Salt Lake City features several historic areas including the Avenues, 9th and 9th / Sugarhouse, Capital Hill, and the Marmalade District.
Avenues - The Avenues is Salt Lake's largest historic district and is located just to the northeast of the downtown area. Its runs from South Temple to just above 7th avenue. The Avenues provides a great diversity of homes from 70's Salt Lake City Condos buildings (the result of uncontrolled building before it was added to the historic district in the late 70's) to elegant Victorian homes. Some of the older buildings date back from the 1880's and feature a variety of architectural styles depicting early examples of Salt Lake Utah homes. Its streets are lined with a variety of fruit tree's that were planted by the Moran settles when they first moved to the area. The higher you go above the Avenues (called the upper-ave's by the locals) the homes become newer, more expensive and the views of downtown / valley become more breathtaking. The building codes for homes outside of the historic district but still in the Avenues have recently been tightened to stop Avenues homes being demolished and so called monster homes being built in their place.
Capital Hill - Located just to the north of the downtown area and to the west of city creek is located the Capital Hill Historic District. Here gathered around the states Capital Building are a number of steep narrow streets (unusual for Salt Lake) which contain some of the oldest homes that can be found in the city. Included in the Capital Hill area is the Marmalade District. Until recently, the Marmalade District (named after the fruit trees that were planted by the pioneers) was in decline, but a number of new condo conversions, and redevelopments have triggered a resurgence in the area.
Sugarhouse / 9th and 9th - While not technically a historic district the Sugarhouse / 9th E and 9th S area is home to one of the city's oldest neighborhoods where many trendy shops can be found. In recent years Sugarhouse homes have seen prices greatly increase, with people attracted to the hip area's shopping and 2 large parks (Liberty Park located in the 9th and 9th area and Sugarhouse Park located on the east side of the neighborhood).
The Park City historic district is called 'Old Town' and is located in and around Main Street. Originally, Park City was a silver mining community, but most of the buildings from this time were burnt down in 1889. The town was subsequently rebuilt; today's historic district mainly contains homes and buildings from the 1920'S. The modern day Park City Utah Real Estate market is driven by people wanting second homes in a world-class ski resort and vacation destination.
Written by Trela Bird and Tracie Peay, Salt Lake Realtors providing exceptional Salt Lake Real Estate services for people looking to buy or sell in any of the areas historic districts.