8 North Batavia Avenue
The Methodist Church of Batavia had been located on First Street at South Lincoln Avenue until 1888, when the Reverend Elijah H. Gammon and Don Carlos Newton provided funds to build a new church. The new Methodist Church of Batavia would be located at 8 North Batavia Avenue, and would be inspired by a Romanesque design that Newton had admired while traveling in France. This design incorporated the use of many different colors of unique-sized stones the majority of which came from a single farm in Batavia, not far from where Mooseheart stands today. The farm was owned by a local stone mason named Isaac S. Stephans. The church, now known as the United Methodist Church of Batavia, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
