Bear and Cougar Grottos, Hogle Zoo

Utah Zoological Society was founded in 1911 inside Liberty Park. For the next twenty years, the small, unsophisticated location housed monkeys, birds, and elephant Princess Alice purchased from a traveling circus. But the location was subpar: Princess Alice escaped often, wandering down 700 East. In 1931 Mr. and Mrs. James Hogle donated 32 acres at…

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Cate Equipment Company Office & Warehouse

Cate Equipment Company has served the construction, mining and industrial industries in the intermountain west since 1938. They provide new and used machine sales, rentals, parts, service, and repairs. In 1956 they commissioned Ashton, Evans & Brazier to build a new office and warehouse to replace their then-current headquarters building on 900 South in Salt…

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Federal Reserve Bank, Salt Lake City branch

The original Salt Lake branch of the Federal Reserve Bank opened in 1918. The Ashton, Evans & Brazier (AEB) building (1958) was its fourth location in 40 years and more than 60 years later the AEB structure still serves the Federal Reserve on the corner of 100 S and State Streets. This property was purchased…

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University of Utah Medical Center (Planning)

The University of Utah Medical Center was a multi-year project: from concept discussion (1945) until opening (1965). This page covers the timeline up-to-and-including the concept approval in early 1959. The University of Utah Medical School opened in 1905 and for many years followed a ‘brains not bricks’ motto, prioritizing faculty appointments, not buildings. By the…

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