Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Fisher Brewery and Mansion


The Fisher Brewery and Mansion
in Salt Lake City
This is a short story about the Fisher Brewery and Mansion
in Salt Lake City, Utah.




 

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.

Price: $65.00 plus a $10.00 mailing fee
(Free of mailing fee if hand delivered in the Salt Lake City area)
To order books, contact Allen or Nan at:

Allen: allendale72@outlook.com or 801-635-6918
https://www.allendaleroberts.com/my-new-books

Nan: nan@nanweber.com or 385-335-2678
https://nanweber.com/richard-k-a-kletting

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

 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.




Wednesday, April 3, 2024

3 April 1902

 E. Warner
A Friend of the Sellers Family
Enters the writing of Mrs. Carter
All about hens and chicks






Tuesday, April 2, 2024

2 April 1902

 Madge Sellers has her mother, Elizabeth,
enter 
a thought
in her Friendship Book
for 2 April 1902
Elizabeth quotes Washington Irving




Sunday, March 31, 2024

Last of March

 Madge's sister Bertha
pens for the last day of March 1902




Friday, March 29, 2024

Madge Sellers' Friendship Book

 29 and 30 1902

Family member Sylvester Garrett
shares three poems in Madge's book.