Summit County Sheriff's Office

Park City got a county sheriff's office in 1905, though the sheriff himself worked elsewhere and rarely used it. Its best story is a safe: in the 1940s Sheriff George Fisher installed a big one and told no one the combination, so when he was gone it simply sat there, unopened, for decades. The little frame building went on to hold a history museum, a Chamber of Commerce, and — after the Kiwanis fixed up its sagging front — a card and gift shop. It stands on Main Street, on the National Register.

What the plaque says

This one-story frame commercial structure was built in 1905 for use as the Summit County Sheriff's Office. Because the county sheriff was not based in Park City the office was not often used. In the 1940s Sheriff George Fisher installed a large safe on the premises. Since only Fisher knew the combination, the safe remained unopened for several decades. In the 1960s Summit County gave use of the building to Park City, which turned it into a small museum of local history. The dilapidated facade was painted and repaired by the Kiwanis Club. It was used as a Chamber of Commerce office in the mid-1970s, then abandoned for several years. Ownership has recently passed to private hands, and the building was converted to a card and gift shop in 1983. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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 — 0.7 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

• Star Market & Grocery — steps away
• St. Luke's Episcopalian Church (2) Markers — steps away
• "Ten O'Clock Whistle" and Old Public Library — steps away
• Anderson Apartments — steps away