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Wilford Woodruff cheered Young on and believed strongly that if anyone could make sugar it would be the Prophet. Young moved all the equipment just outside of his estate near Temple Square so he could directly supervise the process. Once the Mormons were able to move the vacuum pan, they began working on calibrating the process.Īfter months, sugar still wasn’t being made, and Young removed Taylor from the job and took over operations himself. The vacuum pan, which was estimated to weigh over six tons, had to be abandoned in Logan canyon over the winter. Unfortunately, turning beets into sugar proved much more complex than anyone imagined.įirst, there were problems hauling the enormous equipment over the mountains.

It was efficiently built - beets go in one end, sugar comes out the other. Young also ordered a building constructed that would be used to process the sugar beets. They had to haul 10 tons of equipment, but found their wagons insufficient, so they bought a team of Santa Fe Prairie Schooners. Taylor purchased the equipment in Liverpool and made arrangements to have it shipped across the Atlantic to New Orleans. Sugar Mill planīrigham Young ordered John Taylor and Phillip DeLamore to head the Deseret Manufacturing Company (DMC), and sent them to learn sugar production in France. This was a modern marvel in the 19th Century and the industrious Mormon Pioneers saw dollar signs when they considered what a benefit it would be to produce the first sugar in the quickly-growing Western United States. The French were the first to utilize a vacuum chamber that could lower the boiling temperature of purified syrup, making it possible to crystallize syrup into granular sugar. The sugar beet production process required the use of CO 2, lime and bone char to remove the impurities from beet juice. Other sweeteners were used in the form of molasses made from beets or sorghum. Prior to this innovation, sugar had to be extracted from sugar cane. In Pioneer times it would have been common knowledge that Napoleon Bonaparte began the world’s first sugar beet processing in 1811. Sugar House pays homage to an actual sugar factory that was ordered to be built by Brigham Young in a first attempt to produce granular sugar from sugar beets.įor the first 20 years the Mormons were in the Salt Lake Valley, sugar was a rare, expensive commodity - approximately $35.81 per pound in today’s dollars. The area offers a rich history dating back to one of the first Mormon Pioneer business endeavors.

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Sugar House is an area in Salt Lake City that is full of bungalow houses, parks, tree-lined streets and a community of mostly liberal, yuppie-types who drive their Subaru wagons to Whole Foods to buy overpriced organic goodies.īut the “Sugar House” name isn’t a marketing ploy to attract yuppies.

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In 2010 he already painted some windows using caramel while creating A Work In Slow Descent.Sugar Mill in Sugar House A Sugar House that never produced sugar: How initial attempts failed, but in the end produced a huge industry from which Utah would greatly benefit. Lamson has more experience with using sugar as material in building. The project was part of the Storm King for the Light and Landscape show in 2012. In warm months, a panel on each side of the house opens up to allow visitors to enter the house from all directions.Įstablished in the countryside, Solarium is designed to be viewed from afar, where it appears as a jewel-like object, and from within, for the experience of its unusual plays of light. Furthermore, it reduces the risk of visitors licking the building to get a taste of the sweet caramel. Each of the 162 panels is made of sugar cooked to different temperatures and then sealed between two panes of window glass, this gives the greenhouse the beautiful color effects. Solarium refers to a tradition of isolated outposts designed for reflection. The small shed called Solarium functions as both an experimental greenhouse that grows three species of miniature citrus trees, and as a meditative environment. Installation artist William Lamson created a small greenhouse out of caramelized sugar.

Food and urban design are a hot combination, but not as literally as what happened here…

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