Daft Block

Daft Block
	Daft Block
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The Daft Block in 2019
Location	128 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah
Coordinates	40°45′59″N 111°53′26″W / 40.76639°N 111.89056°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1889
Architect	Harrison, Elias L.T.; Nichols, H.W.
Architectural style	Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	76001823
Added to NRHP	May 28, 1976

The Daft Block, also known as the Daynes Jewelry Building, in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a 4-story Richardsonian Romanesque commercial building designed by Elias L. T. Harrison and H.W. Nichols and constructed 1887–1889. The brick building is trimmed with sandstone sills and lintels, and it features a prominent, two-story bay window. Above the bay window is a decorative sandstone pediment. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[2]

An early tenant of the Daft Block was the Salt Lake 5 & 10 Cent Store, and in 1908 Daynes Jewelry Company purchased the building. The Daft Block later was connected to the adjacent Kearns Building by a steel and glass passageway, otherwise the building shows few alterations.^[3]

Sarah Ann Daft (1828-1906) and her husband, E.J. Daft, immigrated to Utah from England in 1856. After E.J. Daft died in 1881, Mrs. Daft became active in business, owning real estate and investing in securities and mining interests. She commissioned the Daft Block in 1887.^[4]

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Daft Block". National Park Service. Retrieved May 10, 2019. With accompanying pictures
^ Jack Goodman (January 23, 2000). "No Starbucks, But Salt Lake In 1908 Was 'Wired'". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 2D.
^ Jack Goodman (February 24, 1991). "Cityview: Who was Sarah Daft and why did she build a Home?". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 7E.

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