Burtch W. Beall, Jr. photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P0676

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Burtch W. Beall, Jr. photograph collection contains images related to the Silver King Mine and Tooele Smelter; personal interest collections realted to architecture including commercially produced slide sets; these are copyrighted, includes his own work on HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) and HAER (Historic American Engineering Record). THe bulk of the collection contains materials related to architectural projects including Utah Community Center for the Deaf, Trinity Presbyterian Church in Ogden, Orem Community Church, Clearfield Baptist Church, Roland Hall St Mark’s School, Chase Fine Arts Center at USU, Westminster College, John R. Park Building and J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah and the City and County Building as well as digital materials relating to JY Ranch in Moose, Wyoming. Included are interior and exterior photos of cabins, furniture, barn, bridge, unidentified people and the outdoors. 1 composite of 4 smaller photos of a cabin.

Dates

1940-2000

Creator

Beall, Burtch W., Jr. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical Note

Burtch W Beall, Jr.(925-2019) was born in Columbus, Ohio on September 27, 1925 to Burtch W. and Etta B. Beall. Burtch joined the Naval Air Corps after graduating from North High School in Columbus in 1943. He received an honorable discharge in 1945, and attended The Ohio State University on the G.I. Bill, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1949.

He met his future wife, Susan J. Hunter at a Delta Gamma - Sigma Alpha Epsilon social planning session. They were married June 6, 1949 at the North Broadway United Methodist Church in Columbus. Burtch and Sue moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952 when their car broke down on their way to San Francisco. To pay for the repairs, Burtch got a job with a local architect as a draftsman, and Sue went to work for the phone company, but they never moved away. In 1954, his first son Brent was born, followed two years later by his second son, Brook.

He took great pride in his profession - which is reflected in his lifetime accomplishments. He was instated as a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1978; he taught a number of courses at the University of Utah in Architecture over three decades; he was an active member and leader at the local and national level in the architectural registration board and the continuing education programs of the AIA.

Burtch passed away in Chandler, Arizona on April 15, 2019, at the age of 93.

(Biography taken from obituary in the Deseret News, June 2, 2019.)