Show THE tifE VERNACULAR Ir Eastern Critic on Salt Lake Buildings Says Sayo It Ib Ii Increasing MISSION STYLE MOST SANE Ho Ito Trill S liml Sll Saluta of t Ufa timid Halt Hair a t century ago the tho th blK lill Utah Ulah problem was wall to 10 get gel houses up IP U that would Keep out winter wet and cold and shelter families that thui had lInd but bUI scant fuel tuel on en which to 10 rely for toi warmth lately however ho vel the tho problem hn hits been to make the city beautiful with parked streets pavements beautiful lawns and lI iJ homos homes rest for Co tho o l well as tIle tho body bod With tile the sense for tor architectural beau blan beauy blant beauty t ty y In our residences comes are arn inure mOIa Severe severo se ro criticism of ot buildings were erected before the awakening of oC things of ot beauty an III well as of ot strength ngHI and before tho the pausing J of It the materialistic II ago which Is ha I Just groping Us its It way rny Into darkness over the country is Os a whole io fat far Suit SnIt Lake architecture has not ben been a serious community consideration lion Clan but It Is becoming such Prod Irol President dent Roosevelt noo has pointed out that no nation unwilling to learn from otherA Is iii a curable to tc teach and for lor that hat rea rca reason son lIln Salt Snit Lakers may bo be Interested in hI ilia tho view point of ot u a tourist visitor de do the fact that ho he Hilda hero hera little littleto to his liking und and much for tor whit which 11 he h lips dips his pen in sulphur to ti express Ills hl hi opinion Between nn in article on OJ The New Nel Fifth Avenue ml and ant another on tho th thorl work orl of ot tho Cornell school of ot turn ture ure Salt Luko Jko buildings are ura treated tf t o on nn exhaustive review and ond criticism in the current number of or Ihl ho c Record published d at New Now York Tho ho article Is I from the pen of ot Fraus Frana St 1 who Is said sald to 10 be a globe glob who wise makes It his ila business to tl visit different parts of o the tue world tend and write up what appeals appeal to him in tho the themon way mon HIO of o now new buildings and architectural tendencies That ho he ho he h has very ver comprehension of ot tho the Mormon leaders who founded this community or Os the thiC th spirit of ot their work Is easIly apparent hom his opening sentences But nut It II Is also apparent that ho be loves loes Suit Lake admires Its Us sib Kile and finds hero heront at least leaa IL at L little architecture that Is something better lactier than plies piles of brick rooted roofed oVer o r IllustratIons of what the writer THer con alders typical buildings accompany lila hta article There Is tho Eagle gate te the temple the tho the building the Dooly Dool block the Deseret News Newe building tho tito block the new now Herald building the now new Pres Pros church chuch the tho First Church of Christ Scientist the tho Packard library the state fair buildings building the University club the Bransford apartments and anti a n number of lit residences In Iii Including Including clothing those thos of ot Thomas Weir David Keith Thumps Thomas Kearns Mrs Irs M r I II is Walker A II W V McCune anti and W WH WH WH H Bancroft There are arc 2 1 views shown or oC buildings on which comment Is III tactile made and eleven eleon of o these tire are from the work of ot Ware and who specialize In the tho mission style houses houes and bungalows The University club Is la perhaps the moat moal extensively treat treated treated ed cil of at those that are arc praised and three of or the views are lire of or Its lis Interior effects 11 n JI M 1 IB lie mentioned as ns the tho arch architect of ot the hoc building label lobel labelled labelled led the National bank and amI It ItIs itin Is in Ht styled led a lone tone sample of ot the Iron Iroil cots con popular 30 80 years eara ago 1110 Louis Louts LouisH II H Sullivan la to named as designer of ot the block It J S of ot the News building and Fisher Ishel of ot J C Craig of the Herald building hems Heins find and of Ito tho Packard library Fred red Hole Hale find Thomas Green of the tha Keith residence residenceS S C Dallas of or the residency 1111 C M 1 of ot the Kearns residence The buildings credited to 10 Wire AVAro are the Presbyter PresbyterIan Ian inn church the First Church of ot Christ Scientist the AVier Wier residence resilience the tho Mc Me McIntyre e Intyre residence the tho Walker ulker r the Bancroft residence the tho state faIr II and the University club In denting dealing with the lie older odar Salt Snit Lake Lisk buildings the thc writer shows shown himself to tobe tl tobe be a 11 Philistine at al heart henrt for or he lie Hilda flails little Unit that was measured with his lois rule Tho The Eagle gate irate more tenderly thought of or than almost any similar monument wan dismissed with a both at lit the gate Gutc arid MI the religious mo mao motives lives tives of ot the th pioneers who wended their WilY westward to build It und Its com corn companion companion panion structures of at historic Interest With the fundamental belief bellet that no good could coul l possibly come out of oC Naza Nazareth reth ho lie brings II a blanket Indictment against oil nil that was produced In Utah until the days of ot the thu Dooly Dool block and anil then ho lie finds some consolation In the Spanish tendency for overhanging eaves caves LIKES MISSION STYLE on nn a state fair building tho the older of or tho the two on tho the grounds raunds as loam ono lne can love lovo for tOI Its lis exemplification of ot the tho th Spanish Influence ho lie lucre hero reaches reached a t point of or complete com leio approval The iho style stylo of ot the missions h loam OIlS nays la lam carried out nut literally In III tho time old slate fair building an tin appropriate de tic for tor u n building of ot which the tho ur or proclaims the tho occasional anal fust 1 purpose and an In III which tin the quaint attaint style Is ii sects icell at Its lis best bO t All Its aro aru here hero the th roof root time tho tb low belfries ell I upon up their towers gables tho the terminal pa with stub their plain walls traIls find heir I spreading roofs All are aro admirably adapted and put together and ali l tho the Alight decorative detail U Is as ns well wall placed ed td and nod sealed scaled UK us designed could mistake IIII tho the work nu as that IhM of or any but hut a it I t trained nil nod and sensitive designer Quite apart from the historical or climatic of ot tho th style It hue hus two qualities that Ira are good al tel always ways wn H anti ami tOol everywhere anil an that may tay orell command commend It to American and simplicity sore nt qualities 1 And and urn arcs tw tovo of It tho the qualities of ot which our luro stands tand most mast conspicuously in III two of cat UK hg main defects So limo tho state tnt fair Is U In Ito tho tito o Hamn WilY way aa ns the till oey J Nl mOCK Tue block blocH and the tho News New block are arc mentioned as lIS I III ho commercial lions lI ns pf pt f the tile 11 ur or in the of ot which tho She lotion lesson of ot luia not hen been thrown Iho Tho News Is h n las a I ward which John J hn Hoot flout might aught 1110 without Tho Th is styled a 1 pi III of at t tura that would bo hi In III oily uny whore IU X CHURCH churches Itro 1110 not what the tho tourist expects to fInd III In any uny nuru tact hOl In Unit Suit iti It In III tho ItO way tho hitt writer explains that ho lie U Is I In lit I tu Li h with WIlls condition coalitions In the tho west wot or M with 1111 the theta data that ought alight ta to have havu t 1 up sir BO tao wimy of It hili ot II lie thu civilization hero hern lie he continues continue na nil If It half hult stIr lur lurr r Walt flaIL LaKe Joko has liaa nf nt tho leading jl tho church tore uro quite lor abka bl with ono one This Is II the I church fIn In 1 Or The designer has hi work tork worked ed NI with skill and ond SUccess and to a im picturesque I quo effect which Wl J JY JI very Y Or agreeable to tho the cultivated It n Il needful Its ICH won sell CHI of ot and confidence which as 1111 in the tho examples of tint mis oils mission mission sion lire arc of fit which American 1108 silly western In III par particular p particular r are In h special nood But nut the tho of or effect that belong to thin thimi edifice arc nrc artistic personal QUAlities jimmies not communicable to an nn Imitator ator RESIDENCE Of at the Salt Snit I Lake homm the tho th East I ast South Temple Templo show houses nr ate men mentioned tinned with some somo criticism warmth of hut bitt that of at atM M II Jr Walker Is 1 1 treated to real enl Which mounts to still lUll higher levels 1 when the th residence nce on north street l I Is considered rM This Tills lat lot latter lotter ter tel house Is mentioned tin tiM unmistakably ly IV American conspicuous for r I its rou anti spirited It lt Itis ItIs is soothing he ho says to tho the patriotic mind to consider that here hera Is a 11 piece of lit architecture that III or an Increasing tribe unmistakably artistic and unmistakably AnH TENDENCIES FOR FOIl FUTURE loU I Some Homo of at these thOse Salt Lake houses hOUSell Is the tho writers conclusion come near ncr the tho poal or of the tho modern architect the th production of V I building that being of or orno no liP style yet Ions lias style nut Lint it Is III per perhaps haps laps oftener in Interiors rs than exter exteriors lore lors that the goal pal Is attained Th TM Imported 1 decorator the worker in jilL his historical hl styles st to whom art ar lU archaeology would be bo opt apt tp tl disparage such effects by saying that they are aro of at no oo style And yet unless his native sensibility had bad been b entirely sophisticated rated out of him ho lie could coult not nest deny that they thc have havo style The Tho Idiomatic and vernacular v character of tho the sleek nook in lit particular must Impress the tho beholder This Is originality In the best sense the sense not of novelty but of sincer sincerity sincerity ity and straightforwardness These qualities are nrc in up evidence In the tho inter interiors bra of the University club to flip sent result of Jt it IB itt such things as these frequent in the tho west than In the that give our b Imst st hope for the future of f American architecture such ch things much mitch more than tho examples and the reproductions It Is gratifying to sec ace that the City of the tho Saints has Its share shora of them |