[2]: 598  In its early years, the church's membership benefited from successful camp meetings, each of which saw over a hundred people profess Christianity for the first time.

[8] The present church building is a brick Gothic Revival structure with a stone foundation.

[7] Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

It was part of a multiple property submission of approximately twenty buildings,[1] scattered throughout the village in such a low concentration that a historic district designation was not practical.

Like all four of the others, the United Methodist Church qualified for inclusion on the Register because of its historically significant architecture.

In contrast to the hundreds of members in past generations, its average worship attendance by that time was just ninety-six.