Frank Andrew Building

When the Great Fire of 1898 burned out Frank Andrew's hardware and furniture store, he did what many Park City merchants did that autumn — he rebuilt in stone, not wood, this time. His new emporium sold furniture new and used across the whole building, and he had his name spelled out high on the front, where it can still be read today. The recessed, display-window entry is pure Victorian mining-town commercial; behind it, the interior has since been divided up. The building still anchors its stretch of Main Street.

What the plaque says

Frank Andrew was a prominent Park City merchant who established a hardware and house furnishings emporium in 1892. After his place of business was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1898, Andrew built this structure in the fall of that year. Reflecting a trend to make buildings less vulnerable to fire, this building was constructed of stone with a brick facade. Andrew's business, which dealt in both new and used furniture, occupied the entire premises. Originally the entry was located on the south end, with a four-sectioned display window to the north of it. Andrew's name was shown on the upper part of the front facade, and is still visible today. Presently the building has a central, recessed entry flanked by display windows, a typical configuration in Victorian mining town commercial structures. The interior has been divided to accommodate two separate businesses at ground level, and has for many years housed a hair salon and ice cream parlor. The basement was also remodelled to serve as a bar and, more recently, a restaurant.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Park City — steps away
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.
• Park City Main Street — steps away
  A historic mining town turned world-class ski and film festival destination
• Park City Mountain — 0.8 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• Deer Valley — 1.5 mi
  A ski-only luxury resort above Park City, now in the middle of the largest expansion in U.S. ski history.

More markers nearby

• Car 19 — steps away
• Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Office — steps away
• The Alamo — steps away
• War Veterans Memorial Building — steps away