The Free Will Baptist Church was organized in Russell in 1839. The congregation met in Russell until 1842 when they moved to Chagrin and built a Union Meeting House on the point of land where Front (Bell) and Vincent Street meet. They shared the building with the Wesleyan Methodists who split off from the main Methodist church over the issue of slavery. The congregation eventually disbanded and sold the building. It was then moved across Bell Street and used as a warehouse for one of the mills. It was destroyed by fire in 1965.