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Show WINTER 2013 UHQ pp 4-90_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 12/5/12 9:38 AM Page 60 AuTHOR uTAH HISTORICAL QuARTERLy Francisco. In 1887, stone was shipped from The David Keith mansion, a short the Ephraim quarries to Salt Lake City for distance west of his partner’s use in the Hooper and Eldredge Building on mansion on South Temple Street, Main Street and the Salt Lake County Jail.25 was constructed of oolite limeStone was supplied from the largest quar- stone between 1898 and 1902. ries northeast of Ephraim and in Manti for other impressive buildings in Salt Lake City and in California. The building stone treasure of Sanpete County and the fortunes being made from the silver mines of Park City came together on South Temple (Brigham) Street in Salt Lake City. Two good friends and silver mining partners, Thomas Kearns and David Keith, chose the north side of South Temple Street at 529 East (Keith) and 603 East (Kearns) for their homes of oolite limestone. In 1900, the railway transported twelve hundred tons of white oolite from the E. L. Parry and Sons Quarry to be used in the Thomas Kearns residence.26 The Kearns mansion, now the state governor's mansion, is a French Renaissance Chateauesque structure designed by architect Carl M. Neuhausen who also designed the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City.27 The mansion, begun in 1900 and completed in 1902, was built of 25 26 27 60 Blodwen P. Olson, “The White Stone Men,” Beehive History 23 (1997): 18. ”Parry’s Stone Quarry,” Deseret News, August 10, 1887. Salt Lake Tribune, April 4, 1900. |
