Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church is located north of Waterville, Iowa, United States.

[1] In the autumn of 1850, the meeting was held to organize a Christian school and a place for worship by the first Norwegian immigrant settlers to the Paint Creek area of Allamakee County.

[2] The school was organized in March the following year with Ole Larson as the first teacher.

The first church services were held in July in the home of Thomas Anderson by Pastor Claus Lauritz Clausen from Rock County, Wisconsin.

[3] In 1880, a controversy over predestination erupted among Norwegian Lutherans which affected the congregations in the Paint Creek area.

Another split in the congregation occurred in 1907 that resulted in the establishment of the Waterville Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The projecting central pavilion is capped with a frame bell chamber and spire that rises to a height of 100 feet (30 m).

Its exterior is also composed of limestone that is laid in random coursed ashlar without a stucco covering.