Icarian drawing of temple ruins Drawing of the Nauvoo Temple ruins by an Icarian artist in 1850's, taken from Jean Francois Cretinon's Voyage en Icarie, published in Paris in 1952.

The temple ruins are in the center of the drawing. The two other buildings were constructed by the Icarians in the 1850's. The one on the left is a schoolhouse, constructed completely of salvaged temple limestone. The L-shaped building on the right is a two-story frame building, called the Dinning Hall, where the Icarians ate their communal meals.