“Elegant Elect”
Hotel Utah, completed in 1911, was a Beaux-Arts terra cotta architectural masterpiece on the corner of Main Street and South Temple in Salt Lake City. Topped with a beehive feature that spoke to Mormon ideals of industriousness, the building embodied the city’s early 20th-century impulse to exhibit its “coming of age” as an American metropolis. The hotel hosted VIP guests, including President John F. Kennedy and entertainers like Ella Fitzgerald. A crowning jewel in the city’s landscape second only to the temple, the hotel became known as Salt Lake City’s “Elegant Lady.” In 1978, it was added to the National […]
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