A Tramway and A Ski Lift
A frequent question we get or myth we hear at the Museum is about whether the Town…
Historic Preservation
The Durkin Boarding House
One of only a few boarding houses from any part of town to survive until today, the…
Piecing Together A Home
The following is an excerpt from an oral history with three of the Sundstrom children (Doris, Patricia,…
A Neighborhood of Tragedy
Content warning for description of injuries. The Park City Museum’s Annual Historic Home Tour returns on June…
Preservation of the McPolin Farm, Part 2
This is the second article covering preservation of the historic McPolin Farm on Highway 224. There had…
Preservation of the McPolin Farm, part 1
One of the places that everyone passes while driving into Park City is the McPolin Farm. Considered…
Two Worlds Coming Together
One of Park City’s most unique buildings sits at the southeast corner of Park Avenue and Heber…
The Mines Still Among Us
The Park City mining industry had its beginnings in the early 1870s with the development of the…
The Ghost of Easy Street
Above Shoe Tree Park, just east of the Poison Creek Trail, an electrical box clings to a…
Park City Museum: A Year in Review
Two-thousand twenty-two was an excellent year for the Park City Museum in all aspects of our organization.For…
A Hundred-year Home
December 2022 marks the 100th birthday of the Elks Building at 550 Main Street. The Benevolent and…
A Modern Mystery at the Glenwood
When the Glenwood was established in 1885, the five acres were divided into blocks that were assigned…
Park City’s Fragile Mining History
Mining in Park City began in earnest in the 1870s, and by 1903 the terrain around Park…
Enlivening the Glenwood Cemetery
Established in 1885, the Glenwood Cemetery’s five acres were purchased by Park City’s fraternal organizations to provide…
Ski Era Just As Important
Recreation and tourism, most notably skiing, are incredibly significant and relevant to the history and development of…
An Important Steel Monument
Before Park City’s days as a tourist destination with world-class skiing and resorts, it was widely known…
The Park City Bottling Works, A Soda Pop Legend
Dig deep enough into the hillside below the Fireside Condominiums parking lot – site of the old…
Preserving Park City 2: Changing attitudes
After two decades of hard times during the 1950s and 1960s, Park City began to redefine itself…
Preserving Park City 1: A Lack Thereof
There was a time when Park City wanted nothing to do with historic preservation. During the 1950s…
The Coalition Building Remembered
The Park City Museum this year is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the fire that burned the…
Mine Structures in Modern Park City
If you explore the Park City area, I guarantee that you will bear witness to at least…
Park City Museum: A Year Gone By and a Year to Come
The Park City Museum has had a wonderful year (and decade)! Along with celebrating our 35th birthday,…
From the Perspective of Tower 39
I am 118 years old, as are my remaining thirty-five siblings. Originally we numbered thirty-nine, a very…
Glenwood Remains Unforgettable
In 1996 the Glenwood Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. As unique as…
Vanishing Bull: The Saga of a Celebrated Sign
In September 1976, during a remodeling of the Red Banjo Pizza Parlour at 322 Main Street, workmen…
The Larremores and 733 Woodside Avenue
The house at 733 Woodside Avenue stands out from its neighbors. While its floor plan is, at…
Tales of the Barn
When Park City Municipal bought the McPolin Osguthorpe farm in 1990, I was newly elected to the…
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Welcome back to our series following the history of the Union Pacific Depot, in its own words.…
Home Sweet Home
Readers, welcome back to our series on the history of the Union Pacific depot, now 660 Main…
The Lone Survivor
Being 131 years old I look and feel great, though it's a miracle that I am still…
Parkite Served in WWI Bakery Company
As you may have read in this column last time, William Neil and his mother Ellen moved…
The Neils of Norfolk Avenue
920 Norfolk is an example of T/L-cottage style of architecture. The style was popular in the 1890s,…
Deason’s Accident and Home
The house at 835 Norfolk Avenue started life as a standard T/L-cottage, typical of Park City’s mining-era…
The Pyramid on Norfolk Avenue
Park City’s mining-era homes reflect three distinct types of architectural styles: the hall-parlor home; the T-cottage; and…
An Imperial Legacy
John Bogan was a Park City pioneer. He emigrated from Ireland to Illinois in 1857 where he…
Park City’s First Hospital
In 1893, laborers in Park City joined together to form the Western Federation of Miners Union #144.…
New Buildings for Park City High Schoolers
“All schools will open for the regular school year next Monday, September 28, at 8 a.m.,” the…
Rectangles, T’s, and Pyramids
Each summer, the Park City Museum hosts its annual Historic Home Tour featuring different neighborhoods around town.…
In Plain Sight
Everyone parking off Swede Alley behind the Marsac Municipal Building should know there are two remnants of…
Gone but Not Forgotten
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) was one of two railroads that served Park City in…