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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, Page 13 Highland Park Historic District, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT Utah pavilion for the Fair in Chicago.47 He worked as the school board architect for 30 years, and designed many homes and public buildings, including the McCune residence.48 He died in October 1920. Hedges was born in Indiana in May 1860, coming West in 1881 with the engineers that surveyed the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Shortly after his arrival in Salt Lake City, he and Dallas formed their architectural partnership. Hedges retired from the firm in 1912 due to ill health, and died in 1914. Some of the firms projects include: five of the University of Utah buildings; and several commercial buildings in the Salt Lake downtown area including the Brooks Arcade, the Auerbach Building, and the Raybould Building; and the Hawthorne School. They also designed residences, including the W. H. Rowe in the Avenues, and in Highland Park, the Claude Richards49 residence at 1354 Stratford Avenue. Also, Pope & Burton were well known architects who designed the Highland Park Ward House at 2525 S. Douglas in 1924. Hyrum C. Pope was born in 1876 in Germany and studied at the Chicago Art Institute before opening an office in Salt Lake City c.1906. He was chairman of the board of temple architects for the LDS Church, and a member of the house during the 1933 legislature. He and Harold Burton, born in 1887 in Salt Lake City, formed a partnership and practiced together for 30 years. They designed many buildings in Utah, and as architects for the LDS Church, many temples, chapels, and stake buildings, including the Canadian, Hawaiian, and Oakland LDS Temples. They also designed schools, such as West Junior High, and the Fish and Game building at the Utah State Fairgrounds. Pope died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 63 while visiting in Idaho to inspect the building of the Franklin County Courthouse in 1936.60 Burton lived to be 81 when he died in 1969 of natural causes. Their architecture was influential in the state of Utah, especially through their use of Prairie School design.51 Highland Park Historic District contains a large number of excellent examples of the styles popular in Salt Lake City and Utah during the period of significance, 1910-40s. The houses display the craftsmanship of design and construction materials associated with the era of the significant period. Attention was paid to the quality of design and cohesiveness in the neighborhood. The residential building styles are predominantly Bungalows and Period Revival Cottages that portray the sequence of its development and its association with the growth of the city during a progressive era. 47See University of Utah, Marriott Library, Special Collections, Western Americana. ""Reportedly Samuel Dallas, under Mrs. McCune's supervision, was allowed to travel and study for two years while he devised the detailed plans to carry out her wishes in the design of the McCune Mansion. There is a home in New York, the Matthews house at 19th St. & Riverside Drive, now demolished, that was the mirror image, and was built prior to, the McCune Mansion. 49Claude Richards was one of the developers of Highland Park (Kimball & Richards). The broad spacious verandas, roof design, dark red brick, red sandstone trimmings, and three sleeping porches, as well as the use of hardwood-oak, mahogany and walnut-throughout the interior, and built-in vacuum system, (Salt Lake Tribune, 10/30/1910) in this house combined to make it one of the prominent homes in that development. 50 DeseretNews, August 25,1939, p.13. 51 Burton was an advocate of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs, and had a large library of Wright's books. Deseret News, October 4,1969, B-2. X See continuation sheet |
