake City & County Building is one of Salt Lake City’s most beloved landmarks. The building is Utah’s finest example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. Numerous detailed carvings, including Indian chiefs, Spanish explorers, and the faces of the first Mormon women to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley, decorate the building’s exterior. Columbia, a female personification of the United States, crowns the clock tower. During the late 1980s, Salt Lake City undertook a major renovation of the building. It now sits on 440 base isolators which will allow the building to move as a whole during an earthquake. This seismic retrofit project received international attention for pioneering the use of base isolators in historic buildings.
This edifice is Tour Stop 30 on the Utah Heritage Foundation Downtown Walking Tour.
Street address:
451 Washington Square
Salt Lake City, Utah
84111
County / Borough / Parish: Salt Lake County
Year listed: 1970
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1875-1899, 1900-1924
Historic function: Government
Current function: Government, Landscape
Privately owned?: no
Hours of operation: From: 8:00 AM To: 5:00 PM
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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