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Show %jl~>hL . . . ^ ^ ^ i ^ a ^ ^ ^ ^ The Becker house, ca. 1918, on Van Bur en Street in Ogden is a sensitive example of the Prairie School style of Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries in the Midwest. Photograph by Peter L. Goss. influence upon it. Woolley was admired as a sensitive designer of homes and small buildings, with a strong interest in landscape architecture. The Prairie School residential homes, many of which are architect designed, lie scattered throughout the more prestigous areas of Salt Lake Valley. A partial list includes the Snow house on Eleventh Avenue, the Weiler house on Perry Avenue, and the Marchand house on Second Avenue. The finest examples are found in Ogden, especially noteworthy is the Becker house on Van Buren Street. More research needs to be done on the houses of this style. Religious structures, particularly wardhouses, have been designed in the Prairie School style. Pope and Burton's Liberty Stake First Ward (Park Stake First Ward), designed in 1910, shows the firm's familiarity with several early designs by Wright and a church in Chicago by William Drummond.31 Pope and Burton went on to win the design for the Alberta Temple (1913) of the LDS church and several church buildings in Ogden, all showing the influence of this style. Miles Miller designed the Parowan Third Ward (1914) in Iron County, a building that owes a debt to both the designs of Wright and those of Pope and Burton. Cannon and Fetzer's contribution to the style in Utah includes the Eighth 31 Peter L. Goss, "Utah's Architectural Heritage: Park Stake First Ward, Pope and Burton, Architects," Utah Architect (Summer 1974), pp. 14—16. |
