G.W. Eldredge, Pingree's most famous architect
G.W. Eldredge designed the Pingree Hotel, Store, and Burley Opera House, as well as Salt Lake City's East High School
4/2/20261 min read
When Pingree was built in 1910 as a hub on the newly built railroad to Aberdeen from Blackfoot, these two buildings were designed by G.W. Eldredge and described as built in a "Tyrolean-Craftsman" style at a cost of $37,000—about a million and half dollars in today's purchasing power. Eldredge, his photo below, was an up and coming architect from Salt Lake who had studied in Boston.
Eldredge also designed the Burley Opera House at that time. The building still stands and is undergoing a $2 million restoration at this time.
Also on Eldredge's accomplishment's: Salt Lake's East High School in 1912, still operative though it has been renovated.
