The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives

The building was subsequently used as the seat of the Utah State Legislature, as a hotel, as officer's quarters in World War II, then finally as a private club until it was demolished in 1985.

Newman, a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was a resident of Nebraska when she became aware of polygamy in Utah while visiting relatives there in 1876.

She was determined to provide a safe haven for women in polygamous marriages, and by 1883 had financial backing from the Methodist Episcopal Woman's Home Missionary Society.

[2] Representing the group before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor in Washington, D.C.,[1] Newman successfully secured an initial $40,000 in federal funds.

The Industrial Christian Home opened in a temporary location in December 1886,[3] overseen by a Congressionally appointed "Board of Control" (the Utah Commission), headed by territorial governors Eli H. Murray and Caleb Walton West.