Exchange Place

Exchange Place was the non-Mormon commercial district in Salt Lake at the turn of the century. By this time, the city had become deeply divided into Mormon & non-Mormon camps with the Mormons and Mormon owned businesses at the north end near the temple. Miners and mining companies were some of the wealthiest people in the city and were decidedly non-Mormon. Mining and the money it brought in left its mark on the city. Exchange Place is part of that history.

The most notable structures are the Boston & Newhouse Buildings. Built in 1908 & 1908, they were the pinnacle of what Samuel Newhouse had achieved. Newhouse owned what is now Kennecott Copper mine just outside of town, (The mine is still producing and until recently was owned by British Petroleum). Newhouse had single handedly developed exchange place, but alas-over extended and unable to get credit during W.W.I, went broke within about eight years of his successful venture into mining.

At 11 stories, the buildings were Utah's first "skyscrapers". The architect for the Boston and Newhouse buildings was a very famous Chicago architect by the name of Henry Ives Cobbs. He had offices in Chicago and SLC. Many of his Chicago structures are on the National Historic Register. Though not Mormon himself, his grandmother left his grandfather and their children to become one of Brigham Young's wives. Interesting.


	Top Left is the *Utah Stock & Mining Exchange, built in 1909. John C. Craig architect. Top Right is the Commercial Club Building* built in 1909, designed by local architects, Ware & Treganza The the left & below are the Boston & Newhouse Buildings, 1908-9.

	In exchange place, looking south at the Commercial club and Boston Buildings.