The Great Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake Pinback Button

"The credit of carrying on such a vast work can be appreciated when it is borne in mind that the timber is brought from a considerable distance, and other materials imported from the States. "This building was not constructed with any view to display architecture, but merely as a temporary meeting place for the people to assemble, and to take the place of the old Tabernacle and Bowery, the former of which was a large building, and the latter simply a huge shed covered with green boughs. "Inside of the Tabernacle an organ is now constructing, second in size to none in the United States except the celebrated one in Boston." (An 1867 news story)