Demolished Places

Demolished Salt Lake is hitting the road! Join me for a summer of episodes about long lost buildings outside of Salt Lake. 

The story of Jacob Moritz and the Salt Lake City Brewing Company.

Sources:

Salt Lake Tribune: 1894-01-01;1901-04-25;1905-08-09; 1910-08-07; 1917-12-16; 1919-03-30

Salt Lake Telegram: 1902-10-14; 1906-08-29; 1907-02-22; 1907-08-28; 1911-07-15; 1915-04-06; 1917-07-18; 1917-09-06; 1919-12-31; 1923-12-09; 1929-04-13; 1931-07-21; 1933-11-29; 1936-08-04; 1937-07-22; 1936-07-30

Salt Lake Herald Republican: 1885-11-13; 1893-11-07; 1894-10-26; 1895-03-04; 1898-06-26; 1899-10-27; | 1902-10-05; 1902-10-10; 1902-10-18; 1902-10-20; 1906-07-22; 1907-10-13; 1907-11-13; 1910-06-10; 1910-08-07; 1917-07-16; 1919-03-30

Salt Lake Democrat: 1885-03-30; 1885-06-16; 1885-11-12

Salt Lake Time: 1890-12-23

Intermountain Catholic: 1907-07-13; 1907-07-13

Inter-Mountain Republican: 1907-10-13; 1907-11-13

Utah Division of State History

Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

Utah Digital Newspapers

J Willard Marriott Digital Library

Find A Grave

Utah Jewish History

The Dead History

City Weekly

Old Brewery History

Utah Stories

The story of the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, Part 2.

Sources:

Salt Lake Tribune: 1915-11-19; 1915-11-26; 1915-10-19; 1915-11-19

Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1915-08-13

Springville Herald | 1938-08-04

Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-3; 1938-10-29; 1939-11-09; 1939-11-08; 1950-12-26; 1950-12-26; 1951-04-13; 1951-11-10; 1951-04-23; 1951-03-12; 1951-02-09; 1952-02-28

Sugar House Bulletin: 1946-03-01; 1946-04-26; 1947-03-14; 1947-03-14; 1951-01-05; 1951-01-26; 1951-05-04

Utah Division of State History

Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

Utah Digital Newspapers

J Willard Marriott Digital Library

Salt Lake County Archives

PBS Utah

Find A Grave

Aflcio

The story of the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, Part 1. 

Sources:

UHQ 1979 – Volume 47 No.1 Life Behind Bars

Union Vedette: 1864-03-08

Salt Lake Telegram: 1934-02-01; 1951-03-12

scholarsarchive.byu.edu

The story of the Salt Lake County General Hospital.

Sources:

Utah Division of State History

Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

Utah Digital Newspapers

J Willard Marriott Digital Library

Salt Lake County Archives

UHQ 1976 Volume 45 No. 2 The Nurse

Utah Center for Architecture

utah.psychiatry.org

Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1894-04-03; 1894-01-02; 1910-10-17; 1910-10-15

Salt Lake Tribune: 1904-08-17; 1905-05-11; 1909-02-11; 1913-01-04; 1919-05-04; 1919-03-23

Salt Lake Telegram: 1913-12-30; 1914-01-12; 1919-04-30; 1919-08-22; 1921-09-20; 1929-03-27; 1921-09-20; 1921-02-07; 1929-12-25; 1935-12-28

The story of the John B. Kelly House.

Sources:

Utah Division of State History

Utah Division of Archives and Record Service

Utah Digital Newspapers

J Willard Marriott Digital Library

Find A Grave

FamilySearch

John B. Kelly House National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form

Albert H. Kelly House National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form

A Modest Homestead: Life in Small Adobe Homes in Salt Lake City, 1850-1897 by Laurie J. Bryant

Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1871-02-18; 1896-03-25; 1896-08-26

Deseret Evening News: 1864-10-19; 1903-10-03

Davis County Clipper: 1946-10-11

The story of Valley House and the Interurban Station.

Sources:

Utah Division of State History

Utah Digital Newspapers

J Willard Marriott Digital Library

South Temple Street Landmarks: Salt Lake City’s First Historic District by Bim Oliver

Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Polygamy and Prostitution: Comparative Morality in Salt Lake City 1847-1991 by Jeffrey D. Nichols

Railroad in Utah by Don Strack in Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994

historytogo.utah.gov/railroads-utah

Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1876-09-22; 1879-11-30; 1880-01-07; 1881-03-27; 1881-10-27; 1882-12-31; 1885-12-03; 1886-04-29; 1886-10-20; 1886-12-25; 1899-02-10; 1907-01-11; 1910-02-24; 1913-03-10; 1913-03-13; 1916-09-25; 1916-09-20

Salt Lake Tribune: 1876-11-19; 1886-01-22; 1895-12-16; 1902-05-06; 1909-11-17; 1914-03-15; 1915-10-27; 1915-11-20; 1916-04-22

Salt Lake Telegram: 1902-05-06; 1915-10-28; 1915-11-23; 1916-04-21; 1916-10-05; 1923-10-05; 1923-02-04; 1931-08-04; 1939-10-09; 1949-01-15; 1947-09-30; 1947-11-12; 1949-01-11

Salt Lake Democrat: 1885-12-09

Desert Evening News: 1893-05-31; 1907-01-11

Inter-Mountain Republican: 1907-01-11

Ogden Standard-Examiner: 1922-10-20; 1923-10-05

The story of the Orphan's Home and Day Nursery and the Pyott Sanitarium and Clinic.

Sources:

Utah Division of State History

Utah Digital Newspapers

J Willard Marriott Digital Library

Caring for Children: The Orphan’s Home and Day Nursery Association by Floralie Millsaps

A Drugless Cure: Chiropractors, Flu, and the Law by Tina Kirkham

Salt Lake Telegram: 1910-09-14, 1910-11-19, 1919-09-27, 1919-10-28, 1920-03-10, 1921-09-01, 1923-12-15, 1924-10-19, 1925-09-17, 1943-08-18, 1949-03-11, 1946-01-12

Salt Lake Tribune: 1904-02-21, 1907-12-29, 1909-06-11, 1909-07-25, 1910-06-11, 1911-02-24, 1918-10-15

Deseret Evening News: 1909-12-18

Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1909-10-02, 1910-06-18, 1918-10-19, 1918-12-08, 1919-01-19, 1920-03-10, 1920-05-13

Inter-Mountain Republican: 1090-04-13

Ogden Standard Examiner: 1918-10-21

Davis County Clipper: 1946-10-04

The story of the Bransford Apartments and the Silver Queen, Susanna E. Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff

Sources:

Utah Historical Quarterly 1996- Vol LXIV No. 1 Utah’s Silver Queen and the “Era of the Great Splurge”

South Temple Historic District Utah National Register Nomination Form Pages 24-27

Salt Lake Herald-Republican: 1901-07-28, 1902-03-05, 1902-07-28, 1904-07-01, 1905-01-29, 1907-05-24, 1918-02-10, 1918-10-16

Salt Lake Telegram: 1904-06-27, 1917-12-29, 1918-07-29, 1921-05-14, 1925-09-13, 1928-03-22, 1938-03-28, 1946-05-01

Salt Lake Tribune: 1908-12-02

I’m digging through the rubble of some of Salt Lake’s lost historic buildings to tell its story. Make sure to follow Demolished Salt Lake Podcast on Instagram for pictures and additional content. Look for the first episode featuring the Bransford Apartments dropping soon.