Logan Temple Barn, 368 East Second North, Logan

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This square stone barn was constructed in as a complement to the Logan Temple located less than a block to the west. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Date of erection: Completed January 11, 2. Architect: Not known. 3. Original and subsequent owners: The Logan Temple Barn is built on Lot 6, Block 3, Plat C of the Logan City Survey. In August, Block 3 was resurveyed and became known as Temple View Addition, with a new lot map. The site of the barn is now part of Lot 21, Block 3, Temple View Addition, Plat C of the Logan City Survey. The following references tracing the title of these lots are found in the Cache County Recorder's Office, Logan, Utah. Deed, signed November 17, filed January 13, recorded in Book 4, page 92. The Logan Temple Association bought from James Z.

and Julia A. Stewart part of Block 3 including lots 6, 7, and 8 for Deed, signed February 25, filed August 4, recorded in Miscellaneous Book 7, page Ashmer Cecil Barron bought from Joseph F. Smith, Trustee for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Agent, all of lot 21 of the Temple View Addition for Deed, signed June 29, filed February 18, recorded in Book 54, page T. B. Budge bought from Heber J. Grant, Trustee for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, all of lots 1, 2, and 21 for Decree of Distribution, signed September 28, filed September 28, Virginia Budge Slater, with Life Estate to Duella Alvord Budge, received title to part of lot 21 from Thomas B. Budge, deceased. LOGAN TEMPLE BARN HABS No. UT-84 (Page 2) 4.

Alterations and additions: The following alterations were made by Thomas B. Budge: a. A cellar door and window were added on the east side to allow light into the basement. b. Wide garage door openings with flat lintels were added on the north and south sides. c. A cupola (pigeon loft) was added ca. B. Historical Context: On May 17, Brigham Young and Truman 0. Angel1, Church architect, selected a site for the Logan Temple just east of the city with a commanding view of the Cache Valley. The following day ground was broken for the construction of the new temple. Plans for a rock barn to shelter temple teams were first made in shortly after the land was acquired; however, the structure was not completed until Dr. Thomas B.

Budge purchased the barn in Its location was convenient to his hospital located almost directly across the street from the barn site. The barn was later converted into a garage to service the doctors' automobiles. T. B. Budge and his brother, D. C. Budge, founded the hospital in The only such facility in the northern Utah and southern Idaho area, it was later named the William Budge Memorial Hospital after T. B. Budge's father, president of the Logan Temple from to C. Sources of Information: 1. Interviews: Richard Chambers, August 22, Logan, Utah. Facts concerning her father's (T. B. Budge) ownership of the barn and his medical practice. Nolan P. Olsen, Recorder, Logan Temple, November 11, Logan, Utah. Infomation regarding the records of the building of the Temple Barn. 2.

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Arrington, Leonard J., and Melvin Larkin. "The Logan Tabernacle and Temple." Utah Historical Quarterly. Summer, Jenson, Willard Conrad. "History of Logan." M.A. Thesis, University of Utah, LOGAN TEMPLE BARN HABS No. UT-84 (Page 3) Larkin, Melvin A. "The History of the Temple in Logan, Utah." M.A. Thesis, Utah State University, Merrill, Melvin C., ed. Utah Pioneer and Apostle: Marriner Wood Merrill and His Family. Salt Lake City: Deseret Evening News, Ricks, Joel E. , ed. The History of a Valley: Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho. Logan: Cache Valley Centennial Commission, State of Utah, Division of State History. "Historic Sites Survey Form: Logan Temple Barn." Compiled by Gerald L. Smith, June 23, Prepared by: Peter L.

Goss Architectural Historian Graduate School of Architecture University of Utah November, PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION A. General Statement: 1. Architectural character: A simple stone building, square in plan, two stories high with a hip roof and a pigeon roost at the peak. 2. Condition of fabric: fair. B. Description of Exterior: 1. Overall dimensions: x 2. Foundations: sandstone. 3. Walls: gray sandstone, random ashlar. 4. Structural system, framing: stone bearing wall with wood floor and roof framing. 5. Chimneys: single brick chimney on the north side, present in removed by 6. Openings: LOGAN TEMPLE BARN HABS No. UT-84 (Page 4) a. Doorways and doors: original double doors have elliptical-arched openings while recent ones have flat concrete. b.

Windows and shutters: original windows have segmental arches while new ones have flat concrete lintels. 7. Roof: pyramidal form with wood shingles, including a cupola. G. Description of Interior: 1. Floor plans: a. Basement: partial basement with exterior access. b. First floor: The first floor has been remodeled and the present plan includes four spaces divided by frame partitions. c. Second floor: the loft is a single room. 2. Stairways: a simple open stair with exposed stringers. 3. Flooring: concrete slab on grade. Over basement, the floor is wooden boards. 4. Wall and ceiling finish: Walls are plaster on first floor and exposed stone on second. Ceiling is not finished. 5. Trim: flat boards. D. Site: the building faces north with alley access to the rear. Prepared by: Burtch W.

Beall, Jr. Project Supervisor Graduate School of Architecture University of Utah November, LOGAN TEMPLE BARN HABS Mo. UT-84 (Page 5) III. PROJECT INFORMATION The State of Utah survey, conducted by the Historic American Buildings Survey, was cosponsored by the National Park Service and the Utah Heritage Foundation and supported by the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts jointly with the National Endowment for the Arts. All work was recorded under the direction of John Poppeliers, Chief of HABS, during the summer of at the Historic American Buildings Survey Field Office at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah. The survey team consisted of Burtch W. Beall, architect (University of Utah), project supervisor; Dr. Peter L.

Goss, project historian; student architects Ronnie B. Cullen (Washington State University), Clayton B. Fraser (University of Tennessee), William B. Klein (University of Utah), and Eric V. Ramsing (University of Oregon). Photographs were taken by Louise T. Taft in The written data were edited by Alison K. Hoagland, HABS Historian, in