My name is Bridger Talbot. I began this blog as a hobby in 2014 and have tried to post continuous updates since then.
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What do you know about the old Valley Mucic Hall in North Salt Lake? L
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DeleteHello Bridger. I am starting a wonderful children's choir in Richfield and surrounding towns. Is there just one room in your beautiful tabernacle we might use for rehearsals? We are currently practicing in an office space in a building on Main Street but the space is too small. We practice Fridays from 4 to 5pm. Hope you can help. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA "Foothill Building" now also used as the Mission Office was the most expensive built by the church at the time 1980. It was allowed because H W Hunter from Pasadena said members would pay a certain portion, spearheaded by C L Kofford who was a resident and later 70. Upon completion the Church vowed another like it would never be built (as it was not a standard chapel design).
ReplyDeleteAny photos available for this foothill chapel? We have all seen 'typical' LDS architecture. I am curious to see atypical examples.
DeleteWhen I was in a missionary in Alaska in the 90's, the Anchorage stake center on Brayton Road was explained to me to be 'the most expensive chapel' the church had built. Partly because Alaska is just expensive for construction and partly because when it was nearly complete, it burned to the ground and had to be started over [citation needed]. Having said that, I'm sure many chapels vie for that mixed-blessing distinction of 'most expensive chapel'. It was renovated extensively since I was there [citation needed] and has now been torn down to make room for the replacement Anchorage temple, currently under construction (2025).
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ReplyDeleteAbout 20 years ago, I accompanied family members to Grantsville, Utah, to track down old family residences. The chapel where my ancestors had attended in the 1920s-1931 was then privately owned and used as a residence. Are you aware of this building? I don't know what might have happened to it in the intervening years.
ReplyDeleteYes, I believe it is still there. I need to document it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantsville_First_Ward_Meetinghouse
DeleteWith the passage of years, will you now expand your blog of historic to include Los Angeles and the other 1950's temples? I would love to know more about your comment under Idaho Falls about LA using a tape recording from day 1. Also, I would love to know when IF transitioned from live sessions to film instruction.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have a post with more detail about the L.A. temple at some point. I've only attended it once and wasn't taking good note of the architecture details like the floor plan. But maybe some day...
DeleteDavid O. McKay wrote in his journal that the L.A. temple used a tape recording for the presentation of the endowment. My understanding is that the tape recording played the audio (dialogue) of the ceremony while temple workers still acted out the parts of the ceremony without having to speak (and therefore memorize the whole script).
I believe Idaho Falls transitioned to film instruction in the late 1980s or early 1990s--I will have to check my sources!
Pleasant View First Ward Drawing 1939
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I am impressed by the [logical] similarities between this chapel and the old Ephraim North Ward chapel, Ephraim UT, which was later sold to Snow College and used as their music building for a number of years. Located at the NE corner of 100 N (College Ave) and 100 E. I spent hundreds if not 1000s of hours there during my years at Snow, 1998-2001. I pulled back the bushes one day and read the cornerstone on the SW corner of the chapel (just like the sketch, the chapel is on the right). If I remember correctly, it said 1937. I may be off by a year or two.
DeleteJust after I graduated in 2001, they broke ground for their current performing arts center. Prior to my arrival, I am told the building had once been condemned and later renovated to serve a while longer in its new role. The old place, with all it's character, certainly gave validation to all of us starving, struggling musicians. The current facility is, in my opinion, sterile by comparison. But then, surely some people love what others call 'The Death Star'. But I digress.
The old chapel was razed and just a grassy lawn when my family and I moved back in 2011. That year, ground was broken on that spot (and the adjacent former Fern Young Hall women's dorm, of the same era) for the college's current 4-story dormitory. I was one of the lead carpenters for the general contractor on that project. As a local, I spent more days on that project than anyone else. Time in the old chapel followed by time in the new building is what I get for pursuing a dual major of music and construction management!
On a side note, Ephraim's old South Ward chapel is still going strong and is used as a FamilySearch center and reception hall. Some school years it is pressed back into service for a few YSA wards. Its limiting factor are all the stairs. During my life as a student, I spent many hours each week at the organ for 2 years so I could be ready for Sunday with 3 or 4 more hymns. My oldest daughter was blessed there. Again, many good memories. (I think this chapel is featured somewhere in this blog, yes?)
The original Ephraim Tabernacle, where Brigham Young announced the Manti Temple, was later razed and replaced by a then-modern chapel. I had one brief opportunity to walk through it while I was in Ephraim as a student. The Ephraim West Ward chapel was razed shortly before I returned in 2011. Zions Bank now occupies the SW corner of Main and Center streets; ZB and the church traded a few properties for mutual benefit. But the Tabernacle still lives on: the Ephraim Temple, currently under construction, copies the steeple shape of the old Tabernacle. A fitting nod to the rich local heritage. -NAS
Hello! Thank you for this resource. We are just launching a fundraising campaign to preserve the Rexburg Tabernacle, which serves as an arts and events venue. BYU-I students just completed a documentary, "Rexburg Tabernacle: A Century of Gathering" about our historic building. I'd be happy to share a link to the short film. I appreciate your passion for these beautifully built buildings and their consecrated craftmanship. rexburgarts.org
ReplyDeleteI'd personally love to see the film, Jed!
DeleteDo we have any idea how patrons from other endowment rooms will enter the terrestrial room in the salt lake temple where before you would enter through the world room?
ReplyDeleteMy best guess is that the old world room will be shortened somewhat so it isn't as long from front to back. That will provide access in the grand hallway straight to the terrestrial room (now veil room)
DeleteHave you ever seen the building in San Pedro, CA that is now the Pacific Ward? It is huge, and a very interesting example of early 1950s LDS architecture.
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