His son, Joseph Smith III, was ordained as President of Community of Christ in 1860. READ NEXT: What the Historic Kirtland site leader says about temple reopening ... it’s His house, and so ...

Perched atop a hill in the heart of Kirtland ... take the house back in time to when it was built in the 1830s. Back then, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith lived ...

The Reorganized Church — which became the Community of Christ in 2001 — obtained the Kirtland Temple through Joseph Smith’s son. Joseph Smith III bought the temple through a quit-claim deed ...