Trolley Square Yesterday...Today

These great brick barns were built for streetcars. Between 1908 and 1910, the railroad baron E. H. Harriman had them raised for his Utah Light and Railway Company to house and repair the electric trolleys that then carried Salt Lake City about its business — a whole fleet stabled and mended under these roofs. The trolleys gave way to buses, which the barns sheltered until 1970. When the transit era ended, the sturdy buildings found a second life, but they remain, in name and bones, the city's old carhouse — Trolley Square.

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