Colorado City, Ariz. • Construction is underway inside the former meeting hall of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The walls have been stripped down to the frames. Giant slabs of marble are stacked in the vast building as it undergoes a metamorphosis.
“This entire roof is coming off, this entire concrete wall is coming out,” Jeff Barlow, the executive director of the United Effort Plan Trust, said as he motioned to the building’s entrance.
Barlow recently gave Fox 13 News a tour of the property under a multi-million dollar renovation project. The building was previously known as the Leroy S. Johnson Meetinghouse, where FLDS faithful once worshiped. Now, it will become the Short Creek Legacy Center — a community center for all.
Before it was ever used for worship, the meetinghouse was originally a civic center for residents in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
Read more about the renovation at fox13now.com.
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