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Show Enterprise Review , March 31, 1976 Page 4b Renovation of New York Hotel Underway byM. M. Gaber A Salt Lake City real estate developer Has taken an interest in restoring old buildings and is turning his interest into profit. John Williams, who previously restored the Shub-ric- k apartment building, 72 West 4 th South, is presently restoring the New York Hotel, 48 Post Office Place. The hotel, previously the site of the Salvation Army and a rooming house, will soon house a discotheque, bar, restaurant, and other retail and office concerns. Williams, who has a major concern in the low-inco- bar-restaura- nt a cross between the Buena Vista and Mamas in San Francisco, Williams explained. He said it will feature fresh, inexpensive food, coffee espresso, sandwiches, pastry. It will be a casual, cosmopolitan cafe, he continued, a place to eat, drink and socialize. Although he has not yet leased the upper floors, he said the space is ideal for another restaurant and offices The upstairs has a large open area covered with a skylight, he said, adding the buildings proximity to the federal courthouse makes it suitable space for attorneys portion .of the operation, expects the new facility to offices. open this summer. r will restaurant-baThe be Williams, who and lives Salisbury was a real estate offices in the Shubrick Buildwho invested heavily ing, said he first got the idea investor an of acquiring the New York in Utah property, and ran in Hotel four years ago. I could investment firm housed his see the building from my New York Building until breakfast table, and as I was death. He also owned the Wells Fargo Stage Lines and sipping coffee each morning I would look at the building and stock in several mines. Along think what I could do with it, with his investment firm the he said. Three years ago he building housed a mining the first began acquiring the property, stock trading firm, and purchased it in August, class New York Hotel and the fine Riley Furniture Company. 1974. Although the New York Between October and November 1975 the building Hotel was meant to be a exterior was renovated. Dur- luxury hotel for tourists and became a it ing the winter the interior has visitors, gradually area was been readied for further residential hotel. The a thriving financial center in remodeling. 1906, but it bordered on an industrial center as well. Since Historic Significance 1910 the New York Building The New York Hotel was has always housed a printing to both originally built by a partner; company. Its proximity indusship of Orange J. Salisbury the downtown and the and the Houston Investment trial areas made it an ideal Kletting Contributions Still Stand Richard Kletting, bom in Germany, moved to Utah just prior to the states building boom from 1889-189As a teenager he helped build several monumental buildings in France. He moved west across the United States looking for a job, and when he came to Utah he convinced the University of Deseret to hire him to draw plans. In 1885 he 3. Co. in 1906, for $50,000. location for residential quarSalisbury, whose obituary was ters. The printing office has been printed on the front page of the Salt Lake Tribune in 1907, the producer of most of Utahs was chairman of the early magazines. The TV Republi- can State Committee of his Had Mr. Salisbury day. survived, he would have aspired either lo the Governorship of Utah or to the Senate, the Tribune obituary reporter wrote. News, Whats Where and Contractor Intermountain in were all born the New York The Wasatch Building. Woolen Mills, producer of cloth, had manufacturing and continued on page 6b New York Hotel was center of vital financial activity in Richard K. A. Kletting was one of Utahs most brilliant architects. 1920s hhhhbheEhHqhhb being restored for use as restaurant, New York Hotel is bar, discotheque. designed the Cullen Hotel, whose owner also operateds the New York Hotel. The of that building speared him to the position of number one architect in the design entire western region. A master architect and engineer, Kletting epitomized the styles of the many great American architects. The Karrick Block, 236 South Main was one of his first works, demonstrating his ability to master the classical style. Among Klettings most Our Integrated Accounting System makes data processing work... at last. An Integrated Accounting System-t- he breakthrough that business and industry have been waiting for. All your business information can now be put into one package. 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Palmer Hyde 298-974- 4 GRAYSTONE PLAZA, SUITE 21 486-003- 3 Bruce Bennion 484-012- 3 Ann Bailey 942-519- 4 Rex Reed 292-391- 5 notable buildings is the Rocky Mountain Bell Building, 56 South State, in which the Mountain Bell headquarters are still housed. He also designed Oquirrh School, Washington School, the McIntyre Building (60 South Main), the Felt Building and the Beaver County Courthouse as well as the Saltair Pavilion and the original Salt Palace. In the 1880s Kletting was instrumental in renumbering the street system in Salt Lake City. The last major building Kletting designed was the Utah State Capitol Building. Although he was one of many architects submitting propo- sals for the building, and most designs were similar to each other, Klettings skill as an engineer won him the commis- sion. Kletting maintained his position as number one archi- tect of the region until his tragic death in 1943, when he was killed in an automobile accident. J ! |