Union Stake Tabernacle, La Grande, Oregon

UNION STAKE TABERNACLE, LA GRANDE, OREGON. Built of brick and stone, with windows of colored glass. Size of build- ing, 74x110 feet, 34 feet high to the square. Height of tower, 86 feet. Seating capacity of the gallery, about 600; of the main auditorium, about 800; of the choir dome, about 100. In the basement is a ward room 36x50 feet, with a seat- ing capacity of about 500. There are also four class or quorum rooms, average size 16x28, seated to accommodate about 75 each. Two rooms are seated with small chairs for Sunday school primary and kindergarten classes. A baptis- mal font, and boilers for heating the structure, are also located in the basement. The building was planned in the summer and autumn of 1903, and on December 29, rock-quarrying began. It was finished June 15, 1907, and dedicated the following day, the dedicatory prayer being offered by President Joseph F. Smith. The cost, in round figures, is $40,000. A $5,000 pipe organ is now be- ing built, and will be installed early next spring.