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Besides working in Denver, Hale also did buildings throughout Colorado and Wyoming. A partial list of his accomplishments from 1880 to 1889 includes eight commercial blocks, eight churches, three public schools, two banks, a hospital, a courthouse, a power station, a baseball park, dormitory buildings for the University of Colorado, and the first building for the University of Wyoming. He was also doing work in residential architecture; several of his houses from that period are pictured in a promotional booklet, The Architecture of Fred A. Hale, 1890-1907, and one of his Denver houses, the J. M. Curry residence, was featured in the Western Architect and Building News.^ During the ten years spent in Denver, Hale also married and began a family. In 1882 he had returned briefly to Rochester to marry a hometown sweetheart, Mary Frances (Minnie) O'Grady, and the young couple left on the evening train for Denver immediately after the wedding. Three of their four children were born in Denver: Edyth Mae (1883), Girard Van Barkaloo (1886), and Frederic Albert, Jr. (1888). A third son, Edward Lincoln, was born in Salt Lake City in 1895. T h e move to Salt Lake City in 1890, after the commission for the Commercial National Bank, was immediately productive. As a result of the bank, which was described in a contemporary report^ as the most magnificent and costly structure in the city. Hale had become known to the wealthy and influential men belonging to the Alta Club, and they provided the foundation for his successful practice in Salt Lake City. T h e number of business buildings and homes Hale designed for them is impressive and included their own clubhouse. There were at least five commercial structures for merchant Fred Auerbach, including the Eagle Block, formerly at 71-79 West South Temple, frequently mentioned as one of Hale's most prominent buildings. There were development houses for John Donnellan, a commercial block for Thomas Kearns, a business building for J. J. Daly, the Summit Block for David Keith and James Ivers, and a business block for David Keith. Most of these buildings have since been demolished; those existing today are the Alta Club, the David 5For a more complete list of Hale's works see Judith Brunvand. " T h e Salt Lake City Architecture of Frederic Albert Hale" (Master's thesis. University of Utah, 1980), appendices a, b, c, d. There is a xerox copy of the illustration from the Western Architect and Building News in MS. 1773, Utah State Historical Society Library, Salt Lake City. ^Utah: Her Cities, Towns, and Resources (Chicago: Manly and Litteral, 1891), p. 93.
