’S 13 SUFFRAGE STREETS STATE CAPITOL

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LDS CONFERENCE CENTER

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BRIGHAM YOUNG CURRENT SALT HISTORIC PARK LAKE TABERNACLE 10 HOTEL SALT LAKE OLD TABERNACLE / TEMPLE 11 CURRENT ASSEMBLY HALL 8 9

SOUTH TEMPLE 7 SOCIAL HALL CITY CREEK CITY CREEK CENTER CENTER COUNCIL HOUSE 2 SALT LAKE THEATRE

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100 S SALT PALACE 3 ORIGINAL SITE OF CITY HALL

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GALLIVAN CENTER

4 SITE OF EMMELINE B. WELLS’ HOME

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WEST TEMPLE COUNTY BUILDING

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Completed 1866; then moved to this location in Completed 1857; demolished in 1877 — On January 1 1961 — The Utah Territorial Legislature voted here 8 13, 1870, more than 5,000 LDS women gathered in 3 on February 12, 1870 to extend voting rights to a “Great Indignation Meeting” here to protest women, making Utah second only to Wyoming to federal anti-polygamy legislation, marking their grant women’s suffrage. Two days later, school entrance into public life and demonstrating a teacher Seraph Young and 24 other women cast willingness to defend their beliefs. This was a major CITY HALL their ballots in a municipal election in this same OLD SALT LAKE catalyst for the February 1870 Woman Suffrage 300 North State Street building. Since Wyoming did not hold an election TABERNACLE Bill. Soon after, and Susan Originally at 120 E. 100 S. until September 1870, these 25 women were the site of the current B. Anthony, the president and vice president of the first women to vote in the modern nation. Assembly Hall National Woman Suffrage Association, held a five-hour meeting with 300 women here to 9 celebrate Utah’s progress for women. Completed in 1852; demolished in 1922 — The 2 Social Hall served as a community building for plays, dances, and suffrage meetings. Sarah M. Completed 1882 — On January 10, 1889, Emily S. Kimball was elected president of the Utah Woman Richards and Margaret Caine organized a women’s meeting here to create the Utah Woman Suffrage Association here in 1890. In the 1990s, a ASSEMBLY HALL glass frame was built around the building’s stone Suffrage Association, a local branch of Susan B. 50 W. North Temple SOCIAL HALL foundation. The glass frame houses the Social Hall Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association. 51 S. State Street Heritage Museum (downstairs) and is the same shape and size of the original Social Hall. Completed 1867 — Susan B. Anthony attended a 10 dedicatory ceremony of the new (and current) Lived here from 1856-88 — Leading suffragist and Tabernacle. This visit marked the beginning of a 4 LDS General President Emmeline B. warm relationship between Anthony and Utah Wells lived in a home here while she was the suffragists like Emmeline B. Wells. In May 1895, editor of the Woman’s Exponent and organized Anthony and the Reverend Anna Howard Shaw and participated in many territorial and national SALT LAKE spoke in the Tabernacle as part of the Rocky suffrage events. She also managed the Relief TABERNACLE Mountain Woman Suffrage Convention. SITE OF WELLS’ Society’s grain-saving project, eventually selling 50 W. North Temple HOME 200,000 bushels of wheat to the U.S. government 243 S. State Street during World War I. Operated as hotel from 1911–1987 — In 1915, Utah 11 suffragists and leaders of the Congressional Union Completed in 1894 — Utah held its 1895 State for Woman Suffrage paraded in automobiles up 5 Constitutional Convention in this building. Women Main Street to the Hotel Utah, where they met lobbied and convinced the all-male delegates to with Utah Senator Reed Smoot. This event was include in the new constitution a clause guaran- one of many held as part of suffragist Alice Paul's teeing women’s right to vote and hold public HOTEL UTAH Western States tour to promote the national office. Utah voters overwhelmingly approved the 15 E. South Temple, women's suffrage amendment. From 1916-21, CITY & COUNTY constitution, Congress ratified it, and President currently the Joseph Smith Emmeline Wells lived in room 834. U.S. President Memorial Building BUILDING Cleveland signed it on January 4, 1896, making and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson visited her here to 451 S. Washington Square Utah the third state to grant women suffrage. That thank her for her advocacy and WWI relief efforts. (State Street) year, Martha Hughes Cannon ran for state senate and became the first female U.S. state senator. Completed in 1900 — The McCune Mansion, on the 12 National Register of Historic Places, was built for Completed in 1862 ; demolished in 1928 — In March Alfred and Elizabeth McCune. Like her close friend 6 of 1886, Mary Isabella Horne organized a meeting and leading Utah suffragist Susa Young Gates, of 2,000 people to hear her and other suffragists Elizabeth actively supported women’s rights. After speak against the impending Edmunds-Tucker Utah achieved suffrage, she focused on national anti-polygamy bill, which would rescind Utah MCCUNE and international efforts, hosting many significant women’s voting rights. Despite mass protest, the MANSION gatherings in her home. She attended the 1889 SALT LAKE bill passed in 1887. In September 1888, national 200 N. Main Street International Congress of Women in London, where THEATER suffrage leaders Clara Bewick Colby and Elizabeth she was voted patron of the organization and NW corner of State Street Lyle Saxon spoke here before large audiences. This entertained by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. and 100 South legitimized Utah’s relationship with the national movement and provided impetus for the formation of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association. Completed in 1916 — A ceremony celebrating the 13 ratification of the 19th Amendment was held on the Capitol steps on August 30, 1920. It houses the 350 N. State Street Built in 1850; destroyed by fire in 1883 —The offices of Governor Olene Walker, Utah’s first 7 Council House (or State House) was the first public female governor and lieutenant governor; and the building in Utah. For a time, it housed the offices offices and courtroom of Chief Justice Christine of the Woman’s Exponent, a women-produced UTAH STATE Durham, Utah’s first female supreme court judge newspaper that ran for 40 years and voiced strong CAPITOL and chief justice. It is also home to memorials to support of women's suffrage. Meetings with local 350 N. State Street Utah’s suffragists: a bronze statue of Martha COUNCIL HOUSE and national suffrage leaders were held here, Hughes Cannon (first female state senator), a bust SW Corner of Main Street where Emmeline B. Wells was the primary editor of Emmeline B. Wells (Utah’s leading suffragist), and South Temple and Martha Hughes Cannon worked as a type- and a mural of Utah women voting in 1870. Capitol setter to earn money for medical school. docents can direct visitors to these memorials.