The First Security Bank Building in

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...

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, is a 12-story

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commercial structure built in 1954. The building was designed by

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in consultation with W.G. Knoebel, chief designer for the Bank Building & Equipment Corporation of America, and local supervising architect Slack Winburn. It was listed on the

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in 2005. With Constructed for the

First Security Corporation First Security Corporation was a multistate bank holding company in the western United States, primarily in Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, First Security merged with Wells Fargo in 2000 ...

, the building was the first skyscraper built in Salt Lake City after the Great Depression. It was rehabilitated in 2004. The First Security Bank Building has been compared with the United Nations Building, the

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, and the

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because of its glass curtain and cubic shapes, asymmetrical composition, and lack of ornament.

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