Apartment Buildings and Hotels This typology for apartment building and hotel types is an outgrowth of our investigations into commercial architecture. Although apartment buildings have received some attention from historians in recent years, those studies have been largely confined to such major cities as New York, Washington, and Chicago. Little of significance from these studies is applicable to Utah. Research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century publications on apartments and hotels gives some general information, but again little of it applies to Utah buildings. The following classifications were developed specifically for apartment buildings and hotels in Utah. This categorization system is based on the form of the building and its orientation to the site, and secondarily on the points of entry and the pattern of circulation within the building. Hoor plans have not been studied in detail. Thirteen major types have been identified, most with subtypes, ranging from the double house to the "H" apartment block. Fig. 110: Elaine Apartments, 1928, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County. An example of a "U" court apartment with an unusually spacious, landscaped court, the Elaine was designed by Salt Lake architect Slack Winburn.
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