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Show -2For all intents and purposes it is connected with the Beehive house to the east by a smaller office building which for many years served as the president's office and the general offices of the Church. house are the rovs of g~bled The main exterior features of the windows, ten in number on both sides of the top floor, and the recumbent lion, from which the building gets its name, set on top of the front portico. The lion was carved by the English artist, William Ward, who also made the_ famous stone font in the Nauvoo Temple. He had considerable ability as a sculptor and architect, and it is said that both the Lion House and the Beehive house vere . designed by Ward and Truman O. Angell, the first practicing architects in Utah. william Ward arrived in the territory in the early 18.50's but after a few years returned to the eastern states. The interior arrangement of the house admirably suited the needs of its occupants. .\11 three floors had central corridors running through the entire building from north to south, with stairways going up at each end of these halls. On the basement floor there were two large vegetable and food cellars. In the center of the building, a narrow hallvay ran eastward to the court outside where, in the earliest days, there was a well of water. Running north of this little hall was a series of other rooms. One was used as a weaving room "and contained looms of different sizes for weaving cloth and carpets. Spinning wheels and other clothmaking apparatus were here also. Beyond the weaving room was a sitting room, and beyond that a dairy room where was kept the milk, butter and cheese. Also in the basement was a community kitchen and dining room and, of course, the necessary pantries. ' The dining room could accommodate from .50 to 70 people at mealtimes. The second or main floor contained the living room. The large one on the southwest corner was known as the large parlor, or prayer room, for there it was the custom of the family to meet night and morning for devotional exercises. |
