In my exploration of Utah one name that comes up over and over again is Richard Kletting, he designed many of the gorgeous homes and buildings I find and document.

I decided to start this page as a collection of the places I’ve documented that had his name attached.

Non-residential

• The 10th Ward Chapel (Salt Lake City)
• Beaver Territorial Courthouse (Beaver)
• Felt Building (Salt Lake City)
• Jefferson School (Salt Lake City)
• Karrick Block (Salt Lake City)
• Kimball Block (Salt Lake City)
• Lollin Block (Salt Lake City)
• Magnificent Dome Church (Riverton)
• McIntyre Building (Salt Lake City)
• New York Hotel (Salt Lake City)
• Oquirrh School (Salt Lake City)
• Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Office (Park City)
• Saltair (Magna)
• Territorial Fairground (Salt Lake City)
• Utah Commercial and Savings Bank Building (SLC)
• Utah State Capitol (Salt Lake City)

Residential

• Bowers House
• Dinwoodey Mansion
• Fisher Mansion
• Gibbs-Thomas-Hansen Home
• J.R. Allen Home (Draper)
• Reed Smoot House (Provo)
• Roundy Home

Named After Him

• Kletting Park (Salt Lake City)
• Kletting Peak (Uintas)

Richard Karl August Kletting, “Dean of Utah Architects,” helped to change the face of turn-of-the-century Salt Lake City. He was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, on 1 July 1858 to Joseph and Wilhelmina Kletting, and was one of their sixteen children. Kletting’s ambition to become an architect began when he was fifteen, when he worked in a stone yard, gaining experience in cutting stones. At the age of sixteen, he became a junior draftsman in government engineering offices on railroad construction work. Kletting later traveled to Paris, where he became well-schooled in modern architecture.(*)