In 1978, the Idaho Historical Society cataloged over 80 architecturally significant historic houses and commercial buildings in Paris, Idaho. In this and future columns we will highlight one or two. The Paris Museum has information about this and other homes.
11. SITE NAME : LDS Seminary Building SITE 90
Tabernacle block, Paris, Idaho
The LDS Seminary built in 1931 and recently remodeled, is a cross-planned, hip-and-ridge-roofed structure rendered in orange-red grooved brick. The lateral block has plain forward surfaces on either side of an outset gabled ell, there is a corresponding one to the rear, containing a stylized side-lighted and transomed entry with a four-over four light sash window on either side. The entry ell had corner pilasters and stylized eave returns. The ends of the lateral block were filled, between corner pilasters, by six tall nine-over-nine light sashes.
The LDS Seminary has unusual architectural and historic significance in its community, which lead us to include it in this inventory one year short of age eligibility. Architecturally the Seminary is one of the few buildings in Paris which display what is generally considered to be a typical Mormon attachment to Greek revival forms. (The early Collings house, (site 6) is the other example inventoried here.) The building is a simple but crisply rendered statement of the affection for balanced, "rational" forms. Stylized eave returns and pilasters as well as the hipped profile and insistent symmetry evoke classical prototypes in a sleek, schematic manner consistent with then-contemporary tastes. Strip pilasters, without capitals but resting on simply concrete bases outset from the foundation, separate the windows. Five such windows are set into the outset rear ell. There is one plain brick chimney with a simple cast cap, approximately centered to the rear of the ridge beam.
Historically this structure situated in the center of the central tabernacle block across from a public high school erected there two years earlier. It represents a continuing statement of the centrality of religion in the town. "It was the next major building project by the Church since the state office building of 1910 and the dance pavilion of 1913; the next would be the present ward chapel on Main, which is much further short of age eligibility. Like the lost pavilion, the seminary building is an example of the concern of a Mormon community with providing a total environment for the young. LDS Seminary is a four-year course taken in concert with high school. Local builder Orson Grimmett executed the plan, and the Tueller Brothers rendered it in brick.
11. SITE NAME : LDS Seminary Building SITE 90
Tabernacle block, Paris, Idaho
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| Photo by Carmen Wimmer |
The LDS Seminary built in 1931 and recently remodeled, is a cross-planned, hip-and-ridge-roofed structure rendered in orange-red grooved brick. The lateral block has plain forward surfaces on either side of an outset gabled ell, there is a corresponding one to the rear, containing a stylized side-lighted and transomed entry with a four-over four light sash window on either side. The entry ell had corner pilasters and stylized eave returns. The ends of the lateral block were filled, between corner pilasters, by six tall nine-over-nine light sashes.
The LDS Seminary has unusual architectural and historic significance in its community, which lead us to include it in this inventory one year short of age eligibility. Architecturally the Seminary is one of the few buildings in Paris which display what is generally considered to be a typical Mormon attachment to Greek revival forms. (The early Collings house, (site 6) is the other example inventoried here.) The building is a simple but crisply rendered statement of the affection for balanced, "rational" forms. Stylized eave returns and pilasters as well as the hipped profile and insistent symmetry evoke classical prototypes in a sleek, schematic manner consistent with then-contemporary tastes. Strip pilasters, without capitals but resting on simply concrete bases outset from the foundation, separate the windows. Five such windows are set into the outset rear ell. There is one plain brick chimney with a simple cast cap, approximately centered to the rear of the ridge beam.
Historically this structure situated in the center of the central tabernacle block across from a public high school erected there two years earlier. It represents a continuing statement of the centrality of religion in the town. "It was the next major building project by the Church since the state office building of 1910 and the dance pavilion of 1913; the next would be the present ward chapel on Main, which is much further short of age eligibility. Like the lost pavilion, the seminary building is an example of the concern of a Mormon community with providing a total environment for the young. LDS Seminary is a four-year course taken in concert with high school. Local builder Orson Grimmett executed the plan, and the Tueller Brothers rendered it in brick.
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