Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio is a historic building in Sandy, Utah. It was built in 1903-1905 as a meeting house for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed in the Romanesque Revival architectural style.”
Wikipedia article Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1905.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Granite LDS Ward Chapel--Avard Fairbanks Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 9800 S 3100 E, Sandy, 84092
When was it listed? December 2005
Category. building
Also known as. Sandy City MPS
Census division. Cottonwood
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 05000364 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,682 acres in total. 28 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	28
Recreation and ceremony	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LONE PEAK
6 September 2005	Natural	10 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	NORTH DEAF
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BELLS
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FERGUSON
3 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	HOGUM
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FERGUSON
21 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	UPPER BROADS FORK
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TONYA

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio: 41 producers, 26 past producers, 17 occurrences. 41 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Lead, Silver, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blue Jay Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Cottonwood Gold Eagle Mine	Silver, Iron	Past Producer	1925
Floral Lode Claim	Lead, Zinc	Producer
Interstate Brick Quartzite Quarry	Silica	Past Producer	Quartz
Lower Bells Canyon Workings	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Murray Copper and Victor Claims	Copper, Gold, Lead	Occurrence	1912
Murry Refractories Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
New State Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Rocky Mouth Canyon Adit	Copper, Molybdenum, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Silver Dollar	Lead	Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
James A. and Janet Muir House	0.6 miles	2018
Spencer Homestead Site	1.3 miles	2022
Little Cottonwood Canyon Climbing Area	1.7 miles	2024
Alvin and Annie Green House	1.7 miles	2000
Granite Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District	3.4 miles	1989
Brady-Brady House	3.5 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake County	All 399 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.