Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

Rock Church (Auburn, Wyoming)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
85003222

Function
  
Church

Built
  
1889

Opened
  
1889

Added to NRHP
  
13 December 1985

Rock Church (Auburn, Wyoming)

Location
  
Second W and First S Sts., Auburn, Wyoming

The Rock Church of Auburn, Wyoming is a historic church building that has served also as a community center. Also known as Latter Day Saints Auburn Ward Meeting House, it is located at Second W and First S Sts. in Auburn. It was built in 1889 out of stone, which, in the Star Valley in which it is located, is rarely used in architecture. It is a steeply gabled structure, of size approximately 30 by 15 feet (9.1 m × 4.6 m).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1985. At the time of its NRHP listing, it was significant as the only building from the 1800s still in regular use in the area, and as one of the very oldest buildings surviving in Star Valley. Its NRHP nomination asserted that it "embodies the type, period, and method of construction utilized by early pioneers for buildings of major importance."

References

Rock Church (Auburn, Wyoming) Wikipedia