Delta, Utah

This design seems to crop up quite a bit in medium-sized rural town around Utah; a nice design with some feeling of craft and grace.

That steeple room has actual windows and light coming from all four sides; I wonder if there's a way to get in there. I'm sure someone has to go inside and clean the glass inside that bell-less space...

At least it is a space into which some light enters and exits again, rather than a fiberglass void.

Ephraim's Northwest Side

A local chapel here; a new one in Ephraim.It might as well be in Sandy, Utah, or Bellingham, Washington for all its local flavor and local participation in  construction.
Ah, the 'global' corporation does quite a job of keeping the church comfortable and homogenous...

Antimony

Went down to the Escalante Plateau with the family and pulled to the side to photograph this architectural anomaly in Antimony. The chapel build seems to have gone in three phases over a span of at least seventy five years judging from the additions and materials.
Some geometric parallelism between that Park City model below and this lowly steeple, no?
Beautiful place, Antimony, on the whole.

I wonder what's in that grand old steeple room...

Over from Snyderville, Utah: Upscale...

Up Park City way, there's a wee church that the LDS church constructed with a little more panache than those usually foisted upon the locals. They couldn't make people with a median income at least four times as high as Saints in West Valley put up with a normal 'Hetritage' edition chapel with a fiberglass steeple from some sweatshop on the west side of Salt Lake Valley, so they got some architectural extras thrown into their Rameumptom...

Did I mention that I'm pretty much the foremost authority on LDS Steeple Rooms?

Cottonwood, Utah: Gothic Arches

Up on the east side of the Salt Lake Valley is this Neogothic mid-twentieth century beauty. One of my favorites, though I don't have any experience in anything like it inside.

There are probably sputnik-style light fixtures and all manner of art-moderne flourishes within its impregnable cinderblock shell.
Wouldn't mind 'guesting' in there.

Holladay, Utah

Here're a couple of golden oldies from around 45th south in Holladay, Utah; relatively 'old' if you live the relatively short-lived and expansionist Mormon culture of Anglo Utah and the American Intermountain West.

 

Odd if you've never seen them or are used to the fiberglass simulacra of the present, but when I was a kid in the sixties and seventies, they were the face of Mormon wardhouses on the march forward into the future.