Sat, Sep 27
|Salt Lake City
Competing Utopias: Religion & Economics
Join us in examining how religious and economic ideals were built into and have survived through Salt Lake City's historic architecture.
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Salt Lake City
About the event
This tour explores sites of religious and economic development in the growth of Salt Lake City between 1870 and 1930. According to tour guide Kristine Haglund, during this period, Brigham Young’s Utopian vision of Zion gave way to religious differences, practical realities, and capitalism in Salt Lake City’s business district.
This is one of Preservation Utah's new themed tours that combines neighborhoods, architecture, and stories. We are delighted that historian and storyteller Kristine Haglund is coming to town to share more about the intersection between religion and business in Salt Lake City.
Kristine Haglund is a graduate student of history at St. Louis University, a former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and author of Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal.. Her research examines the intersections of business, religion, and family life, with a particular emphasis on the experiences ofwomen and children.
The round-trip tour is 1.5 miles on…
Tickets
General Admission
$20.00
+$0.50 ticket service fee
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