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The Boston and Newhouse Buildings are the first skyscrapers built in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] They were built in 1908 and designed by Henry Ives Cobb, a Chicago-based architect. These twin buildings are part of the Exchange Place Historic District in Salt Lake City.
"These eleven-story structures were part of a new business district spearheaded by Jewish mining magnate Samuel Newhouse, who intended it to function as a 'Western Wall Street,' rivaling the Mormon district three blocks north."[2] Samuel Newhouse moved to Utah in 1896 and became one of Utah's wealthiest mining magnates.[3] Newhouse hired Henry Ives Cobb to develop his tract of land downtown in Salt Lake City.
The Boston and Newhouse Buildings are framed with steel and covered with Indiana Limestone and brick, an innovative fireproofing technique of the time to insulate the steel.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Roberts, Allen Dale (2012). Salt Lake City's Historic Architecture. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738595160.
- ^ pls4e (2019-12-16). "Boston and Newhouse Buildings". SAH ARCHIPEDIA. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Rudd, Hynda (July 1979). "Samuel Newhouse, Utah Mining Magnate and Land Developer". Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly. July l979: 298–302.
- ^ Huffaker, Kirk (2008). Salt Lake City Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press. ISBN 978-1592238361.