Centre Theater & Shopping Center
The location of the Centre Theater and Shops (NE corner of Broadway and State in Salt Lake City) is the historic site of the first Utah irrigation in 1847. The Knutsford Hotel, Sears Roebuck, and the Auerbach department store then occupied the site for many years until 1935 when the building was demolished as being…
Crescent Elementary
Crescent Elementary has served three different roles in nearly 100 years: elementary school, alternative high school, and now a restaurant and event center. At the end of the 19th century, the Salt Lake County School District began to consolidate the neighborhood schools and provide funds for new buildings. The county suggested that some of the…
Mountain States Tel. & Tel: Main Building
The architectural style of the Salt Lake City 1940 Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph (MST&T) main building is well known as one of the “few Art Deco structures in Utah and … a fine example of this style” (McCormick). But the design is only part of the story. The building construction is least as significant:…
Teton Stake & Driggs Ward Tabernacle
Driggs Idaho is located in Teton Valley nestled along the Idaho-Wyoming border. It is surrounded by vast farmlands and plains that lead up to the tall, cragged peaks of Wyoming’s Teton Range. The Driggs Ward of the LDS church was organized in 1901 and soon thereafter the Teton Stake was organized. In 1904 the stake approved a…
Yalecrest Ward
Yale Ward was divided and Yalecrest Ward organized on 29 Dec 1935. At that time, the new bishopric was sustained along with R. Verne McCullough as chairman of the Yalecrest building committee (New L.D.S ward). Note that A&E had designed McCullough’s Yalecrest residence ten years earlier. Groundbreaking was held in May 1936.The building is a…