This photo was likely taken when the temple, which took exactly 40 years to build, was only 10 – 15 years old.
Then, as always, the grounds were open to the public but the temple itself is restricted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints members. It is built of quartz monzonite which has a granite appearance and was quarried at the Little Cottonwood Canyon twenty miles away.
This is a small cabinet card from a tourist's camera, but from a photographer who knew how to control parallax and distortion.