The Heart Prairie Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church is an unusual architectural and historical resource, an intact pioneer-era rural church with distinctive features from the Greek Revival Style of architecture.

The Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by Norwegian immigrant families who came to the Towns of Whitewater and Richmond in Walworth County in the 1840s. Originally members of the local Norwegian Lutheran Church in the Town of Whitewater, the Methodists were converted by Christian Willerup, a circuit-riding preacher who had established a Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Wisconsin.

Around 1852, the Heart Prairie Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church building was constructed to serve these families. It was built with popular Greek Revival architectural style details. This style was used for many residential and institutional buildings in this part of Wisconsin during the 1840s and 1850s, but few remain intact, making this building a distinctive architectural landmark in the area.

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Heart Prairie Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church declined and during much of the twentieth century, the building stood empty. The attached cemetery, though, remained open and descendants of the original Norwegian families of the church maintain it to this day. The building was, though, a victim of vandalism and deterioration, but around 2007 some of the descendants banded together to restore the building. Their museum-like restoration efforts, completed around 2019, brought the building back to most of its original condition so that it stands today as a distinctive historic landmark representing the pioneer era in this area.