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Show Advancing In Archetect Field I 1 i ' " -- . v..v ... - I i 'I . ; . V' . ' f ' .-..- - ' ' -. - " : - - f X , - -. 1 " . , i , - .u- ' j ; - . I W. ROWE SMITH, "native son" of Bridgaland's A. Alma Smiih will use his skill in lhe field of archeiecture on a new $235,000 Armory building io be erected in Provo in the near future. . - ' Bridgeland "Son" ' FMing Good In Archetect Field W. Rowe Smith, son of J. Alma Al-ma Smith of Bridgeland, has been named architect of the new Armory building to be erected at Provo. The $235,000 structure was recently approved by the Department De-partment of the Army, National Nation-al Guard Bureau, Utah State Armory Board. Construction will begin the last of March. Gen. J. Wallace West, National Na-tional Guard commander in Utah, announced appointment of Mr. Smith to supervise erection of this, the latest Armory building build-ing in the state. The building will be- about 140 by 100 feet with two stories on each side and a centered assembly room. Record vaults, recreation facilities, fa-cilities, locker rooms, four class- j rooms, a rifle range, an indoor I drill field large enough for basketball games and office space will be included in the structure. Mr. Smith is a native "of the Uintah Basin. He was born at Duchesne, attended the Roosevelt Roose-velt High School, and later went to Provo to attend the Brigham Young University. He worked in the offices of Provo architect Fred L. Mark-ham Mark-ham for several years. Later he won a scholarship to Harvard University, where he continued his study of architecture, a sub- ject he has been extremely interested in-terested in since his youth. National citations have come to Mr. Smith for home planning plan-ning from the Architectural Forum, For-um, National Association of Home Builders, Architectural Record and Parents Magazine. He also has helped design larger structures including the fieldhouse and science building at Brigham Young University, theatres for the Huish-Gilhool chain in Payson. Richfield, Spanish Fork, Spring-ville and Orem. He worked on plans for the Kanab Elementary school and the Utah County Youth Home. On the University of Utah campus the Student Union building shows his handiwork. The Calder milk drying plant and the shop building at the Al-tamont Al-tamont High School, both here in the Uintah Basin, were designed de-signed by Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, the former Catherine Needham and their four children. He has recently opened architects offices there in the Zion's Savings Bank building. |