Jeremy has obtained chicks, in the hardest way possible, chicken raffle! and we’ll be giving chick status updates for the next few months! We are also sad to report that while the chicks are alive and well, the bees are not. They were tricked by an early spring and frozen by the cold weather snap. On the other hand, you should see the beautiful, dark honey!
It’s Utah Adventure Week! This week we go to the Utah State Capitol! We have a wonderful tour guide take us around. But we spend well over an hour telling you about the history, our favorite places and art. With that said, please enjoy the pictures above that Alexis sent us and some of the great pictures we took. I just couldn‘t decide what to post, so you get them all!!!
As always thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro music.
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Bre here! It’s the last episode of the month so we’re going to talk about the Utah State Capitol and how beautiful it is. But first we start with our usual ranting and random crazy talk.
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We recorded this episode a day early because Jeremy has to travel to St. George and that’s just how things go! Maybe he’ll have some stories for us next week. In the meantime, he sent me some pictures of the State Capitol building in Fillmore while he was traveling through and I’m going to make them part of this blog since we talk about it as the original Utah Territory Capitol.
Chris is getting concerned about not getting tickets for FanX yet. We are planning to go but the excitement level is a little bit lower. Who knows what will be going on in a month with COVID restrictions? Speaking of COVID restrictions this week I (Bre) am attending both a virtual conference and a virtual education seminar. I’m thrilled because if they were both in person, I would’ve had to chose one or the other!
We are sending well wishes to Julia as she is currently having some health issues. We told her she doesn’t have to be so dramatic just to have something to talk about on the show (j/k).
Before we got to the meat of this episode, we took a minute to talk about some of the Fall activities to do in Utah. We all love Fall and even though I’ve missed out on summer, I refuse to miss out on Fall! We talk about drives, hikes and punkin’ patches. Below are some links to get to the lists we used in our discussion.
We are so excited to talk about the Utah State Capitol this week. It’s a fantastic piece of architecture and has a great story (as do most things here in Utah). As mentioned earlier in this blog, the state capitol used to be in Fillmore. It made sense when Utah was a huge territory that encompassed not only Utah, but Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona and even part of California. Fillmore was about the middle of that area. But we all know that the capitol of Utah is now located in downtown Salt Lake City!
In this episode, you will hear us rehash some information from when we talked about this is the place since the beginnings of Utah are all tied together. We know that the first settlers arrived on July 24, 1847, but did you know that we were part of Mexico and Utah didn’t become a territory until 1850? Until then, Utah’s government met in random buildings until the Utah Territorial House was built in Fillmore.
Fillmore was the capitol of Utah until 1856 when it was officially moved to Salt Lake City. Again, we just used miscellaneous buildings to conduct government affairs until the Salt Lake City Council Hall was built in 1866. That building was destroyed in 1883 when gunpowder exploded, and it caught fire. Finally, in 1888, Salt Lake City donated 20 acres of Arsenal Hill to be used for a capitol building.
In 1891, they hired an architect, but true to its roots, Utah was too cheap and felt that the cost to build was too high. However, Utah obtained statehood January 4, 1896, and after FOREVER, the legislature approved a seven-man commission to design and build the capitol in 1909. The budget was $2.5M but it wasn’t funded until 1911 because our constitution would not allow us to borrow money, so we had to change it. Additionally, you’ll hear us talk about getting $800,000 in back taxes from the widow of the Union Pacific Railroad owner.
Eight designs were submitted and ultimately, Utah went with Richard KA Kletting’s designs. In 1912 they started construction with a groundbreaking ceremony on December 26th. The state used the Alta mine to bring granite to the build site from the quarry. A cornerstone ceremony was celebrated on April 4, 1914, and finally, in 1916, the structure was complete. It was not true to the original design due to financial issues.
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The copper domed capitol building was dedicated on October 9, 1916 and was added to national Register of Historical Places in 1978. From 2004-2008 the capitol underwent a massive renovation project, honoring many of Klettings visions. We added two new buildings and retrofitted the structure to handle a 7.3 earthquake, which took up most of the basement space. Today, the Capitol building contains two active legislative chambers, a ceremonial supreme court chamber, and the working offices of top state officials.
If you want to take a virtual tour and learn more about the Utah State Capitol, you can go to the state website. We hope you enjoy the episode; we sure did! (Don’t inhale too much smoke)
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