Marmalade District Walkabout

Name: Marmalade District Walkabout
Start: 2024-09-29T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-09-29T14:00:00-06:00
Location: 168 W 5th N, Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1762, United States

Schedule

Sun Sep 29 2024 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

168 W 5th N, Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1762, United States | Salt Lake City, UT

The Marmalade neighborhood is located below the State Capitol building and was settled in the early days of Salt Lake City. It has a surprising variety of historic residential buildings; within a single one-block area there are almost as many styles of architecture as exist in the entire Avenues District.
We will start our Marmalade District walkabout at the old 19th Ward meetinghouse, located at 168 West 500 North in SLC. We will take a little time to sketch this iconic building with an onion dome and then explore Quince Street, which is the "Main St." of the Marmalade neighborhood. We will spend a bit of time sketching examples of the huge variety of homes. As a matter of fact, it will be hard to decide what to pass up!
I highly encourage all of you to download the Preservation Utah Tours app and explore their Quince Street tour for examples of and the historical context of the homes found along the street. You can find it in the app under Salt Lake City Tours, then Marmalade Tours.
Here is some more info on the old 19th Ward meetinghouse: The old 19th Ward meetinghouse in Salt Lake City has always been a bit of an architectural oddity. A landmark in the Marmalade District since it was completed in 1892, it’s believed to be the only Latter-day Saint meetinghouse with an onion dome (it's galvanized tin).
After decades as a house of worship, the building at 168 W. 500 North has been home to Salt Lake Acting Company since 1982, housing two theaters, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, a box office and more. And now, a remodel is adding more perhaps unexpected features — like animal-print carpeting and over-the-top restrooms.
Designed by architect Robert Bowman, it’s been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. The application for that status noted that the 19th Ward meetinghouse was “totally out of character” with LDS meetinghouse “architecture in general.” Its onion dome and pinnacles, the application said, “are of foreign origin and have no direct theological relationship to Mormon ideology.”