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.