Ashton, Elias Conway & Rosabel Residence
E. Conway Ashton was born in Salt Lake City in 1880, seven years before his brother, the architect Raymond J. Ashton. As young men, both brothers learned to lay brick and worked on their father’s construction projects. When Conway was 19, he served a two-year Latter-day Saint mission in Colorado. He graduated from the University…
Hancock, Isaac A. Residence
This well-known Prairie School home was built for Isaac A. (“Ike”) and Emily Hancock in 1913 as one of the first structures in Yale Park. The Yale Park subdivision was platted in 1913; and recorded and marketed in the same year by the Ashton – Jenkins Company (Edward T. Ashton was Raymond’s father). Yale Park…
Le Grand Ward
The Le Grand Ward was organized in 1913, and immediately thereafter began erection of a chapel at the intersection of McClelland St and Yale Avenue in Salt Lake City. The Le Grand Ward is one of the many structures designed by Raymond Ashton prior to the 1922 Ashton & Evans partnership. In fact, Le Grand…
Wells Ward Amusement Hall
The Wells Ward was created in June 1919 and at the same time it was announced that “plans for the immediate building of a meeting house will be completed within a few days” (L.D.S. create). It was true, only 16 days later (July), the location of the new building on 500 East near 2100 South…