Attractions

Welcome to the Historic Kirtland Visitors Center

Housed in this 1,000 square foot, two story replica of an 1899 grist mill are:

Exhibit rooms with historical photographs of Kirtland, a collection of Liz Lemon Swindle’s paintings of Joseph Smith and family. Also, the fine 7′ x 9′ painting of the Kirtland Temple in the process of construction by Walter Rane.

In the 120 seat theater a film introduces visitors to the Kirtland period of Church history.

Panoramic views of Historic Kirtland can be seen from one of the rooms.

Tours of the reconstructed or restored buildings begin here.

The painstaking reconstruction and restoration process has required the help of volunteers and the skills of historians, archeologists, dendrochronologists, craftsmen and artisans with a knowledge of the period.

The settlement’s buildings are as they appeared in the 1830s when the Latter-day Saints settled here.