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Show Department of Community and Economic Development SYLVIA HARO Executive Director State of Utah Division of State History / Utah State Historical Society PHILIP F. NOTARIANNI Division Director JON M. HUNTSMAN. JR. Governor GARY R. HERBERT Lieutenallt Governor January 18,2005 RICHARD VAN WAGONER 4000 SOUTH 700 EAST, SUITE #10 SALT LAKE CITY UT 84107 Dear Mr. Van Wagoner: The building in which you are interested, the Lehi City Hall (also historically known as the Lehi Memorial Building), was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 1,1982. The building is significant for its history as well as for its architecture. Constructed between 1918 and 1926, the building, besides serving as a city hall, museum, and public library, was intended to be a memorial to Lehi's World War I veterans, reputedly the first such memorial in the United States. The Lehi City Hall is architecturally significant as a late design of the locally prominent architectural team of Walter E.Ware and Alberto O. Treganza. Designed primarily in the Mission style, the building is actually an eclectic blend of many of the architectural elements of the style. The firm of Ware and Treganza designed buildings in most of the popular styles of the era, and the Lehi City Hall is a good example of their use of the Mission Style in a major project. Cory enspn Natio al Register Coordinator/ Archi ectural Historian 300 South Rio Grande. Salt Lake City, UT 84101 • telephone (801) 533-3500· facsimile (801) 533-3503· www.history.utah.gov Utah! Where ideas connect |
