Formerly the Gateway Apartments and formerly listed at 28-38 North State Street –

The Gateway Apartment building is the most significant Prairie Style apartments in Utah. The exellent exterior decorate detailing recalls the work of Purcell and Elmslie of Chicago and Minneapolis from 1909 to 1922. Some of their work was published in the January, 1913 issue of the Western Architect, about the time when the architect of the Gateway would have been working on the plans.

The decoration in the center of the clerestory is very much like that found on the First National Bank Building in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and the panels above the entrances are similar to one on the Merchants Bank of Winona In Winona, Wisconsin. Both of these buildings were included in the Western Architect article.

A building permit was issued in March, 1914, for a building at the corner of North State Street and First Avenue, the same date which is on the Tax Assessors Building Card for 28 to 38 North State Street.

Gateway was not the name when it was first constructed, however. The 1915 City Directory lists the building at 28 to 38 North State Street as the Eagle Gate Apartments. This was its name for 32 years until 1947, when the name was changed to the Gateway Apts, according to later city directories. The name change is confusing since in 1947 the apartment building at 105 South Temple, the next building south of the Gateway, was renamed the Eagle Gate Apartment.

Originally built as the Emery-Holmes Apts, in 1903, it was designed by John C. Craig. In 197 its name was changed to the Eransford Apartments.

There is also an apartment building to the east which shares a party wall with the Gateway.This building first appears in the directory as the Craig Apartments in 1916. In 1951 its name was changed to the Wasatch Apartments.

The building permit entry for the Gateway lists Charles Carter as the builder and Wallace M. Bransford as the owner. The estimated cost of construction was $60,000. No architect is given, but other evidence suggests either John C. Craig or Jessie C. Craig. In 1915 they were listed as livin g at the same address and were probably related.

109 East South Temple in the South Temple Historic District and also in the Avenues Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah.