Kearns - St. Ann's Orphanage

Silver built this. When the Salt Lake Catholic diocese ran short of money for an orphanage, Jennie Judge Kearns—wife of the Park City mining millionaire and senator Thomas Kearns—wrote a check for fifty-five thousand dollars, enough to buy the land and put up the whole building. She hired Carl Neuhausen, the architect behind the Cathedral of the Madeleine and the Kearns' own mansion, and he gave the orphans a château. The Sisters of the Holy Cross ran it for over fifty years; the children helped keep it going. It's a school now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.3 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 1.4 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• International Peace Gardens — 2.5 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Salt Lake City — 3.2 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.

More markers nearby

• Others Who Came — 0.6 mi
• How the Park Came To Be — 0.6 mi
• First Encampment Park — 0.6 mi
• Wilford Woodruff's Farm 1850 — 0.7 mi