The Wesleyan Church was a Methodist church located in Seneca Falls in Seneca county, New York. The red brick church was constructed in 1843 and is best known as a local safe haven for many historical movements. Movements surrounding ideas of antislavery, women's rights, politics, and other practices of free speech took place here. Although the church is well known for its many historical moments, it served many other purposes as the years progressed. 

The chapel made its way through the hands of an array of owners, who used the building to serve for more than religious or political purposes. A prime example of the church's many services includes the times when it served as a theatre, telephone company, and even a laundromat. As the church passed from owner to owner, the church’s original exterior and interior designs had been greatly altered. In the year of 1985, the National Park Service bought the historic church and began to work on the building’s rehabilitation. The church's rehabilitation was not meant to be a complete reconstruction due to the lack of photographic references. In the years that the church was in its historical prime, photography was only in its beginning years of common use. Due to this fact, there are no pictures to show what Wesleyan Church looked like during the significant political and social movements. Without pictures to give accurate representations of the church there can’t be proper reconstruction done to the buidling. The Church rehabilitation began in August of 2009, with construction lasting around a year to finish the chapel in the spring of 2010. The end goal of the chapel’s construction was to help preserve what was left from the historic original. 

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