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Pack Home Replica Tuesday, May 15, Will Join Old Deseret 2001 Village
The Old Deseret Village, a historical theme park at EMAIL THIS This Is The ARTICLE Place Heritage Park that replicates downtown Salt Lake City during the mid-1800s, will have a new addition come fall. University of Utah officials and members of the John Pack Family Association have broken ground for construction of a replica of the Pack home, once located on the comer of West Temple and and 100 North. Because of its convenient location so near Union Square, the Pack home -- a small adobe house built in 1848 on a quarter-acre lot on the southeast comer of the intersection -- served as Salt Lake's first dance hall, tavern and mercantile store, said Jo Ann Merrill, editor of the John Pack Family Association newsletter distributed monthly to Pack's 2,000 descendants. On Nov. 11, 1850, the U., then known as the University of Deseret, also held its first classes at the home, said Merrill. One of Utah's first settlers, Pack was a member of the small band of pioneers who scouted out the Salt Lake Valley for Brigham Young. Construction of the $200,000 replica, paid for by Pack's descendants, should be completed by next fall. The home will serve as the theme park's main social hall, where receptions, meetings and educational seminars will be held. -- Kirsten Stewart
1of1 5115/2001 10:38 AM UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service . . : ·. ~ . . ~-.. . .. : -'·~· · . , _. .. (801) 328-8678 ,:· · ~ ~·. . . ~-··.. SALT LAKE TRIBUNE f Historic Ephraim Home Will Be Rebuilt at State Park · 1 1 ·,_) By Harold Schindler the first houses in Ephraim to be tion set for September at a cost of THE $ALT LAKE TRIBUNE made of fired brick. It was the pe approximately $80,000, accord Niels 0. Anderson and his wife, riod between sunbaked adobe and ing to Dan Lofgren, chairman of Josephine, were Mormon con the advent of hard-pressed kiln this Legacy Project and president verts from Sweden who settled in fire brick. Commercial brick was of Prowswood Management Inc. Ephraim in the late 1860s and not available · in Sanpete County Materials consistent with the built their first home. until after 1870, so the Andersons 19th-century style and design will Because the Anderson house - used local mason Soren Jensen's used in the reconstruction; build which later was expanded to homemade low-fired brick. ers even now are seeking authen make room for nine children - The house was built in 1868 tic brick of the period. The struc represented well-designed and with the small saltbox lateral ad ture, however, still will be well-constructed homes in attrac dition to the home dated at 1880- required to meet modern building tive Utah communities, it was 82. It featured Federal/Greek codes. It is the first of some 20 chosen as a Utah Centennial Com Revival detailing of the cornice, historic structures to be re-creat mission Legacy Project. porch, doors and windows. ed at the park through private do As such, the Home Builders As Architectural drawings and an nations. sociation of Utah and the Utah artist's rendering will be dis As a Sanpete County farmer, Association of Realtors joined as played Thursday al 2:30 p.m. at Anderson was called on to fight donors to reconstruct the Ander the site of the Parade of Homes, the skirmishes of the Black Hawk son house at This Is The Place 11200 S. 1300 West, South Jor War and knew personally such lo State Park in Salt Lake City this dan. cal chieftains fall. as Black Hawk, Ara An authentic replica of the An peen, Sanpitch and Tabby. • It began as a one-and-a-half derson home will be built at the In his later years, Anderson } ~~ory two-room affair with a state park. Construction will be gained l a reputation as a Utah ~leeping attic." And was one of gin in late August with comple- folklorist. Sugar House In 1853. of the old sugar factory erected in Place State Park will be i;t re-creation Ne"' .:sitors center at This Is The
colne to year showcase. as plans now in progress decided we must Expansion of This ls the Utah Statehood Cen "The commission fruition. The a lasting legacy from our cen f to be a Commission has adopted leave · Place State Par tennial tennial:' said Stephen M. Studdert, expansion of the park into a major cente11nial centecpiece. museum as a cen commission outdoor historical . EXIRA the many activities that chairman SUNDAY Leer terpiece of Thirty-five By Twila Van focus on the lOOth anniversary state News staff v:r.:er will proposals from around the 1 S~:..::.:ret of statehood. but it was deter . 4, were considered, TARTING ITS second hun Utah joined the union on Jan that the park, already in exis for reccg mined dred years. Uah should have 1896, after a long struggle tence, was the best possible target the the impr es s in~ and viable nition. Activities commemorating for a project to last far beyond an winter from its first century, century anniversary next centennial yea1: legacy hundreds trea- ers have decided. already have begun, and "The park ought to be a true state lead But the Is the of events are scheduled. PARK on 82 S..\ bigger and better This 100- Please sec park development will be the F::.1ce State Park will be that legacy "(DESTINY
Continued from Bl sure for the state," Studdert said. "It relates both to Utah to history and the spirit of Utah." Park closures As the state began looking to ward the centennial Expansion plans Norm , former Gov. the at This Is·: · Bangerter gave Place State Park his blessing quire will re- · . to the park project, that parts of standing with the under closed the park be· that state funding intermittently be limited would tors over to visi· · . To date the only state the next 18 months money to underwrite The park, located . . the project is gle near Ho $2.4 million for Zoo at 2601 Sunnyside the new visitors Ave., · . center. charges a $1 son per per The commission wanted entry fee. two goals to meet However, in the park, Studdert the Brigham : said. The first is Young forest farmhouse, the a replication of cently re Utah settlement period restored, will remain 1847 to 1869. from open. Hours are which is, in many 11 a.m. to 5. spects, the re p.m. Tuesday through · history of Latter-day day. Sun- , Saint influence. must But the park also Activities · acknowledge other usually held that contributed elements theparkalsowlllbescaledat ,'.. . to the state's back history because of .. : . .- . . - .·.' . construe- · · ~.. ~ !.. :; ~ . Old Deseret ti on. Celebrations ? ~~--, . ~, ~ ~ · ... Village accom planned still are .: . . plishes the first for June 3 other objective, and memorate to com- . · • additions will note Brigham Young's ence of the influ birthday; July 4, Utah's American lndepen- · · · ·. Spanish Indians, dence Day; and explorers, fur traders, neer July 24, Pio- trappers and mountain Day. men who Col. -> ·;· preceded the Mormons, orado Stables, the As he said. concessionaire, park : envisioned, the park will offer . - - vide Utahns will pro horse-drawn wagon of all ages, as well from rides · · · visitors to the state, as Memorial Day weekend a glimpse into through Labor the lives of the pioneers Day. The cost. lled who set of the ride is included ' in a barren corner In tl'le ; · · Basin and of the Great park entrance fee. built it into a state. Reservations . .. . Established by · for Social the Legislature in Hall, Rotary · · 1959, the park was Glen and the am- Pioneer first named phltheater may . , Trail. It was renamed be made :-. . ... more closely to through ~he concesslonalr~ tie it to the pioneer Call 582 2443 ,: ~ Iheme. The current . . , . · an name reflects Beginning in May, oft-quoted declaration wagon a chuci< '. : neer leader by pio dinner will be availilble Brigham Young, by reservation. : reportedly s who : . : aid upon entering Salt For information · ' T.:ike Valley, '" and to stay This is the right In 1961, the current on what . place. Drive on area around This is open or ;·. · • .·· Is the Place Monument, closed at the park, 1 Astud y und ertak at left, was call ~· ... · · !!c en by the utah mostly undeveloped. Hadley, 538-7222, partment of Natural The area is Tullius, orl C'. Resources' evolving into a 538-7336. fice of Energy and Resource historic showcase. >'Ja nning estimates a ;:1ice tag $14 million for a five-phase plan , :.?ale a new visitors to ' center, sig- : ~i cantly expand Old Deseret ; ·.~e , build an education Vil ·:: .\-Clop center and a "settlement trail." Old Deseret Village :·:: :; toric , where 15 structures already are ·:-:; te~, will re-create lo as nearly as ,.
po'ssible actual conditions in-a Utah community in the period from 1847, when the first LDS pio neers entered Salt Lake Valley, to 1869, when the railroad brought utah Territory within easier reach of the rest of the United States. Planners hope that a significant amount of the money can be raised from private sources and that vol untarism will help keep the project self-supporting. A brochure ex plaining the project and soliciting help will be distributed statewide. Studdert said he has been im pressed by the "absolutely extraor dinary response" he has felt as he and others have approached po tential donors. "They feel it is an honor to give something back to the state that helped make them successful," he said. Ultimately, the goal is to have a financially self-sustaining facility operating under the Division of Parks and Recreation. Besides giving Utahns a place "of their own" that they can visit ~ with pride, the park could fill an untapped tourism niche, Studdert said. The park could logically be the hub of a network of tourist at tractions on the city's east side. Ground preparation began sev eral weeks ago for the $2.4 million visitors center, a 9,600-square-foot building that is a re-creation of the old sugar factory erected in Sugar House in 1853. Utah National Guard volunteers spent several weekends pre~ the site as their contn'bution to the Utah Centeniiia( "' . ' The three-story center will fea ture a theater, lobby displays, gift and book store, said Allen Roberts of Cooper/Roberts Architects, which designed the building. The architectural firm, which special izes in historic duplication or res toration, will continue as a consultant on the various projects. Roberts said his firm was able to locate the original drawings of the sugar factory, which was designed by noted pioneer architect Truman 0 . Angell, also the Salt Lake Tern- -
UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 DESERET NEWS . Social Hall t FarmhOuse 7 1. Brigham Young Fores 8 . Samuel Jewkes house in r cnbin 2. Le\i E. Riter cao 9. John W. Gardine 3. 81acksmith"s shOp 10. Charles C. R:ch house h house 4. Carpenters s·.op 11. l.laty F1cld.ng Smit sc 5. Milo Andrus nou . Bowety house 12 6 . John B. Fairbanks
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. discussed. still being also The Huntsman organization of the home . will finance a replica and scholar Par~ of pioneer leader . leyP. Pratt. Associ- The Utah Homebuilders '.·-" ·.. finance and ; ~~ 1 . ,.... : ~. •.,:;..""""" · · ~. . a ti on has agreed to 11'.'~•w~~~ . r·~ : .·, - .~~~~~ .""~""'~""' yet another pioneer-era . build and NuSkin International home, of a vintage will shoulder the costs barber shop. Old Deseret : Planners believe ; will offer excellent opportunities such as crafts· for concessionaires ac can re-create pioneer men who or can tivities for paying audiences Roberts said. : sell their products, visi· In anticipation of increased ~ park, two ranger posi tation to the : 1860s. been redefined. ~ was built In the late tions have was ; House, In Old Deseret, et Ellingson recently The Sar_nuel Jewkes Jan and An- · ~ e shop- as a park historian elty store, wagon.carriag hired oversee docent : own unique heri- confectionery, nette Tanner will cl creating Utah's livery, barber shop, including training of vol state will borrow printing office, activities, ex: tage park. The as newspaper and docents to help explain region. from such heritage sites shop, photography unteer : the history of the Utah ideas in Massa- jewelry-watch kiln, hibits to visitors. Monument" tells of Sturbridge Village drugstore, pottery with curator of edu "This Is the Place Old Devenport, shop, Victor Wallen is deteriorating chusetts, said Nancy flour mill and saw mill-lumber coordinate volun- : the sive monument is for the cation and will The plans were in and poor development coordinator . any. as well as designing pie architect. from weather effects of Parks and Recreation comp duals or teer training . archives. will be upgraded, Division Se\·eral private indivi interpretative LDS Church a maintenance and "Sturbridge (a colonial-era to and implementing a · weren't just making up to what already have committed . He also will prepare "So, we said Roberts. recreation) is the closest groups Deseret. materials co- . Roberts said. Because for the Devenport said. additions to Old outreach program and building," Several of the proposals we want to be," donate Family phi school · building was designed in a master hope for at least 15 The Jon Hunstman special events. the original for the park were contained Planners t Vil agreed to ordinate to celebrate a hill, itis ideal by the state divi buildings in Old Desere lanthropy has already "What we are trying to sit against a plan developed more build of the old " Studdert · which also has , he said. The plan . A list of the proposed underwrite a replica is the spirit of Utah, park location, sion in the 1970s lage an , which was a stop all the extraor he said. rected and re ings was released during Huntsman Hotel said "The fact that slope, 000 res has been resur about the visitors for visitors to Fillmore we are experiencing planned is a $360, centennial project. announcement ping place dinary success Also ce Monu worked for the month. Proposals in era. Whether result of the early of This Is the Pla interested in center last in the pre-railroad today is a direct · toration in 1947 A group of Utahns school-church meeting will actually offer lodging state." , which was dedicated development vis clude a the hotel is people of the ment centen This Is the Place , restaurant-care, bakery, for other purposes Utah celebrated the " projects house shop, nov- or be used when pioneers ited "living legacy cabinet and furniture of the arrival of the ntry as a prelude to nial impres- around the cou in Salt Lake Valley. The l) J.1-\..ll PRESS
ASSOCIATION . . _.! . • Clipping Service . .~~ . (801) 328-8678 6~.~- PROVO ~ ~s DAILY ~ '>~e.. Ple{L(J HERALD ~f~~~ ~istoric park to undergo facelift r\'; SALT LAKE CITY - One of said. The v1s1tors center will cost the most visited sites in Utah will The park, formerly known as $2 .4 million and is the only part of undergo massive renovations and Pioneer Trail State Park, was the project funded through tax dol additions in 1996 as part of Utah' s opened in 194 7 to commemorate lars a ppropriated by th e Legis centennial celebratio 1a n. the e ntrance of the Mormon pio ture. The three-story To commemorate center will 100 years of neers into the Great Salt Lake Val include a th eate statehood, r, souvenir shop the Utah Statehood ley in 1847. On Jan. 1, 1995, the and bookstore Centennial in its 9,600-square Commission will help State Parks Board change the feet of space. create a lasting impression · of park's name to "This is the Place,'' Volunteers from Utah's heritage by the Utah refurbishing a the most famous phrase in Utah's National Guard 50-year-old park spent weeks early on Salt Lake history - Brigham Young's state this year · City's east bench. breaking ground and ment as he entered the Salt Lake preparing the site for the visitors "This is the Place State Park Valley. center as part of the Guard's cen The park centerpiece, the well tennial contribution. known This is the Place Monu Funds for all other buildings
LOS Ward stone school, the Park Hooper, Eldredge & Co. Bank, a barber shop/shaving PIONEER parlor, the TIMES Elsinore Livery Stable, the Is the Place Godbe-Pitts & Co. Drug Store, and the Deseret News first print Rededicated Park For Good Time shop. The $1 million Huntsman Is the Place for • Continued from E-1 7 / House hotel was completed this week. The main floor of the. Visitor A Good Old Time hide braiding, rope-making, whit Center is open, the lower floor tling and carving, lye-s~ap ma~u will be partially complete for the BY HAROLD SCHINDLER f acturing, basket weavmg, quilt weekend, but the third floor re · THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ing, making comhusk _dolls, lace mains under construction. This Is the Place State Park making, operating a Chinese laun When construction costs plus re dry, . 'dedication ceremonies Saturday honey combing, cheese- and equipment, exhibits and fumis~ butter-making, carpentry, teleg : promise to be a singing, swinging ing are tallied, the bill for th~ Vis affair timed raphy, cobbling, tailoring, gold itor Center to the second - fol and monument is ex lowed by a full day of entertain panning, tinsmithing, saddle pected to reach $3.26 million. making, silversmithing, ment. t_he The Visitor Center and monu making of Indian pottery, Indian From honky-tonk piano and ment will be open daily year · barbershop quartets to craft dem sand painting, knapping arrow round from 9 points, bullet-molding, a.m. to 7 p.m. Ad ' onstrations; from horse-hair bea~w~rk mission is free. ing, drum-making, ~lac~sm1thu~g, .hitching and gold-panning to sad Old Deseret Rick Eean/The Salt Lake Tribune barbering and shavmg m the pio Village, however, . dle-making, it offers everything will open daily from 11 New Visitor Center at neer style, needleworking, ~oy a.m. to 5 ••li~) 'you~d ever want to know about This Is the Place park opens Saturday . making, printing, p.m. from July 1 thr~ugh Oct. ~ ·pioneer life, and more. hearth cookmg, The mastering the Deseret village will remam open until It. is the culmination of more United Methodist Alphabet 8 p.m. Choir, Utah lion contributed by corporations, and photographing. every Thursday for eve than two years of planning for the Polynesian Choi;·, Greek ning park Ortho foundations and family organiza tours. on Salt Lake City's east dox Choir, Umoja Baptist Gospel tions. Formerly known as Pioneer Entrance fees to Old Deseret . bench as a Living Legacy Project Trails Choir and Mormon Tabernacle Because there is no admission State Park, it was renamed Village then will be for two-day in harmony with Utah's Statehood Choir will be followed in mid-March 1995 to "avoid by Gordon charge this "dedication" week con passes: $6 adults (12 to 62), $4 for .Centennial. And it represents B. Hinckley, president of end, fusion with Pioneer Park" in children · thousands The the park will be the scene of a (3 to 11), $3 seniors (62 of volunteer hours and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter full-blown living-history downtown Salt Lake City. And and over), and $28 generous donations, village for a family all coming to day Saints, offering remarks and with hundreds of docents dressed while most employees and do pass (two adults with four or more fruition with the rededication of cents don a dedicatory prayer. in period costume and perform •t openly say so, they children). ·.the newly renamed This Is the For a finale, find the new name This the combined ing as Utahns living between Is the Several buildings (Pine Valley -Place State Park and grand open choirs will sing, "Utah, This Is the 1850-69. Place State Park to be quite a ing of the Chapel. Heber East Ward School'. adjoining Old Deseret Place," followed by a cannon-vol The public is advised, however, mouthful. Among themselves the Social Hall and Village. ley salute. they good-naturedly others) will b~ KSL-TV plans to tele because of the rededication cere refer to it as available for weddings, recep Saturday's festivities begin at vise the ceremony live mony, •·This Be beginning that parking will be avail It" Park. · tions, family reunions, business 9:15 a.m. with a 340-voice Chil at 10 a.m. on Ch. 5. able at the dren's University of Utah The new buildings added meetings and other social func Choir program immediate With the rededication, the state Rice Stadium area with free this ly west of the This shut season include the Heber East tions. Is the Place opens its new $2;'2 million Visitor tle-bus service in operation this Monument. 2601 Sunm·side Ave. and Information Center. styled weekend. No parking The youngsters will be per will sing a half. after the famed old Sugar Factory mitted at tht! park itself or at Ho dozen selections. of the 1850s that gave Sugar gle Zoo.; At 10 a.m., the ceremony titled House its name. From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Satur "Many Voices/One History" will The Mahonri Young-sculptured day and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, open with Clarion Trumpets and a "This Is the Place" Monument visitors will see and hear enter color guard. Brief welcoming re sports a $360,000 repair and re tainment including honky-tonk marks by Gov. Mike Leavitt, Utah . furbishing to restore stone and piano playing, barbershop quar Statehood Centennial Commis metal that will extend its life. tets, dancing exhibitions, sion story chairman Stephen M. Stud And Old Deseret Village will telling, a military brass band, a dert, and Department of Natural open "eight or 10 new structures "cannon call-to-arms" and the Resources executive director Ted with another four in the frame comedy of Professor Bamboozle .. ~tewart will lead into perfor- work stage," said Courtland Nel Artisans will demonstrate spin . mances by American Indian son, director of the Utah State Di ning wheels, candle-making, raw- ; Northern Traditional Dancers vision of Parks and Recreation. • and Dine' Navajo Dancers . Funding came from some $8 mil- See PARK, Page E-11 JUL 2 4 1991
UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 DESERET NEWS , 21 tr~Stee$ ~re picked; to oversee , p 'rivati~ation --bf This lsthe-PlaCeParR State would still own the •- see~ do~~ons ~o help supplenu:Jt park, but rwnprofit private ~e~u;~k, established in 1959 ~ · fi_.oundation wou_~run it. ~ memorializes the arrival of the 1 _ Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake l 1 - ~ociated Press A . Valley in 1847. Millions of dollan ' l have been spent on renovations ~ · "' A 21-member board of trustees .· recent years. :•u has been chosen to oversee the pri- · ·Last year, 309,000 visited the 1.1 , y~tization of management of This park; a 35 percent increase from: ~ ·1&-0ie Place State Park. ··-~~ -~ 1_995. Already this year, 229,000 :; 1~Sf ~vatwng th~parltwa5 '0;t~ · · liavevisited the park. ·.o ~~child Ofa group ~t statfparks Members of the board are SteJU : ~mployees ~~ OfficialS \yljc>° 1*~t phen Studdert, Ardeth ·a. Kapp,,n -¥fall: It ~cebas rec~iy~
;2 The Magna Times I West Valley News, Thursday, March 30, 1995 'This Is The Place State Park' to expand, image for Centennial Celebration improve national, and Jon Huntsman. These commitments are Projects under construction for the Huntsman Hotel, originally built in Fillmore; a . ~ hamper public visitations pioneer home, the Parley P . ; and a 1 many as 15 new pioneer~ra Pratt home replica by GARY R. BLODGETT structures. barber shop. is a need EDITOR Currently, the park houses Meanwhile, there materials and The renaming of Pioneer 12 historic buildings in Old for donated for the development of State Park is only one of Deseret Village - including funds including lumber, several changes taking place Brigham Young's restored the park, and shrubs, in Emigration Canyon. Forest Farm House, the Fair paint, plants and farm First things first, renaming banks and Jewkes homes, historic costumes, . of the park to "This Is the ZCMI merchantile store, a implements is being Place State Park" was for blacksmith shop, a bowery, Everything together" by an mally changed by unanimous and a Social Hall. "brought team" compiled vote of the State Parks Planned for construction "enterprise and civic leaders, Board. through contribution funding of business historians, Construction of a new will be a hotel, barber shop, political leaders, of the Sunnyside visitors' center and erection one-room school/church, members Council, State of several buildings from the bakery, cabinet and furniture Community . . members, and early-pioneer era up to the shop, cafe, novelty store, Park staff - ~'!~}~~~ \if.:t~·~ 'l-t~b:~~; of the Old Deseret late 1890s era when Utah ac newspaper, printing shop, members . cepted statehood will also and other buildings of the Foundation Place State take place in the next 18 mid-1850 era. This Is The north of Hogle months. Commitments for four Park is located Ave. Fee to Because of the construc structures have been made Zoo on Sunnyside this year will tion, portions of the park will by the Utah Association of enter the park person. be closed during the summer, Homebuilders, NuSkin Inter- be $1 per a parks spokesperson noted. He said summer special events will be scaled back to three days this year: June 3, to celebrate Brigham July 4, In in this pic Young's birthday; Community Center and the beauty of the nearby mountains are depicted dependence Day; and July 24, ture of old horse and wagon ride. Pioneer Day. Special events will be con tained at the Brigham Young Farmhouse. However, there will still be several day-to-day activities for public education and entertainment. Colorado Stables will offer horse drawn wagon rides throughout the park from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day. Chuck w agon dinners will be offered beginning by reservations beginning in mid-may. Utah State Centennial Commission has chosen the park as its "Living Legacy beauty to entrance Project," and is actively -snoW:Covered trees and fence add soliciting funds to build as of the Old Deseret Pioneer Park. ·