Exchange Place Historic District

Exchange Place, a one-block development immediately south of the Gallivan Center, is the city's best-preserved cluster of early-twentieth-century commercial architecture. The Boston Building (1911), Newhouse Building (1911), and the Felt Building (1909) frame a small plaza; the Stock Exchange Building (1908), now offices, stands at the centre.

The buildings are still in commercial use and the plaza is open to the public. Several restaurants and bars occupy the ground floors, including the long-running Bambara restaurant in the old Boston Building, and the district is a popular pre-show stop for theatre-goers heading to the Eccles Theater one block north.

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Exchange Place was developed in the early 1900s as Salt Lake's non-Mormon financial district — a deliberate counterweight to the LDS-dominated commercial core around Main Street and Temple Square. The financiers behind it included Samuel Newhouse, a copper magnate, who built the Newhouse Hotel and the Boston Building. The district fell into decline by the 1970s before being restored in the 1990s.

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