• Significance: The Salt Lake City Cemetery is the oldest and largest municipal cemetery in Utah. Ferguson avers that it is the largest city cemetery in the entire U.S. Many famous community, civic, and religious leaders, as well as infamous rapscallions are buried there. The Salt Lake City Cemetery was long known as the "LDS" cemetery because of its origin as the first burial ground for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (informally called the LDS or Mormon church), as well as for the large number of Mormon ecclesiastical leaders laid to rest in it. Cemetery records show that the burials also represent a sample of Utah's diverse ethnic and cultural population.

The cemetery is a cherished public park in the great tradition of the American rural cemetery and public park movement. Early 20th century photos from the Shipler Collection show extensive understory plantings of shrubs and elaborate flower beds. As was common practice in other Salt Lake City parks, the cemetery once had its own greenhouse for the production of bedding plants. Today the vegetation consists primarily of a mixed forest of evergreen and deciduous trees and expansive lawns. The cemetery houses a diverse population of birds and wildlife including raptors, songbirds, deer, squirrels, chipmunks, and occasional mountain lions.

• Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N18
• Survey number: HALS UT-2
• Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction
• Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work