Salt Lake City Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Salt Lake Temple

  Your eye rests on the largest Latter-day Saint temple by floor area, dedicated in Utah in 1893. This temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated in 1893 after a construction period of 40 years.

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  Salt Lake Tabernacle

  Picture the domed hall once known as the Mormon Tabernacle, famed for its acoustics and its pipe organ here in Utah. It was built from 1863 to 1875 to house meetings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and construction work is also described as occurring between 1864 and 1867 on the west center-line axis of the Salt Lake Temple.

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  Utah State Capitol

  Richard K.A. Kletting designed the Utah State Capitol, the house of government for the U.S. state of Utah. From here you face a Neoclassical revival, Corinthian style building designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built between 1912 and 1916.

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  LDS Conference Center

  Salt Lake City's LDS Conference Center opened in 2000. In Salt Lake City, Utah, this premier meeting hall for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was completed in 2000 and replaced the traditional use of the nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, built in 1868, for the church’s twice-yearly general conference and other major gatherings, devotionals, and events.

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  City Creek Center

  Three city blocks and over 23 acres downtown make up City Creek Center, which opened in March 2012 near Temple Square. Opened on March 22, 2012, City Creek occupies over 23 acres across portions of three city blocks and stitches together an upscale open-air shopping mall, a grocery store, office and residential buildings.

All 36 stops

• Temple Square (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Notice the island platform beneath your feet, set in the median of South Temple Street.

• Salt Lake Temple (Temple Square)

  Your eye rests on the largest Latter-day Saint temple by floor area, dedicated in Utah in 1893.

• Salt Lake Tabernacle (Temple Square)

  Picture the domed hall once known as the Mormon Tabernacle, famed for its acoustics and its pipe organ here in Utah.

• Salt Lake Assembly Hall (Temple Square)

  Look up at the twenty-four spires ringing this small Gothic cathedral on the southwest corner of Temple Square.

• Abravanel Hall (Temple Square)

  Your eyes meet the concert hall home to the Utah Symphony, adjacent to Temple Square and the Salt Palace on South Temple Street.

• Seagull Monument (Temple Square)

  Mahonri Young's Seagull Monument sits immediately east of the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square.

• Brigham Young Monument (Salt Lake City)

  Picture the twenty-five-foot bronze monument rising above this sidewalk at Main and South Temple, honoring pioneer-colonizer Brigham Young.

• Beehive House (Temple Square)

  Your gaze lands on the beehive-topped home Brigham Young built in 1854, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• Lion House (Temple Square)

  Brigham Young built the Lion House in 1856, in Gothic Revival style, as second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• Joseph Smith Memorial Building (Salt Lake City)

  Picture the Second Renaissance Revival hotel that opened here in 1911, named for Joseph Smith at the corner of Main and South Temple.

• FamilySearch Library (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Your search for family history leads to this building west of Temple Square, opened in 1985 and free to the public.

• Church History Museum (Temple Square)

  Across from the west gates of Temple Square sits the Church History Museum, run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and opened…

• LDS Conference Center (Temple Square)

  Salt Lake City's LDS Conference Center opened in 2000.

• City Creek Center (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Three city blocks and over 23 acres downtown make up City Creek Center, which opened in March 2012 near Temple Square.

• ZCMI Cast Iron Front (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Cast iron and stamped sheet metal, worked between 1876 and 1901, form the ZCMI Cast Iron Front now facing Main Street.

• Main Street (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Main Street has drawn banks, retailers, and heavy foot traffic through the blocks just south of Temple Square.

• Salt Lake City and County Building (Salt Lake City)

  Picture freemasons raising this seat of government between 1891 and 1894, its clock tower rivaling the Salt Lake Temple across the Utah capital.

• Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City)

  Bishop Lawrence Scanlan bought this ground in 1890, and by 1909 the Cathedral of the Madeleine rose as the mother church of his diocese.

• Grand America Hotel (Washington Square)

  Vermont white granite sheathes the Grand America Hotel, the largest hotel in Salt Lake City, at 555 South Main Street.

• Eagle Gate (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Eagle Gate arches across State Street here, a monument to the gate Brigham Young raised in 1859.

• Brigham Young Complex (Temple Square)

  Here at the corner of East South Temple and State Street sits the Brigham Young Complex, home and offices of the second president of the…

• Alfred McCune Home (Capitol Hill)

  Born in Calcutta, Alfred W. McCune had this 21-room mansion built on the inclined south side of Capitol Hill.

• Devereaux House (Salt Lake City)

  Devereaux House, also called the Staines-Jennings Mansion, went up in 1857 for William Staines.

• Kearns Building (Salt Lake City)

  Ten stories of white terracotta tile rise here in the Kearns Building, constructed between 1909 and 1911.

• Utah Governor's Mansion (South Temple Historic District)

  Carl M. Neuhausen designed the Utah Governor's Mansion, completed in 1902 for Senator Thomas Kearns at 603 East South Temple Street.

• Pioneer Memorial Museum (Capitol Hill)

  Capitol Hill holds the Pioneer Memorial Museum and its pioneer collections.

• Utah State Capitol (Capitol Hill)

  Richard K.A. Kletting designed the Utah State Capitol, the house of government for the U.S. state of Utah.

• Statue of Martha Hughes Cannon (Salt Lake City)

  Laura Lee Stay Bradshaw, born in 1958, made this 1996 statue of Martha Hughes Cannon outside the Utah State Capitol.

• Salt Lake City Cemetery (The Avenues)

  Over 150 acres in The Avenues make up the Salt Lake City Cemetery, where about 120,000 people are buried.

• Rio Grande Depot (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Completed in 1910 for US$750,000, the Rio Grande Depot was built to outshine the Union Pacific Depot nearby.

• Clark Planetarium (The Gateway)

  Clark Planetarium opened in April 2003 inside The Gateway at 400 West and 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Olympic Legacy Plaza (The Gateway)

  Olympic Legacy Plaza opened in 2001 in The Gateway, in Salt Lake City, Utah, ahead of the 2002 Winter Olympics.

• Salt Lake Hardware Building (Salt Lake City)

  Built in 1909 just north of an Oregon Short Line Railroad depot, the Salt Lake Hardware Building at 155 N 400 West in Salt Lake…

• Judge Building (Salt Lake City)

  David C. Dent designed the Judge Building for Mary Judge in 1907, and it opened the next year with nearly every office already rented.

• Walker Center (Salt Lake City)

  Eames and Young of St. Louis designed the Walker Center, opened in 1912 as headquarters for Walker Bank.

• Trolley Square (Downtown Salt Lake City)

  Trolley Square fills the brick barns raised in 1908 for streetcars, a shopping center now beside the UTA TRAX light-rail system.

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