The LDS Church preserved the remaining outer walls and built a new foundation and interior as part of the Provo City Center Temple, completed in 2016.

The single tower, located on the north end above the foyer, stood 80 feet (24 m) tall and carried a 500-pound (230 kg) bell.

The foundation for the first tabernacle and nearby baptismal font were unearthed by the Office of Public Archaeology at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2012.

[10] Many funerals of prominent residents of Provo were held in the tabernacle, including Abraham O. Smoot, Hugh Nibley, and Truman Madsen.

[13] The report also found deficiencies with the lack of a fire protection system (including automatic sprinklers and notification system) and human error (including multiple failures to alert authorities of suspicious circumstances such as odor, correcting an unsafe condition, and failure to recognize and respond to the fire alarm).

[14] The giclée print of Harry Anderson's The Second Coming, originally contained a number of angels as background figures, all of which were burned.

In the center of the print, while Jesus' hands and one arm were fractionally burned, the remainder of the figure was mostly intact and partially surrounded by a largely unburned area.

The fate of a notable original artwork, Minerva Teichert's 1934 painting Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, remained unknown until 22 December.

In the late afternoon, searchers located the remnants of the painting,[13] which was almost completely destroyed by the fire, and were able to identify it primarily due to the melted Plexiglass of its protective cover.

[18] The remnants of the painting were photographed and diagrammed before being turned over to BYU Risk Management officials for transportation to the property owners for preservation.

[13] Fire crews stated that, had they been aware of the significance of the painting, they would have made efforts to recover it prior to the collapse of the building's roof.

[25] A public open house was held from Friday, January 15, 2016, through Saturday, March 5, 2016, excluding Sundays, and drew more than 800,000 visitors.