Well, see, the thing is that it would cost extra money to take the building apart in such as way as to preserve the windows and doors and cupboards and wood and brick.
Much cheaper to trash the whole thing and bury it.
And you know how the Mormon church is --- money first and money foremost!
Anyone here recall when members paid huge amounts into building funds? The members paid for that church. They also showed up for a lot of weekends to build it. That's how it was done back when that church was built.
All the work and money the people sacrificed for that building just got torn down. It looked like it was a perfectly good building.
Had they not just put in a Temple in Cedar City, the members would have been much less supportive on demolishing the old structure. Mormonism has always been more about destroying lives and seeing how much people will endure than using caring common sense.
What a shame. It could have easily been renovated to modernize it, and retain the historical marker that it became.
In my community rather than tearing down a church house when its value as a church is no longer viable; they are restored and renovated into condos or apartments. The aesthetics are preserved.
Not that this 1927 church bldg looks all that aesthetic. But it was a waste of money to tear it down and rebuild on the same lot.