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A closing act of defiance leads to arrest as protester seeks to save Utah Theater from demolition

Despite the sit-in and more preservation pleas, the city moves forward with plans to erect a residential skyscraper, pocket park and more in playhouse’s place on Main Street.

(Salt Lake City, via Modern Out West) Watercolor of Main Street exterior. Before demolition, the once-majestic Utah Theater on Salt Lake City’s Main Street — a dilapidated and vacant 103-year-old performing arts hall once known as Pantages Theater — is being documented in a vast digital archive, hosted by J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.