Mayflower Apartment Building
1283 E. South Temple 1927, Slack Winburn, SLC

The stately Mayflower Apartment Building makes an elegant northern terminus for 1300 East. This H-shaped apartment block has a courtyard in both the front and the rear to provide light and ventilation to each unit. Stylistically, the Mayflower makes reference to buildings of the Italian Renaissance. For example, the main entry is marked by a two-story arcade of three round arches and the roof is sheathed in red tiles. Also note the French doors with faux balconies, or balconets, on the second and fifth floors of the two projecting wings.

The Mayflower was constructed by the Bowers Building Company. Run by brothers George and Frank Bowers, this Salt Lake City firm constructed more than 3,000 buildings in Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming between 1916 and 1946. The Bowers hired Slack Winburn to design the Mayflower. A well-respected local architect, Winburn designed many buildings in Salt Lake City. His work spans a wide range of styles from simple apartment blocks, to the Art Deco gates of Memory Grove Park, to the International style Public Safety Building at 200 South 300 East.
(from Preservation Utah’s walking tour)

• Historic Apartment Buildings in Salt Lake City

Located at 1283 East South Temple in the South Temple Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.