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Prior to construction of the Hotel Utah from 1909 to 1911, the general tithing office of the LDS Church, a bishop's storehouse, and the Deseret News printing plant all were located on the site. [ 3 ] Work on the Second Renaissance Revival style hotel , designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Parkinson and Bergstrom, began in June 1909.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
December 4, 2008 (3 W. Main St. Vernal: 1916 bank building significant for its role in local economic development, for being one of Vernal's best-preserved early-20th-century commercial buildings, and for famously having its 40 tons of bricks shipped via parcel post, prompting a national change in postal regulations.
This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in Utah. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [ 1 ]
British engineer and architect William Fairbairn is sometimes credited with the first designs for what he termed the shed principle possibly as early as 1827. In his "Treatise on Mills and Millwork", of 1863, Fairbairn stated that, "Contemporaneous with the architectural improvements in mills [from 1827], the shed principle lighted from the roof, or the "saw-tooth" system, came into operation.
Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.' Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A V-shaped roof resembling an open book. A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an ...
In this local adaptation of the tent roof it took the form of either: a polygonal roof made of wood, where wood logs are laid both parallel to the sides of the roof, and across the corners to form squinches, which makes the roof high and rather pointed. a roof of similar shape (thin, pointed, nearly conical), made of brick or stone. The lower ...
Originally the Hotel Utah. An example of "Neo-classical Revival" or the subtype "modern Italian Renaissance" as described by the architects. [47] 38 257 Towers Building [48] 175 / 53 13 1986 185 South State [49] 175 / 53 13 1982 Red Lion Hotel [50] 175 / 53 14 1970 Originally Tri-Arc Travelodge Hotel, then 1985-1987 as Radisson Tri-Arc Hotel ...