Capitol Hill, Salt Lake City, Utah

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View of the Utah State Capitol building looking south down State Street. The LDS Church Office Building and other downtown skyscrapers are shown behind the west side of the Capitol. The Utah State Archive Building obstructs part of the Capitol in this view.
View of the Utah State Capitol building looking south down State Street. The LDS Church Office Building and other downtown skyscrapers are shown behind the west side of the Capitol. The Utah State Archive Building obstructs part of the Capitol in this view.

Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City gets its name from the Utah State Capitol prominently overlooking downtown. In addition, Capitol Hill can be considered a neighborhood of Salt Lake City.


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[edit] Geography

The Hill slopes down to the South so that it handsomely overlooks the Salt Lake City downtown area. The Utah State Capitol, which the hill is now named after, was built from 1912 to 1916 in the prime spot to overlook the city. State Street, a road which runs through the whole state as highway 89, leads up Capitol Hill toward the Capitol which can be seen from miles away as the symbolic end of State Street. Main Street also climbs Capitol Hill one block to the west. The entire Salt Lake City metro area is impressively seen from Capitol Hill, and the Great Salt Lake glistens miles to the west.

The Hill is home to many historic buildings. The west sloping side of the hill is called "Marmalade Hill", since the streets are named after various fruits that are often used in making marmalade. It is renowned as a uniquely diverse neighborhood. The east slope descends sharply into City Creek Canyon. Over the small canyon is another Salt Lake City neighborhood called "the Avenues". Above and to the north of the Capitol building is the Wasatch Springs area named after nearby natural hot springs. The sloping south face of Capitol Hill is sometimes called "Heber's Bench" after Heber C. Kimball, former resident and Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the LDS Church or Mormons).

The Marmalade District's borders are generally considered to be the intersection of Beck Street and Victory Road to the north (including the old Wasatch Springs public pool site), the Union Pacific Railroad tracks to the west (500 West), 300 North to the south (adjacent to Heber's Bench), and Columbus Street/Victory Road to the east.

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Marmalade District

The western slope of Capitol Hill is called the "Marmalade District" after marmalade fruit jam because of the streets named after fruit trees imported and planted there such as apricot, quince and almond. Most of the original streets of Salt Lake City are aligned to and named after cardinal directions, and exceptions to this rule are often named. The Avenues are one example. The irregular, narrow, and steep roads of the Marmalade District are another.

The district is often considered among the most architecturally diverse in Utah residential neighborhoods. Early examples of Utah vernacular architecture sit alongside diverse turn-of-the-century styles such as a Russian-influenced LDS meeting house, Gothic revival homes, Victorian mansions, and eclectic houses of various combinations of adobe, brick, and carpentry.

[edit] Notable buildings and sites on Capitol Hill

[edit] In the Marmalade District

[edit] Also of note

  • Memory Grove - A park dedicated in 1920 to the victims of World War I. Memory grove is in a small canyon immediately east of Capitol Hill.

[edit] Capitol Hill Today

[edit] Events

[edit] Crime

[edit] The future

[edit] Capitol Hill Neighborhood Association

[edit] Famous people from Capitol Hill

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