First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City
The First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City was founded in 1873. It was built in 1903 and the red sandstone building is a landmark on South Temple Street. It has beautiful stained-glass windows.
Walter E. Ware designed the Gothic Revival structure, with its low square tower and patterned on the cathedral church of Carlyle, England. The exterior was built of locally quarried red butte stone with hard stone trim. First occupied in 1905, the congregation substantially enlarged, renovated, and modernized it in 1956. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is also Entry No. 323 on the American Presbyterian/Reformed Historic Sites Registry."
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as a contributing building in the South Temple Historic District.
