Methodist Hall - (Monthly Programs)
50 East King Street
Littlestown, PA 17340

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Littlestown, PA 17340


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The significance of this building is not its age, or it's style, but for what it has been used for since it was built.
(Located at the rear of the Methodist Church at 50 East King Street.)

 

On November 1, 1925 the Methodist Social Hall was dedicated. The building cost was approximately $7,800 with subscriptions being started by the gift of $750 from the estate of Lizzie Nicks.

In 1925 the Littlestown High School was next door to the Hall. Now the Community Center is what was this School building. For this reason the school used Methodist Hall for different purposes.

In 1928 the senior class play, “SUNSHINE”, was presented in the Methodist Hall.


Methodist Hall was also used for basketball games that the school played. It was used as the school recreational hall.

The social hall was used for high school plays and for basketball games until the Maple Avenue School was built in 1933.

The Methodist Hall was also used as a Town Hall, Banquetr Hall, a cigar factory, sewing factory, a bowling alley, a sewing factory again, for storage, and now is converted into an educational and social, building for use by the members. The senior center got its start here. The community food pantry began in this building. Day care was housed here for a time. The Head Start program used this facility for a while. The Lions Club now meeets in this hall.


The Littlestown Bowling Center opened here in 1941. The Church uses this building for Sunday School, social gatherings, wedding receptions, funeral receptions, and other such events.

On January 14, 2007 the church held a Littlestown History night, showing a PowerPoint Show of Littlestown Area History. An outgrowth of this event was the Littlestown Area Historical Society.

 

 

 

 

 



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