Talk:First National Bank (Salt Lake City)

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Hi, User:Tamanoeconomico, thank u for creating this. Question: can it really be 110 feet tall? Footprint 100x30 i can believe, seems normal, but the height stated in the quote seems too much for the building pictured. I dunno, maybe though, it is 37 yards. --Doncram (talk) 11:45, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is a three story building as can be seen in the photo, so suppose 20 feet first floor, 15 feet floors 2 and 3, plus parapet, makes maybe 55 feet? The NRHP document says there was a fourth floor, with a mansard roof, but that floor was destroyed in a fire in 1875 and was not rebuilt. That should be stated in the article, I think. But I still don't see how 110 feet is possible. Is it almost 4 times as tall as it is wide? --Doncram (talk) 11:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The image at right, uploaded by you, also in the

Media related to First National Bank (Salt Lake City, Utah) at Wikimedia Commons, does explain more height. Maybe it had an even taller flagpole? I do see mention in lede of 4th floor, but some footnote attached to the 110 feet height quoted is needed, if the quote is kept.

There is way to have a named notes section using i think "reflist|name=", separate from reference footnotes displayed by reflist usually. -- Doncram (talk) 12:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As well I, and my assumption was that the flagpole contributed to the building height measurement. Ceiling height was 18 feet, and accommodating a 2-foot stringer would push the building height roughly above 80 feet, so it must have been a very high flying flag, although if they measured the height in dog years... And then there was the cupola, and I found no mention of its height. The Herald claimed the building was 120 feet high as I remember reading, and that number is 10 feet above the puzzling 110-foot height claimed by the Daily Graphic.

But the interesting thing to me was that the bank owner may have believed he was creating an opulent theater of money, and the curtain fell after the first performance. Tamanoeconomico (talk) 21:45, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

More images are now in the category, and from the view at right it almost sort of looks like the building could be passing the centum, if parts there but not visible. Tamanoeconomico (talk) 22:01, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]