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Tremonton Methodist Church
Garland, Utah
· Tremonton Historic District
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Methodists first held church services in this area at the Union School in 1899, four years before Tremont, later Tremonton, was founded. In 1904, the congregation began meeting in the newly constructed Odd Fellows Hall. They purchased a building lot in 1903, but did not have their own building until 1905, when they had an opportunity to buy an existing Methodist church building in Cannon, Cache County. The Victorian-style church, built in 1892, had been abandoned but remained in good condition. Tremonton settlers carefully deconstructed the building and, over three days, with help from some Cache Valley settlers, moved the church. Reverend Gilpin, then pastor of the Methodist congregation, completed much of the rebuilding himself. Although the congregation began meeting in the new building in 1905, it was not officially dedicated until December 1906 by Bishop David M. Moore. A parsonage was constructed in 1914, stained glass windows were added during the 1930s, and in 1938 a major renovation added a basement with a raised concrete foundation to create much-needed space. Later, a new Methodist church was constructed in Brigham City, where the minister for both congregations lived. Without a full-time minister in Tremonton, membership waned, the parsonage was eventually sold and moved in 1968, and the church finally closed in 1989. The building was then leased to other congregations for a number of years before being sold to West Liberty Foods for use as an employee daycare center.
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