Daft Block

Salt Lake City, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

In Salt Lake City, the Daft Block stands as a four-story Richardsonian Romanesque commercial building erected between 1887 and 1889 by architects Elias L. T. Harrison and H.W. Nichols. Constructed of brick with sandstone sills, lintels, and trim, the structure is distinguished by a prominent two-story bay window crowned with a decorative sandstone pediment. Commissioned by English-born businesswoman Sarah Ann Daft following her husband's death, the building originally housed the Salt Lake 5 & 10 Cent Store before becoming home to Daynes Jewelry Company in 1908, which gave it its alternate name. A steel and glass passageway later connected the building to the adjacent Kearns Building, one of few modifications to the largely unaltered structure. The Daft Block was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.