Salt Lake Engineering Works--Bogue Supply Company Building

Page 10

0MB No. 1024-0018, NPS Form United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 8 Page 3 Salt Lake Engineering Works/Bogue Supply Company Building Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT Bogue Supply Company. According to the tax records, between 1941 and 1942, the warehouse/shop was substantially remodeled on the interior and the addition at the southwest corner built. As with the majority of metal industries, the Bogue Company probably anticipated converting some of their resources to wartime production facilities.3 By 1944 the Bogue Company was no longer using all three buildings. The Williams Foundry was leasing the pattern shop at 412 S. 700 West and the foundry building at 404 S. 700 West. The Bogue Company moved all of their facilities into the warehouse/shop and changed their address to 741 W. 400 South. The large lettering on the north side was probably painted at this time. The 1949 Sanborn map shows the Bogue Company in the warehouse/shop, the Williams Foundry uses the east buildings, and a mattress factory (built circa 1945) just south of the Bogue building. The Overman Mattress Factory used the brick building at 740 W. Pacific Avenue until it was destroyed by fire in 1965.4 In October 1952 the two buildings on the east side of the property were deeded to John and Jennie F. Williams.5 For over five decades, the Bogue Supply Company was under the leadership of one family. Beginning in 1944, Frank M. Lee was the president of the company with Barrel W. Lee as secretary-treasurer. Frank's wife, Eva C. Lee became the vice-president in 1953. Through this period the company sold mining machinery. In the 1980s, Darrel Lee became the president of the company and his wife Helen E. Lee was made secretary. By the 1990s the company was dealing mostly in used industrial equipment and its building was mainly a storage facility. The Lee family continued to run the company until it finally closed its doors in 1998. In April 2000, the property was sold through trustee Keith Miller to Westside Partners LLC. The company planned to rehabilitate the building for use as an office and restaurant, but the project was never completed. On August 22, 2001, Westside Partners sold the property to the firm of FFKR Architecture/Planning/Interior Design. One of Salt Lake's most prominent architectural firms, FFKR has recently outgrown its building on Pierpont Avenue. The firm has recently completed a rehabilitation of the building as a federal tax credit project has relocated to the building. Architectural Significance: The Salt Lake Engineering Works/Bogue Supply Company Building (built circa 1904) represents both the commonplace and the unique in the architectural history of Salt Lake's industrial district. Originally built as a warehouse and erecting shop, the building was similar in design to dozens of turn-of-the-century warehouses in 3 In 1940, the Tri-State Roofing Company was listed at 414 S. 700 West. This was the pattern shop where the Bogue Company was listed at 412 S. 700 West. 4 In 1940 this had been the location of Frank E. Reedy's poultry business. 5 The Williams Foundry was in business until about 1960. The buildings were as warehouses for the Ketchum Builder's Supply Company until the 1980s. Until recently the buildings housed the Wood House, an unfinished-furniture sales and manufacturing company. They are currently being used for storage.