One of the LDS Church’s architectural gems is destined for demolition
The nearly century-old meetinghouse was badly damaged in Utah’s 2020 earthquake.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Wells Ward Latter-day Saint meetinghouse, shown in May 2023, is poised to be torn down.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.