Utah Heritage Foundation honors Gastronomy

Before 'adaptive reuse' was a phrase anyone used, three restaurateurs were quietly saving downtown Salt Lake one derelict building at a time. John Williams, Tom Sieg, and Tom Guinney—Gastronomy Inc.—bought landmarks other people wanted to demolish and put restaurants inside them. Their flagship, the New Yorker, opened in 1978 in a grand 1906 hotel that had sunk to a flophouse and soup kitchen. Fire stations, warehouses, and old showrooms got the same treatment. The Utah Heritage Foundation honored them for it: proof that the way to save a building is to give it something to do.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Square — 0.6 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City — 0.6 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Liberty Park — 1.5 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.8 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood

More markers nearby

• Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse — steps away
• U.S. Post Office and Courthouse — steps away
• Eagle Club Building — steps away
• Salt Lake Stock & Mining Exchange Building — steps away