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Show - . -- " Lehi City Hall Lehi, Utah Current Owner: Lehi City Lehi, Utah Statement of Significance The Lehi City Hall is significant as a late design of the prominent Salt Lake City architectural firm, Ware and Treganza, and may he the only 1arge building designed by them which reflects their exposure to and acceptance of the Mission Style. Throughout the life of their partnership, Alberto O. Treganza and 14al ter E. Ware responrled to the infl ux of styl i stic preferences pouring into Utah. Their designs, included examples of the Prairie Style, the Renaissance Revival Style, the r.raftsman Style, and the Mission Style. While this building is an eclectic blend of elements of the Mission Style rather than a pure form, it reflects what can happen to a particular style in the hands of architects who are open to a variety of influences. Hi story I The Lehi City Hall was constructed at an approximate cost of $5'1,000 between Decemher 1918 and May 19211 as a Memorial Building to Lehi's World l~ar I veterans. Construction hegan two weeks a~ter the Armistice was signed, and is reputed to be the first such building in the United States. It was intended to be used as a city hall, museum, and public library. For reasons not entirely clear, work on the huilding proceeded slowly at first. By September, 1921, however, the local newspaper reported that, liThe New Library-City Hall and t4emorfal Ruilning ;s progressing now more rapidly. The library part of the building is up and the roof on the remainder of the builrling is heing pushed rapidly. The work of enclosing the entire building under roof and putting in of windows, doors, etc. is expected to be .t: • t 111 camp 1e t ed h.e,ore Wln.er. The north wing of the library, which nOIJsed the public lihrary, was finishec1 before the rAst of the builrling. A program marking its completion was held |
