The church congregation was founded in 1873 and met in a small schoolhouse, then built a white wooden church in 1876.

It is Romanesque Revival in style and was designed by architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr.

It is built of red brick and has two towers of different heights.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as "Arlington Methodist Episcopal Church, South".

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