The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-18
WEBER CLUB ACCEPTS
PLANS FOR NEW HOME
Lengthy the Building Committee Selects Those Sub
mted by Hodgson-Bids the Work Upon the
New Club House Will Be Called for Immediately

After long and careful consideration
OF the fvo plans submitted by ogden
architects for the now Weber club
building TO be erected at cost OF
approximately 100000, the building
committee of the club last night Sc
lected the plan submitted by Archi-
tect Leslie S. HodGson.
In order that competition should be
absolutely fair TO every architect the
identity OF those submitting plans was
not made known to the members oil
the committee and il was not known
until the secret envelope had been
opened that Architect Hodgson was
the lucky man In the booklet OF spec
iflcatlons Mr.. IIodGson used the non
dc plume winner" and his surmisc
proved correct,
AT the time il was decided to sub
nit the building proposition on com
petitiye basis all of the Ogden archl-
tccts were summoned before the oom-
mittee and 1--WE out of the seven VINO
appeared before the committee sun.
mitted plans. The choice of the com
mittee Is n high tribute to the ability
OF Mr. Hodgson in the fact that ne
carried out with greatest success the
idea OF the committee.
The selection of winner from
the plans submitted was no easy task
for the committee, however. as every
architect entering into the compett
tion is deserving Of great praise In
his effort to give ogden building
which would he n landmark in the
clty's architectural progress
In addition to Mr.. Hodgson. those
submitting plans were Matson &
Shreeve. J. A. Smith. Eber F Piers
and f. C. Woods G Company, all OF
Ogden. The committee which was
chosen to decide the building compeu-
tlon was composed OF A. G. Fell. chair
man: F. NJ briggs. secretary; Arthur
Kuhn, Joseph H. Thomas, n l.. Brew
or. Matt Browning and c. A. Henry
The committee met in the club
rooms last night and the decision was
not made known until after several
hours of secret consultation All arch
itects taking part in the competition
had prepared their plans with groat
care and several Of them submitted
large. framed drawings of their pro
posed buildings as they would appear
when completed The drawing pre-
pared by Architect Hodgson was es-
pecially fine and included a very cor
rect reproduction Of the Episcopal
Guild building next to which the new
club house will be erected. The sew
eral pictures, including that OF the
building selected. are on exhibition
in the club rooms,
The site OF tho new club house Is
just east of the Episcopal church prop
erty at 312 Twenty-fourth street and
was purchased by the Weber Club
about three months ago The build
ing covering a ground space Of i3 by
100 feet, will occupy almost all of the
entire lot, Work on the club house
VIII start just as soon as bids can be
for and the contract let
The materials to be used In the CON
struction Of the club house are brick
and stone and the architect has shown
a preference for French architecture
in drawing his plans.
The structure Will be practically
three stories in height. the basement
being more than half above the sur
face OF the ground In addition to the
two stories above the basement prop
er there will also be a roof garden. a
complete description of the building
Is best given in the detailed statement
submitted by Architect Hodgson with