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Historic Temple Video Series: St. George Utah Temple (1928-1937)

Posted on by Brian Olson in Video

UPDATE!

Resent research has indicated that the annex, burned but not destroyed, was rebuilt starting immediately. Consequently, this video is no longer accurate.

Early one morning in November of 1928, the boiler on the Annex, just fired up for the morning, caused a fire in the temple annex at the St. George Utah Temple. The fire gutted the annex, rendering it useless.

The Decision was made to not just rebuild the Annex, but to redesign the temple layout with dedicated rooms for the endowment, rather than curtained partitions. The redesign planning would take 10 years, during which time the temple functioned without an annex.

This video is guesswork, more so than most of my videos, as I have not been able to identify any photos of the temple post fire.

St. George 1920

Historic Video Series: St. George Utah Temple (1927-1937)

Posted on by Brian Olson in Research, Video, Work In Progress

Update:

I have been able to ascertain that the annex was reconstructed starting immediately after the fire that destroyed the annex. As a consequence, I have identified this as the state of the annex after reconstruction. Accordingly, I have moved the date of this video from 1920-1927 to instead be 1927-1938.

So, after posting this video I realized that, chronologically, I should have posted another video first. So that one will come next week instead. I guess.

Changes to the temple in this video include the removal of the parapets at the top of the stone portion of the tower, these were replaced with the fence like structure we know now. Also in this is the painted parapets on the rest of the temple, which were painted to look like sandstone. The annex itself was redesigned both inside and out, though the exterior structure was kept from the burned out original.

Logan Utah 1918

Historic Temple Video: Logan Utah Temple (1918-1948)

Posted on by Brian Olson in Research, Video

Well, as Logan goes, this is a fairly small change. The annex entry was extended, though the front look and door layout was extended, and a new wing was added off the back of the temple Annex. This particular layout to the temple would remain in place for the next 30 years, marking the longest single span of un-altered temple for Logan so far.

Logan utah 1915

Historic Temple Videos: Logan Utah Temple (1915-1918)

Posted on by Brian Olson in Research, Video

Logan Utah Temple as it would have looked after an annex expansion in 1915. By this time, most of the pink colored ‘whitewash’ had weathered away, thought there is some evidence that the lower course remained white for some time. This model features a new entrance on the annex that would be expanded just a few short years later. Also of note is the towers that were a tan color for most of the first half of the 20th century.