Itinerant preachers often met with local Methodists in the early days of settlement. Organized on May 25, 1868, by the Rev. Andrew Davis, First United Methodist Church of Lancaster is one of the oldest churches in North Texas. Services were held in Masonic Hall until a church building was erected in 1874. It had separate entrances and seating for men and women in the Victorian manner. After a new church was constructed in 1911, the original building was used as a Sunday School annex but was later razed. The present sanctuary, erected in 1957, stands on the site of the original church.