Trolley Square

Few blocks in Salt Lake City have worn as many hats. This ground was a Latter-day Saint ward square, then from 1888 the territorial fairgrounds, then — after 1908 — the car barns where the city's trolleys were kept and repaired, and later a garage for its buses. When the buses left in 1970 the great brick sheds might have come down; instead, in 1972, they were reborn as Trolley Square, one of the country's early adaptive-reuse shopping centers, saving the old railway architecture by giving it something new to do.

What the plaque says

Site of LDS Tenth Ward square until 1888 when it was purchased and used as a territorial fairgrounds through 1901. Car barns and repair shops built 1908-1910 under the direction of E.H Harriman for Utah Light and Railway Company. Barns housed Salt Lake City buses until 1970. Renovation 1972.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Liberty Park — 0.9 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.0 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Salt Lake City — 1.4 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 1.4 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Trolley Square Yesterday...Today — steps away
• L.D.S. Tenth Ward Square — 0.3 mi
• Richmond Park — 0.4 mi
• Lone Cedar Tree — 0.4 mi