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Show 228 Utah Historical Quarterly The City and County Building in Provo demonstrates the frequent use of the Neoclassical style in public structures in the early twentieth century. Utah State Historical Society collections, gift of Provo Chamber of Commerce. Francis C. Woods, represents an early example of the style. Two other turn-of-the-century churches of the style in Ogden are the Methodist and Presbyterian churches designed by G.A.D'Hemecourt. A fine Salt Lake City example is Walter E. Ware's First Presbyterian Church (1903-6) on South Temple, constructed of sandstone from Red Butte Canyon. No true examples of "Collegiate Gothic" exist in Utah, although Converse Hall (1906), Westminster College, in Salt Lake City aptly fits another English style—the seventeenth-century Jacobean. Features of this early Renaissance style include distinct rectangular windows, pointed gables that terminate above the ridge line, and projecting chimneys and turrets. Converse Hall is built on a rock-faced sandstone foundation with brick and cut sandstone coping on the upper walls. Unfortunately, the building has been painted in recent years, thus disguising and destroying the original color and fine variety of texture. Commercial Style. This style developed in Chicago with the building achievements of such people as William LeBaron Jenny, responsible for the first steel skeletal frame building and the firms Burnham and Root and Holabird and Roche. Structures of the style are five or more stories in height with flat roofs, and the character of the facades is related to the fenestration or disposition of the windows. Highrise commercial structures in both Salt Lake City and Ogden need further research and identification. T h e Constitution Building in Salt Lake City is one of the earliest remaining commercial structures. Built in 1870, its top three stories were added near the end of the century. Richard Kletting's six-story Deseret News Building (1899-1902) establishes, along with newer highrise structures, the northern boundary of the central business district in Salt Lake City. Standing across from Temple Square its facade has been unfortu- |
