Utah State Historic Preservation Office

09/18/2026

Local residents participated in a Headstone Restoration Clinic at Mount Pleasant Cemetery last week. Led by Cemetery Program Manager Amy Barry, this 3-day clinic taught cemetery caretakers and residents of Sanpete County how to properly clean and set historic headstones that had fallen into disrepair. Amy travels the state to collect burial records and preserve the stories of people's lives set in stone.

09/16/2026

Utah Main Street seeks to build a strategy centered around a community's unique heritage and attributes, focusing on what's special to make it a great place to live and visit. The program provides a framework and resources to support a Utah Main Street community's downtown revitalization efforts by utilizing Main Street America's time-tested Main Street America Four-Point Approach.

https://ushpo.utah.gov/utah-main-street-program/

09/15/2026

The Exchange Place Historic District is Salt Lake City’s second major commercial district. It contains ten closely grouped buildings along Exchange Place, a narrow street one block in length along South Main Street between 300 and 400 South Streets. These buildings, all erected between 1903 and 1917, employed a protected steel frame, masonry-type of construction which was considered “fireproof” and the most progressive method of building for its time. The twelve-story Boston and Newhouse Buildings were considered Utah’s first skyscrapers. See our link in the bio for the Historic Utah Buildings map to find more information on historic districts throughout the state.

09/11/2026

Celebrate National Public Lands Day with us at Stewardship Day in the San Rafael Swell! 🏜️✨

Join USHPO, BLM Utah and Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office at one (or all!) of these five sites in the Swell on Saturday, 9/26 from 10am to 2pm to meet our staff and stewards, learn about the fascinating history of the area, and discover what you can do to help preserve these lands for future generations.

📍 Where: San Rafael Swell (Multiple Sites)
The MK Tunnels
Buckhorn Draw Petroglyphs
San Rafael River Swinging Bridge
Swasey's Cabin
Temple Mountain

📅 When: Saturday, September 26 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
See you out there!

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09/10/2026

Our very own Utah SHPO, Chris Merritt will be speaking at Fuller Memorial Trail Grand Opening on September 18th at the Fremont Historical Marker (more in photo).

We invite you and others to join us and the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Wildland Fire Service, and the Utah State Historic Preservation Office to celebrate the grand opening of the Oliver Fuller Memorial Trail which pays tribute to the life and adventures of Oliver Fuller, a cartographer who tragically lost his life during the Fifth Fremont Expedition in 1854.

09/09/2026

Woodbury Corporation received an estimated $3.2 million in state and federal tax credits for its conversion of Salt Lake’s IBM Building at 348 E. South Temple, a project that included adding a new building on the site along with retrofitting the existing office building.

The Utah State Historic Preservation Office announced final approval in June for both the 20 percent federal rehabilitation tax credit and Utah’s 20 percent state historic preservation credit at The Source. The two programs can only be stacked on income-producing residential rental property, which makes the office-to-apartment conversion the specific mechanism that unlocked both.

For more details about the conversion and to see more update photos click the link below.

State and federal tax credits help turn aging office building near Downtown Salt Lake City into new apartments.

09/08/2026

The Fort Douglas Historic District encompasses a considerable area of Fort Douglas, a former U.S. Army post, located at the University of Utah campus. It showcases five periods of construction ranging from about 1864 to 1931. During the initial years, the soldiers built numerous log, adobe, and frame structures. In 1874 the Army undertook an improvement program and erected a group of red sandstone buildings that are among the most impressive on the post. After 1901, brick became the most used building material. See our link in the bio for the Historic Utah Buildings map to find more information on historic districts throughout the state.

09/07/2026

Time is ticking! The Revive and Reside Grant offers up to $50k to help you revitalize your historic property in a Tier 2 Utah Main Street community.

Don't miss out, applications close September 18. Tap the link in our bio to check your eligibility and apply today.

09/03/2026

Last week, USHPO and the Utah Military Museum at Historic Fort Douglas installed and unveiled new signs honoring the history, courage, and legacy of the black military regiments. Known as the Buffalo Soldiers, these men served in the Salt Lake Valley during the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War, were important to U.S. expansion throughout the west in the late 1800s.

Braving Saturday’s rain, many from the Salt Lake community came and walked in their footsteps during an immersive guided tour before the sign unveiling. We are very excited for this dedication of permanent interpretive sign addition to Utah’s Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail. If you are on the University of Utah campus, we encourage you to go check it out!

09/02/2026

In order to ensure prompt review times and maintain a fair evaluation process, we are introducing a nominal application review fee for the State Historic Tax Credit program beginning October 1, 2026. The fee ranges from $100-$500 based on proposed project costs and will be due upon receipt of the Part 1 + 2 before application.

Complete Part 1 + 2 applications received by end of day on September 30, 2026, as well as projects with existing Part 1 + 2 Pre-approvals and Conditional Pre-approvals, will be grandfathered into the pre-fee system.

Please visit the link in below for additional information as it becomes available.

https://ow.ly/AbTm50ZImg9