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LDS Church Architecture 325 In the opinion of many architectural historians, the better buildings of the 1910-21 period were some of the most exciting produced by Mormon designers. There was an easily apparent boldness and massiveness, a sculptured look with strongly contrasting vertical and horizontal elements, cantilevered overhangs and deep shadows. The plans were somewhat freer, the masses simpler, and the basic proportions more subtle. Moreover, architects had turned away from traditional forms and had made an effort to design in a contemporary way. Unfortunately, this forward-looking philosophy of architecture was abandoned under pressure from church members. Without a tower, steeple, Gothic windows, or other traditional church forms, many members found it difficult to relate to modern architecture when comparing it with familiar meetinghouses of the past. Accusations of "awkward" and "unchurchlike" brought about the demise of modern church architecture. Extant examples of this period include: Alpine Stake (American Fork) Tabernacle (1909-14) Amalga church (1919) Annabella meetinghouse (1914) Bear Lake Stake (Garland) Tabernacle (1913-14) Brigham City T h i r d W a r d (1912) Cannonville meetinghouse (1916) Ensign church (1912) Enterprise church (1914) Escalante Relief Society hall (1911) Grantsville Second W a r d (1915) Grouse Creek church (1913) Gunlock meetinghouse (1912) H a n n a meetinghouse (1918) Hiawatha meetinghouse (1914) Holladay First W a r d (1915) Hyde Park W a r d (1918) Ioka church (1915) Kaysville Tabernacle (1912-14) Lakota Young Women's M I A hall (ca. 1915) Legrand church (1914) Lehi F o u r t h W a r d (1912) Levan Relief Society hall (1911) Logan First W a r d (1918) Logan T e n t h W a r d (1918) Lynne meetinghouse (1912) Marian church (1910-14) Moroni bishop's storehouse (1919) Sharon church (1913) Sigurd church (1912) Talmage meetinghouse (1913) Teasdale recreation hall (1917) Upton church (ca. 1911) Vernal Second W a r d (1918) W a n d a m e r e church (1919) Wasatch church (1917-28) Wells church (1919-26) Windsor (Linden) church (1916-21) Salt Lake Granite High seminary (1915) Newcastle meetinghouse (1914) North Farmington church (1918) North Morgan church (1913) Ogden First W a r d (1913-26) Ogden Twelfth W a r d (1916-19) Ogden Thirteenth W a r d (1919-22) Ogden Fifteenth (Lynne) W a r d (1914) Ogden Sixteenth W a r d (1912) Ogden Branch for the Deaf church (1916) Parowan T h i r d W a r d (1917) Payson First (now Fourth) W a r d (1913) Provo Fourth W a r d (1918) Randolph Relief Society home (1915) Redmond church (1914) Richfield First W a r d (1912) Salt Lake Park First W a r d (1910-12) Salt Lake Twenty-third W a r d (1913)