A historic Salt Lake City congregation sold its meetinghouse, downsized and moved into another church’s space — an increasingly familiar trend.
It’s not that God or the church is going away, Elsdon says. People are just not looking for a traditional experience.
Still, the Utah-based faith is not immune to the vagaries of real estate and population patterns. So, through the years, the hierarchy has had to sell or demolish many properties. Now, the church’s general policy, with some exceptions, he says, is to sell a property with a church on it, but either demolish the structure before it changes hands, or require the buyer to do so.
On Jan. 22, 1865, the Rev. Norman McLeod, a Congregationalist pastor in Denver, preached what is believed to be “the first gentile [non-Mormon] Christian sermon ever delivered in Utah.” The third home on Foothill, built in 1965, was where Kimes worshipped and reared her three children, after moving to Utah with her husband. It was a center for the nurse and her growing family that included everything — from camps and concerts to blood drives and Bible studies, from Sunday school and interfaith services to baby baptisms and funerals.
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