Most window glass has been removed.

A photo taken through a basement window
of a portion of the kitchen showing repairs made after the flood of 1993

The building on this property was dedicated in 1903 as the Ellsworth Congregational Church.
In 1912 the congregations of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Congregational Church began meeting together
with the name of the Union Church.   The Congregational Church building was used for Sunday meetings and weddings
while the Methodist Episcopal Church building was used for suppers and Ladies Aid meetings
until 1923 when a basement was dug for the Congregational Church building.

The basement now offered the Union Church the needed space for dinners and informal meetings,
so the Methodist Episcopal Church building was no longer needed.
It was sold and moved five miles southeast of Ellsworth and renamed and used as the Bethany Lutheran Church.

In 1948 the Methodist members took over the Congregational congregation's debt and paid off the mortgage.
This building then was no longer the Union Church, but the Ellsworth Methodist Church.
The church finally closed in 2023, and was removed in 2025.

 There are always continual changes in Ellsworth and the rest of the world.
This next photo was also seen on Page D, showing the early days of Ellsworth.

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