U.S. Post Office and Courthouse

This granite pile with the Doric colonnade held Salt Lake's post office and federal courthouse under one roof, finished in 1905. It anchors Exchange Place, the short street non-Mormon businessmen built in the early 1900s as their own financial district, a deliberate commercial counterweight to the church-centered blocks near Temple Square. Mail and federal justice shared the building for decades. The soft local sandstone it was first faced in kept cracking, so much of it was eventually redone in granite—which is why it looks more permanent than it originally was.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Square — 0.7 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City — 0.7 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Liberty Park — 1.4 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.7 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood

More markers nearby

• Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse — steps away
• Utah Heritage Foundation honors Gastronomy — steps away
• Salt Lake Stock & Mining Exchange Building — steps away
• Eagle Club Building — steps away