Kletting Book Launch
Join Allen Roberts
and myself at historic Memorial House in Memory Grove in Salt Lake City to launch
our biography of Richard K.A. Kletting.
Chat with us about our road of research to share our love of Kletting's genius
and body of work.
My dog Coco Chanel
My dog is a great companion, like most dogs.
She was named Coco Chanel on her way to our (her new)
home from the rescue shelter. Coco is a Plott Hound.
She is loving, fierce, cute, protective and irritating.
She is now 11 years old.
Sound like your dog? I love her to the nth degree.
Touring the Utah Supreme Court
I had the opportunity to tour the Utah Supreme Court.
This was in the Scott Matheson Court House in Salt Lake City.
With my Docent friends from the Utah State Capitol.
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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Been a Long Time
I've been totally absorbed in Kletting research and writing.
My co-author, Allen Roberts, and I have been putting all the finishing touches on our biography of Richard K.A. Kletting, Utah Architect.
This is very close to the artwork for the book cover, from the publisher.
More details as we get close to launch date.
