Marshall-Bennett Co.
1906

This entry represents the installation of a used organ. Identified through online information from Andrew Henderson [February 6, 2026]: organ transferred from Cargill Memorial Methodist Church.

The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Janesville was organized in 1843 and built its first house of worship in 1848 on the east side of Center Street (today known as McKinley Steet). Its second church building, a brick structure, 75' x 45', was completed in July of 1853 at the corner of Center and Jackson Streets, nearly opposite its original building. A daughter congregation, Court Street Methodist Episcopal Church, was organized in 1867. In 1904, the two remerged to form "The Central Methodist Episcopal Church," since renamed to Cargill United Methodist Church. First Methodist's former building was sold to the fledgling St. Peter's English Evangelical Lutheran Church, which had been organized only the year before (in 1903). St. Peter's continued to use the building until 1956, when they built a new church in the suburbs. The old building was razed sometime before 1985.

Sources: The History of Rock County, Wisconsin. . . (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879), 553–54.

https://www.cargillumc.org/history/

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AQL6UW74X2BWAP8L