Salt Lake City is such an interesting place architecturally! - one of those late C19th/early C20th cities with plenty of business money behind it. One sees this in the lampposts, originally erected around WW1 (electric street lighting of a less magnificent type arrived in the late 1880s): these have a fairly generic "Indian" head on them - generally (but probably too vaguely) interpreted as Ute. Some of the original lamps remain: I suspect this - outside the hotel - is one of the facsimiles. Jared Farmer has a great blog post about them: https://jaredfarmer.net/curios/salt-lake-indian-heads/
Then round the corner is the Capitol Theater: originally built as a vaudeville theater in 1913, it was renamed the Capitol in 1927 (and, despite a fire in 1949 followed by full renovations in 1975), it remains a pretty impressive facade.
And then the Kearns Building, designed by Los Angeles architects John Parkinson and George Bergstrom, and built 1909–1911 in the architectural style of Louis Sullivan, can stand for any of the very many early C20th office blocks. I've got to the point when I much wish that I was staying here longer, and had time to look around more closely...
No comments:
Post a Comment