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Salt Lake City Hall (Council Hall)

120 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT

City hall where Utah woman cast the first woman's vote in 1870, then moved stone by stone in 325 numbered slabs.

📅 1866–1894🏛️ Government BuildingReplaced
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The story

Salt Lake City's first real city hall went up at First South and 120 East between 1864 and 1866 and cost $70,000. William H. Folsom designed the Greek Revival building in red sandstone. It held the mayor's, recorder's and treasurer's offices, courtrooms and council chambers, and the Territorial Legislature also met there. Seraph Young Ford cast the first woman's vote in Utah there on February 14, 1870. In August 1874 Mayor Daniel H. Wells declared martial law from its balcony.

City government left for the new City and County Building in 1894. In 1961 the old hall was dismantled into 325 numbered sandstone slabs to make room for the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building. It was reassembled on Capitol Hill and renamed Council Hall. It is a National Historic Landmark.

What's There Now

The Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building stands on the original site; the hall itself is on Capitol Hill near the State Capitol.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The building was reassembled on Capitol Hill in 1962, with David O. McKay credited with leading the effort.
It later served as police headquarters.
It was listed on the National Register on May 14, 1971.

Nearby history

Alta Club

100 E South Temple · 229 m away
Founded in 1883 as a social club that kept Mormons out, it bought two slot machines in 1936 to pay the bills.

Salt Lake Theatre

75 E 100 S · 232 m away
Brigham Young called himself designer and general dictator of a 1,500-seat theatre that took months to knock down.

Salt Lake Tribune Building (Ezra Thompson Building)

143 S Main St · 296 m away
The Tribune bought this 1924 mining-mayor's tower in 1937 and left in 2005; now it is a university.

ZCMI Center Mall

15 S Main Street · 322 m away
A Gruen Associates mall on the block bounded by Main, South Temple, State and 100 South; retail closed July 28, 2007.

Lamb's Grill

169 S Main St · 338 m away
Utah's oldest restaurant started in Logan on Washington's birthday, then spent 78 years on Main Street before closing in

Kearns Building

132 S Main Street · 340 m away
Thomas Kearns's white terracotta office tower opened in 1911 and housed what was billed as the most beautiful buffet in

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