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Art Museum
Location:
47 East 200 North
St. George, UT 84770
museum@sgcity.org
Admission:
$2 for adults
$1 for children 3-11
Free under 3
3rd Thursdays free from 10am - 9pm
Free for Current Museum Members
Click here for Membership Application
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Special Programs:
3rd Thursday Conversations at 7pm
For inquiries about museum exhibits & events, please contact museum@sgcity.org
The building which is now the St. George Art Museum was originally built
in the 1930's to store beet seed for a sugar beet factory. The Utah-Idaho
Sugar Company, after determining that sugar beet seed was a good "cash"
crop, built the building in 1934, using it along with the already existing
opera house and another building which is now the Social Hall. This was
the start of a business that would last for nearly fifty years.
Sugar beets were planted in the Washinton Fields and Bloomington in the
fall. Due to the mild-winter climate in Utah's Dixie, the crop could stay
in the ground over winter. In the spring, the beets would sprout and grow
to several feet high and then fall over. The plants would then be harvested
and hauled by horse-drawn wagons to the factory where they would undergo
a process to remove the seed and sort it into different sizes and varieties.
The seed was cleaned, treated for disease and stored in bins.
Warehouse No. 3, as it was referred to at that time, (which is now the new
St. George Art Museum) was where the seed was stored. There were 15 bins
which each held 80,000 to 130,000 pounds of seed. From the bins, the seed
was put into three sizes of bags, 20, 25, and 50 pounds and then stored
until it was shipped. Shipping was done by hauling the bags to Cedar City
where it was sent by train to sugar beet plants in West Jordan, Utah; Idaho
Falls, Idaho; Montana, and Washington. After 1955 the seed was all shipped
with trucking firms until the sugar company closed in 1979.
The building was vacant after 1979 and became home to mice and pigeons and
an eyesore to the community. Through the vision, generosity, and hard work
of the community and city officials, the ultimate dream to restore the building
as part of the St. George's historic district was realized in 1997 when
it became the beautiful new home of the Art Museum. |
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