Summit Stake Tabernacle - Coalville Stake Tabernacle

Dedicated by President Lorenzo Snow on March 7, 1899, the tabernacle was started in 1877 and completed in 1883. It was razed around 1971. A new stake center replaced it on the same site with the same stained-glass windows and paintings from the old building. There is a small plaque on the new stake center's steeple about the old tabernacle.

Soon after the Summit Stake was organized on July 9, 1877, it was decided that a tabernacle should be built. Thomas L. Allen was appointed architect and builder, and the plans for the building were approved by Church architect Truman O. Angell. Ground was broken in the spring of 1879, with the cornerstone being laid by Apostle Franklin D. Richards on Aug. 7, 1879. Construction of the tabernacle included 600,000 locally made bricks and 75,000 feet of lumber. Oregon red pine and native lumber from Echo Canyon were used, and sandstone came from the Coalville ledge quarry. Painters and artists for the building were Anthony Olsen and his son Christian M. Olsen. Gothic stained-glass windows were imported from Belgium. The tabernacle was dedicated on May 14,1899 by President Lorenzo Snow. Seventy-two years later, on March 3, 1971, the building was razed. Stained -glass windows and portraits of Church leaders were preserved and can be viewed in the present stake center. The tabernacle and the stake center that currently resides on this location were built by members of the Church through their faith and testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This plaque was placed September 17, 2005.