Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning

by C. Mark Hamilton

This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in Missouri, Illinois, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Canada, and Mexico. This doctrine also led to a hierarchy of building types from temples and tabernacles to meetinghouses and tithing offices. Their built environment stands as a monument to a unique utopian society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195075056
• ISBN13: 9780195075052
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"