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Demolished Places episodes

  • Episode 15: Women's Industrial Christian Home

    The Story of the Women's Industrial Christian Home

    Sources:

    Utah Division of State History

    Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    J Willard Marriott Digital Library

    Salt Lake City Weekly

    Utah Humanities

    Salt Lake Tribune: 1878-11-13; 1899-09-28; 1900-02-18; 1914-01-11; 1914-01-30; 1985-09-12; 1986-19-19; 1987-01-11; 1990-08-18

    Salt Lake Herald Republican: 1886-03-19; 1886-06-03; 1886-11-20; 1887-04-06; 1888-10-27; 1892-05-29; 1892-12-13; 1893-01-22; 1893-06-20; 1899-02-08; 1899-11-05

    Deseret News: 1886-11-03; 1888-10-17; 1888-10-17; 1888-10-24

    Utah Inquirer: 1888-10-19

    Deseret Weekly: 1888-10-24; 1890-03-22

    Deseret Evening News: 1899-07-29

    Salt Lake Telegram: 1913-09-25; 1928-04-30; 1929-02-18; 1945-11-13; 1946-01-04; 1945-11-30; 1945-12-20; 1945-12-15; 1945-12-22; 1946-01-05; 1946-01-04; 1948-12-15; 1949-03-18; 1950-10-05; 1949-04-16; 1951-06-14

    Salt Lake Times: 1960-03-25

    University of Utah Student Newspapers: 1978-11-27

    20 min
  • On a Side Note: La France Apartments

    This is a bit of history on the La France Apartments. 

    Homemakers in Transition: Women in Salt Lake City Apartments, 1910-1940: https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume67_1999_number4_c73ceb1b337ef1/s/163040

    Sources:

    Homemakers in Transition: Women in Salt Lake City Apartments, 1910-1940 - Utah Historical Quarterly 1999 – Volume LXVII No. 4

    Urban Expansion into the Early Twentieth Century, 1890s-1930s – Utah Division of State History

    6 min
  • On a Side Note: The Haunted Church

    This is the story of the haunted Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church.

    The Dead History: https://www.thedeadhistory.com/podcast

    Sources:

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    Salt Lake Tribune: 1896-10-10; 1906-3-10

    Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1896-05-23; 1906-5-12

    The Dead History


     

    8 min
  • Episode 13: Utah's Carnegie Libraries

    The story of Utah's Carnegie Libraries with special guests Heidi Fendrick and Olivia Wilkinson from the Utah State Library Division.

    https://library.utah.gov/

    Sources:

    Utah State Library Division

    Utah Division of State History

    Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    J Willard Marriott Digital Library

    Utah Center for Architecture

    Ogden Daily Standard: 1901-03-13; 1901-05-24; 1901-5-28; 1903-04-22; 1903-04-22; 1904-06-24

    Richfield Reaper: 1935-11-28

    Sanpete County Messenger: 2017-07-05

    Van, Slyck A. A. Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture 1890-1920. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Print

    https://jacobbarlow.com/2019/09/07/carnegie-libraries-in-utah/

    https://mtpleasantlib.org/about-the-library/history/

    https://www.nps.gov/articles/carnegie-libraries-the-future-made-bright-teaching-with-historic-places.htm

    https://npgallery.nps.gov/

    https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us/about

    https://contentdm.li.suu.edu/digital/collection/hist_photos/id/180/rec/3

    https://www.ksl.com/article/46729596/pair-of-century-old-buildings-torn-down-in-murray

    https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/andrew-carnegie

    https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/09/30/remembering-andrew-carnegies-legacy/


    59 min
  • On a Side Note: The Ghost of John Borich

    Introducing On a Side Note, a new feature of the podcast. This is the story of the ghost of John Borich. 

    Sources:

    Utah Division of State History

    Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    Salt Lake Tribune: 1919-9-18; 1919-12-16

    Salt Lake Telegram: 1919-9-20; 1919-11-03; 1919-12-19; 1921-4-10; 1921-04-17; 1936-02-17

    Salt Lake Herald Republican: 1920-4-10

    7 min
  • Episode 12: Summer Road Trip Series - Ogden Union Stockyards

    The story of the Ogden Union Stockyards. This is the fourth episode in the Summer Road Trip Series. 

    Sources

    Utah Division of State History

    Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    J Willard Marriott Digital Library

    Weber State University Digital Collections

    Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2017

    Utah Center for Architecture

    utahrails.net

    ogdenstockyard.org

    thedeadhistory.com

    historytogo.utah.gov

    intermountainstories.org

    response.epa.gov

    utahinvestigative.org

    Ogden Daily Standard: 1915-04-22; 1916-03-27; 1916-10-28; 1916-12-15; 1917-01-19; 1917-05-12; 1918-02-09; 1919-05-21; 1920-02-14

    Inter-Mountain Republican: 1907-10-13

    Ogden Standard-Examiner; 1915-04-22; 1920-04-15; 1921-02-23; 1922-10-01; 1923-01-23; 1923-01-26; 1923-07-15; 1923-08-22; 1923-12-02; 1924-04-15; 1925-09-29; 1926-01-01; 1926-01-07; 1931-05-24

    Salt Lake Telegram: 1910-02-02; 1915-04-23; 1918-05-16; 1920-05-25; 1921-02-23; 1922-05-23; 1923-10-02; 1926-01-24

    Iron County Record: 1930-06-21

    Park Record: 1967-11-02

    Times Independent: 1977-08-18

    Deseret News: 1993-08-30

    Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1920-04-09

    Richfield Reaper: 1925-01-01

    27 min
  • Episode 11: Summer Road Trip Series - The Standard Parachute Company of Utah

    The story of the Standard Parachute Company of Utah. This is the third episode in the Summer Road Trip Series. 

    Sources:

    Utah Division of State History

    Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    historytogo.org

    intermountainstories.org

    history.utah.gov

    meredithelizabeth.com

    sandiegohistory.org

    issuu.com

    common.wikimedia.org

    Mormon Rosies: Women and War Work in Manti

    Proud to Send Those Parachutes Off: Central Utah’s Rosies During WWII

    Manti Messenger

    Ephraim Enterprise

    Deseret News

    Salt Lake Tribune

    26 min
  • Episode 10: Summer Road Trip Series - Territorial Insane Asylum

    The story of the Territorial Insane Asylum. This is the second episode in the Summer Road Trip Series.

    Sources:

    Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1874-10-24; 1885-05-28; 1893-03-02; 1900-05-25; 1910-04-27

    Salt Lake Tribune: 1903-03-31; 2017-09-08

    Deseret News: 1999-08-22; 2018-10-10

    Salt Lake Telegram: 1885-05-28

    Salt Lake Democrat: 1885-05-06; 1885-07-15

    Ogden Daily Standard: 1894-02-01

    Utah Division of State History

    Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

    Utah Digital Newspapers

    J Willard Marriott Digital Library

    Find A Grave

    Provo City Library

    Utah State Hospital

    issuu.com

    utah.psychiatry.org

    atlasobscura.com

    asylumprojects.org

    thepreservationworks.org

    99percentinvisible.org

    28 min

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