Annie Isaacson wasn’t sure what to expect when Salt Lake City officials told her she’d need all 17 homeowners in the Sampson and Altadena condominiums to agree to get the century-old buildings added to the city’s list of historic landmarks.

As she met with her neighbors, however, she found that everyone in the diverse community within the buildings was united in the effort to protect them.

“That is the one thing — for whatever people’s beliefs, politics, religion, behaviors — they all agreed that they wanted this building on the local historic registry. That was a gift for us to find that out,” said Isaacson, president of the building’s homeowners association, as she spoke with members of the Salt Lake City Council last month.

Those efforts paid off Tuesday night, as members of the City

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