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Each Friday, The Salt Lake Tribune presents images from its archives in a special series called A Look Back. The Salt Lake City and County building was built by Freemasons between 1891 and 1894. Construction of the building was riddled with controversy. It was the symbol of non-Mormon citizens' open defiance of the LDS Church. It was designed to rival the Salt Lake Temple as the city's architectural centerpiece.

Every gallery of the series is available at http://www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback.

Here are some of the previous installments: