The Green Street Church Museum began as Englewood's first church building, first located on Magnolia near Green Street. Community Methodists started Sunday School classes in Josie Quimby Miller's home around 1905, and after the church officially organized in 1914, services were held in temporary locations and led by visiting preachers. With support from several sources, including Stanley Lampp and the Florida Methodist Conference Board of Missions, the group built a simple frame church without going into debt, and the congregation first worshipped there on April 5, 1928. After the collapse of the 1920s Land Boom hit Englewood hard, the church struggled, and Lottie Lampp is credited with keeping the small congregation together by cleaning the church, supplying flowers, and playing the piano when needed. Through her efforts, Roy Gustaison, a Baptist minister and cornetist from Venice, called worshippers together, and the sound of his cornet drew fishing parties in from the bay while women held bake sales to raise the $5 needed to pay him. By 1952 the congregation was strong enough financially to support a permanent pastor, the Rev. Edgar E. Stauffer, at an annual salary of $2500. In 1953 the facilities were enlarged, the original slat benches were replaced with pews, and a widened front door allowed the church to be used for funeral services. The congregation broke ground for a new sanctuary in 1962, and the original building was moved to the western side of the property, turned to face Green Street, redesigned, and named the Lampp Youth Center in honor of the Lampp family's contributions. In 1979 the Methodists moved to a new location, and the Church of the Nazarene purchased the Green Street church. When renovation plans raised concerns about the building's historical integrity, the Lemon Bay Historical Society negotiated to receive the building with a 99-year lease on the land for $1 per year. After restoration work was completed in 1992, the Society converted the church into a museum.