Orpheus Hall
Vernal, Utah
C. W. Showalter, and Andrew King opened the Orpheus Hall on Thanksgiving Day, 30 November 1911. The amusement hall had a spring dance floor, but was also used for roller skating, basketball, banquets, and movies. It was named after the Greek god of Mirth, “a famous musician who is reputed to have had power to entrance men, beasts, and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.” At 11:00 PM on New Years Eve, 1928, the hall was renamed Imperial Hall. In a ceremony on 20 April 1965, Governor Governor Calvin L. Rampton took a sledge hammer and delivered the first blow in the demolition of the hall as part of a community beautification campaign.
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Lehi Leaders Reject All Bids to Restore Building
Deseret News, 28 November 1993, page B3
Article Summary:
In 1991, Lehi City entered into a 99-year lease with the Hutchings Museum Board to take control of the museum. The city later agreed with the board's recommendation to move the museum to the Memorial Building by the mid 1990s.
