1842 - The Prophet Joseph Smith administers the first endowments in the upstairs room of the his Red Brick Store near his home on Water Street in Nauvoo, Illinois.  The Prophet recorded, "I spent the day in the upper part of the store . . . in council with General James Adams, of Springfield, Patriarch Hyrum Smith, Bishops Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, and President Brigham Young and Elders Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards, instructing them in the principles and order of the Priesthood, attending to washings, anointings, endownments and the communication of keys pertaining to the Aaronic Priesthood, and so on to the highest order of the Melchisedek Priesthood, setting forth the order pertaining to the Ancient of Days, and all those plans and principles by which any one is enabled to secure the fullness of those blessings which have been prepared for the Church of the First Born, and come up and abide in the presence of the Eloheim in the eternal worlds.  In this council was instituted the ancient order of things for the first time in these last days" (History of the Church, 5:1-2).