First Church was built at the corner of Church and Spring streets. The building is Federal style with a square clock tower, open octagonal belfry surmounted by an octagonal cupola with a wrought-iron weathervane. The congregation formed in 1796. The construction of the building began in June, 1818 and the new meetinghouse was dedicated on November 15, 1818.

In May of 1819 a Paul Revere Bell was hung in the belfry. In 1836 the town owned clock, designed by Belfast clock makers, Timothy Chase and Phineas P. Quimby, was installed.