Provo tabernacle destroyed by fire this morning.

[Connolly]

Sad.

I attended a lot of stake conferences in there.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_616dbab4-09db-11e0-972b-001cc4c03286.html

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

Sad.

I attended a lot of stake conferences in there.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_616dbab4-09db-11e0-972b-001cc4c03286.html

I saw the photo...wow! Do they know the cause yet?

[smac97]

I saw the photo...wow! Do they know the cause yet?

Nothing concrete yet, but "a film crew from Brigham Young University reportedly was shooting a Christmas concert inside the building late Thursday evening."

-Smac

[bluebell]

It looked like a beautiful building-very sad to lose all that history.

[Maya]

Norwegean shipmaker made the roof!

[LeSellers]

They haven't extinguished the fire yet, so there's not much chance of their knowing how it started. They can't even see where the fire is, due to smoke.

And those Norwegians did such a great job that the timbers will be burning all day.

Lehi

[Duncan]

I recall from reading an ensign article Pres. Monson and Elder Paul H. Dunn rededicated it in the 80's, I hope they can do whatever they need to to get it going again. Sorry for the loss.

[Daniel2]

This is terrible. I have many fond memories of events in the Provo Tabernacle, and my kids' school choirs have sung there every year at Christmas. Like the BYU Academy, it was a beautiful building with a great legacy. Hopefully, there will be something to salvage and rebuild...

Darin

[thesometimesaint]

Sorry to see, it was a beautiful old building. The report said there was major structural damage. There probably isn't much left to save. Better to tear the remains down and rebuild to code.

[Joseph Antley]

I drove by the Tabernacle about 20 minutes ago. There are still some flames on the first floor but the fire looked contained and the smoke isn't as bad as it was earlier this morning. The entire roof has collapsed but the four towers are still standing.

[cinepro]

That's really too bad. I've never lived in Utah and only visited a few times, but it's sad to lose such a historic building. Insurance can replace somethings, but a building like that is irreplaceable.

Norwegean shipmaker made the roof!

(Urban Legend)

Go to 44:32 in this podcast.

[Sevenbak]

I've been down here all morning covering it, and the information I'm getting is that it's too early to tell the cause. There was a ton of stuff in there as prep for a concert, and it will be at least tomorrow before the engineers can determine if the investigators are even safe to go in. It appears that KBYU lost a whole bunch of nice HD cameras, a big jib, production lighting and sound gear, and almost lost a nice multimillion dollar production truck. Lez De Azevedo's musicians lost a bunch of their instruments too. It's a bad deal, all the way around.

[katherine the great]

Ugh! Sad, sad, sad. It was one of the coolest buildings in Provo! I'm glad no life was lost though.

[Sevenbak]

I drove by the Tabernacle about 20 minutes ago. There are still some flames on the first floor but the fire looked contained and the smoke isn't as bad as it was earlier this morning. The entire roof has collapsed but the four towers are still standing.

The 4 corner towers are still standing, but 3 of the 4 side towers collapsed. Only the west one remains.

[Connolly]

(Urban Legend)

Yeah, I think so...

I think that the only one really made by a ship builder was a chapel roof in the pine valley area by St. George UT (it actually looked like an upside down boat and wasn't all that impressive) but that the story got extended to almost any mid 19th century roof still standing in Utah.

[ElfLord]

Yeah, I think so...

I think that the only one really made by a ship builder was a chapel roof in the pine valley area by St. George UT (it actually looked like an upside down boat and wasn't all that impressive) but that the story got extended to almost any mid 19th century roof still standing in Utah.

That was moved to the "This is the Place Heritage" park for preservation purposes.

And it was a Scottish ShipBuilder.

The Pine Valley Chapel and Relief Society Hall are pictured above.

Scottish shipbuilder Ebenezer Bryce built this chapel in the early Southern Utah settlement of Pine Valley. Conceived and designed in 1868, it remains one of the states architectural treasures. Using traditional shipbuilding techniques, Bryce first crafted the log walls on the ground and raised the completed sides into place. Then the roof, which resembles the inverted hull of a ship, was joined with the walls using wooden pegs and strips of rawhide instead of nails. (Guidebook)

You can see a picture of it here...

http://www.kenalford.com/sam/sam-page8.htm

3/4 way down the page.

[staccato]

It was such a beautiful building. How unfortunate.

[Bernard Gui]

I played a lot of "Messiahs" and a few recitals there. It was a marvelous building.

I hope it's replaced with a faithful but up-to-code duplicate.

Bernard

[Hyrum Page]

Sigh. I really loved that building. I attended several stake conferences there, and I loved seeing it on the side of the street as I drove by. I find the loss of this beautiful historic building truly heartbreaking.

[Nathair/|\]

Orson Scott Card wrote a lovely Mormon Times column inspired by this tragedy.

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/19115/Because-it-is-beautiful