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Show NPS Form 10-900-a Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Format (Revised Feb. 1993) 0MB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 8 PageJ3_ Salt Lake Hardware Company Warehouse, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT the modification of the traditional lines of trade." 12 Wholesaling became more complicated as inter-related systems were going across the country. With the complexity of the warehouse system came a simplicity in building design. Warehouse Design Warehouse is a term for a building type introduced c.1885 that was thoroughly built and relatively expensive because of the structural components, yet simple and undecorated. These buildings were nonetheless designed. The parapets were often brick with open arches. "Strap-work" and "knot-work" were appropriate brick patterns for work buildings. The ornamentation used conventional patterns. Windows usually had slender bars and thin panels of light material. Initials were often incorporated in decorative panels. The brick pier was an "unbroken line from sidewalk to skyline" and served as pilasters to divide the wall into bays as well as stiffen the walls. There was typically much glass and many openings on the first floor. Low cost and obvious utility was the appearance of warehouse structures. 13 The design of these warehouses occurred during a period when the Modern movement was simplifying architecture as a whole. Discussions of the warehouse buildings by the authors of articles in the Architectural Record between 1904 and 1910 describe the trend toward a simpler architecture as appropriate in general. Specifically it was deemed important that the warehouse clearly articulate its function. The utility and functional honesty of warehouses were integral to the services they providedthe milling, packing, storing and warehousing that occurred in them daily. Built in response to the development of the great transcontinental railroads in America, they remind us of how many cities developed and of the importance of shipping and railroads. "Agricultural, mineral, and manufactured wealth flowed freely out of the loading bays of the warehouses onto waiting freight cars and carried across the continent. The trade of the nation relied on railroads and upon efficient handling and storage in the great warehouses that adjoined the tracks." 14 The buildings were necessarily rectangular with large open areas to accommodate the functions that occurred within them, leaving modest exterior ornament as the primary 12 Moeckel, Bill Reid. The Development of the Wholesaler in the United States. 1860-1900. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986. 13 Sturgis, Russell. "The Warehouse and the Factory in Architecture." The Architectural Record XV: 1 (Jan., 1904), pp. 1-17. 14 Miles, Trackside. X See continuation sheet |
