Hotel Utah. Salt Lake
- Ephemera
- 1920
1920. Ephemera. Very Good. Brochure [18 cm x 15 cm; 9 cm x 15 cm folded] Illustrated self wraps. Very lightly creased. Brief contemporary notation (dated "1920") in pencil on the front wrap. At the time, George Relf was Manager, and Wesley Austin was Assistant Manager.
"For seventy-six years the Hotel Utah presided as 'the Grande Dame of Hotels' in the Intermountain West and was internationally recognized for its elegance and extraordinary service. Called 'the Hotel' by locals and travelers alike, this ten-story white palace hosted legislators, Latter-day Saint conference-goers, conventioneers, visitors, skiers, and every U.S. president since William Howard Taft in 1912.
"The Hotel Utah was built as a cooperative effort by the business and ecclesiastical leaders of the Salt Lake community to bring everyone together. It succeeded. Shares in the venture were sold and the hotel's prominent location on the corner of South Temple and Main Street, previously the site of the Bishop's Tithing Office and the Deseret News, was donated by the LDS Church. After two years of construction and a $2 million price tag, the Hotel opened 9 June 1911 'in a blaze of splendor' with a grand party for 500 of Utah's notables." - Heidi Swinton (Utah History Encyclopedia edited by Allen Kent Powell).
"For seventy-six years the Hotel Utah presided as 'the Grande Dame of Hotels' in the Intermountain West and was internationally recognized for its elegance and extraordinary service. Called 'the Hotel' by locals and travelers alike, this ten-story white palace hosted legislators, Latter-day Saint conference-goers, conventioneers, visitors, skiers, and every U.S. president since William Howard Taft in 1912.
"The Hotel Utah was built as a cooperative effort by the business and ecclesiastical leaders of the Salt Lake community to bring everyone together. It succeeded. Shares in the venture were sold and the hotel's prominent location on the corner of South Temple and Main Street, previously the site of the Bishop's Tithing Office and the Deseret News, was donated by the LDS Church. After two years of construction and a $2 million price tag, the Hotel opened 9 June 1911 'in a blaze of splendor' with a grand party for 500 of Utah's notables." - Heidi Swinton (Utah History Encyclopedia edited by Allen Kent Powell).