Fortunato Anselmo House

For decades this Late Victorian house did the work of an embassy. Fortunato Anselmo came from Calabria, opened an imported-food business, and in 1915 was named Italy's vice consul for Utah and Wyoming — a post he held, on and off, for half a century. From here he moved passports and papers to Rome and wired immigrants' money home through the Bank of Naples. Ambassadors, a heavyweight champion, and the cardinal who would become Pope Pius XII all passed through his rooms. The house still stands on 900 East, its consular years marked in the register.

What the plaque says

This house was constructed in 1903 by Silas B. Wood. In 1920 Fortunato Anselmo purchased the house and lived here until 1950. Born October 1, 1883, in Grimaldi, Italy, Fortunato Anselmo immigrated to the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1911. Later he established a wholesale import food business. In 1915 he was appointed Italian vice consul for Utah and Wyoming and in this position served as both friend and official advisor to Italians as well as other immigrants in the intermountain west from 1915 until 1965.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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
• Liberty Park — 1.5 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.6 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood

More markers nearby

• Ladies' Literary Club Building — 0.2 mi
• Sisters of the Holy Cross — 0.3 mi
• L.D.S. Tenth Ward Square — 0.4 mi
• Simon Bamberger House — 0.4 mi