Pagoda (Salt Lake City)

Pagoda
The Pagoda in 2021
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40°46′36″N 111°53′05″W / 40.776632°N 111.884757°W / 40.776632; -111.884757
LocationSalt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
DesignerSlack Winburn
Typememorial
Materialmarble
Completion datec. 1925
Dedicated toWorld War I casualties

The Pagoda (also known as the World War I Memorial or World War I Monument)[1] is a memorial designed by architect and WWI veteran Slack Winburn (1895-1964),[2] installed in Salt Lake City's Memory Grove in the U.S. state of Utah. Along with the park's entry gates, the Pagoda was built c. 1925.[2] It was the park's first memorial using marble from Vermont, and the classical structure has eight Doric columns. The shaft and urn were added in 1932.[3]

Winburn attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, after serving in France during WWI. This classical training influenced him to create Period Revival-style designs.[2]

References

  1. ^ "(WWI Monument), (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  2. ^ a b c Huffaker, Kirk (2005). "Utah Architect Remembered: Slack Winburn". Utah Preservation. Vol. 9. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society. pp. 12–13. Retrieved 6 Oct 2023.
  3. ^ http://www.slcdocs.com/Planning/HLC/2014/224.pdf [bare URL PDF]

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