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Robert Gardner Home (Utah’s Oldest Home)

17 Friday Jul 2020

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Built in 1848, the residence located at 1475 E. Murphy’s Lane was home to Robert Gardner Jr., one of the first settlers to construct a sawmill on the waterway now called Mill Creek.

It has been continuously occupied since it was first built, she added, though it has not always been in the Gardner family.

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Millcreek, Utah

17 Friday Jul 2020

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Millcreek, Utah and the nearby creek and canyon with the same name were named for the Gardner’s saw mill.

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The Old Meeting House

10 Tuesday Dec 2019

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The Old Meeting House is a well known meetinghouse turned reception center in the Millcreek area of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is to be demolished for townhomes soon so I wanted to document it to be able to look back on.

4120 Highland Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84124

Historically it was known as the Winder Ward, the first part was built in 1905 and the expansion was finished in 1933.

I saw some interesting facts posted online by Natalie Brown, the manager of the event center the building currently funtions as.

  • In 1904 William Wallace Casper donated an acre of his land to the L.D.S. Winder Ward for their new chapel. As was the case then, the members were responsible to build and pay for their buildings. Although unfinished they held their first meeting on December 3 1905. Finally finished, on the 1st of July 1906, the First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church was in attendance and congratulated the the people on the completion of their chapel. The custom then, as now, was to defer dedication of the building until it was paid for. That day came on September 1, 1914.
  • The building was closed for 3 months the winter of 1918 due to an outbreak of Influenza.
  • There is a canal just west of the parking lot called the “church canal” it was originally built to carry stone from Little Cottonwood Canyon to the site of the Salt Lake Temple.
  • An addition of north and south wings, a theatre built in the basement and a face lift on the outside all took place between 1924 and 1931.
  • In June of 1939 the chapel ceiling collapsed, destroying chandeliers and damaging benches but they remodeled and the building was rededicated in December of 1939 by L.D.S. Church President Heber J. Grant.
  • In 1940 a pipe organ was installed.
  • In 1942 the orchard land to the south was donated for more parking.
  • In 1958 the theatre was turned into a multi-purpose room.
  • In 1976 they held the last and final meeting before it was sold. In 1978 Sandra Gardner, looking for a venue to hold her daughters wedding reception, met the owner and discovered he was looking for someone to run it. She decided to give it a try. Sandra and her husband eventually bought the business and later the building.

Gardner’s Saw Mill

07 Saturday Jan 2017

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Gardner’s Saw Mill was erected by Robert Gardner and his sons Archibald, Robert and William, on warm springs stream, in Salt Lake City, Oct. 1847 where three boards were sawed. The mill was moved to this site in 1848 producing the first commercial lumber in Utah on the first formal grant of water for industrial use. Later, a flour mill was erected a few rods upstream, these plants giving the name, Millcreek, to the stream and canyon. Gardner’s Fort, domicile of the Gardner families, was located a short distance northeast, the Gardners receiving the first permit to leave the pioneer fort.

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Salt Lake Millcreek Stake Time Capsule

15 Thursday Sep 2016

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Located next to the DUP Marker “First Millcreek Ward Chapel,” the Salt Lake Millcreek Stake Time Capsule was buried March 29, 1986 and will be opened July 4, 2020.

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Early East Millcreek Schools

10 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Early East Millcreek Schools

The pioneers of East Millcreek built the log schoolhouse in 1854 on bench land above a creek, later named Millcreek. Drinking water was carried up the hill from the creek. Logs were brought from the nearby canyons, and members of the community furnished the labor to build the school. The children wrote on desks of wide pine slabs with charcoal gathered from a kiln in the canyon. The teacher removed the writing with a wood plane. The school was located on Millcreek Road, about one-half mile east of this site. The building was sold to Moses Wilkinson in 1878 and moved; it became his family home.

The second school was housed in the adobe chapel of the East Millcreek Ward that stood directly across this intersection, perhaps 30 yards east of the mill marker. Completed in 1878, the building housed worshipers on Sunday, young students on weekdays, and people of all ages at social gatherings. A curtain divided its single 25 by 40-foot room to give two teachers their own classrooms. As was the case with the earlier log school, parents were required to pay in cash, produce, or other goods for their children’s schooling. Serving students until 1893, the building was razed in 1974.

in 1890 the Territorial Legislature passed the Free School Law, making education available to all children. Three years later, the 33rd District School opened one-half block north of this site on the east side of 2700 East Street. This tax tax-supported school of brick, with a small bell tower, covered porch, and its date and name embossed proudly on its front, housed an increasing student enrollment until 1910 when the larger Sherman School was constructed.

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