Side view.

ID: 650 ~ Source: Photo by Randy Trabold, Courtesy of Freel Library, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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Looking back towards downtown North Adams, the church can be seen, along with a sign for the adjacent Auge funeral home.

This file appears in: First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church

By James Miller

Methodism in North Adams can be traced back to 1823, when there were only 2,000 citizens in the village of Adams, (which included present-day North Adams). Laymen Ebenezer Alden and Joseph Hayden held a meeting of prayer in Alden’s house. This…