The Club

Of all the saloons that ran in Park City's silver days, only this one still looks the part inside. Built of wood after the 1898 fire as the Silver King Restaurant, it has poured drinks or served meals ever since. The mounted animal heads that watch over the bar have hung there since proprietor Heinie Hernan put them up in the 1930s. During Prohibition the place quietly sold moonshine, and when Franklin Roosevelt made beer legal again in 1933, it threw a party people long remembered. The Club is the last of Park City's old bars with its guts intact.

What the plaque says

Built of wood after the great fire of 1898, this building has always functioned as a restaurant or saloon, and was originally called the Silver King Restaurant. Construction took place in two phases: the southern half built first, and a mirror image of it added to the north several years later. In 1907 the building shared the same wood porch with the two buildings to the north. The interior walls are hung with a collection of animal trophies which have been looking down on The Club's patrons since longtime proprietor Heinie Hernan installed them in the 1930's. Moonshine was sold here during Prohibition, and a memorable party occured when President Roosevelt legalized alcoholic beverages in 1932. This is the only saloon from Park City's mining heyday whose interior remains substantially unchanged. Although fairly typical of other commercial facades built along Main Street in its day, The Club is distinguished by its ornate wood cornice and bracketed wood lintels above the two double hung windows. Its recessed entry and two story height are consistent with most commercial structures built in Park City at the turn of the century.

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