Old Meeting House
Inscription
In 1822, after years of meeting in a grove and a nearby barn, Montpelier’s first Methodists leased this site from Gen. Parley Davis, part of a parcel he had set aside from his farm in 1796 for a town common. Lovel Kelton of Calais raised the frame for the Federal-style building, which was completed in 1825.
The meetinghouse was also used for town meetings by Montpelier until 1848, when Montpelier village became a separate town. East Montpelier held meetings here until a town hall was built in 1890. After dwindling membership led the Methodists to give up the church in 1872, an informal association of neighbors maintained the building and sponsored occasional religious services.
Regular use as a house of worship resumed in 1966.
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