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New York
Smith Family Log Home
Swathed in the rustic smells of old pine wood, take a journey through time in the beautiful Smith Family Log Home.
Smith Family Frame Home
In many ways, this frame home is a memorial and a reminder of the appreciation, love, and admiration that Alvin Smith, Joseph and Lucy Mack’s eldest son, had for his father and his mother.
Salt Lake City
The Kearns Building
The Kearns Building was named after a former U.S. senator from Utah named Thomas Kearns
Salt Lake Pioneer First Encampment
Mormon Pioneers first entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 22nd, 1847.
Deseret News Building
The Desert News is the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi. The Church first became involved in the newspaper business in June 1832, when W. W. Phelps published the Evening and Morning Star in Independence, Missouri.
ZCMI
Preserved on main street is the original cast-iron façade of Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution, sometimes claimed to be the first department store in America.
Social Hall Site and Museum
For seventy years, pioneers gathered here to shake off the hardships of frontier life with music, dancing, parties, theatricals (President Brigham Young had starred as the high priest in the production of Pizarro back in Nauvoo and was a patron of the arts), lectures, and good company.
Joseph L. Heywood Homesite
The Joseph and Serepta Heywood homesite is located approximately at the midblock area between State and Main streets on the north wall of the Conference Center.
Lest We Forget
The Mormons were unique among the many pioneers that settled the Western United States. They did not journey seeking gold or wealth; they were seeking religious freedom.
Mormon Tabernacle Organ
The organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle is one of the most famous musical instruments ever made.
Kimball-Whitney Cemetery
A little over a week after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, the Church leaders in the pioneer company selected inheritances surrounding the Temple Block.
Pioneer Memorial Museum
Built and maintained by the International Society, Daughters of Utah Pioneers (founded in 1901), this structure was built to preserve the history, artifacts, and landmarks of Utah pioneer ancestors.
Pioneer Telegraph Office
The overland telegraph monument marks the site where the transcontinental telegraph lines met, stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans.
Orson Pratt Homesite
In 1874 Orson Pratt was appointed historian and general Church recorder, a position he held until the time of his death.
Council House Site (Gateway Tower)
The nineteen-story gateway tower west is situated on the southwest corner of Main Street and South Temple Street where Salt Lake City’s original Council House once stood.
Charles R. Savage Photography
Charles R. Savage (1832–1909) was born in Southampton, England. When he was nearly fifteen, Charles received his first introduction to the Church and was baptized soon afterward.
William Clayton Homesite
On the northwest corner, where the streets West Temple and North Temple intersect, was the house of William Clayton.
University of Deseret
The John Pack family owned a low adobe house, which they made available to church members for early social and educational events in Salt Lake City. From this humble beginning would grow the University of Utah.
New England
The Events in the American Revolution Leading to the Restoration
Discover how events in America prepared the world for the Restoration of the Gospel.