Tour Guide to the Temple Square: Info about Beehive House

Temple Square in Salt Lake City is the most populous tourist place which has nearly 20 attractions related to the history of Mormon Pioneer. The visitors can see the most of the attraction in a short period of time. Parking in Temple square is expensive the alternate solution for the expensive parking is better the visitors can take taxis and other public transportation to visit Temple Square.

Information about Temple Square

http://www.utah.com/mormon/temple_square.htm

There is an option to visit Beehive House which is located in the Temple square. The free 30 minute tour of the Beehive House will help you to see all the attractions around and the buildings in the House.

Beehives House is a primitive type of building made from a circle of stone with a doomed roof. The building is called by the name as it has a structure of the straw beehive. The house is one of the two official residences of Brigham Young who was the president of LDS church. The house is constructed of adobe and sandstone.

The Beehive House is built in 1854. It offers numerous pleasant decorated rooms including the play room, the kitchen, the family room, the fairy castle, and the sitting room. The house is located at the corner of the State Street and South temple, just east of the Temple Square. The house hours are from Monday to Saturday 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. In the holidays and Sundays the hours will be from 1.00 am to 1.00 pm.

Beehive House on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_House

General Information about the Beehive House

http://www.thingstodo.com/states/UT/salt_lake/beehivehouse.htm

Description of Beehive house

http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1863-1-1-1,00.html

Direction for Beehive House

http://www.mormonhistoricsitesregistry.org/USA/utah/slc/beehiveHouse/history.htm