Walter E. Ware

Walter Ellsworth Ware (1861 to 1951) was an American architect who practiced in Salt Lake City, Utah, for almost sixty years. Born in Needham, Massachusetts, he trained in the Union Pacific drafting offices in Omaha, first opened a Salt Lake City office in 1889 and reopened it in 1891. His early work was mostly residential, and he later designed churches, civic buildings and commercial blocks across Utah and neighbouring states, many now on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Henderson Block, the Ivinson Mansion in Laramie and the Knight-Mangum House in Provo. He worked in partnership with Alberto O. Treganza from 1904 to 1922 and with Lloyd McClanahan from 1938 to 1949, and was the first Utahn elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.