[3][6] The Society built its first church, a blue stucco barn called the Wesley Chapel, on this site in 1768; its design was attributed to Barbara Heck.

[5] The second church on this site was built in 1817-18, and the extravagance of the building provoked a secession from the congregation by Rev.

[5] The church was designated a New York City Landmark in 1965 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Below the sanctuary, the Wesley Chapel Museum displays many artifacts from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American Methodist history.

These include church record books, the Wesley Clock (a gift of John Wesley, 1769), love feast cups, class meeting circular benches, the original 1785 altar rail, the original 1767 pulpit made by Philip Embury, and Embury's signed Bible.