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Show UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY his beloved wife Dorrit passed away at the age of forty-eight. Taylor Woolley ended his career in the late 1940s with his involvement in the design of “This Is the Place” state park. Here he collaborated with his lifelong friends sculptor Mahonri Young and artist Waldo Midgley. It was Young’s commission, and in 1947 he brought in Woolley for architectural consultation and to handle the landscape sur rounding the monument. Midgley worked on the monument lettering. It wasn’t considered complete until the official lighting ceremony held November 15, 1949. Taylor Woolley lived out the remainder of his life at his home in Gilmer Park and died in 1965 at the age of eighty. 158 The lighting ceremony at “This Is the Place Monument” November 15, 1949. The monument involved the collaboration of Taylor Woolley, Mahonri Young, sculptor, and painter Waldo Midgley. It was completed a year or so before the lighting ceremony. Among the dignitaries are Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Taft Benson, John D. Giles at the microphone, Taylor Woolley, Mahonri Young, President George Albert Smith, and Governor J. Bracken Lee. |
