The purchase of the New York Store in 1845 was the first real office complex for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This took the early church from a loosely structured group centered around a charismatic prophet to an organized religion. The minute books of the Council of Fifty were kept in the New York Store, though they met in the Seventies Hall. Meetings of the church were held in various locations around town, but the New York store is where the clerks worked and kept everything running smoothly.