At Home in the Beehive House: Everyday Life with Brigham Young

An Evenings at the Museum presentation in the Church History Museum auditorium.

Courtesy Church History Library and Archives

Thursday, August 29, 2019, 7:00 p.m.

Brigham Young is well known as a great prophet, governor, and colonizer of the American West. He is also known as the husband of many wives and the father of many children. But less is known about Brigham Young’s everyday domestic life.

Church History Museum educators Maryanne Andrus and Tiffany Taylor Bowles will examine the daily life of Brigham Young in his best-known home, the Beehive House, at an Evenings at the Museum presentation in the Church History Museum auditorium on Thursday, August 29, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

The Beehive House was Brigham Young’s home from 1854 until he died on August 29, 1877. At any given time, one of Young’s wives typically served as the hostess of the Beehive House while an additional 12 wives and their children lived next door in the Lion House. In addition to conducting Church and government business and hosting thousands of guests at the Beehive House, Brigham Young raised children, nurtured family relationships, and helped manage the everyday household affairs of his large family and home.

The presentation will also include a leisurely, half-mile walk from the museum to the Beehive House and the Brigham Young Family Memorial Cemetery on First Avenue, where Brigham Young is buried.

Attendance is free and open to the public.