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Dooly Block

109 W 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT

A six-story Louis Sullivan office building, called his best work in the West, was torn down in 1964.

📅 1892–1964🏛️ Office BuildingDemolished
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The story

The Dooly Block, also called the Dooly Building, was designed by Louis Sullivan and finished in 1892. It was named for John E. Dooly, a member of the investment syndicate behind it and a prominent civic leader. It had six stories, a steel frame and masonry facade, a sandstone storefront level, paired arched windows and a deeply overhanging cornice. Bernard Henry Lichter was the contractor.

Tenants included a post office, the Alta Club, and offices of architects and engineers. It was one of only four buildings Sullivan designed in the western United States, and the Historic American Buildings Survey called it his best work there. It was demolished in 1964, though a sidebar on the Wikipedia page lists 1965.

What's There Now

Wikipedia does not say what replaced it.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Its heating came from potbelly stoves with flues built into the columns.
The McIntyre Building has been called Utah's best Sullivanesque example apart from the Dooly.
Salt Lake grid form for the address is 109 West Second South.

Nearby history

Capitol Theatre (Orpheum)

50 W 200 South · 153 m away
Opened as the Orpheum Theatre in 1913, it became the Capitol in 1927 and now hosts Ballet West and Utah Opera.

Crazy Goat Saloon

165 S West Temple · 153 m away
The Dead Goat renamed and reopened as a strip club, which led to a lawsuit with the LDS Church.

Utah Theatre (Pantages)

144 S Main Street · 192 m away
A Pantages vaudeville house that became the Utah Theatre, was split in two in 1968, and was torn down in 2022 despite a

Zephyr Club

301 S West Temple · 248 m away
Otto Mileti planned a dinner club, but the musicians he hired for the dinner shows drew the crowds.

Keith-O'Brien Building

242 S Main Street · 270 m away
A department store building from 1902 that David Keith had built still stands on Main Street, behind a TRAX station.

Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center

100 S West Temple · 274 m away
Opened February 1996 on the demolished arena's site at 100 S West Temple.

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dooly_Building