Mormon Landscape:
Wide Streets
Identify the distinctive Mormon elements in this
landscape.
Answers: (wide streets can also be seen in the
1867 bird's
eye view of Salt Lake City, drawn by Christian Inger and printed
by H. J. Toudy)
- a very
wide road, used only in the middle
- farm houses and barns in
villages, rather than scattered throughout the countryside as in the Midwest
- I-shaped houses:
one room wide, two stories high
Created by Ingolf Vogeler 1 February 1996; last revised on
06 April 2005.