| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1909/05/20 | The Utah Hotel company is incorporated with Joseph F Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as President of the company. | |||||
| 1909/06/00 | Construction begins on the Hotel Utah with the demolition of the Deseret News Building, General Tithing Office and Emigrant House in early June 1909. | |||||
| 1909/08/00 | American Bridge Company | Contractor | The Jones Construction Company and the American Bridge Company maintain an open shop despite demands by the local structural Iron Workers Union that only union men are to be hired to erect the steel frame. | |||
| 1909/12/29 | Shortly after 3:00 am on, a bomb explodes at the Utah Hotel construction site in an apparent attempt to wreck the hoisting engine and derrick. Only minor damage is done and construction work continues on schedule. | |||||
| 1910/01/00 | Frank Wilson and James Delaney are arrested and charged with the crime. Wilson denies any responsibility for the dynamiting but does admit he had been approached by members of the Structural Iron Workers Union and asked to participate in the bombing. | |||||
| 1910/01/00 | John Munsey | Union Labor Spokesman | John Munsey, business agent for the local Structural Iron Workers Union, denies any union involvement in the bombing of the Hotel Utah. | |||
| 1910/02/00 | James Delaney is convicted of malicious mischief and sentenced to six months in jail. Frank Wilson is not convicted and no ties to the local Structural Iron Workers Union are established. | |||||
| 1910/04/18 | A 2nd bomb explodes, damaging the steel beams in the SE part of the building. Glass windows in buildings within a one-block radius are shattered. | |||||
| 1910/04/18 | John Munsey | Union Labor Spokesman | "I know nothing about it. I am positive that none of our men had anything to do with it and I deplore it as much as anybody else. We do not believe in using force and condemn all attempts of this sort." John Munsey | |||
| 1910/05/22 | A magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Salt Lake City, Utah. Shaking is felt in Tooele, Nephi, Garfield and Bingham. One switchboard in the Salt Lake City will later report receiving 5,000 calls in the first 20 minutes of ground shaking. | |||||
| 1911/06/09 | Parkinson and Bergstrom | Architect | Hotel Utah opens. There is not a hotel from the Atlantic to the Pacific which has the elegance, the comfort and the general beauty possessed by the Hotel Utah. It is a veritable palace from the dome with its myriad electric lights to the cellar, where is | |||
| 1911/06/10 | Deseret Evening News: The Hotel Utah .... is a veritable palace from the dome with its myriad electric lights to the cellar, where is the most wonderful kitchen in the world. |
| Particulars for Hotel Utah: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Historic Use | Hotel |
| Other Description | Modern Italian Renaissance |
| Architectural Style | Neoclassical |
| Owner | Private |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
| Event | Terrorist Act |
| Workers | Union Labor |
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