Church Administration Building, Salt Lake City

Adjacent to Temple Square, the LDS Church constructed this building between 1914-17 to serve as its headquarters. Prior to its completion, the office of the church president was located just to the east between the Lion and Beehive houses. Today this structure continues to house the offices of the LDS First Presidency and other church leaders.

An excellent example of Neoclassical style architecture, the building features 24 Ionic pilasters that are made of solid granite and weigh approximately 8 tons each. This granite, as well as that which covers the rest of the steel and concrete structure, was taken from the same quarry as the stone used to build the Salt Lake Temple.

The building's architects, Joseph Don Carlos Young and Don Carlos Young, were the son and grandson, respectively, of Brigham Young, the nineteenth-century Mormon leader who brought his flock to Utah.