During 1836-37, cabinetmaker David Hull led the organization of Union City's first religious society. Circuit-riding ministers held services for the fledgling Methodist congregation on alternate Sundays, and the group met in several places until a "New and Commodious" church was built in 1848 one-half block west of here. In 1880, the Coldwater Republican announced that the Methodists would build a new brick church the next season, and the present church, a High Victorian Gothic auditorium-plan building constructed in 1880-81, was dedicated in 1881. Because it so closely resembles the Constantine Methodist Episcopal Church designed by the Grand Rapids architectural firm of Robinson and Barnaby, it is believed to have been the work of the same firm. John R. Simmons, a Scottish woodworker from nearby Girard, reportedly built the church, which was dedicated on August 28, 1881.