by Coyle, James Edmund
Fine. Pen and ink drawing of the Park City, Utah, Miner's Hospital is 15" x 10", matted in a 23" x 19" sturdy, decorative wooden frame. Title penciled in, signed and dated 1974 by artist in pencil. J.E. Coyle (1942-) is a self-taught artist whose pen and ink drawings documented with exquisite detail the historic buildings, trains and ghost towns of the intermountain West, primarily in Idaho, Montana and Utah. The Park City Miner's Hospital opened in 1904 at the mouth of Thaynes Canyon, and served primarily but not exclusively miners. "Strife between mine owners and the labor union led the hospital to close in 1919. It reopened in 1920 under the ownership of the Sisters of Holy Cross and subsequently under the ownership of several individual physicians," according to the Park City Museum. "Ultimately, the closure of local mines and resulting population decline, coupled with the construction of a new highway to Salt Lake City, clinched its obsolescence as a viable medical center. The building was sold to condominium developers in 1956 and would be repurposed again and again, serving as a hostel and a bar. The building became city property and was relocated in 1979 ... to Park Avenue where it served as the city library from 1980 to 1993. Today, Miners Hospital operates as a community center for group functions and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places." (Inventory #: 38823)
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