Territory of Utah
Built in 1995

The bowery is a replica of a typical open-air bowery in an early Latter-day Saint settlement. Boweries were generally the first building structures erected in new settlements until more permanent buildings could be built. They served for community meetings, church services, and social events, including theatrical productions.

Former members of the Mormon Battalion built the first bowery in the Great Salt Lake Valley in just one day, July 31, 1847. Its dimensions were 40 feet by 28 feet, built of wood posts, with a roof of thatched brush and willow boughs covering a hardened dirt floor. It was replaced two years later by a 100 feet by 60 feet structure, constructed on the southeast corner of Temple Block. Boweries could provide space and shelter for from eighty to a thousand people or more, depending on their dimensions.

The funding for the bowery was a gift from Theodore M. Jacobsen of Jacobsen Construction Company.