Ramm Hansen
Ramm Hansen was a intermountain west architect. Hansen was born on July 22, 1879, at Moss in Ostfold, Norway. graduated cum laude from the Royal Academy of Art and Architecture in Oslo, Norway.
After his move to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1901, he worked as a draftsman with well-known Utah architect Richard K. A. Kletting. He was then in partnership with Lewis T. Cannon and John Fetzer. He was then in a long-term partnership with Don Carlos Young Jr., the son of prominent architect Don Carlos Young.
With Cannon & Fetzer, he helped with the design of the Park Building at the University of Utah. Hansen served on a board of six architects for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which oversaw the design of the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple. He also worked on the Mesa Arizona Temple and the Washington Chapel (now operated by the Unification Church at 2810 Sixteenth Street in Washington D.C.). Some of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The original Deseret Gymnasium was completed in 1910 and demolished in 1965. He also designed the former Federal Reserve Bank that was located on South Temple.
He died on December 30, 1971. He married Karen Moen in the Salt Lake Temple.
