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106: 34: 362: 166:, an architect son of Brigham Young. Due to the widening of State Street in the early 1960s, the prior monument including Ramsay's eagle was removed and replaced with a much wider and larger third generation Eagle Gate, designed by Salt Lake City architect George Cannon Young. Young was the son of Don Carlos Young and the grandson of Brigham Young. The monument is one of Salt Lake City's best known pioneer landmarks, and its current design is one of Salt Lake City's best standing examples of 128: 117: 873: 377: 154:
eagle, with a wingspan of 20 feet (6.1 m). Grant R. Fairbanks, a son of sculptor Avard Tennyson Fairbanks, assisted by his brothers Justin and David, sculpted the eagle perched on a beehive using Ralph Ramsay's original statue as the model. Ralph Ramsay carved the original wooden eagle, which
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The first Eagle Gate was remodeled and enlarged with new stone piers and wider inverted arches in the early 1890s (with Ralph Ramsay's eagle rebuilt and fortified); designed by
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is a historical monument—more in the form of an arch than a gate—seventy-six feet across, situated at the intersection of State Street at South Temple, adjacent to
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Deseret News, Friday, Nov. 24, 2006, "Eagle Gate spans the history of Salt Lake."
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The monument was erected in 1859 and commemorates the entrance to
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This article about a building or structure in Utah is a
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Eagle Gate College

Salt Lake City
Utah
Temple Square
Salt Lake City, Utah



Brigham Young
City Creek Canyon
bronze
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Don Carlos Young
Mid-Century Modern
Salt Lake City: 1890-1930
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
0-7385-7074-5
The Desert States
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
ISBN
1-55670-109-8
"Brigham Young Monument and Eagle Gate"
LDS Church
the original
Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of
Kessinger Publishing
ISBN
1-4179-6854-0

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