Carl Martel Neuhausen (October 8, 1858 – September 22, 1907) was an American

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based in

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. He designed a number of buildings that survive and are listed on the U.S.

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. He was born in 1858 in

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. He has been asserted have been "the only prominent Utah architect to employ the Renaissance spirit and mannerist detailing of the Chateauesque style." He worked for a time with architect

Richard K.A. Kletting Richard Karl August Kletting (July 1, 1858 – September 25, 1943) was an influential architect in Utah. He designed many well-known buildings, including the Utah State Capitol, the Enos Wall Mansion (which now houses the Thomas S. Monson Center) ...

and then split off to work on his own in 1895. He designed several large buildings in Salt Lake City including the Kearns Mansion and the

Cathedral of the Madeleine The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was completed in 1909 and is the cathedral, or mother church, of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. It is the only cathedral in the U.S. under the p ...

. and His first major independent work was the Oregon Shortline Railroad Company Building. With He designed his home, the NRHP-listed Carl M. Neuhausen House in

, in Chateauesque style; it was permitted to be built in 1901. Neuhausen died in the house in 1907 of heart failure, at age 49. He had 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls.

Images of selected works

File:Cathedral Madeline 1908.jpg,

, in 1908 File:Carl M. Neuhausen House - 1265 East 100 South 84102 Salt Lake City Utah USA.jpg, Carl M. Neuhausen House File:Kearns Mansion Salt Lake City.jpeg, Thomas Kearns Mansion and Carriage House File:Kearns - St. Ann's School north elevation.JPG, Kearns-St. Ann's Orphanage

Works

Works include: * Kearns-St. Ann's Orphanage (1890), 430 E. 2100 South,

, NRHP-listed * Oregon Shortline Railroad Company Building (1897–98), 126-140 Pierpont Ave., Salt Lake City, NRHP-listed *

(1900–09), 331 E. South Temple St., Salt Lake City, (Neuhausen,C.M.; Mecklenburg,Bernard), NRHP-listed * Thomas Kearns Mansion and Carriage House (1900–02), 603 E. South Temple St., Salt Lake City, NRHP-listed * Carl M. Neuhausen House (1901), 1265 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, NRHP-listed *

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(1903), 355 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City, NRHP-listed

References

19th-century American architects Architects from Salt Lake City 1858 births 1907 deaths Architects from Stuttgart German emigrants to the United States {{US-architect-19C-stub