Comments on: Guest Post: The Washington, D.C. Chapel http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/ Where our past is never very long ago Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Allen http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-360557 Allen Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:09:28 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-360557 I was a member of the Washington Ward from 1962 to 1964 and served as a Stake Missionary (proselyting) in that ward. I became married in 1963, and my new wife joined me as a Stake Missionary. In addition to our normal proselyting activities, we held tours of the building, using the stained glass windows as visual aids. We moved to Arizona shortly after the beltway was completed around Washington and a few years before construction of the Washington Temple.

]]> By: Heather Welch http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-309567 Heather Welch Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:23:54 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-309567 I have photos of him as well as many of his sketches. If you still need I can assist.

]]> By: reed russell http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-305707 reed russell Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:16:21 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-305707 Thanks – I had hoped to include a photo of Ramm Hansen with the story, but I just couldn’t find one out there that I could borrow!

]]> By: Heather Welch http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-305639 Heather Welch Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:53:42 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-305639 Thank you for this story. My great grandfather was Ramm Hansen. His drawings of the temples were always hung in my grandfather Paul Hansens home. I always loved the sketches of his stained glass windows the most. It is a pleasure to see pictures of them since I have not been able to see them in person. Again thank you!

]]> By: Christine Holloway http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-301565 Christine Holloway Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:53:36 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-301565 Thanks for this great article! I was baptized in this building in 1961! In 1961 it was the ONLY building with a baptismal font in the area! Very soon after that the Scotts Run Rd. McLean, Virginia building was built (one of the last LDS chapels to be built with ward members helping to build it). I raised my own family in the Northern Virginia area and always wondered about the Washington Ward building’s owners, and have had fond memories of that building. I live in Utah now, and was happy to come upon the Angel Moroni statue when visiting the church’s history museum.Thanks again for a great article.

]]> By: reed russell http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-298070 reed russell Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:12:09 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-298070 This letter found by a friend is a great find – and a great follow-up to the story:

REED SMOOT, UTAH,
CHAIRMAN.

United States Senate,
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.

May 20,1924.

Mr. Isaac K. Russell,
Care of American Institute of Baking,
1135 Fullerton Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear friend Ike:

This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of
May 17, 1924, enclosing a copy of your interesting letter
dated May 17, 1924, addressed to President Grant.

No doubt President Grant will answer your letter,
and I hope in a way that will be perfectly satisfactory
to you and will result in a benefit to the Church.

We have purchased the best corner in Washington.
It cost the Church $54,000. I expect the Church to put
up a magnificent building here, one that will be not only
an honor to the Church but to Washington as well. Every
visitor to Washington will have this Mormon edifice pointed
out to him and I know nothing that will advertise the Mormon
people better than a magnificent structure on the corner of
Columbia Road and Sixteenth Street.

With very best wishes for your future happiness,
I remain

Yours sincerely,

Reed Smoot

]]> By: Left Field http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-298065 Left Field Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:03:03 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-298065 If you click through the “next” button, you can see that replicas of the Washington chapel statue are found on Atlanta, Idaho Falls, and Boston. The statue on Idaho Falls was added back sometime around the late ’80s if I remember correctly.

]]> By: Julia http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-297399 Julia Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:01:46 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-297399 I had a hard time finding my way through it. That may just be the browser on my phone though. I will be glad to have my laptop back.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-296362 Ardis E. Parshall Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:29:25 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-296362 Thanks for identifying this, PS. The caption says “This version of the statue also appears on three temples” so I gathered that the photo was of one of those three, but it’s odd they didn’t use a picture of the building they were discussing, or even ID the picture that they did use!

]]> By: PostScript http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/09/26/guest-post-the-washington-d-c-chapel/comment-page-1/#comment-296295 PostScript Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:49:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=19245#comment-296295 Strange choice of pic for a caption talking about the old D.C. Chapel – that’s a pic of the Boston Temple.
http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/boston/gallery/images/boston-mormon-temple1.jpg

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