Prominent Brandywine Hundred families met on March 8, 1845, established a subscription fund to build a church they named Newark Union, staked out the building on August 2, 1845, and dedicated it on January 4, 1846. The stone, one-room, two-story meeting house reflected continuing building practices in Delaware's Piedmont region. By the end of that year, it was open to the Quaker community, with Saturdays used for the exchange of goods and Sundays for worship services. On February 26, 1885, the trustees sought admission to the Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Conference, beginning a period of exclusive Methodist use even though the building technically remained community property. In 1906, the congregation led by Nelson L. Talley began repairs, renovations, and restyling that transformed the fieldstone church into a modest Gothic Revival-style building. By 1951, the congregation had outgrown it and established Aldersgate Methodist Church on Concord Pike in Wilmington. After use by an evangelistic congregation from 1957 to 1970, the church stood empty until restoration work began in 2020. Original craftsmanship from 1845 and 1906 remains visible in the stone walls, hand-hewn beams, and other interior wood structures from the Quaker building, as well as in the Gothic lancet windows, whitewashed stucco, and foyer added by the Methodists.