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A basic floorplan for the Variety Theatre on an 1898 Sanborn fire insurance map. - , Utah
On the 1898 Sanborn fire insurance map, the address for the vacant Variety Theatre was listed as 52 Commercial Street.  The auditorium occupied only about three-fourths of the building's 36-foot width.  The theater had a U-shaped balcony and was heated by an iron hot air furnace.
1898 Sanborn fire insurance map, 1898
The Tribune Printing & Publishing building on a 1911 Sanborn fire insurance map. - , Utah
On the 1911 Sanborn map, the Variety Theatre appears to have become the Tribune Printing & Publishing building.
1911 Sanborn fire insurance map, 1911
A comparison of the Progress Building and Variety Theatre and the Tribune Building and Tribune Printing & Publishing buildings. - , Utah
A comparison of the Progress Building and Variety Theatre (top) and the Tribune Building and Tribune Printing & Publishing buildings (bottom).  An annex was apparently built to connect the former Variety Theatre to the Progress Building.
Sanborn fire insurance map, 1898 and 1911