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Carson Fordham Wells Jr.
Carson Fordham Wells Jr. (May 13, 1880 – August 30, 1956) was an American architect who designed buildings in the state of Utah, including the NRHP-listed Kanab Library. With Works include (probably, some yet to be confirmed): *Box Elder County Courthouse, 1 N. Main St. Brigham City, UT (Wells, Carson), NRHP-listed9 *Brigham City Fire Station/City Hall, 6 N. Main St. Brigham City, UT (Wells, Carson F.), NRHP-listed *Kanab Library, 600 South 100 E. Kanab, UT (Wells, Carson F. Jr.), NRHP-listed *Howard Hotel (Utah), Howard Hotel (1914 remodelling of 1903 building), 35 S. Main St. Brigham City, UT (Wells, C. F.), NRHP-listed References 1880 births 1956 deaths Utah State University alumni Architects from Utah 20th-century American architects {{Utah-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Utah State University
Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's largest public residential campus. As of Fall 2022, there were 27,943 students enrolled, including 24,835 undergraduate students and 3,108 graduate students. The university has the highest percentage of out-of-state students of any public university in Utah, totaling 23% of the student body. Founded in 1888 as Utah's land-grant college, USU focused on science, engineering, agriculture, domestic arts, military science, and mechanic arts. The university offers programs in liberal arts, engineering, business, economics, natural resource sciences, and nationally ranked elementary & secondary education programs. It offers master's and doctoral programs in humanities, social sciences, and STEM areas (science, technology, engineering, and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Old Kanab Library - Kanab Utah
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Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kanab Library
The Kanab Library is a historic building in Kanab, Utah. It was built by Mark E. Pope in 1939-1940 as a Works Progress Administration project to house the public library initially established in 1915, and designed in the Prairie School and Art Deco styles by architect Carson Fordham Wells, Jr. With It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ... since September 7, 1995. References External links Art Deco architecture in Utah Library buildings completed in 1939 Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah National Register of Historic Places in Kane County, Utah Prairie School architecture in Utah Works Progress Administration in Utah 1939 establishments in Utah {{KaneCountyUT-NRHP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an List of federal agencies in the United States, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government within the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all List of areas in the United States National Park System, national parks, most National monument (United States), national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational properties with various title designations. The United States Congress, U.S. Congress created the agency on August 25, 1916, through the National Park Service Organic Act. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., within the main headquarters of the Department of the Interior. The NPS employs approximately 20,000 people in 423 individual units covering over 85 million acres in List of states and territories of the United States, all 50 states, the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, and Territories of the United States, US territ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Box Elder County Courthouse
The Box Elder County Courthouse is a courthouse at 1 N. Main St. in Brigham City, Utah. It was built in 1857 and expanded greatly in 1910. The 1910 addition includes Classical Revival architecture designed by local architects Andrew Funk and Carson Wells and provides the architecturally significant portion of the building. The building is significant as the only courthouse in the county and for having held all departments of the county government over the years. It is asserted to be the best example of Neo-Classical Revival architecture in the city and in Box Elder County. and It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ... in 1988. References Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah Neoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brigham City, UT
Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 17,899 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Box Elder County. It lies on the western slope of the Wellsville Mountains, a branch of the Wasatch Range at the western terminus of Box Elder Canyon. Brigham City saw most of its growth during the 1950s and 1960s but has seen a struggling economy and stagnating growth. It is near the headquarters of ATK Thiokol, the company that created the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle. Brigham City is known for its peaches and holds an annual celebration called Peach Days on the weekend after Labor Day. Much of Main Street is closed off to cars, and the festival is celebrated by a parade, a car show, a carnival, and other activities. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) dedicated its fourteenth temple in Utah in Brigham City on September 23, 2012. The city is the headquarters of the Northwestern Band of the Sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brigham City Fire Station/City Hall
The Brigham City Fire Station/City Hall, at 6 N. Main St. in Brigham City, Utah, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It was designed by architect Andrew Funk and was built as a fire station __NOTOC__ A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire ... in 1909. Its hose tower was designed to rise . It was remodelled in 1935 to serve as city offices, to design by Carson F. Wells. With References Fire stations in Utah National Register of Historic Places in Box Elder County, Utah Mission Revival architecture in Utah Fire stations completed in 1909 {{BoxElderCountyUT-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kanab, UT
Kanab ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States.Find a County ". ''National Association of Counties''. Retrieved June 7, 2011. It is located on just north of the state line. This area was first settled in 1864, and the town was founded in 1870 when ten families moved into the area. Named for a word meaning "place of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Howard Hotel (Utah)
The Howard Hotel is a historic hotel in Brigham City, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Description The former hotel is located at 35 South Main Street (Utah State Route 13). It was built as a two-story, brick and adobe hotel around 1903, and was expanded by addition of a third story in 1914. The hotel has a red brick front facade and third-story side walls, the lower side walls are adobe. It was further modified in 1923 and in 1934. It was designed by C.F. Wells and built by contractor Lorenzo Peterson. It has also been known as the Utah-Na Hotel, as the Wasatch Hotel, and as the Boothe Hotel. It was in use as a Greyhound bus station in 1946. With The building was listed on the NRHP October 7, 1994. Gallery File:Hotel Howard - Brigham City.jpg, Hotel Howard - Brigham City File:Howard Hotel Sign.jpg, Hotel Howard - Brigham City File:Brigham City Howard Hotel staircase 1.jpg, Looking up from the 1st-floor landing File:Brig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1880 Births
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1956 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 22 – Elvis P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |