The center of Panguitch is a compact grid of Victorian-era commercial buildings and pioneer homes, most built from locally quarried red brick in the 1880s and 1890s. The Panguitch Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Main Street and Center Street have the densest concentration of original buildings — the Bank of Panguitch, the old co-op mercantile, and several large gabled homes set back on wide lots.
The brick itself stands out: a deep reddish-brown that comes from iron-rich local clay, and most buildings have survived remarkably intact given the town's remote location and limited development pressure. A slow walk through the few downtown blocks takes less than half an hour and gives a clear sense of how a prosperous Mormon ranching community looked at the turn of the twentieth century. The surrounding residential streets have more examples of period architecture if you want to continue exploring.