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Newhouse Building

10 E Exchange Place, Salt Lake City, UT

One of Salt Lake's first skyscrapers, built by a mining magnate hoping to move downtown south to Exchange Place.

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The story

Samuel Newhouse, a mining magnate, financed the Boston and Newhouse Buildings, begun in 1907 and designed by Henry Ives Cobb. They are considered Utah's first skyscrapers, and the Newhouse Building sits at 10 East Exchange Place. The plan was to shift the commercial center from Temple Square south about four blocks to Exchange Place.

Newhouse planned a matching pair at the east end of Exchange Place but went bankrupt before starting it. His Hotel Newhouse, finished in a scaled-back form in 1912, was demolished in 1983, while these two towers survive. They are part of the Exchange Place Historic District, which was listed on the National Register in 1978.

What's There Now

The building remains in use as commercial space.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The Boston Building is next door at 9 E Exchange Place.
The group was meant to create a 'Wall Street' for the western states.
Sources give different completion years for the pair.

Nearby history

Quarters Arcade Bar

5 E 400 S · 39 m away
Pinball, Skee-Ball and retro video games in the old Manhattan Club basement.

Hotel Newhouse

400 S Main Street · 44 m away
A mining magnate's 12-story hotel went broke before it was finished, hosted Jefferson Airplane, and was imploded in fron

Auerbach's Department Store

324 S State Street · 156 m away
Auerbach's started as a small shop in 1864 and moved into this State Street building in 1911; it is now offices.

Dee's Hamburgers (first Dee's)

444 S Main St · 257 m away
Dee Anderson opened a tiny stool-only hamburger stand here in 1932, the start of a chain that reached more than 50 drive

Covey-Ballard Motor Company

464 S Main St · 259 m away
A quarter-million-dollar car dealership that was converted into a ballroom in 1931.

Centre Theatre

299 S State Street · 277 m away
An Art Deco movie house with a 90-foot tower opened Christmas Eve 1937 on the site of the old Knutsford Hotel and was go

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Sourceshttps://jacobbarlow.com/2018/10/10/boston-and-newhouse-buildings/