Aurora First United Methodist Church, also known as the First United Methodist Church of Aurora and Aurora Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...

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located at 304 Third Street in

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Dearborn County, Indiana Dearborn County is one of 92 counties of the U.S. state of Indiana located on the Ohio border near the southeast corner of the state. It was formed in 1803 from a portion of Hamilton County, Ohio. In 2020, the population was 50,679. The county ...

. It was built between about 1855 and 1862, and is a two-story, gable front,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style brick building. It measures 45 feet, 6 inches, wide and 95 feet deep. A

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front was added to the original building in 1903 and one-story rear addition built between 1885 and 1888. The church was remodeled in 1954. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was added to the

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in 1994. It is located in the

Downtown Aurora Historic District Downtown Aurora Historic District is a national historic district located at Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana. The district encompasses 272 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures in the central business distr ...

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