Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Salem United Methodist Church, is a historic

United Methodist The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelic ...

church in Helt Township, Vermillion County,

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. The church was built in 1878 to house Vermillion County's first Methodist congregation, which was established in the 1820s. The brick church was designed in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style. The front of the church features a brick tower topped with a truncated roof and a bell tower. The church's windows and front entrance have a

pointed arch A pointed arch, ogival arch, or Gothic arch is an arch with a pointed crown, whose two curving sides meet at a relatively sharp angle at the top of the arch. This architectural element was particularly important in Gothic architecture. The earlie ...

design. The church was added to the

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on February 22, 1979.

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