City & County Building Restoration

By the 1980s, Salt Lake's grand old sandstone city hall was crumbling, and some wanted it torn down. Instead the city spent three years and thirty million dollars saving it—and in the process did something no one had done before. Sitting on the Wasatch Fault, the building was lifted onto 440 pads of steel and rubber, so that in an earthquake the ground can move while the building stays put. It was the first historic structure in the world retrofitted with base isolation, a Salt Lake experiment now copied around the globe.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.8 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.8 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Liberty Park — 1.2 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.5 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood

More markers nearby

• Original Salt Lake City & County Building — steps away
• Salt Lake City and County Building — steps away
• Pioneer Camping Grounds — steps away
• Salt Lake Stock & Mining Exchange Building — 0.2 mi