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288 DAYSSan Francisco · 1915 ⌕
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Utah Building

A Corinthian building faced in Utah plaster, famous for its working model of the Bingham copper mine, two floors high.

The Utah Building
The Utah BuildingThe Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921), via Internet Archive · Public domain (published 1921, United States) · Restored

Utah's building, by Cannon & Fetzer of Salt Lake City, was a modified classical design, mostly Corinthian, finished entirely in Utah plaster. Utah plaster also went into the "travertine" that colored the whole Exposition. It faced the Federal Concourse on what the Official Guide calls one of the triangular sites, with a view across the bay.

The star exhibit was a model of the Bingham copper mine, two floors high, with working steam shovels and a little train. Todd wrote that it showed civilization eating up a mountain for its copper. There was also a cut-away model of a coal mine, and displays of grain, rock salt and Hopi relics.

At a glance

  • Participation cost nearly $75,000, part privately contributed.
  • Dedicated April 12, 1915.
  • Architects Cannon & Fetzer of Salt Lake City.
  • Utah Day, July 24, 1915, featured the Ogden Tabernacle Choir.

Afterward

Not recorded; presumably auctioned and wrecked.

Where it stood

The Utah Building stood at about 37.80441 N, 122.45355 W on today's map. The whole fairground over the city →

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