Page "Salt Lake City and County Building" Paragraph 5

The architectural firm of Monheim, Bird, and Proudfoot designed the Richardsonian Romanesque ( Olpin et al., 2005 ) building.

Henry Monheim, a local architect since the 1870s, and George W. Bird and Willis T. Proudfoot of Wichita, Kansas established the firm in 1891 specifically to design the building.

Their firm won a building design contest against fourteen other submissions.

However, The Salt Lake Herald — another LDS-backed paper — claimed that the competition was a " pretentious fraud.

" Monheim, a Prussian immigrant, died one year into construction.

Bird and Proudfoot moved to Philadelphia and Chicago respectively by 1896, so the City-County Building was their firm's only output.