--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 2 published: 1907-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Union Stake Tabernacle, La Grande, Oregon," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 2 (December 1907): 121.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1102unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1102unse start_page: 121 end_page: 121 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1102unse publication_year: 1907 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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.