Capitol Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB No. 1024-0018, NPS Form National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 7 Page 5 Capitol Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT Streetscapes and Landscape Streetscapes within the district include a mix of wide through-streets and more intimate inner block streets and residential courts. The wider streets have sidewalks with curb and gutter. With the exception of 300 West, which has been widened several times, most have generous parking strips [Photographs 6 & 9-12]. The narrower streets that go through entire blocks also have sidewalks [Photograph 13]. This includes a few streets formerly residential courts (e.g. Pugsley between 400 and 500 North, and Reed Avenue (recently improved in 2000) between 300 and 400 West [Photograph 12]. Other residential courts have been paved, but vary in condition [Photographs 1415]. Several other historic courts and alleys have been vacated. Traffic lights are located on 300 West at 300 North, 400 North, 500 North, and 600 North, where traffic from the Interstate 15 interchange is funneled into downtown. Traffic from the recently rebuilt interchange also necessitated placing traffic lights on 400 West at 300 and 600 North. Within the district are a few scattered tracts of contemporaneous housing [Photographs 14 & 17-18], but most blocks present a range of house types [Photograph 10 & 19-20]. The majority of commercial buildings are found along 300 West, and buildings range from 19th century storefronts to 1950s service stations [Photographs 21-22]. The rest are scattered throughout the district, and with the exception of a former laundry and an electric supply company, they are modest in scale and blend with their residential neighbors [Photographs 3 & 23]. Landscaping within the district varies considerably and, for the most part, has been left to the discretion of individual property owners. There are quite a few old shade trees, most associated with the older homes on the wider streets [Photograph 6]. Smaller trees are found on individual lots and in the parking strips of some streets [Photograph 9]. Most houses have lawn and shrubs in front with a mix of lawn. Landscaping on the commercial properties range from the manicured to the neglected. The irrigation ditches, part of the pioneer-era streetscape, were filled in the early part of the twentieth century, and other remnants of the historic landscape, such as fences, no longer exist. Pugsley Park, a neighborhood pocket park is a recent addition [Photograph 24]. The Warm Springs Park, a larger green space, is located just outside the increase boundary [Photograph 2]. Other open space nearby is associated with the West High School, the Washington Elementary School on 200 West (an out-ofperiod building located within the original district), and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt Lake Seventeenth Ward (an out-of-period building located at 225 West 500 North within the increase boundaries) [Photograph 25].