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LEHI, Utah (AP) -- A 118-year-old building that once housed Lehi Hospital is being demolished.
Workers with sledgehammers and other hand tools are tearing the building down.
The building has been a Lehi fixture for decades, home at different times to the hospital, a bank, offices, a photo studio, a ballroom and a school.
It was vacated in 1989.
The Lehi Historical Commission had hoped to have the building restored. But city officials, worried that it might collapse, approved its demolition in January.
The owner, Todd Vincze, is selling some of the building's bricks and wood to a developer who is restoring another Utah County building.
Information from: The Daily Herald
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