The above photo of the old LeGrande Ward Building is from collections.lib.utah.edu.
The LeGrande Ward Chapel was existed in Salt Lake City from 1914 to 1986.
LeGrande Ward Chapel
13 Wednesday May 2020
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13 Wednesday May 2020
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The above photo of the old LeGrande Ward Building is from collections.lib.utah.edu.
The LeGrande Ward Chapel was existed in Salt Lake City from 1914 to 1986.
Thank you for this. My grandmother Viola Irwin Martin lived on 10th East most of her life, and attended church in this building. I am reading through her letters, many of them undated. The current letter talks of what a fun Christmas Eve open house she had just hosted.
After that she tells of her son picking her up, and taking her to his ward meeting in Kearns. “They have taken our chapel down piece by piece …We moved into this house the day before the Legrand Ward chapel was dedicated in 1919 and have lived here ever since … Every day Loads of building materials are hauled away from our Legrand ward chapel. It is just about demolished now.”
You have helped me establish the time of this letter – one of the last I have from her.
I grew up on Lincoln & Belmont and attended this ward building until is demolition in 1986. The new ward building was not yet completed by the time I was baptized in 1988, so I was baptized in the Tabernacle instead.
The ward building that replaced it was ignited by arson but saved because some non-member neighbors saw and captured the perpetrators as they ran away from the smouldering building.