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Show 2l[kl l 1 LJ [ ~ 4~ 1□ 1 .:;::::, a - - Q 7 -====- N~ 0 50Fii'E.r !!!!5~~~ Figure 9: Typical Sanpete Tithing Yard. Block 64 lot 3 Manti City Survey. 1: 2 story stone and frame tithing barn, 2: 1 story frame animal stalls, 3: 1 story frame buildings, 4: 1 story stone storage building with frame additions, 5: l story frame buildings, 6: l 1/2 story stone tithing office, 7: l story frame granary, 8: frame building containing scales (1892 Sanborn-Perris Map). buildings, but by the end of the second decade, newer, more imposing structures were being erected (Figure 8). In their form, Sanpete meetinghouses relected older Colonial designs; they had a basic rectangular plan, a gabled roof, a tower placed centrally on the front, and often displayed an-eclectic mixture of Cla ~ical, Gothic, and Mormon decorative motifs. 18 In addition to the ubiquitous meetinghouse block, each town was supplied with a centrally located tithing yard l where in-kind tithing was collected and stored (Figure 9). The Church tithing office, barn, and granary became distinctive features of each 70 |
