Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1887

File — Box: 7, Folder: 21

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Truman O. Angell, Jr., letter to Wilford Woodruff, 11 October 1887: "The original design [of the Salt Lake Temple] contemplated wood and was endorsed by Prest. [Brigham] Young.....Wood was proposed by the architect, and the president accepted it, probably not conceiving the idea of stone.... All together the propriety of using stone seems obvious to me. The original design contemplated adobies trimmed with freestone, but demonstration proved that the crushing capacity of the lower adobies would be reached before the walls could be brought to the proper height, unless the walls were made impracticably thick at the bottom. Then granite was substituted."

Dates

1887

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