Show Utah Capitol Designer Killed by Automobile Funeral Services Set For Tuesday At S. S L L. Elks Lodge Funeral s services vices for foi R Richard 1 rd 1 K A. A Kletting Kletting- 85 street de de- de- de signer signer of of the Utah state capitol capitol- building and other leading western western west west- em ern buildings will vill be conducted Tuesday noon at the Elks lodge East South Temple street Salt Lake lodge No 85 B P 0 O E will take charge of services Pallbearers Pallbearers Pallbearers Pall Pall- bearers will willbe be selected from lodge associates of Mr Kletting Victim of a pedestrian automo bile accident occurring at 9 p. p m. m Saturday at B street and Sixth avenue Mr Kletting was walking west in the south crosswalk when he was struck by a car driven by Melbourne F. F Russell 31 F JF street The driver was issued arrest arrest arrest ar ar- rest tickets for excessive speed and failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian police reports showed i iDean Dean of Architects I The dean of Utah and western architects Mr Kletting was born Neuer- Neuer Germany I July 1 1858 A son of a a. pioneer railroad builder he used mechanics mechanic's mechanics mechanics ics ic's tools for to toys s 's and engineering textbooks as reading material As a youth he spent his vacations vacations vacations vaca vaca- in a where he learned how to cut different stones When he was 20 years old he worked in the office of the city engineer of Freudenstadt aiding in the design of part of of a new city plan Then the following spring spring spring-he he went to Paris France where he was employed by the largest argest contracting firm in France While with that firm Mr Kletting letting worked on such notable buildings as the Bon Eon Marche Credit de deL deLy L Ly nals a and dS Sacre r C ur marte making detailed drawings dra for the latter's distinguished dome In German Genna Army From 1881 to 1882 Mr Kletting served his compulsory year in the German Serman army and when instructed to draw competitive plans for military mili mili- tary activities hi were awarded first place Soon after his discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge from the service he emigrated emigrated emigrated emi emi- grated to the United States and came ame west The day after arriving in Salt Lake City Mr Kletting was employed employed employed em em- by John Burton prominent Utah architect and his first assignment assignment as as- was drawing plans for forthe forthe forthe the old University of Deseret built on the present site of West high school where some of the buildings buildings buildings build build- ings still are used Mr Kletting's most notable Utah work probably is the Utah state capitol which he designed He was selected from a group of 41 competing architects throughout through through- out the United States to draw the plans and perspectives for the structure Visited Capitol I During a recent session of ot the legislature he visited the capitol noting that the space left for colonnades colonnades colonnades col col- col- col or busts at both the entrance entrance entrance en en- trance to the house of representatives tives and to the supreme court had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been used He also commented comment comment- ed that in his opinion the murals found in the rotunda were too striking in color for the general scheme of the building and that more somber grays and browns would have looked better The Cullen hotel the original Saltair pavilion the old Salt Palace Palace Palace Pal Pal- ace resort the Utah state hospital at t Provo the McIntyre and anil Felt buildings in Salt Lake City as well as 55 many schools churches and office buildings throughout the intermountain intermountain intermountain in- in area were designed by him Mr Kletting was a member of the Salt Lake planning and zoning commission for many years an honorary c citizen of Boys' Boys Town Neb a charter member of the of Professional Engineer Engineers Engineers Engi Engi- neer and a in member of the American Ameri Amen can Institute of Architects Utah chapter and of th the Salt Lake lodge No 85 E. E Members of the city zoning commission commission com corn mission and nd fellow architects honored honored hon hon- ored him in 1938 when a blue Continued on Pare Page Pase 17 11 |