Matilda Wells Streeper donated one acre of land at this site for a meeting house, leaving a grove of trees to beautify the grounds. On August 26, 1888, Apostle Francis M. Lyman of The Church of Latter-day Saints organized the Mapleton Ward, and Edwin Lucius Whiting was ordained bishop, with William T. Tew and John Mendenhall as counselors. The first building, begun in 1889 under the direction of the building committee of Lorenzo Whiting, L.J. Whitney, and Charles M. Bird, cost approximately $3,500 and was built of light-red brick with walls 12- to 14-inches thick. Measuring 58 by 30 feet, it had a large central room with tall cathedral-style windows whose colored glass cast colors onto the floor, handmade high-backed pine benches and a pine pulpit, a large central stove with an additional small stove near the rostrum, and heavy curtains that could divide the room into eight Sunday School classrooms. A small room behind the pulpit was reached by several steps, and another door opened to a stairway leading to a small prayer room above the pulpit. The removable benches allowed the floor to be cleared for dances and other socials. Around the turn of the century, a bucket brigade quickly extinguished a fire in the attic. The original meeting house was dedicated on April 30, 1899, served the community until 1936, and was then razed for the construction of the present meeting house, while the second meeting house was dedicated on April 28, 1941.