The Carbon Tabernacle stood on this site as a landmark and center place of worship from 1914 to 1961 for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For 47 years it served as the Carbon and North Carbon Stake Center, the ward meetinghouse for Price First and Second Wards, and the scene of many civic, political, graduation, and recreational programs. After completion of the basement, the quarterly two-day conference for Carbon Stake was held there on March 14, 1914, and the last meeting was held June 4, 1961. Designed by Miles E. Miller, a young Salt Lake City architect, the two-story building was begun with a groundbreaking on August 28, 1911, at an estimated cost of $35,000, and after twelve years of construction it was dedicated on July 1, 1923, at a final cost of $100,046.62. The structure measured 115 feet long, 66 feet wide, and 32 feet high, with a tower at the northwest corner, a reinforced concrete foundation, and walls of white enamel pressed cement bricks laid with black mortar and trimmed with white stone. Its main floor held a large auditorium with oak pews for one thousand persons and one of the largest and best toned pipe organs in the state, with a large Relief Society room and adjoining classrooms to the north; the second floor had a balcony overlooking the main meeting hall, five classrooms, and two more classrooms in the tower; and the basement contained a large amusement hall, dance floor, stage, dressing rooms, and baptismal font.