Richard K.A. Kletting biography

 Richard K.A. Kletting
Utah Architect and Renaissance Man:
His Life and Works

The book is now available for purchase.
The volume is 827 pages with 1400 photos and illustrations.

Born in Germany in 1858, Richard Karl August Kletting was educated and trained in the classics, engineering and architecture in his homeland before moving to Paris where, at age twenty-one, he was employed as a draftsman on three of the City of Light's most impressive Second Empire, Beaux Arts monuments.  Kletting immigrated to the US in 1883. The day after he arrived in Salt Lake City, Richard was hired by architect, John Haven Burton, and together they provided architectural designs for two of the Territory's largest projects — the Insane Asylum in Provo and University of Deseret in the Capitol City. A gifted prodigy of boundless ambition, Kletting soon created his own firm, started a night school and reorganized the Territorial Library. Within a few years he became Utah's dominant architect. Over the ensuing thirty-five years, Kletting would masterfully design more than fifty types of buildings in thirty different architectural styles, earning him the sobriquet, "Dean of Utah Architects" from his peers. His Salt Palace, Saltair Resort and Utah State Capitol were unparalleled successes for the key figure in Utah's late 19th and early 20th century architectural milieu.

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