--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 17 number: 6 published: 1914-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Model of the Southwest Corner of the Utah State Capitol,\" *Improvement Era* 17, no. 6 (April 1914): 551." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera176unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera176unse start_page: 551 end_page: 551 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera176unse publication_year: 1914 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Model of the Southwest Corner of the Utah State Capitol MODEL OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE UTAH STATE CAPITOL Showing the polished columns, each column to be a monolith thirty-one feet six inches high, by three feet eleven inches in diameter, weighing over thirty tons. There will be fifty-two columns of Little Cottonwood, Utah, granite. If adopted, this colonnade will be the only one of its kind in the world, and it will exceed all others, in number, size, and beauty of its monoliths. The plan is a modification of the idea of Junius F. Wells, who suggested a colonnade of one hundred and forty-three monolith columns of Vermont granite to represent the Utah pioneers, a column for each name. Afterwards he brought forward the plan and had the above model made to illustrate the splendor to be obtained by substituting polished monoliths for the built-up sectional columns of the architect's design.