Hildale • It has 18,932 square feet, two-industrial size kitchens, a dining room that can double as a banquet hall and enough bedrooms to be a motel.
Market value: $1.2 million, according to the county assessor.
But the most interesting thing about the house at the corner of Maple Street and Field Avenue here in Hildale is who used to live there. Warren Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, resided there for the few years between when he rose to power in the sect and wasn't running from law enforcement.
Jeffs had 79 or 81 wives — there are conflicting figures. Brielle Decker says she was his 65th wife. She left the FLDS about five years ago.
Late last year, the United Effort Plan, a trust that owns most of the real estate in Hildale and adjoining, Colorado City, Ariz., agreed to give Decker Jeffs' home, as well as two other residences on the same parcel.
Decker gave photographer Trent Nelson and me a tour on Thursday. Click here to see the gallery.
Read Decker's plans for the house and other changes happening in Hildale and Colorado City on Sunday in The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune The prayer room at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune A view of the austere room that Warren Jeffs stayed in at his former home in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Brielle Decker in the dining room of the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune The prayer room in the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Brielle Decker in the dining room of the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune A light in the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune The prayer room in the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune A light in the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Brielle Decker opens up a hidden door leading to a secret chamber at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune The words Pray and Obey on a chimney at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune A large gathering room at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Wall hooks in the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Brielle Decker at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune A set of audio inputs in the dining room at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Brielle Decker at the former home of Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Wednesday April 5, 2017.
