Piru Methodist Church

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David C. Cook was a strict Methodist and a devoutly religious publisher of Methodist Sunday School tracts in Elgin, Ill. In 1887, soon after his arrival to Piru, Cook provided for construction of Piru Methodist Church. The church, which still stands on the north side of Center Street and the corner of Park, just west of Main, was built in a classic Carpenter Gothic style. It contains a rare pip organ, possibly the oldest pipe organ in California, said to have been built between 1860-1865 by William Johnson in Westfield, Mass. and shipped around Cape Horn. The original address of Piru Methodist Church was listed as 227 Center Street the current address is listed as 3875 Center Street.