Under private ownership, it may only be seen from the outside. The Bishop John Russel House outside Keedysville and the bishop's grave in the Keedysville Cemetery are part of the proposed cluster as well. Russel helped begin publication of the Religious Telescope and trained preachers at his home. The Bishop Christian Newcomer House on U.S. 40 at Beaver Creek is fully restored and bears a county historical marker. It recognizes Newcomer's role as pioneer evangelist in the early life of the denomination.
Newcomer is credited with extending the church into the area that is now Ohio and Indiana.
He attended the denomination's 1789 conference, was secretary of the conference from 1806 until 1812, and was a bishop 1813 to 1830. He presided at the 1806 and 1808 conferences in Otterbein's absence.