When Lewiston was originally platted, the M and H Lumber Co. donated two lots north of the town center for a church, and the new Congregational Church, built at a cost of about $3,000, was chartered and dedicated on November 7, 1894. It is the town's most historic building and the only one still operating under the same ownership and purpose since the 1800's. Its beams and arches were made of native Norway pine, and its first altar Bible was donated by the Montgomery Ward Co. of Chicago. After the lumber mill closed, the church and the town fell on hard times, leading to a consolidation in 1941 when the East Church, a small Finnish church from the east side of town, was moved to the site and attached as a parish hall and kitchen, combining the congregations. The original Finnish church had been established in 1916 to serve the Scandinavian farming community, stood across from the Finnish East Cemetery on CR 612, and held sermons in both Finnish and Swedish. The first parsonage stood just south of the church on the east side of Kneeland and had originally been the home of Lewis Jensen and family, the first General Manager of M and H Lumber Co., before the Kneelands donated it to the church when they left for other timber ventures. In 1955 the Finnish church structure was torn down to make way for improvements and a new basement, and because the original Congregational Church had been built on a badly deteriorated cedar block fo9undation, the building was moved east and set over the new basement and solid foundation, allowing plumbing and electrical improvements. In the 1980's, after a centennial of continuous operation, substantial renovations created the comfortable space used today and prepared it for another hundred years of service to God and the Lewiston community.