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Show 256 Utah Historical Quarterly The interior of the Provo Tabernacle displays craftsmanship in the woodwork and an elaborate design mixing Victorian and Greek Revival elements. Photograph by Paul L. Anderson. tion, that the building be designed to resemble an English Presbyterian meetinghouse such as they had known before coming to America.31 Folsom's design does not appear to have been particularly English, although the new Presbyterian church in Salt Lake City may have influenced its design slightly, the corner towers at Provo resembling the large tower of the new church. Another possible source for some design elements was the Catholic Basilica of Saint Louis that Folsom knew from his visit to New Orleans in 1849. The resemblance of the towers at the corners and the center of the facade of Saint Louis to those at Provo was quite striking, although the plan for the Provo building had more in common with the new LDS Assembly Hall. Gothic Revival elements appeared in the pointed windows and steep roofs, while the interior of the tabernacle was in the tradition of New England architecture more like the St. George Tabernacle—a rectangular space with a gallery and flat ceiling. 31 Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Utah, Provo, Pioneer Mormon City (Portland, Ore., 1942), 152. |
