Beehive House — Attraction in Salt Lake City

Had a pleasant and interesting day touring all the Temple Square sites; for some reason the Mormon church chose this particular tour to really lay on the hard sell, though.

For comparison, I'd say the tour of the Tabernacle was 90% interesting history and 10% light proselyting, which was fine. I understand it's a church, that's their job.

The Beehive House tour was at least 80% proselyting. The two sisters were laying it on pretty thick with the testifying, and were quick to awkwardly change the subject when anyone asked a question about history.

Brigham Young was a controversial guy. Polygamy, colonization and racism are kind of what he's known for. You can't just pretend that stuff never happened when you're giving a tour of the place where it all happened.

By half way through, many people in our group were ignoring the guides and just reading the Brigham Young Wikipedia article on...

Cool house, slightly awkward tour guide. They lay the preaching on pretty thick about their religion and what the LDS represents which I guess given their reputation as missionaries is expected. We also missed a room because another group was in there and asked if we could go back since they weren't there anymore, they were quite apprehensive and you could tell they didn't want to which was odd we had to push them a little to take us. Seemed like they were not flexible and pretty strict, but again not unexpected. The tour itself was okay, aside from the preaching they kept throwing in I would have rather just looked around. I suggest asking them about some of the more controversial subjects that Brigham Young was known for if you wanna make it more...

Oh my goodness! The quality of this tour has grown 10O0% better now that the Church history department has taken the reigns from the missionary department.

I highly recommend this. You get the historical aspects of the home and of the period. Polygamy is not hidden or glossed over, but stated as a matter of fact way of life.

The guides are knowledgeable and accurate and there is no missionary pressure or out of the blue testifying that can turn off non-members who are there for the history and asking members for referrals of their friends which has been a guilt-ridden staple of historical sites in the past.

Such a pleasant and...