Capitol Hill, Salt Lake City

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40°46′40″N 111°53′20″W / 40.77778°N 111.88889°W / 40.77778; -111.88889

Capitol Hill in

Geography

The hill slopes down to the south, overlooking downtown Salt Lake City, which is why the Utah State Capitol was built there between 1912 and 1916. State Street (U.S. Route 89 in Utah) leads up Capitol Hill, and Main Street also climbs the one block to the west. The entire Salt Lake City metro area can be seen from Capitol Hill, as can the Great Salt Lake miles to the west.

The hill is home to many historic buildings. The west-sloping side of the hill is a diverse neighborhood called "Marmalade Hill", since the streets are named after various fruits that are often used in making

The Marmalade District's borders are generally considered to be a small triangular area bounded by 300 North on the south, 500 North on the north, Center Street on the east, and Quince Street, the district's "Main Street", on the west.[1]

The

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Demographics

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Marmalade District

The western slope of Capitol Hill is called the "Marmalade District" after

The Avenues

are one example. The irregular, narrow, and steep roads of the Marmalade District are another.

The district is often considered among the most architecturally diverse in

• Utah State Capitol
• Salt Lake City Council Hall - old Salt Lake City Hall relocated from downtown to across from the capitol building.
• White Memorial Chapel - 1883
  Gothic revival chapel that was privately rebuilt across from Capitol building for non-denominational
  services.
• Pioneer Memorial Building - home of Pioneer History Museum, and a replica of the Old Salt Lake City Theater.
• Kimball-Whitney Cemetery - a small cemetery for the Kimball and
  Whitney families, which is the final resting place of Heber C. Kimball
  .
• Dickson-Gardner-Wolf Home - large 1905 Classic revival mansion on East Capitol Street for US District Attorney William H. Dickson.
• Alfred McCune Home - 201 North Main Street mansion for Indian-born railroad and mining businessman Alfred W. McCune.
• Ashby Snow Home - 1909 State Street
  LDS apostle
  .
• Woodruff-Riter-Stewart Home - 1906 second renaissance revival State Street mansion.

In the Marmalade District

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Salt Lake City, Utah
  )
• 19th Ward Relief Society Hall - the last remaining separate LDS Relief Society hall. The 19th Ward Chapel and Relief Society Hall are today the home of the Salt Lake Acting Company, or SLAC, one of two professional theatre companies in Utah.
• John Platts Home - a very early 1856 vernacular adobe house with an 1860 fired brick second story added when bricks first became available in Utah. (NRHP-listed)
• Morrow-Taylor Home – c. 1868 Victorian Italiante home once allegedly the residence of LDS church president
  John Taylor
  while evading federal authorities.
• Richard Vaughen Morris Home - 1860s adobe house of Nauvoo Legionnaire Richard Vaughen Morris. (NRHP-listed)
• Thomas Quayle Home - 1884
  gothic
  mansion relocated in 1975 from downtown.

Also of note

• Memory Grove – A park dedicated in 1920 to the victims of
  a small canyon
  immediately east of Capitol Hill.

Culture

Events

From June to August each year, the Capitol Preservation Board presents "Movie Under the Stars." This is an

During the summer the Capitol Preservation Board also hosts Capitol Discovery Day. A day to visit and tour the State Capitol Building and enjoy games and activities. Throughout the day bands play and choirs sing inside.

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