An 1865 meeting in James S. Marlowe's Ashton log cabin led five years later to the construction of the first Ashton Methodist Church, a one-room frame structure located on today's New Hampshire Avenue south of the crossroad. A larger building took its place in 1922. Until 1947 Ashton shared a minister with Liberty Grove Methodists in Burtonsville. In 1959, following a damaging fire, the expanding congregation sold to the Kensington Baptist Group and moved into today's pink brick church across from Tucker Lane.