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Old Posted Dec 30, 2008, 4:27 AM
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The Bransford Apartments, October 1912:



I believe it met the wrecking ball the very year of the floods, 1984. I remember reading something about it somewhere, but maybe I'm just talking out of my ass. It seems like there were a lot of bachelor apartments in this building. The bachelor apartments did not have kitchens, instead there were common kitchens and dining rooms. It was a pretty swank place, I believe. There are a lot of great pictures of this building in the Shipler Collection, including some great interior shots.

Security was a bogus reason to tear it down, but then, most buildings torn down in that period were done so with bogus reasoning. Didn't the LDS Church President live at the top of the Hotel Utah back then?
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