Places of Worship: 150 Years of Latter-Day Saint Architecture

by Richard W. Jackson

515 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

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[Samuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Richard Jackson provides a wealth of knowledge both from his personal recollections of working adjacent or in the Church Building Department, or its equivalent, from the 1940s through the 80s. This is the most comprehensive look at Latter-day Saint meetinghouse architecture that is richly illustrated with line drawings by the author. Though not a recommended coffee table book, it is a must for any scholar of the Mormon built environment or anyone else curious about it and in need of a wide-spanning reference book on Latter-day Saint architecture from 1830-1980. There is not a whole lot of analysis, but the overview is essential to understanding how and what the design and building of LDS meetinghouses looked like over the Church's first 150 years.