Fig. 1. William Allen. Willam Allen Collection, Layton Heritage Museum.
William Allen, Architect-Builder, and His Contribution to the Built Environment of Davis County BY P E T E R L. G O S S
W I L L I A M AIT.EN WAS A PROLIEK: DESIGNER and builder of brick masonry residences, churches, civic buildings, and commercial Structures in Davis County. His career as an architect-builder began in the 1880s and continued for four decades. He is still remembered in the Davis County communities of Kaysville and Layton not only for his architecture, a great deal of which still survives, but also for his irascible personality. After a brief review of Allen's life, including his professional career, this essay will focus upon a series of high-style houses designed and built by Allen between 1890 and the early 1900s for a group of distinguished citizens of Kaysville and Layton. This is a revised version of a paper delivered in November 1982 at the Symposium on Utah Architecture.
