The Endowment House was a two story adobe structure which was located in the northwest corner of Temple Square. It was completed in April 1855 and dedicated by Heber C. Kimball on 5 May 1855. It was torn down under the direction of President Wilford Woodruff in the spring of 1889. He reported that good schools were functioning, but there were conflicts on fast days, which were usualryThursdays. In most of the wards, schools and church meetings were held in the same building.40 In November 1881, a special meeting was called wherein all the bishops reported the results of their canvas of the wards for funds to put the roof on the stake meetinghouse. Over 1400 had been collected and a special committee was appointed to purchase the needed materials.41 By the fall of 1882, the Saints in Morgan Stake were beginning to feel the pressure of the U.S. government's fight against polygamy with the passage of the Edmunds Tucker Bill. The brethren were reminded by the stake presidency that they would be strengthened through persecution. At the same meeting, President Smith called for a general rally in order to effect a partial completion of the stake meetinghouse so that it could be used for the next stake conference. He also reminded the brethren that they were "part of a temple district that is erecting the grandest temple of our day" and asked them, "What are we doing toward it?"42 Stake Meetinghouse Completed By 21 May 1882, the stake meetinghouse was ready for the stake conference. The finish work inside, however, was not yet completed, but at least the members of the stake had a building large enough to hold the congregation which gathered for the quarterly meetings. The foundation of the building was five feet deep and three feet wide, and the dimensions of the main chapel were forty feet by eighty feet and thirty feet to the square. Henry Rock, Conrad Smith, and George Criddle were the rock masons; and the walls were made of hard blue limestone taken from the quarry above Como and hauled about three miles to the site. The uprights, braces, and planks were made of red pine poles. There were no hydraulic lifts, so wheelbarrows were used to deliver the rocks to the workmen. As the walls got higher, Ambrose Welch and his son Dan, both large strong men, wheeled the rocks to the top of the building.43 When the twenty-second quarterly conference of the stake convened in the stake facility on 17 and 18 February 1883, Elder Franklin D. Richards, of the Quorum of the Twelve, attended. The existing minutes of the meetings are brief, but one excerpt from Brother Richards' address is especially