Roger V. Paxton photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P1759

Staff Only

Abstract

The Roger V. Paxton photograph collection consists of 1 black-and-white photograph print from 1916 depicting the northwest corner of First Avenue and A street during construction of the Hillcrest apartments.

Dates

1916

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical / Historical

The Avenues is a Salt Lake City neighborhood bordered by the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains to its north and east and by South Temple Street to its south. Surveyed in the 1850s, the neighborhood was the first section of Salt Lake City to deviate from the original grid plan of ten acre blocks. Blocks were smaller (2.5 acres) and streets were narrower. Because this survey pattern violated the law, the territorial legislature passed a new survey ordinance on January 20, 1860. The streets were initially named, but by 1885 the east-west streets were given numerical names while the north-south streets were given alphabetical names. The Hillcrest Apartments was built in 1916 and has 4 stories with 111 units. Source: Haglund, K. and P. Notarianni. The Avenues of Salt Lake City. (1980). The Utah State Historical Society.