Oregon Short Line, Salt Lake Route, Union Station |
This station was completed and first occupied on August 9th, 1909. It was erected at a cost of $400,000.00. The general waiting room is 58 feet in width by 130 feet in length, with a domed ceiling 44 feet in height from the floor. At each end of the general waiting room in the tympanum arch panels are great mural paintings on canvas, made from original designs; one representing the coming of the Pioneers under the leadership of Brigham Young to the Salt Lake Valley and the other representing the driving of the golden spike at the junction of the Union and Central Pacific Lines at Promontory Point, in 1869. |
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