Here at the corner of East South Temple and State Street sits the Brigham Young Complex, home and offices of the second president of the LDS Church. This surviving part of a once-larger compound includes the Beehive House, Young's family residence, the Lion House, his official residence as church leader and governor of the Utah Territory, and two small office buildings he used for official business. The site is set apart by a low rubble wall, portions of which were first placed when Young designated the site in the 1850s and portions later moved because of road widening.
The complex is a National Historic Landmark District, recognized for its connection to Young and to his leadership that included rapid expansion of Mormon settlement across the American West. You can feel how domestic life and public authority met here: the family residence, official offices, and a visible boundary that once enclosed more of his compound. The whole group occupies the southeastern corner of the enlarged Temple Square area, at the northwest corner of East South Temple and State Street.
Portions of that low rubble wall, first laid when Young marked out the site in the 1850s, still edge the Beehive House, the Lion House, and his two small offices.