Built in 1905 by the M.S. Aschiem Mercantile Company on property adjacent to its thriving, landmark store, this Mission style structure was one of the few brick commercial buildings on Main Street in its day. The building has design features unique . . . — — Map (db m277454) HM
The north portion of this building was constructed in 1898 at a cost of $3,000. It was the largest Main Street structure built after the 1898 fire which destroyed Park City's commercial district. The south section of the bulding was added around . . . — — Map (db m277452) HM
In Memory of Madame Manager
Mom, Baba, Arwa, for all she did for
Park City and for us.
Arlene Loble, the first woman City Manager in Utah, presided over the transition of Park City
from an aging mining town to an emerging world famous . . . — — Map (db m277602) HM
This brick structure was built in 1925 by a long familiar face on the Park City scene, Dr. William J. Bardsley, who began his local medical practice in 1903 and continued to serve Park City's medical needs for over half a century. This building . . . — — Map (db m277513) HM
The Bogan Boarding House, built in 1904, was established as a boarding house for miners after the passage of the mine boarding house bill in 1901. Prior to 1901, single miners were required to live in the company owned boarding houses close to the . . . — — Map (db m277538) HM
Built in the early 1900's, this building originally served as a candy and sporting goods store. By the 1940's it was known as the Orange Blossom Confectionary, and was a popular gathering place during the wartime years. Ice cream and soda water were . . . — — Map (db m277561) HM
After several years of petitioning the State of Utah for incorporation, Park City was granted a charter on March 8, 1884. With a population in excess of 4,000 a building to centralize municipal functions was critically needed. Construction of City . . . — — Map (db m277600) HM
Constructed in 1885. Rebuilt following partial destruction during the 1898 fire. Original jail cells located in basement. Marker placed January 1974 by the Park City Arts Festival Committee. — — Map (db m277599) HM
Many Olympic visitors walked through City Park from the Park City Mountain Resort on their way to the Main Street Celebrations. Solomon, the famous ski and sports manufacturer, used the Miners Hospital as their official hospitality house and . . . — — Map (db m277713) HM
The Park City Hotel was built on this site after the Great Fire of 1898. It was managed by a well-liked and respected Park City resident, Mrs. Marie Hethke O'Keefe, who also owned the furnishings. After it was destroyed in another fire in 1912, a . . . — — Map (db m276082) HM
Built of wood after the great fire of 1898, this building has always functioned as a restaurant or saloon, and was originally called the Silver King Restaurant. Construction took place in two phases: the southern half built first, and a mirror image . . . — — Map (db m277453) HM
In the early 1900's Park City's social and entertainment needs were served by a number of flourishing theaters and social halls. When the Dewey Theater, originally on this site, collapsed under a heavy snow load, John Rugar replaced it with the . . . — — Map (db m277546) HM
In 1920, Emmett "Bud" Wright made his living skiing, but not as a ski patrolman or ski racer.
Bud worked as a lineman for the local telephone company, traveling the mountains surrounding
Park City on his 10 foot-long, handmade skis, repairing the . . . — — Map (db m277572) HM
This was the hub of Park City's Olympic Winter Games Celebrations. Over 500 thousand visitors enjoyed non-stop music, food, roving entertainment, giant video boards, pin trading, special lighting effects, and hospitality warming fires. People from . . . — — Map (db m277569) HM
One of the first brick buildings begun after the 1898 fire, this commercial structure served the banking, mining, and general business activity of the First National Bank and Silver King Mining Company, and such prominent Utah mining entrepreneurs . . . — — Map (db m277524) HM
Frank Andrew was a prominent Park City merchant who established a hardware and house furnishings emporium in 1892. After his place of business was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1898, Andrew built this structure in the fall of that year. Reflecting . . . — — Map (db m277565) HM
Constructed in 1926, this is a later interpretation of a simple mining community commercial structure. Its use of brick reflects the concern with fireproofing Main Street buildings after the fire of 1898, which destroyed most of the wood buildings . . . — — Map (db m277544) HM
This one-story commercial structure was built in 1909, and is a typical example of the mining town commercial design of its time. The front facade features the recessed double entrance and large display windows characteristic of Main Street store . . . — — Map (db m277549) HM
This one-story commercial structure was built in two sections. The northern part was erected just after the great fire of 1898, which burned most of Main Street. Original occupants were a cobbler and a saloon. By 1907 the saloon was enlarged with . . . — — Map (db m277550) HM
The Jenkins Photography Studio, which produced many significant historical photographs, was opened in 1919 by Joseph Edward Jenkins and his wife, Marjorie Wilkes Jenkins
In the 1920's, the storefront advertising introduced the residents of Park . . . — — Map (db m277557) HM
Jack Green was a lover of life-politics, music, and above all, Park City itself. He moved to Park City as a small boy, and for the next 60 years dedicated his life to the life of this community. Following in his father's footsteps, he served as Park . . . — — Map (db m277704) HM
Norway House occupied the top two floors of the Library & Education Center (the old Park City High School) during the Olympics, playing host to the King & Queen of Norway as well as many Norwegian athletes, officials, and business people. A . . . — — Map (db m277706) HM
Built in 1935-36, the Marsac Elementary School is one of over 230 public works buildings constructed in Utah under various New Deal programs during the Depression years of the 1930s and '40s. The construction of public works buildings, of which only . . . — — Map (db m277604) HM
Park City, from its earliest days as a mining camp, was conscientious of the educational needs of its children. As early as 1875 private schools were established by the mining companies and churches. The Jefferson and Washington Schools were public . . . — — Map (db m277603) HM
This building once served as the Masonic Hall for Uintah Lodge No. 7. Fraternal and secret societies flourished in Park City in the late 1800's. Their meeting halls played a significant role in the town's social fabric.
The Park City Masonic . . . — — Map (db m276074) HM
Miners are the anonymous thousands whose only monuments are the waste dumps in the mountains
This sculpture is dedicated to the remarkable accomplishments of those men who mined with great effort and ingenuity the silver and lead ores found . . . — — Map (db m277458) HM
Site of Coca-Cola's Pin Trading booths from November 2001 through March 2002, hundreds of thousands of visitors traded Olympic pins from all over the world as part of Park City's Main Street Olympic Winter Games Celebrations. The Roots Store, across . . . — — Map (db m277461) HM
This two-story frame structure was built just after the 1898 fire which burned most of the buildings on Main Street. Among the first occupants was the Salvation Army, which moved in in 1900. By 1902 it was the funeral parlor of Bill Fennemore, whose . . . — — Map (db m276075) HM
This building was constructed in 1922 as an addition to the Oak Saloon, a frame structure which was located on the lot to the south. The Oak Saloon was established in 1902 by Spriggs and Prior, with Henry Spriggs as manager. It was one of the most . . . — — Map (db m277456) HM
In 1985, Sundance Institute began running the U.S. Film Festival in Park City, becoming a platform for independent artists. The Festival was officially
renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 attracting thousands of film lovers to this mountain . . . — — Map (db m277460) HM
The original church on this site was built in the 1880's by the Congregationalists, a sect which arrived in Park City while it was still a mining camp. Congregationalists were the first to establish regular Protestant services in Utah. By 1883 they . . . — — Map (db m277463) HM
This gothic style brick church was constructed in 1899 by P. Anderson & Company for the First Congregational Church of Park City. Established in Park City in 1879. The Congregationalists joined with the Park City Methodist Church in 1919 under the . . . — — Map (db m277466) HM
Beginning in the late 1860s the Park City mining district attracted hundreds of laborers to work the mines. With them came organized labor, which sought to assure better wages and working conditions for the miners. In Park City they were represented . . . — — Map (db m277710) HM
At this site, the first settlers entered Park City. George C. Snyder, his wife Rhoda and their three children had cleared their way through the forest to arrive at their destination on May 25, 1872. On July 4, 1872, a celebration was held, a U.S. . . . — — Map (db m276054) HM
This two-story structure was designed by Richard Kletting, who at the turn of the century was considered Utah's foremost architect. Attesting to the company's confidence in Park City's future, Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone purchased the land in . . . — — Map (db m277559) HM
On July 4, 1984, Officer Rodney W. Schreurs of the Park City Police Department was directing traffic after the annual 4th of July fireworks display when he was struck and killed by a fast moving automobile. Officer Schreurs was the 2nd Park City . . . — — Map (db m276081) HM
Roger E. Harlan was born on June 28, 1935, and passed away on January 5, 2010. He was a Young Life minister by profession and a natural statesman, serving on the Park City Council all but four years from 1992 to 2009. His lifelong focus was youth . . . — — Map (db m277795) HM
In the late 1870's numerous schools and churches were established throughout Park City - evidence that a sense of community was replacing the transient mining camp character of the town. With Irish Catholics prominent among the mining population, . . . — — Map (db m277542) HM
Built 1883 - the oldest Catholic church and school building still in use in Utah. Remodeled 1950 following severe damage by fire. — — Map (db m277541) HM
On this site stood the office of The Park Record, Utah's oldest weekly
newspaper. It was owned and operated for 63 years by Samuel LePage "Dad"
Raddon. A son of Henry George and Judith LePage Raddon, he was born in Saint Peter Port, Isle of . . . — — Map (db m277551) HM
In the spring of 1849, Samuel Comstock Snyder joined Parley P. Pratt in cutting a road up "Big Canyon" and saw for the first time the mountain plateau which the pioneers named "Parley's Park." The road became the "Golden Pass," a toll road for Wells . . . — — Map (db m276056) HM
In the spring of 1849, Samuel Comstock Snyder became associated with Parley P. Pratt, who had the squatter's right to the green mountain plateau which the pioneers named "Parley's Park." In 1850, Samuel Snyder bought out Parley P. Pratt's claim for . . . — — Map (db m276058) HM
Built for $1000 shortly after the 1898 fire, this is a false front, one story commercial structure very typical of mining town architecture of its day. The southern section was built first; the northern section was added twenty years later. One of . . . — — Map (db m277447) HM
This one-story frame commercial structure was built in 1905 for use as the Summit County Sheriff's Office. Because the county sheriff was not based in Park City the office was not often used. In the 1940s Sheriff George Fisher installed a large safe . . . — — Map (db m277448) HM
At 4:00 a.m. on June 19, 1898 a Chinese cook spotted flames on Main Street, and alerted a
policeman who fired three pistol shots to awaken Parkites to the conflagration which destroyed virtually all the buildings on Main Street. Reconstruction of . . . — — Map (db m277596) HM
In May of 1964, plans were announced to construct Park City's first modern hotel, to be called the Treasure Mountain Inn. Excitement over the fledgling ski area, Treasure Mountains (aka Park City Mountain Resort), fueled a building boom. The Inn was . . . — — Map (db m277536) HM
As ore started rolling out of the mines in Park City in 1869, the Union Pacific Railroad was completing its section of the transcontinental railroad in northem Utah. The UP seized the opportunity to build a spur line to Park City in 1880, which was . . . — — Map (db m276078) HM
In 1919 Park City's newly-organized American Legion proposed to build a meeting
hall in honor of Summit County's World War I veterans. Plans were drawn up, but had
to be tabled when funding could not be found. The project was reactivated in the . . . — — Map (db m277455) HM
