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Show THE ARCHITECT Richard Karl August Kletting developed his interest in architecture and engineering while still a child in Germany. The son of a railroad designer, Richard learned to use his father's tools and drafting instruments at an early age. He apprenticed as a stonecutter at the age of fifteen, and was employed as a junior draftsman in a government engineering office by the time he was sixteen years old. As a young man, he lived in Paris, working first as a stonecutter and later as a drafter for a large contracting firm, where he produced detail drawings for the Church of the Sacre Cour in Montmartre and the Bon Marche department store. Kletting immigrated to the United States in 1883, settling in Salt Lake City, where he was immediately employed in the office of architect John Burton. During his time with Burton's firm, Kletting produced the working drawings for the University of Deseret (The University of Utah) building, which once stood at the current site of West High School. In 1885, Kletting established his own office in the Deseret Bank Building in Salt Lake City, and went on to become one of the most prominent architects III Salt Lake City. III He designed in the eclectic style that was popular the United States at the time, drawing from the Second Empire, Victorian Gothic, and Romanesque Revival Styles. High Most of his early work was residential. Kletting catered to Salt Lake City's close-knit German immigrant community, and brewer Albert Fisher, a fellow German, became his life-long friend. Fisher · was a member of the Utah Forestry 6 |
