Methodists have been worshipping in Chester as early as 1868. In 1881 they moved into a building that was moved from Bedminster, now the Black River Playhouse building at 54 Grove Street.
In 1908 a new Methodist Church was built near the site of the current Boy Scout Cabin in Municipal Park. The church had a “bowled floor lecture room opening into the main audience room, paneled ceiling, beautiful Cathedral glass windows of elaborate design, steam heat, modern pews, choir gallery, a good piano, and lighted by acetylene gas; value of the property $8000”.
Due to economic reasons the 3 churches of Chester formed the Federated Church in 1918 with 120 Congregationalists, 100 Presbyterians, and 60 Methodists. The Congregationalists withdrew after the war in 1920.