Nunemaker Place at Westminster College
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Address
1840 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
Year Completed
1977
Building Type
Location Area
Salt Lake City- Westminster College campus (WC)
Architect:
Firm/Partnership
Project Description
In an article on Jim Christopher from the Salt Lake Tribune, Nunemaker Place is described as “one of two projects close to Christopher’s heart… Though it now houses the school’s honors program, it was intended as a spiritual (and nondenominational) chapel for tranquility and reflection.”1
A newspaper article describing the honor award received for Nunemaker Place noted that, “’Miss Irene Nunemaker, donor of the building, specified that the building be particularly beneficial to students, enduring and beautiful,’ he [Martin Brixen and Brixen & Christopher] said.
The Architects fulfilled these demands in a building which features reinforced concrete construction with exposed aggregate and cedar shingling.
Miss Nunemaker, a top executive for Avon Products, is a visitor in Salt Lake City and is seeing for the first time the results of the concepts she advanced in making her gift to the college.
Judges termed the Nunemaker Center ‘a jewel of a building,’ Brixen said.”2
Sources
1. Michael McFall, “James Christopher, architect who designed Snowbird and much of Salt Lake City, dies at 85,” Salt Lake Tribune, April 16, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016, http://www.sltrib.com/news/3785545-155/james-christopher-architect-who-designed-snowbird.
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3. Author unknown, “Architects Honor 5 Designs,” Deseret News, September 13, 1977. "Architects" folder at the Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
4. “An Interview with Jim Christopher, architect,” from Salt Lake Modern’s website, interview conducted on November 15, 2012, accessed June 13, 2016, http://www.slmodern.org/2013/06/06/an-interview-with-jim-christopher-architect/.
