Taylor Ahlstrom Woolley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 10, 1884, a son of Caroline Louise Ahlstrom and Taylor Harrar Woolley.
He married Dorrit Evans in Salt Lake City on December 15, 1915. They are the parents of two children.
After receiving architectural training in a Salt Lake City firm, he moved to Chicago where he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in 1908, he worked in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, and in 1910, Woolley accompanied Wright to Italy where they worked on the "Wasmuth Portfolio", a monograph of Wright's early work. Between 1911 and 1917, he frequently moved between Salt Lake City, Chicago, and New York, working with Wright, Howard Shaw, von Holst and Fyfe, and Grosvenor Atterbury.
In 1917, he returned to Salt Lake City permanently. Some of his designs in landscape architecture include Highland Park, Wasatch Lawn Cemetery, Memory Grove, the Utah State Capitol grounds, and This Is the Place Heritage Monument Park. He also designed the Belvedere Apartments, automobile showrooms along Social Hall Avenue, several L.D.S. chapels, and numerous prominent homes in Salt Lake City. He was elected to the presidency of the Salt Lake Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was appointed State Architect under the administration of Governor Henry H. Blood. He retired from active work in 1950.
Taylor A. Woolley died on February 2, 1965 at his longtime home in the Gilmer Park District in Salt Lake City. He was 80 years old.
He married Dorrit Evans in Salt Lake City on December 15, 1915. They are the parents of two children.
After receiving architectural training in a Salt Lake City firm, he moved to Chicago where he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in 1908, he worked in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, and in 1910, Woolley accompanied Wright to Italy where they worked on the "Wasmuth Portfolio", a monograph of Wright's early work. Between 1911 and 1917, he frequently moved between Salt Lake City, Chicago, and New York, working with Wright, Howard Shaw, von Holst and Fyfe, and Grosvenor Atterbury.
In 1917, he returned to Salt Lake City permanently. Some of his designs in landscape architecture include Highland Park, Wasatch Lawn Cemetery, Memory Grove, the Utah State Capitol grounds, and This Is the Place Heritage Monument Park. He also designed the Belvedere Apartments, automobile showrooms along Social Hall Avenue, several L.D.S. chapels, and numerous prominent homes in Salt Lake City. He was elected to the presidency of the Salt Lake Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was appointed State Architect under the administration of Governor Henry H. Blood. He retired from active work in 1950.
Taylor A. Woolley died on February 2, 1965 at his longtime home in the Gilmer Park District in Salt Lake City. He was 80 years old.
Taylor Ahlstrom Woolley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 10, 1884, a son of Caroline Louise Ahlstrom and Taylor Harrar Woolley.
He married Dorrit Evans in Salt Lake City on December 15, 1915. They are the parents of two children.
After receiving architectural training in a Salt Lake City firm, he moved to Chicago where he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in 1908, he worked in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, and in 1910, Woolley accompanied Wright to Italy where they worked on the "Wasmuth Portfolio", a monograph of Wright's early work. Between 1911 and 1917, he frequently moved between Salt Lake City, Chicago, and New York, working with Wright, Howard Shaw, von Holst and Fyfe, and Grosvenor Atterbury.
In 1917, he returned to Salt Lake City permanently. Some of his designs in landscape architecture include Highland Park, Wasatch Lawn Cemetery, Memory Grove, the Utah State Capitol grounds, and This Is the Place Heritage Monument Park. He also designed the Belvedere Apartments, automobile showrooms along Social Hall Avenue, several L.D.S. chapels, and numerous prominent homes in Salt Lake City. He was elected to the presidency of the Salt Lake Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was appointed State Architect under the administration of Governor Henry H. Blood. He retired from active work in 1950.
Taylor A. Woolley died on February 2, 1965 at his longtime home in the Gilmer Park District in Salt Lake City. He was 80 years old.
He married Dorrit Evans in Salt Lake City on December 15, 1915. They are the parents of two children.
After receiving architectural training in a Salt Lake City firm, he moved to Chicago where he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in 1908, he worked in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, and in 1910, Woolley accompanied Wright to Italy where they worked on the "Wasmuth Portfolio", a monograph of Wright's early work. Between 1911 and 1917, he frequently moved between Salt Lake City, Chicago, and New York, working with Wright, Howard Shaw, von Holst and Fyfe, and Grosvenor Atterbury.
In 1917, he returned to Salt Lake City permanently. Some of his designs in landscape architecture include Highland Park, Wasatch Lawn Cemetery, Memory Grove, the Utah State Capitol grounds, and This Is the Place Heritage Monument Park. He also designed the Belvedere Apartments, automobile showrooms along Social Hall Avenue, several L.D.S. chapels, and numerous prominent homes in Salt Lake City. He was elected to the presidency of the Salt Lake Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was appointed State Architect under the administration of Governor Henry H. Blood. He retired from active work in 1950.
Taylor A. Woolley died on February 2, 1965 at his longtime home in the Gilmer Park District in Salt Lake City. He was 80 years old.
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