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The FrontRunner at Utah Transit Authority's Provo station, July 2013 Amtrak's Provo station, July 2013. Interstate 15 runs through western Provo, connecting it with the rest of the Wasatch Front and much of Utah. US-89 runs northwest to southeast through the city as State Street, while US-189 connects US-89 with I-15, BYU, and Orem to the north.
Roughly bounded by 100 East, 600 East, 500 North and 500 South Provo, Utah United States: Area: 260 acres (110 ha) Architectural style: Bungalow/Craftsman, Prairie School, Late Victorian: NRHP reference No. 98000281 [1] Added to NRHP: November 24, 1998
Cesar Santos (born July 10, 1982) is a contemporary Cuban-American artist and portrait painter. He is better known for his body of work "Syncretism", a term he uses to describe paintings where he presents two or more art tendencies in aesthetic balance. He has completed numerous commissions and his work is held in private as well as public ...
The William D. Roberts house was constructed in 1875. A two-story home with a gable roof, this home is "The best-preserved example in Provo of a house that displays the traditional form and Greek Revival detailing of the pioneer period while concurrently reflecting the increased verticality of the early Victorian influence in Utah (Randall p. 1)."
The parkway serves the Provo Municipal Airport and the new campus of Provo High School. [1] Upon final completion, it will be a four- to five-lane road running from Geneva Road ( State Route 114 [SR-114]) at 2000 North to South State Street ( U.S. Route 89 [US 89]), running along nearly the entire west and south sides of Provo.
The successful commercial mining of precious metals and minerals transformed Utah's economy from basically an agrarian base to a more industrialized state. Within this development, the Tintic Mining District, located approximately thirty miles southwest of Provo, was founded in 1869 and by 1899 became the leading mining center in Utah with a value of output placed at $5 million.
A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday that he is the suspect and, in an apparent British accent, called ...
In 1901 the recently formed Provo Third Ward of the Utah Stake was responsible for the construction of a new chapel. Using primarily local materials and locally employed workers, Bishop Thomas N. Taylor, also the mayor of Provo, and his building committee composed of Arthur Dixon, Edgar Perry, and H. J. Maiben, undertook the project. The cost ...