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25 years ago
The newly renovated Newel K. Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio, the site of many significant events in early Church history, was dedicated Aug. 25, 1984.
President Gordon B. Hinckley, then second counselor in the First Presidency, conducted the dedicatory service and President Ezra Taft Benson, then president of the Quorum of the Twelve, gave the dedicatory prayer, according to the Sept. 2, 1984, Church News.
It reported: "President Hinckley said the significance of the Whitney store lies not in its history as a store, but in its importance as a divine setting that will 'be maintained over the years.'
"If New York was the birthplace of the Church, Ohio was the school place," President Hinckley said, "because of the missionary work and the revelations received in the area."
