The Clinton LDS Ward Meetinghouse in Clinton, Davis County, is significant at the local level under Criterion A in the areas of Religion and Social History and under Criterion C in the area of Architecture. Under Criterion A, the Meetinghouse is significant in the areas of Religion and Social History for its long-standing role as a focal point of Latter-day Saint identity and gathering within the Clinton community. The building served as the primary location for ecclesiastical functions of the Clinton Ward and functioned as an important venue for a wide range of community social and secular activities, reinforcing its role as a shared civic and social center beyond its religious use. Under Criterion C, the Clinton LDS Ward Meetinghouse is significant at the statewide level for its architectural design and detailing, which reflect an early and influential phase in the development of LDS meetinghouse architecture. The building represents the earliest attempt by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to adopt a distinct Modernist architectural identity using the Prairie Style for its meetinghouses, temples and other institutional buildings. More specifically, the Clinton Meetinghouse is recognized as the first church building in Utah to demonstrate direct influence from the twentieth-century Prairie School Style popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright. By bridging traditional ecclesiastical forms and emerging Modernist principles, the Meetinghouse represents an important transitional moment in Utah architecture and in the evolution of Mormon design history. The period of significance is 1910 to 1974; a block of time that spans the meetinghouse’s completion in 1910, its dedication in 1911, the completion of its addition in 1943, and ends with the building’s sale by the LDS Church in 1974.
