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As you know, I often like to take a look about at some of the lost gems of Salt Lake City - buildings either demolished in the name of progress or reclad in the name of progress. I'd like to take you on a journey of some of these classics and what replaced them:
The Union Pacific Hotel. Located right by the Union Pacific, it was later demolished and the land turned into the Triad Center parking lot.
The Dooly Building, Located on West Temple, this historic Louis Sullivan-designed building was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Shilo Inn:
The Templeton Building. Located across the street from Temple Square, it was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Kennecott Building, which still stands today (and was renovated in the 2000s and now goes by the Zions Bank Building:
Deseret National Bank. Located at 100 S and Main Street, it was a great example of Italianate-style architecture in Salt Lake City. It was demolished in the 1910s to make way for another bank, which still stands (albeit now in the middle of a small parking lot):
LDS Granite Stake Tabernacle. This beaut was built at the end of the 1800s. It was later demolished in the 1950s for a bank and now the land is home to Century 16 Theater on 3300 South, State:
Deseret Gymnasium. Located across from Temple Square, it was eventually demolished to make room for the LDS Church Office Building (not to be confused with the other Deseret Gym that was demolished later):
The Eagle Building. This fine building sat at the corner of 200 West, West Temple. Today, it's a red brick office building:
The Liberty Theater. One of many small play/movie houses that were built in Salt Lake City. This was eventually demolished for a parking lot.
Salt Lake City Brewing Company. This one stings. A lot. It was built in an area of the city known as 'Brewery Hill' but later demolished - though part of it survived (Anniversary Inn is located in the part that survived):
Newhouse Hotel. Once known as Salt Lake's Grandest Hotel, the building fell into disrepair throughout the mid-20th Century and instead of paying to renovate, the owner demolished it in the 1980s and replaced it with a parking lot that is still there today.
St. Mary’s of the Wasatch. Built on the east bench, not too far from the University of Utah, this Catholic College was demolished for a housing subdivision in the 1970s. Fun fact, Jazzy's grandma graduated from this school:
The Fifth East Hotel. Shocker, it was located on 5th East at about 154 South. It was once a shelter for those escaping polygamy. The building was eventually sold and raised in the 1980s:
The Salt Lake Theatre. It was a short-lived theater, developed with the approval of Brigham Young, and eventually demolished for a gas station (a cool one, tho!). The gas station would eventually be demolished for the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Building, which I like:
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Building. A great building in the heart of downtown that was originally built in the 1800s by the Walker Brothers. Its location is now home to the JC Penny Building:
The Auerbach Building. Located on the corner of State Street and Broadway (300 S), this gem was home to the Auerbach Department Store until they moved in the 1930s. It was then demolished for the Centre Theater, which was then demolished for an office building in the 80s:
Richards Street. This entire street was demolished to make way for the Crossroads Plaza, a monstrous indoor mall that (along with ZCMI Center Mall) eventually killed Main Street):
I did not include these next two because they weren't technically demolished and instead 'reclad', as in the building remains but its facade was completely overhauled. This happened to a lot of Salt Lake buildings in he 1960s and 70s.
When Auerbach moved from the northeast corner of Broadway and State (where their old department store was torn down for the Centre Theater), they moved across the street to this building. In the 1970s, after they closed, it was renovated into its current structure:
Next to the old Auerbach was The Paris, a millinery store (essentially hats). There was a massive interior rotunda with a domed art-glass skylight. It was eventually reclad and the current building is set for demolition:
Keith O'Brien's, a department store, was actually originally located in the Auerbach building Auerbach moved to in the 1930s. Keith O'Brien's moved next door, and, why I do not know, completely reclad their historic building. It would later be reclad again in the 70s:
Plum Alley. For many years, this was Salt Lake City's Chinatown - home to restaurants, shops, businesses and laundromats. In 1952, it was finally razed to make way for a massive parking structure. Most of what is left is a memorial plaque and street sign:
The Vermont Building. Part of the Richards Street buildings that were demolished for the Crossroads Plaza mall. This building was located at the corner of Richards Street & South Temple and was completed in 1910.
The Inn at Temple Square. This is one of the more recent lost buildings. Sat at the corner of South Temple and West Temple, the Inn officially opened its doors in 1931 as the Hotel Temple Square. It was demolished for the residential high-rise 99 West in 2006.
Along with the Inn, the demolition of the Shubrick is also pretty recent. Built as an apartment-hotel in 1912, the building was later turned into the locally famous club Port O’ Call. It was demolished to make room for the soon-to-be-named Orrin Hatch Federal Courthouse.
The Greyhound Bus Depot. Built in the 1920s, this depot served Salt Lake City through to 1968, where it was demolished for parking at the newly constructed Salt Palace. The site is currently a plaza outside Abravanel Hall, with the now-demolished depot built just west of here:
The Rainbow Randevu. This building, built in 1922, was a great example of the architectural Art Deco style. Home to one of the more popular dance clubs in Salt Lake, the building was demolished in the 1980s for a parking lot on Main Street:
