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Pleasant Grove Town Hall
The Pleasant Grove Town Hall, built in 1887, replaced the city’s first town hall, which was a one-room log building. It was used as town hall building until 1940, when a third town hall building was built in the city. The Pleasant Grove Town Hall building was then used as a lunchroom for Pleasant Grove High School until 1949. Since that time, it has been used as the home of the Pleasant Grove First Baptist Church and the Pleasant Grove Public Library. Today it is home to Bliss Photo Studio and Boutique.
Located in Rose Garden Park/Pioneer Park at 107 South 100 East in Pleasant Grove, Utah
Built in 1887 from the widely used native soft-rock. The one-story rectangular building has the block massing of early Utah civic buildings. The symmetrical three bay façade features the center door covering of an angular pediment portico supported by Roman Doric columns. The angular pediment is repeated on the hip roof as a decorative dormer directly above the portico. Under the roof is a wide plain entablature.*
I have fond memories of spending hours perusing books in this building, hearing the squeak of the hardwood floor under my feet in the quiet library.
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I thought you might be interested in knowing in 1950 this building was home to the first kindergarten in Pleasant Grove. There was a morning and afternoon session. My father S. Chris Christensen put in a drinking fountain and several of the mothers of my classmates helped to get the classes set up and organized.