Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-09-10 | Page 14 | Utah's New Capitol Will Resemble Kentucky's Beautiful Statehouse

" 1 Utah's New Capitol Will Resemble Kentucky's Beautiful Statehouse Kentucky's New OapltoL . ( . v . ........ . - Great Corridor iu Kentucky Statehouso. F11"1'"1 '-Win. 1 111 ;l. IlfTEBBST in the state capitol building build-ing soon to he cons'riicteil in bait Laha 0 casions an intere?t in the OS capitois of other tate. There is an especial interest for xhn people pf Utah in hc beautiful new 'fate cap-it.' cap-it.' recently i orr.pleted at Kr;nkfort, K; after wnich the Utah capitol will probably he modeled t0 a considerable degree. The -; ; ification given by the Ftah state .-apitol coiiimissK.ti (o not narrow the competing architects to any specific spe-cific plan of a relet ecttire. but the cost is limited by the commission to two tnillioas oT dollar, approximatelv the cost of the Kentucky state capitol, and rang anenl of the offices in the capitol ns suggested by the committee i alsaeel the exact arrangement in the Keniuck stats eatetol. W'.iie the capitoi commission has pre-ICribed pre-ICribed no specifle deeign for the exterior ex-terior appearance of the buildiug, it will pfObnbly rj but little from that of ths Kentucky capital. All state eapitala are very similar in exterior ft ppen ranee, all having been modeled to s considerable degree after the nation si ca; Uol at WaaErSgtOa. All have ths tame Huiiftnch dome which crowus the i atiojad cnpitol. The ftppsaiajgti of Rear of Kentucky Capitol. fthe T'tab state capitol wili probably be very similar to the others. There is a possibility that on ftcCOUnt I of the peculiar shape of the groaods OB which the state ;ijitol is to be sro ted the building will be somewhat (different in shape and nppearutico than j would otherwise be thi cnas. The Ken-j Ken-j tue.kv ftate capitol i- more than -Hit) reet in length On account of the nar rowaesa of the front of the grounds in Salt hake it will be QftfAcuTt to eon Struct building of that length on the eapitol grounds, n was hoped thai ths entrance to the building would be o nctly at the head of State street. If this is accomplished the building will in.- to be considerably r-horter than jthe Kentucky state eapitol. This may ! result ia the abandonment of the idea of hahng the legislative hull'- in wings i i -! - -ide of the main portio.i of i ho Itruel are. The Kentucky !jte .apitol was built OS slopinc ground. The l'tah ststs capitol erfl probablv be built on the 1 . brow of Capitol hill, which will mesn a -! m h t difrereace .n appearance frosn ths aTeatuehy state capitol. The Kentucky building is eonstrueted of Indiona iimeiitone This material will probably not be oed for the l'tah. . in Itol; I'tau granite or Ftsh marble will i;ndoubteU v be used. or. of the beauties of the Kantuekv state capitol is its beautiful lohl The I entrance to the building opens into a I tnagnifioeat recaption ball, which is an I avenue of columns, lending to a mag nificoiit French grand staircase The I local commission made no roOODUnsnds tionv as to the arrangrnior'; sod ftrehi-I ftrehi-I tecture Of the entrance ftBd the reception recep-tion hall. However, it u an open .ecret that the architects who are to prepare plans for the competition are striving to outshine the Kentucky capitol jsj fhi respect, a ta-k admittedly difti-cult. difti-cult. ' fiovernnr William Bpn v.h- tiie tirsi member of 'he I tah eapitol eommisaion to inspect the Kentochy '-apitol. Uatot the other memiiers of the aommission I visited the Capitol That they were :n. I pressed with its beautv of arrangement and design is evideneod by the tact I that the commission has invited An :rews k Co.. architecis of the Kentuekv state CSpitol, to enter the competition for the pr";sration of r.Jan- ror the T'tah state capitol. The firm accepted the invitation and Is now preparing plans to submit in competition With the leading architects of tin., an. I other 1 states.