Manuscript minute book containing the record of the meetings of the trustees of the Methodist Church in the small village of Turin, New York. The volume is of the greatest interest for its pages dealing with the efforts by the trustees to raise funds by subscription for the construction of the Methodist meeting house in Turin beginning in 1833. The volume has the articles of agreement between the trustees and those entrusted with the construction of the meeting house. Terms and conditions are stated as well as general specifications and details for the construction of the meeting house to be built in stone, which was to be completed by 1835.

           “… In the basement story they are to build and finish four windows not to read twenty five lights of glass with one door lay the floor lath build a suitable number  of seats with backs – a desk for the speaker and all other finer work necessary to be done in and about said basement story to fit it for plastering and painting and to complete the same for plastering and painting immediately after the roof of the house is on.

            In the body of the house they are to make and place some 7 gothic windows an eliptic window in the front and lay the floor build pulpit and altar an arch over the pulpit two outside and five inside doors two flights of stairs build the gallery supported by six or if necessary eight round pillors to be made by them with a convenient number of raised steps the front of the gallery to be pannel work lath and the whole the whole inside entry and stair way and to do all other carpenter and joiner work necessary to be done in and about the inside of said building necessary to fit & prepare it for plastering and painting – so that there shall be no extra carpenter and joiner work in and about said building either in the basement story body or any other part of said building.

       They are also to erect at the front end a steeple of suitable height size and domention with a deck floor railing  eight square top to extend above the deck floor a suitable height with arches and points at each corner and a central point or pillor and a shingled roof all of sufficient strength to support a bell. The general style of the work about the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lowville and the whole to be done in a good neet handsome substantial and workmanlike manner and have all the inside work fitted & finished and lathed for plastering by the fifteenth day of October next and to have every part of said building fully completed by the tenth day of March 1835.” [sic]