Aberdeen First United

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 ...

Church is a historic church at S. Lincoln Street and SE 5th Avenue in

Aberdeen, South Dakota Aberdeen (Lakota language, Lakota: ''Ablíla'') is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, South Dakota, Brown County, South Dakota, United States, located approximately northeast of Pierre, South Dakota, Pierre. The city population was 2 ...

. The church was built during 1904-05 and dedicated November 7, 1909. It was added to the National Register in 1976. The building features a "dome on

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s" with "an open lantern atop the

Terneplate Terne plate is a form of tinplate: a thin steel sheet coated with an alloy of lead and tin. The terne alloy was in the ratio of 10-20% tin and the remainder lead. The low tin content made it cheaper than other tinplates. Terne plate was used fo ...

-covered roof." With .

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Methodist churches in South Dakota Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota Churches completed in 1905 Buildings and structures in Aberdeen, South Dakota Churches in Brown County, South Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Brown County, South Dakota 1905 establishments in South Dakota {{SouthDakota-church-stub