[Nauvoo Temple] Workmen and their wives met in the attic to celebrate the completion of the Temple. They had a banquet of cakes, pies and other goods. They spent the evening in prayer, testimony bearing, preaching and some brought their children in for blessings. The festivities lasted until mid-night.
The Iowa Capital Reporter ran an article about a "wealthy gentleman from the South," who had recently been in St. Louis and was on his way to Nauvoo to purchase the Temple as an "asylum for widows and destitute females."
[source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
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