Kaysville Presbyterian Church

In the 1880s, Protestant churches pushed hard into Utah's Mormon towns, and Kaysville got this handsome brick result. Built in 1888 to a Gothic design by local architect William Allen, it went up near the tail end of an intense Presbyterian missionary campaign that planted churches and mission schools across the territory as an alternative to the dominant faith. Those efforts left more buildings than lasting congregations in most towns. This one endures as a well-made piece of that era — brick, pointed windows, and all — a minority church's mark on a Latter-day Saint town.

What the plaque says

Gothic-style church built of brick in 1888 during the last years of an intense period of missionary activity by the Presbyterians in Utah. Architect was William Allen of Kaysville. Marker placed October 1973 by Alpheus and Ivy Harvey.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lagoon Amusement Park — 4.1 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 5.8 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 13 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 13 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.

More markers nearby

• Weinel Mill — steps away
• Kaysville Tabernacle — 0.3 mi
• The House Where John Taylor Died — 1.8 mi
• Hector Haight Settlement on Haight's Creek — 2.1 mi