Jump to content

Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Central downtown Salt Lake City as viewed from the north facing south

Salt Lake City, Utah has many historic and notable sites within its immediate borders. Although the entire Salt Lake City metropolitan area 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

[edit]
Rose Park during the winter

Parks and attractions

[edit]
Hogle Zoo

Olympic attractions

[edit]
Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park

Buildings

[edit]

Religious, particularly LDS buildings, are prominent in Salt Lake City.

Settled by Brigham Young and 147 other pioneers on July 24, 1847, these Latter-day Saints were fleeing persecution after the death of Joseph Smith. Young originally intended the city and territory to be a religious theocracy. 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.[citation needed] It is the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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

Religious

[edit]
Church Office Building

Other faiths

[edit]

Government

[edit]
Utah State Capitol

Educational/arts

[edit]
Abravanel Hall
The interior of the Salt Lake City Public Library

Commercial

[edit]
One Utah Center
Rio Grande Depot

Residences

[edit]

Fraternal

[edit]

First condominium in the United States

[edit]

Monuments

[edit]
"This is the Place" monument

Transportation

[edit]
A FrontRunner diesel train

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Collections | the Utah Museum of Fine Arts".
  2. ^ "Collections | the Utah Museum of Fine Arts".
  3. ^ 'This is the place': Historic monuments of Salt Lake Valley's 'Pioneer View'
[edit]