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===Square footage===
===Square footage===
====Kirtland====
Heber C. Kimball wrote that the Kirtland temple “was 80 x 60 feet, and 57 feet high to the eaves. It was divided into two stories.”<ref>Whitney, 100.</ref>  The temple also had a full attic. Thus:
:3 levels x 80 feet x 60 feet = 14,400 square feet.
====Nauvoo====
Nauvoo had a basement baptistery, and a first and second floor. Each of the first and second floors had a half floor or “mezzanine” on either side (labeled “a” and “b” in the table below). The temple was crowned by an attic, and a multi-level tower. A bill for temple construction reports 2,225 square feet of flooring used for the entire tower, and so I have used that value here.
{| valign="top" border="1" style="width:100%; font-size:100%"
!width="20%"|'''Level'''
!width="20%"|'''Length (ft)'''
!width="20%"|'''Width (ft)'''
!width="20%"|'''Total area (sq ft)'''
!width="20%"|'''Source'''
|-
|'''Basement baptistery'''
||80
||120
||9,600
||Colvin, 182
|-
|'''1st Floor'''
||80
||120
||9,600
||"
|-
|'''2nd Floor'''
||80
||120
||9,600
||"
|-
|'''1st Floor Mezzanine (a)'''
||18.5
||100
||1,850
||Colvin, 207
|-
|'''1st Floor Mezzanine (b)'''
||18.5
||100
||1,850
||"
|-
|'''2nd Floor Mezzanine (a)'''
||18.5
||100
||1,850
||"
|-
|'''2nd Floor Mezzanine (b)'''
||18.5
||100
||1,850
||"
|-
|'''Front attic section'''
||86
||37
||3,182
||Colvin, 214
|-
|'''Main east attic'''
||88.2
||28.75
||2,536
||"
|-
|'''Tower (multi-level)'''
||&mdash;
||&mdash;
||2,225
||Colvin, 213.
|-
|
||
||''TOTAL:''
||44,143
||Colvin, 213.
|-
|}
===Costs by population===
===Costs by population===


Revision as of 03:19, 13 September 2014

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'Passing the Heavenly Gift'
A work by author: Denver C. Snuffer
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Comparing the size of the Kirtland and Nauvoo temples[1]

Square footage

Kirtland

Heber C. Kimball wrote that the Kirtland temple “was 80 x 60 feet, and 57 feet high to the eaves. It was divided into two stories.”[2] The temple also had a full attic. Thus:

3 levels x 80 feet x 60 feet = 14,400 square feet.

Nauvoo

Nauvoo had a basement baptistery, and a first and second floor. Each of the first and second floors had a half floor or “mezzanine” on either side (labeled “a” and “b” in the table below). The temple was crowned by an attic, and a multi-level tower. A bill for temple construction reports 2,225 square feet of flooring used for the entire tower, and so I have used that value here.

Level Length (ft) Width (ft) Total area (sq ft) Source
Basement baptistery 80 120 9,600 Colvin, 182
1st Floor 80 120 9,600 "
2nd Floor 80 120 9,600 "
1st Floor Mezzanine (a) 18.5 100 1,850 Colvin, 207
1st Floor Mezzanine (b) 18.5 100 1,850 "
2nd Floor Mezzanine (a) 18.5 100 1,850 "
2nd Floor Mezzanine (b) 18.5 100 1,850 "
Front attic section 86 37 3,182 Colvin, 214
Main east attic 88.2 28.75 2,536 "
Tower (multi-level) — — 2,225 Colvin, 213.
TOTAL: 44,143 Colvin, 213.


Costs by population

Notes

  1. ↑ Portions of this wiki response are based upon Gregory L. Smith, "Passing Up The Heavenly Gift Part 1 Part 2," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship7(2103): 181–341. The text here may have been expanded, reworded, or corrected given the nature of a wiki project. References in brackets like this: (xx) refer to page numbers in Denver C. Snuffer, Jr., Passing the Heavenly Gift (Salt Lake City: Mill Creek Press, 2011).
  2. ↑ Whitney, 100.
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