See how this run-down 142-year-old LDS chapel in SLC will be saved

New owner hopes to restore the city’s pioneer-era Second Ward chapel, used by some of the valley’s original Scandinavian Latter-day Saint settlers.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A historic building in Salt Lake City's Central City neighborhood, a pioneer-era structure that was once the original Second Ward Assembly Hall of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is to be renovated into a home.

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See how this run-down 142-year-old LDS chapel in SLC will be saved

New owner hopes to restore the city’s pioneer-era Second Ward chapel, used by some of the valley’s original Scandinavian Latter-day Saint settlers.

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