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Gladys Stewart Bennion's Impressions of the Washington D.C. Chapel

Author(s): Gladys Stewart Bennion
Type: First-person account
Source(s): Lee H. Burke, History of the Washington D.C. Ward, (Publishers Press: 1990), 47-50.

"As the mauve-colored stone arrived from the Mt. Nebo quarry in Utah and was placed, it was obvious that every slab was cut to fit meticulously and people from all walks of life came to look at it and to comment upon the intricate perfection of its placement, the sole responsibility of one man, Stanley Child, another Washington neighbor of ours from Salt Lake City. With the completion of the marble walls extending to the graceful tower with its capstone of a huge sphere, only the steel rod protruded. Mr. Young had told me that this rod was to secure atop of the great ball a replica of Cyrus Dallin's Angel Moroni which..."

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