Z.C.M.I.

Look up on Main Street and you'll find the ornate cast-iron front of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution — one of the earliest cast-iron façades in the West, and arguably the most beautiful commercial relic in Salt Lake City. When the company that built it finally closed in 1999, the façade was carefully preserved and reinstalled on the building that stands here now, the gilded "ZCMI" lettering still spanning the front. It is a rare thing: a department store's storefront outliving the store, kept not for commerce but for the streetscape it defined.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — steps away
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — steps away
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 1.5 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 1.8 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• ZCMI Co-Op Building — steps away
• Zions First National Bank — steps away
• Desert News Building — steps away
• Templeton Building — steps away