Canyon Rim in Salt Lake City in Salt Lake County, Utah — The American Mountains (Southwest)

Dudler's Wine Cellar

Photographed by Andrew Johnson, September 23, 2018

1. Dudler's Wine Cellar Marker

Inscription. Early in 1870, Joseph Dudler, owner and operator of the inn which was on the ground level of his house, built a brewery in back of his house here in Parley’s Hollow. To provide for this, in addition to the brewery proper, located on adjacent property west and north of the inn, he extended his entire earlier building sixteen feet further into the north side of the valley. To this extension he added what became know as the wine cellar. He built this rock-walled, underground cellar for a store room as well as storage for the product of his brewery. The walls and roof of the cellar, which still retain their structural integrity, average two-and-one-half feet thick and the walls were ten-feet high. The labor expended to excavate the basement, the cellar, and to erect the two-and-one-half story building of the hoyuse and inn, would have been a tremendous task. There were no backhoes, front-end loaders, no dump trucks or cranes in those days to help in the construction; just back-breaking, muscle-straining, hard work. The structure of the cellar was so well designed that over a half-century later, when crews came to clean up what

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was left of the burned-out building, this stone work that comprises the cellar, supported the weight of the “Cat” when the ground was leveled.

Just to the west and a little bit north of the cellar was a tall brick chimney on the north end of a small frame building which was the brewery proper. This chimney remained in place for many years having outlasted the frame brewery building, but it too has long since fallen to the ravages of time as did the brewery building itself much earlier. Joe Dudler was a carpenter by trade and a brewer by profession and the following years would prove his proficiency at both.

When Joe set up his first brewery at this location, he called it the Philadelphia Brewery. He sold his products not only at the inn, but also a little later at his Philadelphia Brewery Saloon in downtown Salt Lake City. His inn was also known for a time as Dudler Summer Resort and simply as Dudler’s Saloon.

In the early 1900’s, his son Frank and doughter Retta ran the saloon at Parley’s Hollow while their father set up a saloon and ran his famous business in Park City. Joseph Dudler died in 1897.

Erected 1996

Dudler's Inn and Wine Cellar Markers image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Johnson, September 23, 2018

2. Dudler's Inn and Wine Cellar Markers

by Jordan River Temple Chapter, Sons of Utah Pioneers. (Marker Number 80.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers. In addition, it is included in the Sons of Utah Pioneers series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1870.

Location. 40° 42.66′ N, 111° 48.354′ W. Marker is in Salt Lake City, Utah, in Salt Lake County. It is in Canyon Rim. It is on Parley's Trail. Marker is on Parley's Trail approximately 3,750 feet east of Tanner Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Salt Lake City UT 84109, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Wasatch Front

and in Greater Salt Lake.

It is also in the American Mountain West

and on the Colorado Plateau.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Rocky Mountains,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the

Entrance to Dudler's Wine Cellar image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Johnson, September 23, 2018

3. Entrance to Dudler's Wine Cellar

crow flies: Dudler's Inn (here, next to this marker); Sandstone Wall & Aquaduct (within shouting distance of this marker); The Golden Pass Road and Tollhouse (about 800 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Railroad (approx. 0.2 miles away); Early East Millcreek Schools (approx. 1.1 miles away); Pioneer Flour-Mill Site (approx. 1.1 miles away); Legacy of the Black Pioneer (approx. 1½ miles away); Brigham Young Industrial Center (approx. 1½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Salt Lake City.

More about this marker. Marker is mounted on the same rock as the Dudler's Inn marker.

Credits. This page was last revised on February 16, 2023. It was originally submitted on September 30, 2018, by Andrew Johnson of Salt Lake City, Utah. This page has been viewed 757 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 30, 2018, by Andrew Johnson of Salt Lake City, Utah. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.