The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21
J. r. and c. A. Walker and Heirs of S.
Walker Estate to Erect Haif Block
of Buildings on Main and
Fourth South Streets.
WORK TO COMMENCE THIS WEEK,
WHEN HISTORIC BUILDING is RAZED
Four-Story Buildings Planned to Accommodate
Sixty Ground Floor TENANTS Two and Quarter
Millions involved.

block south Of Walker street and east
OF Carson street. This property now
ccpting fifty feet on the south line,
which was recently sold to the West
ern Investment and Trust company,
who are perhaps the largest single
owners Of property in Salt Lake This
company paid $4,000 for this fifty-foot
piece of ground, facing on Main street
and extending westward 145 feet.
Block of -Four Story Buildings.
On the ground south of Walker
street, owned by them, j. r. and G. a.
Walker are to build four story build
ing OF Steel reinforced concrete and
brick. This building will have a front
age on Main, Walker and Carson
streets, and the Western Investment
and Trust company on the south will
Join IN the construction from Main to
Carson streets.
The J. r. Walker heirs. namely, J.
r: Walker, Jr.; G. A. Walker, Ray
Walker and Mrs. NJ, ). Cheesman OF
New York. who own the property fac.
ing 2S4 feet on Fourth South Street,
l55 on Carson street and lS4 feet on
Walker street, Will erect similar build
ings to those of j. r. and G. A. Walker
and the Western Investment aud Trust
company. which, when completed. will
give more than sixty rooms for ground.
door tenants, those interested in the
erection Of the building recognizing
the need for ground-hoor space, and in
view of the fact that office space con
struction has been well covered by
previous buildings.
In this connection il should be said
that IN all the business buildings con
structed IN Salt Lake City within the
past two years the ground-foor space
is not nearly so great as Will be the
case in the buildings to be erected by
the Mcssrs, Walker, Western Invest
ment and Trust company and the heirs
of the =. 5. Walker estate
In the Newhouse buildings there is
only space for eleven tenants upon the
ground floor, and in the Holmes Knox
building there are rooms for only thir-
teen ON the ground floor. and in other
buildings similar conditions exist.
while the demand for ground floor
rooms is simply enormous.
May Go to West Temple.
1t is possible, although it has not
yet been fully decided, that NJ. j.
Cheesman, who owns the southeast cor
ner on Fourth South and West Tenn
pie streets, may conclude TO raze his
handsome home there and join in with
tho Walker heirs, of which his wife
is one, and contiuue the four.story
building on TO West Temple street.
These buildings as will he seen by
the plat printed herewith. are all front
age. They Will be as stated. construct
ed of steel, brick and reinforced con.
crete. four stories in height, with hand.
some trimmings and cornice work and
VIII cost about one million dollars On
the corner facing north and cast on
Walker and Carson streets. diagonallv
across from the Newhouse hotcl il has
not been decided what kind of a build.
ing VIII be erected, but it viii conform
to the other buildings.
All these buildings will be ready for
occupancy on the same day thar tho
Ncwhousc hotel is thrown open and in
tins connection 1t can be stated that
construction upon this great building
viii commence this week, steel having
arrived and which will continue until
the great skyscraper insofar as steel
work ~ concerned, VIII be flushed.
Tho block of ground across Main
street from iho Walker S aud which
faces west IS in strong hands aud held
for big improvements IN the near fu.
ture.
Changes in Business Map.
An historic structure, n land mark Of
Zion, disappears whom the 5. S. Walker
home iS raZed. and viii leave but one
Of the three homes built by the Walker
Brothers IN the long ago on the block
Of ground opening on Main street be.
tween Fourth and Fifth South streets.
These three homes in their day were
among the most beautiful in Salt Lake
and the grounds upon which they were
situated were the handsomcst in Salt
Lake. When built they were almost in
the country, for business had not cx
tended much below Second South and it.
was half a mile from the store room
The razing Of The buildings shows what
changes can be made in the map OF Il
city, as Salt Lake is, within
A few years.