I just read an excellent work defending the “traditional” view that the Church was founded in the Peter Whitmer farmhouse in Fayette, New York, instead of the Hyrum Smith household in Manchester as proposed by some historians (e.g., Wesley Walters and Michael Marquardt, Inventing Mormonism[Signature Books, 1994]).
Michael Hubbard MacKay, Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism (BYU Religious Studies Center, 2016)
It is a short volume (less than 130 pages), but very well-documented and provides a convincing case that the Church was founded in Fayette, attempts at revisionist histories notwithstanding.
