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Council Hall (Old Salt Lake City Hall) 300 North State Street
One of the American West’s Most Historic Buildings--served for
almost 30 years as the seat of government of Salt Lake City and
as the meeting place for the territorial legislature.
Constructed in 1864-1866 at 120 East 1st South. It was
dismantled in 1961 and restored on Capitol Hill to make way for
the new Federal Building. It is now an official state
information center and home of the Utah Office of Tourism and
Zion Natural History Association Book store. In January 1866,
when this building was dedicated as the New City Hall, Great
Salt Lake City was the economic, social, and political capital
of a vast, thinly populated region that included a somewhat
larger area than present day Utah. The city had been settled for
little more than 18 years when new City Hall was completed; it
was in the midst of momentous events and on the threshold of an
even more critical, tumultuous era, which is