Thats right people, we finally made our goal and went to the last temple on our list which was the Logan Utah Temple. We went this past Wednesday to a nice night session. It felt good to finally achieve our goal but it was also hard because it was our last one. In less than a year we have been able to visit all 13 Utah Temples. Maybe our next goal will be all Idaho Temples.
History:
The Logan Utah Temple was announced on May 18, 1877. The site dedication and groundbreaking was on May 17th, 1877. Orson Pratt did the site dedication and John W Young did the groundbreaking. It then took 7 years of volunteer workers to build the five story temple. The temple was then dedicated on May 17-19, 1884 by John Taylor. Some interesting things about the temple is that it was first painted white to hide the stone color, but in the early 1900s the paint was allowed to weather away leaving the original stone color showing that is still seen today. Another instead fact is that in December 4th, 1917 there was an electrical fire that burned the southeast part of the temple (it was of course fixed). This temple was also the first temple to have progressive style mural ordinance rooms, but in 1977 it became the first temple to be completely gutted and rebuilt inside to work with film ordinance rooms. Some people were sad about this because they felt it lost a lot of the original pioneer beauty. After the renovations the temple had an open house from February 5th to March 3rd, 1979. Then it was rededicated by President Spencer W. Kimball from March 13-15, 1979.
Architecture/Decor:
The Logan Utah Temple is an interesting temple in that on the outside it has all the majestic beauty of an older temple such as Manti, and St George, yet on the inside it has more of a look close to the other temples built around it's renovation time period (aka Provo and Ogden). The color skeem is also green and gold. The Temple is also built on a hill making it so that you can see it throughout Cache Valley.
Helpful things to note when visiting the temple:
Location:
The temple is located on top of a hill off of Highway 91.
Scheduling and Temple Clothing:
If you are going to the Logan Utah Temple you do not need to call ahead and schedule an appointment. There are also temple clothes available to rent there.
The source that I used and a great source to learn more is:
Logan Utah Temple: http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/logan/
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