Emerson Carter

The scale model of the old carbarns displayed here is one man's three-year labor. Emerson 'Nick' Carter, a retired Salt Lake mechanic who in his twenties had spent five years with the Utah Light and Traction Company, built it to remember the streetcar sheds as they were in the 1930s — the roofs, the surrounding houses, churches, and shops, even the hand-painted brick, rendered faithfully. He died before it was placed. Melvin Simon and Associates, who by then owned Trolley Square, set the model out in 1986 as a tribute, dedicated to his memory.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Liberty Park — 0.8 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.0 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Salt Lake City — 1.4 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 1.4 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Trolley Square Yesterday...Today — steps away
• Trolley Square — steps away
• Richmond Park — 0.3 mi
• L.D.S. Tenth Ward Square — 0.3 mi