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acquired and demolished for the Church parking lot. The fine old residence housed Middletown's first bank which was chartered July 1, 1839. Much later, 1933–1945, it served at the YMCA.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
This church began meeting in Middletown about 1891 and was formally organized December 22, 1895. On 1915, the church moved to the community hall of the Lutheran Church on Linden Avenue and later to the gym behind the Hospital Department of the Middletown Sanitarium at 11 Benton Avenue. From 1931 to 1961, services were held in the former Old School Baptist Church on Roberts Street.
Around 1958, the church purchased the old house on the corner of Wickham Avenue and Courtland Street, which went back to Highland Avenue. This house had been built for Joshua Draper in 1873. Prominent Middletown architect Cornelius J. Sloat had designed the house. Working under Mr. Sloat on the house was a young, but expert carpenter named Frank J. Lindsey who would soon become a fine architect as well. The Stivers family occupied the house from 1882 until 1950. It sat abandoned until demolished around 1958 to build the church. The church was built on the site in 1961.