Westminster College is known to Salt Lake City residents as a relatively small, private, non-non-demoniacal, liberal arts college tucked in the heart of Sugar House. Its 27 acre campus has a unique mixture of modern and historic buildings surrounding a peaceful garden landscape and access to the adjacent Emigration Creek.
However, less well known is that the college was originally founded in 1875 as a preparatory school, the Salt Lake Collegiate Institution, under the First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City and offered free tuition to Mormon children in order to try to convert them from their Mormon faith. This was a part of a larger movement of many protestant Christians to convert people away from Mormonism in the late nineteenth century.
In 1911, the college moved from its old location in downtown Salt Lake City to its present location in Sugar House. In 1974 Westminster College in Salt Lake City severed its ties to the Presbyterian Church.
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