Methodist Church
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The Methodists established Virginia City’s first church at Jackson and Cover Streets in 1864. D. C. Farwell built this Gothic Revival style church, which replaced the older building. The funeral of William Fairweather, discoverer of gold in Alder Gulch, was the occasion for the first service on August 28, 1875.
On the front of the church, stucco scored to resemble cut stone covers the rubble stone walls in imitation of stone Gothic buildings back East. Services were held here into the 1920s, and building was then used as the school gym until 1935.
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