 Its original Gothic Revival section was started in 1883 during a brief 1882-83 period of prosperity of Bozeman, and was completed in 1884, making it the oldest existing Methodist Church in the state of Montana.The church was organized by A.M. Hough of Virginia City, Montana in 1866.Before that there had been a Sunday school in a log house on Bozeman's Main Street in 1865.