On a trip to Salt Lake City I made a pit stop here. When we came around the corner on Exchange ave (At least I think that's what it was or something close to it) We saw the building in the moonlight surrounded by a large fence. I must admit at night the building was slightly creepy. We couldn't see what we were doing so we came back in the day. The building was beautiful but we didn't go it. I wasn't in the mood for jumping an 8ft chain link fence and climbing through the dog door. The guard dog was really sweet and not vicious at all, but of coarse I wasn't on his side of the fence. We looked around for the owners but they had just left I guess they live in a house behind it. It was a really pretty building and we could see inside and the inside was also pretty.
ABOUT: I guess this was used as a Stock Exchange building for a while where a triple murder occur ed and either before or after that it was used as a mental hospital. Information on this building is hard to find but every once in a while you come across something.
IS IT WORTH SEEING? : Yes. In the fall they do an interactive haunted house but any other time during the year you could probably get one of the owners to let you in to take a few pictures. There are a lot of people walking around near it and stuff so I wouldn't recommend trying to sneak in during the day. There is also a cool abandoned dog food plant near it. No way in that I know of though.
LINKS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emanhaud/4423442593/
http://www.lazarusmaze.com/
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This was NEVER a hospital; 'Bellshire Hospital' was a fictional place to promote the Lazarus Maze which was briefly housed in the exchange building. The Exchange Building was used to buy, sell and trade thousands of boxcars of livestock that came through the old Golden Spike stockyards decades ago. If you drive past the old Exchange building, you can still see the images of cattle 'gargoyles' that made it an impressive place when it was new and in use.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, there was never a triple murder at that location. There have been several near it, such as the unsolved 1983 'legs in the river' case, (shot-gunned prostitute, never solved), but no 'triple murder' actually at that site. To be honest, its not in a very safe part of town and there are criminal elements very near by as of this writing.
ReplyDeleteIt was a mental hospital back in 1930 you guys were probably weren't even born yet. it was closed and sold but stocking and other things. They keep it quite and still do due to some discretion sign by the ex owner and the new owner. Also some people from the county knew about it which is why is better to say it never exist. It would get a lot of people in trouble.
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