Demolition
The Endowment House became a casualty of the anti-polygamy campaign of the U.S. Federal Government, especially the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887, which disincorporated the LDS Church and allowed the federal government to seize all of its assets. The Church leaders ceased performing new plural marriages. In October 1889 Wilford Woodruff, President of the Church, learned that a plural marriage had been performed the previous spring in the Endowment House without his permission. After discussing the matter with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he ordered the building razed without delay. The Salt Lake Tribune in its November 17, 1889, issue reported that the building was "being demolished." By the end of the month all trace of the Endowment House was gone. Some two years later Woodruff issued the 1890 Manifesto, officially ending the Mormon practice of polygamy, which had been so firmly associated in the mind of the public with the Endowment House.
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