WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
THE COSMOPOLITAN RESTAURANT
St. George, Utah
LOCATION
1915 Wells Fargo RoadSilver Reef, UT 84746
Situated on the southwest corner of Main and Center Streets. This is currently just north of the Silver Reef Museum.
HISTORY
This building was first constructed in 1877 by Mrs. Margaret Grambs, a native of Bavaria.The original building burned to the ground on May 30, 1879. It was immediately rebuilt on a larger scale and run on by Mrs. Grambs as a restaurant until about 1894 or 1895.
Mrs. Grambs abandoned Silver Reef by 1895 and moved to Salt Lake City where she ran a small boarding house on south 1st West Street. The building was dismantled, leaving its crude stone foundations which were soon overgrown with sagebrush and cactus.
For six weeks during the summer of 1987, the University of Pennsylvania did an archealogical survey in the back yard of the Cosmpolitan Restaurant. Only the foundation of the restaurant existed at that time.
The Cosmopolitan Restaurant was reconstructed to appear as it did in the late 1800s. It is built on the site of the old Cosmopolitan Saloon.
This building is now owned by Washington County.
PHOTOS
 USHS-0004 1880s photo of the front of the Cosmopolitan Restaurant |
 USHS-0005 1880s photo of the inside of the Cosmopolitan Restaurant |
Photos on the web:
1880s photo of the old Cosmopolitan Restaurant
Modern photo of the Cosmopolitan Restaurant
Modern photo of the Cosmopolitan Restaurant
REFERENCES
Silver Reef Project: Creation of a "Historic Ethnography" For a Nineteenth Century American Mining Town on the Western FrontierUniversity of Pennsylvania, University Museum Research Projects, pp. 61-63
http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/.../Silver.pdf