The Alamo

This is one of Park City's odder buildings, and one of its handsomer. The Aschiem mercantile family put it up in 1905 in Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival style — decorative brickwork, a run of barrel-vaulted ceilings inside — a rarity on a Main Street of frame storefronts. Its first tenant was the Utah Independent Telephone Company, a plucky rival exchange later swallowed by the Bell system. Power-company offices, a bowling alley, and a liquor store followed, before it settled into the business it keeps today: the Alamo Saloon. It was restored in 1981.

What the plaque says

Built in 1905 by the M.S. Aschiem Mercantile Company on property adjacent to its thriving, landmark store, this Mission style structure was one of the few brick commercial buildings on Main Street in its day. The building has design features unique to Park City. It is a Spanish Colonial revival design with decorative Queen Anne brickwork, and an interior ceiling composed of a series of barrel vaults. Until 1911 the building was occupied by the Utah Independent Telephone Company, a rival exchange which eventually merged with Rocky Mountain Bell. In subsequent changes of owners and uses, the building housed Utah Power & Light Company offices, a bowling alley and a liquor store, before establishing the Alamo Saloon existing today. Careful restoration in 1981 presents a building whose facade today closely resembles that of the building when constructed.

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

• The Club — steps away
• War Veterans Memorial Building — steps away
• Anderson Apartments — steps away
• Frank Andrew Building — steps away