Nauvoo Continued

The RLDS church owns several of the historic sites in Nauvoo including the Mansion House, Nauvoo House, Homestead, and Red Brick Store. You can click on the signs to find out more about each building. We didn't take the "formal" tour given by the RLDS church because we had taken before and knew that we didn't have the time. We didn't go inside the buildings, but just got some quick pictures.




The Mansion House were the Smiths lived and that was also a boarding house




The Nauvoo house was used to house the sick or those just moving into town. Unfortunately it was never finished.


This little fella was outside the homestead. Most of these buildings were right next to the Mississippi River. I can imagine the Saints had frogs, snakes and other creatures around a lot.





The backyard of the homestead


The front of the homestead. This was the first home the Smith's had in Nauvoo.


The graves of Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum. Originally their remains were not here, but were later moved.


The graves of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith.


The names of the whole Smith Family within the family cemetery. How fitting that they could be buried near each other and finally together in heaven after a life apart from each other.




The front of the Red Brick Store, which was a store and still is. More importantly upstairs is were the Relief Society was organized.


The sign hanging over Joseph Smith's office upstairs in the Red Brick store. They sell these signs now at places like Deseret Book.


The inside of the Prophet's office, in my opinion hallowed ground, probably were significant things were written.


Inside the room were the Relief Society was organized.


The Brick Yard. I'm not sure if this chimney was originally there, but I think the bricks are original. BTW, the RLDS store sells the bricks in the Red Brick store, but save your money, they are given out for free at the Brick Yard.


Lucy Mack Smith's home. She did not live here until the last few years of her life.


The dining/parlor/kitchen. Her home had the steepest (is that a word?) stairs in all of Nauvoo and because of her arthritis she stayed downstairs...so everything pretty much was within a room or two to make it accessible to her.


The bed she slept in, some of her clothes, and her picture hanging.




The front of the 70's hall, which basically was the first MTC.


The front of Wilford Woodruff's home. I will always remember this home because it has a fireplace in every room. President Woodruff hated being cold while serving a mission in England so when he got home he was adamant about having a fireplace in every room to keep warm.


The Parlor


A picture of the First Presidency when Wilford Woodruff was the President.


A Bee Box. I thought this was an ingenious invention. Children would take half of this box, go out and catch a bee, return home and attach the rest of the box filled with flour, coat the bee in flour, and release the bee. Then they would follow the easier to see bee back to the hive and get honey for the family.


Wilford Woodruff's kitchen


An example of what the underside of the beds looked like and were we also get the expression, "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite."


The front of Heber C. Kimball's home


A painting of Heber C. Kimball, whose life history I just read and would highly recommend!


The parlor, which had a baby grand piano. There were many other instruments throughout the house.


One of the other pianos in his home. It was a very impressive home.

Glimpses of Nauvoo

One of my favorite things about Nauvoo is the Mississippi River that hugs the city in a horseshoe shape. I think it is so beautiful to look out from almost any place in the city and see the river. I also love the water lilies that grow along the edges of the river.


The front of Brigham Young's house. He did not build a house as quickly as other saints in Nauvoo because he first lived in Montrose across the river on the other side.


What at first I thought to be a dining room in Brigham Young's home, but it really ended up being an office were the brethren would get together.


The actual dining room and kitchen in President Young's home.


Sign for one of the many school's that were in Nauvoo.


The inside of the schoolhouse.


Front of the post office in Nauvoo. Something I thought was neat was the fact that paper was expensive so the Saints would write in a circular pattern on the paper so that they would use every inch of a piece of paper. They also used that paper as the envelope.


Front or sign on John Taylor's home, who was the 3rd president of the church


The parlor inside John Taylor's home


The printing office were Newspapers were made and other goods were also sold


Lyon Drug Store sign...there were multiple stores in Nauvoo.


I was impressed with how many goods were sold here. Everything from clothes, to flour, to molasses, etc...


They also sold medicines. One way people knew it was a drug store was by the blue and red glass containers in the window (representing your veins and blood).


Scovil Bakery, one of my favorite stops, maybe because they give you cookies and the recipe!


The inside of the bakery. The Scovil Family commissioned the blue and white temple plate (which is on the mantel, if you look very closely) to be made in celebration of the Nauvoo Temple. There are only of few of the original plates left, but I bought a replica while I was there. It has the temple in the center and the twelve apostles at the time of Brigham Young.


The inside of the Sarah Granger Kimball home. She (really her seamstress) was the one who originally thought of sewing shirts for the men building the temple, which led to the Relief Society being organized.


The outside of Sarah Granger Kimball's home, which had a great view of the temple.


The facade of the Gun Smith Shop, always a guy's favorite stop!


The wagon/carriage rides you can take. One goes on the outskirts of Nauvoo (the area where "Legacy" was filmed) and the other ride goes through Nauvoo.


This display is in the Nauvoo Visitors center. I liked it because it is a grouping of pictures about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Click on the picture to make it bigger so you can see each individual display.


If I remember correctly, this is a statute of the Father and Son appearing to Joseph or the "First Vision."