Riverdale is just north of Preston. The chapel there follows the same colonial twins pattern as other chapels in the area--with two wings, a chapel on the right, and a cultural hall on the left.
Historic LDS Architecture
Exploring & documenting historic temples, tabernacles and chapels of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS or Mormon Church).
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Riverdale Idaho Ward
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Mink Creek Ward: Relief Society Room
This room is now the primary room, but it was the relief society room.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Mink Creek Ward: Cultural Hall
This cultural hall has some features I've seen from other buildings of this era--the benches along the perimeter, original to the building; a small stage. But Harold Helgesen, who was commissioned to paint the mural in the chapel, also did landscape scenery here, lining both walls. It's very unique!
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Mink Creek Ward: Chapel Interior
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The building has been very, very well preserved, but the chapel has been remodeled, and it was flipped. The mural remains on the same wall, but it's now at the back of the chapel, instead of behind the pulpit.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Mink Creek Ward
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Monday, October 14, 2024
Beaver Dam Ward: Window Detail
This ward recently had an open house celebrating the history and architecture of their building. For more images, see the other posts I have on this building.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Bancroft Idaho Ward (Interior & Murals)
Like many chapels of the 1950s, Bancroft had commissioned paintings that were donated by someone in the local area. In this case, Iva Nelson and Moses William Rigby--who lived in Logan--donated these paintings done by Everett Thorpe. (The Rigbys commissioned other paintings done by Thorpe for local chapels in this same time period, including the one in Newton, Utah.)
A print of Salman's Head of Christ, a very popular painting in the post-WWII era, also hangs in the chapel.
The mural on the north side depicts Joseph Smith receiving the plates, as well as pioneers crossing the plains.
On the south side, the mural depicts the Miracle of the Gulls.
Let's hope these paintings stick around for a long time!