The chapel and the tithing office

Ebenezer Bryce, a Scottish shipbuilder and Latter-day Saint convert who later gave his name to Bryce Canyon, is the man credited with it. The tradition is that he framed the roof the way a shipwright would, as an upside down hull built on the ground and raised into place, though no building record survives that pins down his exact hand in the work. Logs were cut in the canyons around the townsite in 1867 and hauled in by ox team, and the chapel was dedicated in 1868.

The National Register gives 1868, and the logs were cut and hauled in 1867. Some sources, including the Church's own history page, say it was built in 1872 to 1873. The sources do not agree. The ward has long described it as the oldest meetinghouse of its kind in continuous use, and it remains a working meetinghouse as well as a landmark, which is why Sunday mornings are not visiting hours.

A small red brick building beside the chapel, sixteen feet by twenty seven, put up in the 1880s. It was built as a warehouse to hold tithes paid in kind, which in a nineteenth century Utah settlement meant grain, produce and livestock rather than money. Over its working life it also served as a family residence, as the Pine Valley Post Office and as a meeting room for the chapel next door.

Yes, and so is the tithing office, on the same entry. The Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office were listed on April 16, 1971 under reference number 71000859, covering a quarter acre at Main and Grass Valley Streets. The joint listing is the detail worth knowing, because it tells you the two buildings were understood as a single nineteenth century civic and religious complex rather than as a landmark plus an outbuilding.

Yes, on a free guided visit, in the summer season. The guides work the construction and the ornamentation, which is where the building gets genuinely interesting, and the tour continues into the tithing office next door if you ask for it. Call 435-574-3202 for the current hours rather than relying on any published schedule, because both the season and the daily window move.

Only the first floor. The building predates any notion of an accessible route by about a century and the upper level is reached the way it always was, by stairs. The tithing office, the grounds and the Sons of Utah Pioneers marker are all on the flat, so there is a worthwhile visit here without the stairs, but it is honest to say the whole building is not reachable.

Yes. The fire burned into this community in June 2025, destroyed fourteen residences and four outbuildings, and covered 15,675 acres of the mountain before it was contained on August 7. Between four and five hundred people were evacuated from Pine Valley, Grass Valley and Gray's Ranch. The chapel came through intact, and in a community that lost fourteen houses that became the thing people held onto.

Because a scaled down replica was built at This Is The Place Heritage Park. It is the reason photographs captioned Pine Valley Chapel occasionally show a building in the wrong landscape. The original is the one standing in a meadow at about 6,500 feet with the Pine Valley Mountains behind it, thirty five miles north of St. George. If the background is a city, you are looking at the copy.

Nothing. The guided visit is free, the tithing office is included, the marker outside is free, and there is street parking on Main with no meters, no lot and no charge. Allow forty five minutes rather than fifteen if you intend to ask questions, which is the point of a guided visit to a building whose interest is almost entirely in how it was put together.