Peter L. Goss papers, 1855-2009

Peter L. Goss, Ph.D. was a professor of architectural history and a documentary photographer as well as Associate Vice President for Scholarly and Creative Activities. His areas of research and teaching included the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Prairie School architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, American suburbia, Utah architecture and the vernacular architecture of the American west. Prof. Goss has written numerous articles on Utah architecture and co-authored, with Prof. Thomas Carter, the book Utah's Historic Architecture, 1847-1940. His current research involves the documentation of the range sheep industry and its architecture in the intermountain west.

He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar to Romania where he studied and documented the vernacular architecture of various ethnic groups. He has served on the board of the Society of Architectural Historian and as chair of the Utah State Board of History. Prof. Goss has a B. A. in English from Fairfield University, a Master's in Library Science from Syracuse University and Ph. D. in Comparative Arts from Ohio University. His dissertation topic involved the architecture and design of Olana, home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. He retired from the University of Utah School of Architecture in 2009.