[2][3] Designed by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford and completed in 1880,[1] it was the home of the first German Methodist church to be established anywhere in the world,[4] and it was declared a historic site in the late twentieth century.

[1] Born in 1807 in the city of Stuttgart in Germany, William Nast immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-one.

Starting in Cincinnati in 1837, he began a process of organizing Methodist churches among German immigrants throughout the United States.

[9] Two-and-a-half stories tall, the church features a prominent front gable with a grand tympanum created in the Norman style.

[11]: 11  Many other churches in the region commissioned buildings from Hannaford during this period of his life; more than a dozen survive today, and nearly all of these structures feature walls of ashlar with undressed exteriors, like that of Nast Trinity.