# First United Methodist Church (Castle Rock)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/first-united-methodist-church-castle-rock/

- Kind: Churches
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3721, -104.8589 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

The congregation began in a carpenter shop in May 1874, built a church at Third and Wilcox in 1887 and moved it here, to Third and Perry, in 1904; a 'basement church' in 1922, the upper story in 1948 (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-061; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [First National Bank and Masonic Building](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/first-national-bank-and-masonic-building/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Goldenrod Grange No. 192](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/goldenrod-grange-no-192/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Castle Rock Rio Grande depot](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock-rio-grande-depot/): 0.1 mi northeast
- [Castle Rock Grange No. 62](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock-grange-no-62/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Douglas County Courthouse (1889)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas-county-courthouse-1889/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [St. Francis of Assisi Church (1888)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-francis-of-assisi-church-1888/): 0.1 mi west

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.