SALT LAKE CITY HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION

The Historic Landmark Commission (HLC) reviews all applications for landmark sites, demolition and new construction within locally-designated historic districts. They do not review interior work or exterior paint color, only exterior alterations. The majority of the projects presented to the HLC are either approved as submitted or with modifications.

Westside Warehouse: Listed 1982

The Westside Warehouse Historic District is located along 200 South and Pierpont Avenue between 300 and 400 West. It contains sixteen buildings and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The district is located on a portion of the original plat of Salt Lake City, and developed first as a working class residential neighborhood with 29 houses in the area by 1867. Construction of a rail line into the neighborhood gradually, but dramatically, changed the character of the neighborhood. This period, beginning in the 1880s and lasting until 1923, saw the construction of large commercial and industrial warehouses in the district. Many of these were designed by Utah's leading architects, including Walter Ware, who designed the Henderson Block (now an architect's office) at 379 W. 200 South in 1897, and Richard Kletting, who designed the Jennings-Hanna Warehouse (now the Artspace Tire and Rubber building) at 353 W. 200 South. The last of these warehouses, the Salt Lake Stamp Building (Now the Dakota Lofts) was completed in 1923. The district began another transformation beginning in 1980, when the former Free Farmer's Market on Pierpont Avenue was converted into Artspace, a complex of live/work spaces for the arts community. Again, the transformation was gradual, but a series of sensitive rehab projects have helped the neighborhood flourish into a vibrant mixed-use community of studios, galleries, and lofts located in the former warehouses.