View of the Utah State Capitol building looking south down State Street. The LDS Church office buildings and other downtown skyscrapers are shown behind the west side of the Capitol. The Utah State Archive Building obstructs part of the Capitol in this view.

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History

Capitol Hill was originally called Arsenal Hill after the territorial arsenal built on the present site of the Utah State Capitol in 1860. The building was rumored by Latter-day Saints to contain vast stores of weapons including large cannons and reserves of explosives. By 1870 the arsenal, long abandoned, was destroyed by an arsonist. The Utah Territory was an organized territory of the United States that existed between 1850 and 1896. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... A Latter-day Saint is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and should not to be confused with the different, though similar term Latter Day Saint. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Arson is the crime of setting a fire with intent to cause damage. ...

On April 5, 1876, the two explosives magazines then owned by private companies exploded on Arsenal Hill. Debris rained over the surrounding city, and houses were said to have rattled from miles away. April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Arsenal Hill became universally known as Capitol Hill after the 1916 completion of the prominent Utah State Capitol. 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...

Geography

The Hill slopes down to the South so that it handsomely overlooks the Salt Lake City downtown area. The Utah State Capitol, which the hill is now named after, was built from 1912 to 1916 in the prime spot to overlook the city. State Street, a road which runs through the whole state as highway 89, leads up Capitol Hill toward the Capitol which can be seen from miles away as the symbolic end of State Street. Main Street also climbs Capitol Hill one block to the west. The entire Salt Lake City metro area is impressively seen from Capitol Hill, and the Great Salt Lake glistens miles to the west. 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Satellite Photo of the Great Salt Lake as it looked in the summer of 2003 Great Salt Lake is an endorheic saline lake in northern Utah, much saltier than the ocean. ...

The Hill is home to many historic buildings. The west sloping side of the hill is called "Marmalade Hill", since the streets are named after various fruits that are often used in making marmalade. It is renowned as a uniquely diverse neighborhood. The east slope descends sharply into City Creek Canyon. Over the small canyon is another Salt Lake City neighborhood called "the Avenues". Above and to the north of the Capitol building is the Wasatch Springs area named after nearby natural hot springs. The sloping south face of Capitol Hill is sometimes called "Heber's Bench" after former resident and LDS Apostle Heber C. Kimball. Marmalade is a sweet conserve made from fruit, sugar, and (usually) a gelling agent. ... Map of the Avenues. ... Heber Chase Kimball (1801-1868) (commonly known as Heber C. Kimball) was a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

Marmalade District

The western slope of Capitol Hill is called the "Marmalade District" after marmalade fruit jam because of the streets named after fruit trees imported and planted there such as apricot, quince and almond. Most of the original streets of Salt Lake City are aligned to and named after cardinal directions, and exceptions to this rule are often named. The Avenues are one example. The irregular, narrow, and steep roads of the Marmalade District are another. Marmalade is a sweet conserve made from fruit, sugar, and (usually) a gelling agent. ... A fruit tree is a tree bearing fruit — the structures formed by the ripened ovary of a flower containing one or more seeds. ... Binomial name Prunus armeniaca Blanco The Apricot (formerly apricock and abrecox, through the French abricot, from the Spanish albaricoque, which was an adaptation of the Arabic al-burquk, itself a rendering of the late Gr. ... Binomial name Cydonia oblonga Mill. ... Binomial name Prunus dulcis (Mill. ... Cardinal directions or cardinal points are the four principal directions or points of the compass, north, east, south and west. ... Map of the Avenues. ...

The district is often considered among the most architecturally diverse in Utah residential neighborhoods. Early examples of Utah vernacular architecture sit alongside diverse turn-of-the-century styles such as a Russian-influenced LDS meeting house, Gothic revival homes, Victorian mansions, and eclectic houses of various combinations of adobe, brick, and carpentry. // History Early history Native Americans have lived in Utah for several thousand years; most archeological evidence dates such habitation about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. ... A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is residential. ... Vernacular architecture is a term from academic architecture to categorize structures built outside of academic tradition. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ... The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles during the Victorian era: Neoclassicism Gothic Revival Italianate Second Empire Neo-Grec Romanesque Revival (Includes Richardsonian Revival) Renaissance Revival Queen Anne Jacobethan architecture (the precusor to the Queen Anne style) British Arts and Crafts movement painted... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a building material composed of water, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dryed in the sun . ... This page is about bricks used for construction. ... A carpenter is a skilled craftsman who performs carpentry -- a wide range of woodworking that includes constructing buildings, furniture, and other large objects out of wood. ...

Notable buildings and sites on Capitol Hill

• Utah State Capitol
• Salt Lake City Council Hall - old Salt Lake City Hall relocated from downtown to across from the capitol building.
• White Memorial Chapel - 1883 Latter-day Saint 18th ward Gothic revival chapel that was privately rebuilt across from Capitol building for non-denominational services.
• Pioneer Memorial Building - home of Pioneer History Museum, and a replica of the Old Salt Lake City Theater.
• Kimball-Whitney Cemetery - final Resting place of Heber C. Kimball, a small Cemetery for the Kimball and Whitney Families.
• Dickson-Gardner-Wolf Home - large 1905 Classic revival mansion on East Capitol Street for US District Attorney William H. Dickson.
• Alfred McCune Home - 1901 Main Street mansion for Indian-born railroad and mining businessman.
• Ashby Snow Home - 1909 State Street prairie-style mansion built for LDS apostle.
• Woodruff-Riter-Stewart Home - 1906 second renaissance revival State Street mansion.

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In the Marmalade District

• 19th Ward Chapel - Russian-influenced Latter-day Saint (LDS) chapel featuring "onion dome" steeple.
• 19th Ward Relief Society Hall - the last remaining separate LDS Relief Society hall. (The 19th Ward Chapel and Relief Society Hall are today the home of the Salt Lake Acting Company, or SLAC, one of two professional theatre companies in Utah.)
• John Platts Home - a very early 1856 vernacular adobe house with a 1860 fired brick second story added when bricks first became available in Utah.
• Morrow-Taylor Home – c. 1868 Victorian Italiante home once allegedly the hiding place of polygamist LDS leader John Taylor from federal authorities.
• Richard Vaughen Morris Home - 1860s adobe house of Nauvoo Legionnaire Richard Vaughen Morris.
• Thomas Quayle Home - 1884 gothic mansion relocated in 1975 from downtown.

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Also of note

• Memory Grove - A park dedicated in 1920 to the victims of World War I. Memory grove is in a small canyon immediately east of Capitol Hill.

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External links

• Salt Lake Acting Company
• State of Utah Capitol Preservation Board
• Utah State Capitol @ Utah.com

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