| Show F CHANGES IN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY FROM GARDENS TO TOI I I GREAT BUILDINGS I i Templeton Office Building and Same Site When Wells Was Mayor Just as you yoo turn at the monument mo at atthe atthe atthe the southeast corner comer of ot Main plain and South Temple streets Is 18 the Templeton build building buildIng building ing a rather imposing structure of or six stories reflecting an older elder type in build building buildIng building ing construction but serving Its pur purpose purpose purpose pose well as an office building Across to the west is le I the Deseret News buildIng building build building ing and to the north of that the temple grounds North of the Templeton across acro s the street la is 1 the big hole bole in the ground that will wUl soon oon be covered by a fretwork of steel making the frame of or orthe the mammoth Utah hotel That generally describes the four cornets corners about the Brigham Young mon monument monument um nt whose whoM memories still re retain retain retain tain the recollection of another spectacle cle de can look beyond the present picture through a vista of or changes to the head of ot the street as It was wal say a quarter of or a century ago There any Deseret News building of such present day eminence The temple tP ground Continued on Page Paso Two H C i 3 o w i r i im 1 r 0 r J r a aC C j jt ji jh t i N h i I Y hI hIi i i i I I sI a n nu nc u c t tI I I II I Templeton building which stands on the old site of the Dr D H Wells v ResidenCIa 1 f c o c c r i s h CHANGES IN INA A QUARTER Of CENTURY I Continued From Page One were there all aIl right and east across the street the old oW D prat t News N build building Ing ng stood surrounded by py that historic hl wall I But there thE rp any T 1 ng in those days day a There was a 0 row of hade shade trees tr along ahng a Ion I Main street a oon eon of the row around the corners corner ll tu u u 1 Temple and for twenty rods roda I l I along the property embraced by the corner Main street paved either Set far tar back In the yard where the Templeton building now stands Daniel H Wells Welle onetime mayor may r of Salt Lake had his hie hl home It a stately man mansion mansion sion slon as mansions man lons go nowadays but hut it was a spacious home in those days and one of the best as became the lest best corner In town v Mayor of Salt Like Mr Wells was mayor of Salt Lake at atone atone atone one time and he has left to this state a number of sons who have shed lustre upon Utah Many of them were born on that corner and have a faint taint recollection recollection recollection lection of their birthplace Between the house and the site now held by the Z C M I there was waa a garden of ot vegetables Right Bight along the Main street East Temple it used to be called This Thi garden produced some of ot the finest vegetables in the town up to o oa toa toa a short span of years ago and it look so much out of place In those tho e days either for tor Salt Lake what It is ia today Apostle Ezra T Benson built the old home some fifty years ago and Daniel H Wells bought It from him Heber M Wells manager of the Utah Savings Trust company and former governor of this state was with his other brothers born there The old home will wUl live inthe In Inthe Inthe the memory of the Wells family as well as in the memory of old residents but the photograph taken long ago brings out the detail with more impressive impressiveness ness ne The Wells homestead had ten rods on Main street and twenty on South Temple In 1888 the old home was torn tom down and the Templeton hotel was built there Alonzo Young a son of President Pro Brig Brigham Brigham Brigham ham Young was the first proprietor of the Templeton and later Don H II Porter now proprietor of or the Kenyon directed its destinies The Templeton hotel was financed by the Zions Savings bank but it ft was never a success as a hotel and in later years was transformed into a block of business offices and became a paying proposition e |
