Sugar House, Salt Lake City
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Sugar House is a neighborhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. The name is officially two words, although it is often colloquially written as "Sugarhouse." As a primary commercial and residential hub of the r
Sugar House area
Sugar House Monument obelisk in the center of Sugar House
Sugar House Park
Revolving Granite Furniture sign, Sugar House
Sugar House Prison (Utah)
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Sugar House Prison, previously the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, was a prison in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The 180-acre prison housed more than 400 inmates.
Sugar House, Salt Lake City
…Jersey-born convert Philip DeLaMare. The name came as a suggestion from Margaret McMeans Smoot, the wife of then mayor of Salt Lake City, Abraham O. Smoot. Sugar House Prison, the first Utah state prison, was located in Sugar House during the 19th century and early 20th century. The prison was closed in 1951 and moved to…
The state penitentiary in 1903
Prisoners in front of former Sugar House Prison, circa 1887
Sugar House Prison Postcard, Circa 1910.