Salt Lake City and County Building, Salt Lake City

The Salt Lake City and County Building, usually called the "City-County Building", is the seat of city government. The historic landmark formerly housed offices for the Salt Lake County government as well, hence the name. The building was originally constructed by free masons between 1891 and 1894 to house offices for the city and county of Salt Lake and to replace the Salt Lake City Council Hall and Salt Lake County Courthouse, both erected in the 1860s. During the late 1800s and early 1900s the City and County Building was the symbol of non-Mormon citizens' open defiance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was designed to rival the Salt Lake Temple as the city's architectural centerpiece. The architectural firm of Monheim, Bird, and Proudfoot designed the Richardsonian Romanesque building. The building's surface is elaborately carved from gray Utah Kyune sandstone.