Non-ecclesiastical Uses of Tabernacle Block

Three years after the establishment of the present-day location of Tabernacle block, Mayor Smoot would sign a deed transferring ownership of the block to the Church in consideration of the sum of $40. In 1915, the Utah Stake (of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) sold parts of the four-acre lot to business interests including L. L. Nunn (cf. Nunn’s Park in Provo Canyon) who leased to Naylor-Clark Auto, then later to Woolworth’s. For a number of years, a swath of the block, sold in 1915 to the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad Company, was used by a rail line that went from Ogden to Spanish Fork [CHECK THIS]. Finally, a piece was sold to then later reacquired from a succession of parties.