The Timpanogos Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on November 8, 1885, in a meeting at the log schoolhouse presided over by Presiding Bishop William B. Preston, his counselor Robert T. Burton, and Provo Stake President Abraham O. Smoot. Timpanogos, an Indian word meaning many waters, was the name the Indians gave to the entire valley and to the mountain at the valley’s northeast border. In 1895, plans were made to erect a meetinghouse on land donated by Thomas Jefferson Patten, Sr., nephew of the Apostle David W. Patten. Peter Mastin Wentz, the first bishop, and his sons made some of the brick and the adobe lining for the building, whose restored brick face still shows the varied hues of small-batch production. Typical of the architecture of the day, the church featured gothic windows and a tower and measured fifty-two feet by thirty-six feet. Balls of carpet rags were donated and woven on hand looms into rugs, while quilts covered the window openings. Dedicated in 1898, the building served for worship, dances, and community activities, and over the years it was remodeled, renovated, and enlarged to accommodate members as the original Timpanogos Ward gave rise to a growing number of wards and stakes.