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Title: Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Co
Subjects: Utah Salt Lake Salt Lake City Description Utah Description and travel
Publisher: Omaha, Neb: Union Pacific Railroad, 1910
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Assembly Hall, a Gothic HALL structure having its own organ and containing a large auditorium. Thisis used for overflow meetings, Sunday school con-ferences, and for other gatherings that do not requirethe seating capacity of the great Tabernacle. Atconference time, when the Saints from far and nearassemble semi-annually to see and hear the higherpriesthood, many uses for this building are found. North of the Temple, and con-THE ANNEX nected with it by an underground passage, is a building of whitestone and Moorish architecture, called the Annex.This is a sort of preparation place for those whohave work to do in the Temple and for those who gothere to be married or baptized. The former homes of BrighamTHE HOMES Young are grouped around theOF BRIGHAM Eagle Gate, one block east ofYOUNG Temple Square. The Lion and Beehive Houses are on either sideof the general offices of the Mormon Church and areso called because over the portals of one is arecumbent lion by the Sculptor Ward, and sur-
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SALT LAKE CITY mounting the other is a beehive; these symbols ofstrength and industry having long been the emblemsof the Mormon Church. The Eagle Gate spans State Street,THE and was built in 1859 to control EAGLE GATE the entrance to City Creek Canon, then the source of the city woodsupply. The arch springs from four stone pedestalsupon which a beehive bears an eagle posed forflight. The eagle was carved by an early day artistand is a fine specimen of wood-craft. It has lookedfor fifty years down the longest street in Utah, whichextends south from the gate, without a crook or aturn, for twenty-two miles. A few steps beyond the EagleTHE TOMB Gate on a grassy hillside rest the OF BRIGHAM remains of Brigham Young and aYOUNG number of his wives. Fort Douglas, Salt Lake s beauti-FORT ful military suburb, lies four miles DOUGLAS east of the business center at the base of the Wasatch. The viewfrom the garrison is regarded by travelers as one ofsurpassing loveliness. It takes in the entire ci

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