<p>The Jay Van Hook Potato Cellar is a historic potato house located in Jerome, Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Van Hook potato cellar was built in 1922 using local lava rock. The low, earth covered structure is about 122 feet long with stone end walls of about 58 feet. The facade and end walls slope to about 12 feet above ground level at center. Each of these wall has an 8 foot double door large enough and configured to allow wagons or trucks to drive through the building. Flush jams and lintels of rough concrete surround the doors, the lintels faced with wooden planks. Small four paned ventilation windows near ground level are on either side of the doors on both ends. The main facade door has a smaller door cut into it. The interior is supported by a pole framework covered with wire, straw and dirt. The interior floor slopes downward to about 6 feet below ground level at center. The wide joints of the masonry are filled to the face of the stone making the stones appear submerged in mortar. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983, as part of a group of structures built from lava rock in south central Idaho.</p><br>
<p>The Arnold Stevens House is a historic house located in Jerome, Idaho. It is part of the Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho Thematic Resource and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lava rock is a regional term for structures built using basalt. Building with lava rock in Jerome and Lincoln Counties of South Central Idaho was done by skilled immigrant stone masons from the 1880s until about the 1940s when the last large scale structures were built under the Works Progress Administration.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1917 and 1918 for Arnold Stevens a farmer the house is significant historically for its architecture and craftsmanship. The Otis family of stone masons from Hagerman, Idaho built the home with the carpenter Charles Geer who was assisted by Stevens. It is an exceptionally aesthetic rural exemplar of the American Craftsman Bungalow style. The contrast of dark stone with white joints, porch columns and gables are employed to create lightness and pattern while the broad wings of the gable roof suggest the building is hovering low to the ground.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is one and half stories tall and approximately 34 ft by 44 ft. The gable roof has wide eaves and is built with decorative shingles. The front exposure has a shallow shed roofed dormer with three pairs of square single pane lights. Above the one story stone and on the dormer siding is clapboard.</p><br>
<p>There are brackets on the gables and the sides of the dormer. On the front a full inset 10 foot wide porch has stone piers and concrete coping which is painted white on the corners and flanking the entrance in the center. Each corner of the porch has a square wooden column with stylized capitals and a concrete stoop extends forward. A 6 foot bay, offset to the right, with a pent roof, extends about 2 ft from the left wall. Most lintels are flush and of long stones except the windows flanking the entry have sloping outset concrete sills. The ten pane door is centered on the facade and flanked by two double hung sashes with six over six panes of glass. The mortar has been treated and painted white. The wooden parts are also painted white. The original interior is intact and includes oak paneling.</p><br>
<p>The Greer and Jennie Quay House is a historic house located in Jerome, Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is ashlar masonry built of lava rock in 1911 and 1912 for brother and sister entrymen Greer and Jenny Quay. The one story building has a basement and shingled gable roof and measures about 22 ft by 34 ft. The peak of each shingled gable wall has a small square and diamond design leaded glass window. The facade, on a gabled wall, has a porch about 10 ft wide with a hipped roof. Square columns flanking the entrance remain but porch corner columns have been removed. Three double hung sash windows are set symmetrically on each side. These windows have cement flush lintels and projecting sills. The tops of the lintels are even with the top of the walls. Basement window lintels are large rectangular stones. The masonry is dressed throughout and the near flush joints have been tooled and filled with light sand colored mortar about.5 in wide.</p><br>
<p>The Greer and Jennie Quay House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983, as part of a group of structures in south central Idaho built from local "lava rock".</p><br>
<p>The Julian T. Ricketts House is a historic house built with lava rock in Jerome, Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Julian Ricketts homesteaded the property in 1911 and in 1927 began plans for the lava rock home with his wife, enlisting carpenter Maurice Wullf who in turn had plans drawn up by a professional at the Payette Lumber Company of Boise, Idaho. Master stonemason H.T. Pugh built the lower story of locally sourced stone. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983, as part of the Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho Thematic Resource.</p><br>
<p>The John Stickel House is a historic house built of lava rock located in Jerome, Idaho, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Built of lava rock with random rubble masonry this one story historic home has a shallow gabled roof. Unpainted shipboard covers the gables above the stonework laid by Ed Bennet. It represents an unaltered work of vernacular architecture by Bennet built from rock that was from the property of the farmer John Stickel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1931 by mason Ed Bennet. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Second Street Bridge was an historic, American concrete Bowstring arch bridge that was located in Chester, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, it has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1919, this historic structure was an 84 ft, single-span, arch bridge. The original patent that was used for the bridge design was issued to James B. Marsh in 1911 and included the experimental use of concrete.</p><br>
<p>The bridge allowed traffic on Pennsylvania Route 291 to cross Chester Creek.</p><br>
<p>The bridge has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Old Main and Chemistry Building are two connected, historic, American buildings that were erected in 1867 and 1883 and are presently located on the campus of Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Old Main building is four-stories high with a stucco and Wissahickon schist stone exterior. It has a two-pitched roof with a central grand pediment and two minor flanking pediments. Atop the grand pediment is a unique "dome" structure and atop both minor pediments are matching cupola.</p><br>
<p>The measurements of the building are 243 feet (east to west) by 65 feet (East end) and 55 feet (West end) with walls that are two-and-one-half feet thick. The discrepancy in the measurements is the result of renovations that were made to the structure in 1883 following a fire that destroyed the upper floors on the eastern end. The symmetry of the building was lost with the eastern addition of an auditorium, classrooms and dormitory space.</p><br>
<p>The Chemistry Building is adjacent to Old Main and is a three-story building that measures 37 feet by 51 feet. It is connected to Old Main by a wrought iron and plank-board walk-way extending from the second floor of each structure. It was built in order to separate dangerous laboratory conditions from the dormitory area of the Old Main building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Main building was built in 1867 and the Chemistry building in 1883. Old Main served as the primary quarters for the Pennsylvania Military Academy and Pennsylvania Military College from 1867 to 1957. After expansion of the school and construction of additional facilities, Old Main was used as the center of administrative services for the College.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Chester Waterside Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company is a historic former coal-fired power station, located on the Delaware River in Chester, Delaware County, southeastern Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Built by the Philadelphia Electric Company, it is currently owned by the PECO Energy Company of the Exelon Corporation. The complex has been converted into an office building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original section of the Station building was built in 1916, and consists of the Boiler House with attached Coal Towers and Turbine Hall, and the Switch House. The complex was designed by architect John T. Windrim and engineer William C.L. Eglin, and featured then recent advances in generating technology and industrial construction. The principal facades were designed in the Beaux-Arts style.</p><br>
<p>The Turbine Hall Annex addition was built in 1939-1942.</p><br>
<p>Also located on the property is the two-story, red brick Machine Shop building. It was also built by the Philadelphia Electric Company.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Chester Waterside Station was documented by the federal HAER−Historic American Engineering Record, with extensive exterior and interior photography by renowned architectural photographer Jack Boucher in 1997 and 1998; architectural drawings; and a detailed descriptive report of the facility design and history, and its contemporary industrial history contexts.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the machine shop was converted into a 16,500 square foot indoor training facility and offices for the Philadelphia Union Major League Soccer club.</p><br>
<p>The Crosley–Garrett Mill Workers Housing, Store, and Mill Site, also known as Paper Mill House and the William Crosley Store and Mill Workers House, is a historic mill-related complex located on Darby Creek in Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of a four-family stone Workers Housing unit , with an attached store , and the archaeological remains of William Crosleys Woolen Mill  and Casper S. Garrett&#39;s Union Paper Mill .</p><br>
<p>The buildings house the Paper Mill House Museum and headquarters of the Newtown Square Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Wiichen Men&#39;s Meetinghouse is a historic building site in Peniesene on Moen Island in Chuuk State of the Federated States of Micronesia. The site, deemed archaeologically significant due to its place in Chuukese folklore, includes a pre-contact period petroglyph panel and swimming basin. Local history claims that this was the meeting place of six brothers who became the first chieftains of Chuuk.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1976, when the region was part of the US-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.</p><br>
<p>Home of Peace is a Jewish cemetery in Helena, Montana, founded in 1867 by the local Hebrew Benevolent Society , which formed on December 9, 1866. The Society formally purchased the land in 1875. The Home of Peace Cemetery Association now maintains the grounds. It is the oldest active cemetery in Helena and the oldest active European ethno-religious cemetery in Montana. There are three major sections of land owned by the Association: the cemetery, undeveloped adjacent land, and land leased to the Helena School District since 1975. The portion leased by the school district is a practice football field for Capital High School and contains unmarked graves from the earliest days of the cemetery. The original wrought iron fence erected in 1867 still stands except on the north side and is in disrepair in places. A granite gateway erected in 1910 is at the main entrance. The east gate also has granite markers. There is a water tower, pump house, and landscaping shed. Twelve broken tombstones lie at the base of the water tower. The northwest corner has remained undeveloped and in its natural wild state. In 1910 cottonwood trees were planted along the driveway.</p><br>
<p>Jewish immigrants arrived in Helena as early as 1864. Most of the Jewish immigrants to Helena had come from Germany or Prussia in the wake of the Montana Gold Rush. Most of them practiced Reform Judaism and worked as merchants, providing goods and services to the miners. As of November 2005, there are 204 tombstones and over 240 recorded burials in the cemetery. There are no markers remaining from the 1860s. The oldest remaining marker is that of Hattie Jacobs who died in 1873. Most markers are made from local sandstone or granite, a few of imported marble. Markers are found both lying down and standing upright. As the Jewish population of Helena peaked in 1900 with 138 adults, burials in the cemetery are no longer as frequent as they once were. The Jewish population of Helena declined steadily over the years and there are now more Jewish people buried in this cemetery than there are living in Helena.</p><br>
<p>The Stratford Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic former church building located near the city of Delaware, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the 1840s for workers in a company town, it was home to a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church until the community faltered following the company&#39;s closure. Situated at the southern end of the company town, it remains prominent because of its architecture, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1838, Caleb Howard and Hosea Williams bought a watermill on the Olentangy River near Delaware, with the goal of converting the property into industrial use as a pair of paper mills. Desirous of avoiding the poverty and slums so closely associated with burgeoning industry in the United Kingdom, the owners established a mill village with amenities to assist the workers. The first new buildings in the settlement were constructed by Howard and Williams, for it was to be a company town; they retained the tavern that was already on the property, and their contractors residences and a church for the workers. Continued growth mandated a more formal existence for the community, so it was platted in 1850 and given the name "Stratford" in honor of the Bards hometown. The companys fortunes fell soon after the end of the Civil War; the 1870s saw production falter, as the mills were operating for just nine months per year in 1880, and by 1890 one was closed entirely. The company closed in 1896, and five years later the mills were sold to a local railroad company.</p><br>
<p>Stratford Methodist Church was built in 1842 with money from Hosea Williams and Hiram Andrews, who had replaced Caleb Howard in the company partnership; it was constructed on land given by one of its charter members, Forrest Meeker, who had sold to Williams and Howard most of the land needed for the mill village. Organized circa 1845, the congregation was attached to St. Paul&#39;s Methodist Church in Delaware during the latter half of the Civil War. Being financially dependent on the paper mill, the congregation closed in 1896 following the closure of the mills.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Stratford Methodist Church is built primarily of stone; the roof is metal, and various elements are made of asphalt and wood, but the dominating appearance is stone — limestone was used for the foundation, and the walls are composed of a mix of limestone and sandstone. The gabled facade is divided into three bays, with windows in the first-story side bays and in the second-story central bay. A short tower once sat on the peak of the roof near the front of the building; it was a frame structure. Among the most prominent components of the architecture are the large semicircular arches around the windows, piercing walls 5 ft thick. Inside, the gabled roof is supported by an unusual structural system of king post trusses.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In late 1991, the former Stratford Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its place in local history. It was part of a multiple property submission of buildings erected in Stratfords earliest years; all of the other buildings were residences. Crucial to its historic significance was its contribution to the communitys built environment: the church is surrounded by a large open lot, which helps to demonstrate the rural context in which the village is located. Situated on the corner of the junction of USA Route 23 and State Route 315, the church lies at the southern end of the old village; an old boarding house sits just to the south, but all of the other original buildings, including several worker houses, are located well to the north.</p><br>
<p>Broad Street Christian Church is a historic church building on the near east side of Columbus, Ohio, United States. The edifice was constructed in an exclusive residential neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has been designated a historic site. It was home for most of its history to a Disciples of Christ congregation, and is now the seat of an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1870, some of the citys New Lights formed a church that soon built a building downtown on Gay Street at Third Street. This building remained in use for approximately thirty-five years, acquiring the nickname of "Old Central", before its replacement by the present structure in 1907. The congregation employed Columbus architect Wilbur T. Mills to design its new building on E. Broad Street, which by the late nineteenth century had become the citys premier wealthy neighborhood. Here the congregation remained until the end of 2009, when it closed; members last worshipped together on December 27, after which many of the contents were removed and the building sold to a parish of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is primarily a stone building: walls, foundation, and smaller elements are all stone, although terracotta tiles cover the roof. Rather than ashlar, the stone blocks of the walls are rough-hewn, and only the trim is smoothed. The overall appearance is that of the Arts and Crafts movement; besides the rough-hewn stonework, the style is displayed through elements such as the bracketed shelters over the entrances and the eaves over the edges of the building. Other major components include a square corner tower with a hip roof, round turrets on the other corners, short but thick Tuscan columns, rounded arch windows of stained glass, and an arcade sheltering the main entrance. Overall, the two-story building possesses a rectangular floor plan.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1986, the Broad Street Christian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and because of its place in the communitys history. A historic district and twenty-three other buildings, including the nearby East Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Saint Pauls Episcopal Church, were listed with it as part of a multiple property submission of significant buildings on East Broad Street.</p><br>
<p>The property is also part of the 21st & E. Broad Historic Group of the Columbus Register of Historic Properties.</p><br>
<p>Broad Street United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. This church is one of five on East Broad Street built around the year 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1885 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The church was designed by Yost & Packard with green serpentine stone. This stone was replaced by Rogers Krajnak Architects with synthetic stone that preserved the original green color.</p><br>
<p>Broad Street United Methodist Church was the site of the 2016 wedding of openly gay pastor David Meredith and Jim Schlachter.</p><br>
<p>East Broad Street Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 760 E. Broad Street in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1887 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The church was originally designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect Elah Terrell. In 1907-08 it was expanded to designs by Frank Packard.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Church is a historic church and home to an active parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus located in the Discovery District neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The Gothic Revival building was completed in 1848 and is the oldest church in Columbus. The church, along with the school and rectory also on the property, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The parish was suppressed and its territory absorbed by St. Joseph Cathedral in 2023, but remains open for public Masses.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the early 1800s, the first Catholics in Columbus were visited only occasionally by traveling priests of the Dominican Order. When Father Thomas Martin, OP visited Columbus on May 15, 1833, a group of five local landowners (Samuel and Margaret Crosby, Nathaniel and Caroline Medbury, and Phoebe Otis) met with him and proposed to gift property at Fifth and Walnut streets to the Catholic Church provided that a church building be constructed and in use within five years’ time. That building, Saint Remigius Church, was dedicated on April 29, 1838.</p><br>
<p>Measuring at just 55 feet long and 30 feet wide, Saint Remigius Church was planned as a temporary place of worship that would later be turned into a school. The pastors at Saint Remigius also served the Catholics in neighboring cities in addition to the parish&#39;s own primarily German congregation.</p><br>
<p>Father William Schonat became the first resident priest in 1843, the same year the first rectory at the site was finished. By then, the growing Catholic population in Columbus necessitated a larger church building. At Father Juncker&#39;s request, the parish was renamed “Holy Cross”. The present structure was completed and consecrated by bishop John Purcell on January 16, 1848,</p><br>
<p>A frame school for the parish - the first parochial school in Columbus - was built in 1843, and initially staffed by lay teachers. In 1856, Fr. Casper Borgess, the pastor of the church, brought Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur from Cincinnati to teach, the first religious women to teach in the city. Beginning in 1872, the boys of the parish were taught by Marianist brothers from Dayton.</p><br>
<p>A fire in June 1877 burned most of the high altar and caused $20,000 of damage. Following repairs, bishop Augustus Toebbe of the Diocese of Covington rededicated the church in 1880.</p><br>
<h3>Suppression and Merger with St. Joseph Cathedral</h3><br>
<p>Citing "demographic changes... a decline in the number of registered parishioners, a decline in Mass attendance, decline in offertory revenue, and the shortage of priests...", bishop Earl Fernandes suppressed the parish and merged its territory with that of St. Joseph Cathedral on April 5, 2023. Holy Cross will continue to serve as a site of worship.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The property is located on 0.165 acres at the corner of South 5th and East Rich Streets in Columbus. The church is constructed of over 800,000 bricks. It features a prominent statue of Jesus on the Via Dolorosa with the inscription “Follow Me”, and clock tower with a steeple and belfry. The “Follow Me” statue covers an inscription that reads “God forbid that I should glory, but in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world”, a quote from the Epistle to the Galatians.</p><br>
<p>The rectory and the school were built of brick in 1861 and 1871, respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The many frescoes in the church were painted in the summer of 1884 for $4200. Two murals near the sanctuary depict Saint Helena finding the True Cross and the presentation of the True Cross to Pope Saint Sylvester. Other murals along the sides of the nave include the Annunciation, the Nativity of Jesus, the Finding in the Temple of the Child Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus, and the Ascension of Jesus.</p><br>
<p>The two manual, six rank pipe organ was built by Page Organ Company in 1928. It was installed in the Fayette Theater (Washington Court House, Ohio) before it was moved to Holy Family Church in Franklinton, Ohio in 1947. The organ was moved to Holy Cross in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Munich-style stained glass windows were created by Zettler Studios. The windows were stored on a German dock during World War I until they were finally shipped to Columbus after the war.</p><br>
<p>Second Presbyterian Church  is a historic church building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1857 in a Romanesque style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It closed in November 2011. The site was previously the location of the first public school in Columbus, built in 1826.</p><br>
<p>The building was acquired by Columbus Association for the Performing Arts in 2013, and is being repurposed as a performance venue. CAPA CEO William Conner Jr. said the church building is "acoustically near perfect".</p><br>
<p>Shiloh Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in King-Lincoln Bronzeville, Columbus, Ohio. One of the oldest black churches in the city, it has been active since the 1860s, and its 1920s building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick on a concrete foundation, the Gothic Revival church features limestone details and is covered with an asphalt roof. The major part of the church is on the second story, sitting above a basement with windows at ground level; the main part of the building is entered through large doors atop a flight of exterior stairs. Squat rectangular towers with pyramidal roofs sit on the front corners of the building, with simple rectangular windows above small doorways. The plan partially reflects traditional ecclesiastical architecture, with a gabled roof being interrupted by cross gables on the sides. Many of the windows, as well as the doorways, are wide ogive arches.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh Baptist Church was formed by a group of former members of the citys Second Baptist Church. Seeing the citys black population increasing rapidly, especially on the near east side, Second Baptist leaders asked for volunteers to leave and form a new church; these volunteers formed the entire charter membership of the new Shiloh church. From their first meeting in 1869 until 1871, they worshipped in a rented property at Gay and Fourth Streets downtown, after which they moved a few blocks eastward to Cleveland Avenue and Long Street. The congregation again moved in 1923 upon the completion of the present building on Mount Vernon Avenue, significantly farther east than the previous houses of worship. A minister, James Burks, was responsible for the design, with additional work being performed by the A.O. Day Construction Company.</p><br>
<p>As the third oldest black church in Columbus, younger only than the parent church and a congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the congregation has long played a significant part in the life of Mount Vernon. In recognition of its significance in local history, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The congregation remains active in the wider Baptist community as a part of the Eastern Union Missionary Baptist Association.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic church on Capitol Square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1866 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The church features "The Church in the World", a stained glass window featuring Columbus landmarks and installed in 1965. Items depicted include a former Columbus flag, Ohio Stadium, the Ohio Statehouse, the LeVeque Tower, John Glenn Columbus International Airport, the Main Library and the statue of Christopher Columbus formerly at City Hall.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s adjoining parish house was designed by Howell & Thomas and built in 1910. Another story was added to the parish house in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Welsh Presbyterian Church is a historic former church in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, United States. Used as a church only for a few decades, the building has seen many uses over the ensuing decades, ranging from commercial to government-affiliated to social services. Because of its architecture, the building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Founded in 1849, the Welsh Presbyterian Church first worshipped one block away from its second location. Work began on the second church building in 1887 and was finished in the following year. This building, in turn, closed in 1919 after the congregation moved farther away, and for many years the property was employed for commercial purposes. Among its tenants since that time have been the offices of Commercial Motor Freight, a factory, a store of the M.C. Lilley Company, and the offices of the Community Action Organization for the Columbus metropolitan area.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick, the Romanesque Revival building rests on a foundation of limestone, is covered with a slate roof, and features elements of sandstone. Two entrances are placed on the front of the building: one at the far left, and one at the far right, with large windows between them. The roof is steeply gabled, with an oculus near the peak on the front gable, while the single-story side walls feature both small and large windows at various heights. Cylindrical components are placed at the corners as well as occasional points on the facade. These elements combine to produce somewhat of the appearance of a fortress with turrets and buttresses.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Welsh Presbyterian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its architecture. Its significance derives partly from its location, as almost no 19th-century structures have survived in its immediate vicinity, and comparable examples of Romanesque Revival architecture are rare in downtown Columbus. The building became home to Faith Mission, a homeless shelter affiliated with Lutheran Social Services, in 1989. The shelter operated in the space until 2012, when it traded the church building to the Edwards Cos. for a larger warehouse nearby, where the shelter operates today. The Edwards Cos. redeveloped the space, utilizing historic tax credits, to become a leasing office and community space for the Normandy apartment complex.</p><br>
<p>The former Westminster Presbyterian Church  is a historic church building at 77 S. 6th Street in Columbus, Ohio. Built in 1857 in the Romanesque Revival style, it was originally home to Westminster Presbyterian Church. Spiritualists acquired the property after Westminster Presbyterian merged with another church circa 1900. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>This building is not related to the current Westminster Presbyterian Church, at 222 Schoolhouse Lane, on the west side of Columbus.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Free Will Baptist Church is a historic former Baptist church building in Auburn Township, Geauga County, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, it is no longer home to the congregation that built it, but it remains a significant component of the area&#39;s built environment, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Auburn Free Will Baptist Church was formed in 1839 or 1840, led by an Elder Miller as the first pastor. The congregation was able to build a church building by the end of 1840, but forty years later the congregation remained weak enough that they were forced to share their pastor with another church. Before the building was finished, the church often worshipped in a schoolhouse or in a barn belonging to farmer Richard Slitor.</p><br>
<p>Built with clapboarded walls on a foundation of sandstone, the church is most distinctive for its roofline and the roofs structural support. From the outside, the roof resembles an ordinary gable roof, but an unusual system of trusses and diagonal bracing supports the underside of the roof. Local historians have deemed this construction style particularly rare in the Connecticut Western Reserve. With this exception, it is typical of the regions vernacular Greek Revival churches; three windows appear on the sides and on the second story of the front, while the main entrance is centered between a window on each side of the front&#39;s first floor. A tower once sat atop the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>In May 1976, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically distinctive architecture and because of its place in local history. It is the only National Register-listed location in Auburn Township, and one of three Geauga County churches with this designation, along with the Claridon Congregational Church in Claridon Township and the South Newbury Union Chapel in Newbury Township.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopalian parish in the city of Hillsboro, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the middle of the 19th century, this Gothic Revival church building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys considers its history to have begun in 1851, when occasional Episcopalian services were conducted in the Highland County Courthouse. The first priest, Noah Schenck, came two years later, after Bishop McIlvaine directed him to spend half of his Sundays with St. Marys and half with a parish in Troy. In 1854, the parish began construction of its church building after hiring Cincinnati architect John R. Hamilton, and the Hillsboro contractors Henning and Shinn completed construction in the following year. Thirty years later, the building was improved by the installation of a large pipe organ with 1,600 pipes.</p><br>
<p>Built on a foundation of limestone and covered with an asphalt roof, the church has substantial components of wood and glass. A small tower sits atop the building&#39;s large gable front, much of which consists of a large stained glass window above the main entrance. Its buttressed limestone walls set it apart from all other churches in the city, as no other limestone churches were built in Hillsboro in the nineteenth century. Lit by six ogive-arch windows, the interior features oaken pews installed at the time of construction, a lofty vaulted ceiling, and wainscoting made of marble.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, St. Mary&#39;s Church and its rectory were together listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of their distinctive historic architecture. The combined property is one of more than thirty current and former Episcopal churches on the Register in Ohio, and one of twenty-six Register-listed properties in Highland County. The parish remains an active part of the Diocese of Southern Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Millersburg Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church at 100 North Clay Street in Millersburg, Ohio. The earliest Christian Church was a frame structure built on this site in 1859. The brick building was constructed during 1903–04.</p><br>
<p>The lot on which the new building stands (No. 47) was deeded by Jacob and Mary Bodenheimer to John Albertson, Jacob Vorhes, and William Courtney as trustees of the Disciple church and their successors in office forever, in December, 1852 and was recorded August 4, 1853. The consideration was $330.00.</p><br>
<p>The first wood-frame building was built in 1858, possibly 1859 and used until 1890 when it was completely remodeled and was dedicated on January 11, 1891.</p><br>
<p>The present structure was begun in 1903, completed in 1904, and dedicated on August 21, 1904. It was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The total cost of the structure was $8433.18. Of this amount the sum of $4862.37 was raised previous to the dedication on August 21, 1904, leaving a balance of $3570.81. On Sunday, August 14, 1904, about $3700 was raised which freed the church from debt and placed the congregation on a solid financial footing.</p><br>
<p>An early 20th century Victorian Gothic design in polychromatic tan brick. Built on an L-shaped layout, three bays wide and six deep. The exterior is accented with dark brownstone sills, brick hood moulds and a corbelled cornice. The walls are pierced by paired stained glass windows with buttresses. On the southwest corner is the main entrance under the bell tower, which is topped with a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>The Christian church of Millersburg, Ohio, was organized in 1852, and from the old records of the church the following regarding the organization is taken:</p><br>
<p>“At a meeting of the members of the church styled Disciples of Christ, held in the court house in the town of Millersburg, in the county of Holmes and State of Ohio, on Monday, the 26th day of April, A. D. 1852, at 10 o’clock a. m. for the purpose of organizing a church in said town of Millersburg, the following proceedings were then and there had:</p><br>
<p>After a short discourse by Rev. John Erret, a preacher of said denomination, on a vote taken by said members; it was agreed that a church to be styled the “Church of Disciples of Christ” at the town of Millersburg, be organized, where upon said members elected John Albertson as elder of said church and Jacob Vorhes and William J. Courtney as deacons; Malvina Wolgamot and Sarah Mayers as deaconesses and Samuel Appleton as clerk; and the following persons being present and known to be in good standing in said church are enrolled as the members of said organized church:</p><br>
<p>And thereupon said church being duly organized in pursuance to the authority of the new testament as believed and taught by said denomination, the Rev. John Erret invoked the blessing of God and the meeting adjourned”</p><br>
<p>The next meeting was held May 1, 1852, at the house of David Wolgamot in Millersburg at which time John Albertson, Jacob Vorhes and William J. Courtney were elected Trustees and the clerk was ordered under an act of the legislature passed in 1844 to certify all the proceedings of said organization to the county Recorder for record. Meetings were held at various places afterwards and on May 31, 1857, the organization took under consideration the matter of building a church edifice, which was unanimously adopted. The records do not show when the first building was completed, but our best information is that it was in 1858 – possibly 1859.</p><br>
<p>United Methodist Church is a historic church North Washington Street in Millersburg, Ohio. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Millersburg was built in 1871, replacing an earlier building from 1821. It is a Romanesque Revival style standing two stories high with a slate gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The exterior has a paired stained glass window under a brick hood mould with brick corbelling. A stone belt runs between the first floor windows and the second floor windows. The gable peak is surmounted by a wooden cross on a finial. The northeast corner supports a buttressed bell tower with a tent roof. The sanctuary is on the second floor and retains the stained glass windows and a balcony.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Zion Episcopal Church is a historic Protestant Episcopal parish in the village of Monroeville, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the 1860s in the regionally unusual Carpenter Gothic style, the church building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Monroeville was platted in 1817, one year after the arrival of the first settler, and the village was incorporated in 1868. Within the first few years, churches of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian faiths were organized.</p><br>
<p>Built with weatherboarded walls and covered with a shingled roof, Zion is a Carpenter Gothic structure. Its architectural style distinguishes it among rural mid-nineteenth-century churches in the Connecticut Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio, many of which were Greek Revival buildings without the single tall tower so prominent in Zion&#39;s design. At the same time, Zion differs from the typical Carpenter Gothic church in its use of angled gable-shaped windows instead of the ogive traditional in Gothic Revival buildings. Worshippers enter the building though double doors in the base of the tower, above which are placed one large window and one small. A belfry with louvering occupies the highest level of the tower, above which stands a cross-tipped steeple. The roof rises steeply to front and rear gables, with a small section of the roof and much of the front gable being obscured by the tower.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, Zion Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. On the same day, the same designation was granted to two other Monroeville locations, the Seth Brown House and the John Hosford House.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is a historic Greek Orthodox church building near downtown Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Constructed for a large Methodist Episcopal congregation in the early twentieth century, it was acquired by the present occupants in 1945. Featuring Neoclassical elements such as a large dome and a prominent colonnade, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Methodist history</h3><br>
<p>The first minister to pass through Jefferson County appears to have been Baptist preacher David Jones, a travelling minister who preached to Indians and scattered settlers during a 1772 visit. Jefferson Countys first Methodists were present by the 1780s, appearing in Richard Butlers journal during an expedition to remove squatters from Indian country in 1785. Methodist preachers were active in Steubenville during 1794; a circuit had been formed by 1796, and a separate congregation was formed before long. When Francis Asbury visited Steubenville to preach in 1803, he observed that their usual meeting place, the courthouse, was too small to hold everyone. Several years passed before this problem was resolved; some members formed a separate congregation nearby in 1810, and wealthy member Bezaleel Wells donated land at the corner of Fourth and South Streets in Steubenville upon which a church was ready for use by the end of 1811. Epidemics carried away many in 1813, but the numbers continued to swell as revival meetings won numerous converts, and while the new building was complete by 1814, an expansion was necessary as early as 1821. By 1824, the church was larger than any other in Steubenville, but the coming of New Light preachers caused a split, as the newcomers won away many Methodists. Membership stood at 178 in 1830, but 82 members left during the national schism that produced the Methodist Protestant Church in that year, and an epidemic of scarlet fever killed many younger members in the following year. Nevertheless, the congregation eventually began to regain its strength; the members living in northern Steubenville became a separate congregation in 1845, but eleven years later, the original building was replaced with a larger structure that was expanded in 1871. Further church planting was conducted in 1867 and 1870, but by 1910, membership was approximately 650. Consequently, the present building was constructed on the same site in 1914.</p><br>
<h3>Orthodox history</h3><br>
<p>The earliest members of the Greek Orthodox faith resident in Steubenville had no church building; some were members of the Holy Trinity parish, which worshipped on the upper floors of commercial buildings, while others crossed the Ohio River to Weirton for worship, even though both the Fort Steuben Bridge and the Market Street Bridge charged tolls at the time. The situation changed in 1945, when Holy Trinity bought the former First Methodist building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Holy Trinity is a composite Neoclassical building; the walls are brick with significant sandstone elements, covered by an asphalt roof and resting on a stone foundation. The main entrance is set in a recessed portico at the center of the facade, accessed by a small flight of steps and sheltered by a colonnade of four Ionic columns. A tall entablature, as high as some of the windows, stands above the columns, while a small pediment sits atop the middle of the entablature. On the side facing South Street, the primary component of the facade is a large gabled section filled with a central arch window and smaller rectangular windows. Corner sections of the building, plus a section extending farther along South, are two stories tall with an exposed basement, and numerous smaller windows pierce the walls on all three floors. A tall square tower, once topped with a cupola, is placed along the South Street side, while a far larger dome covers the central portion of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 2006, Holy Trinity Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of eight National Register-listed locations in the city, along with buildings such as the 1900 Carnegie library one block away, the pioneer-era Steubenville Federal Land Office at Fort Steuben, and the Steubenville Commercial Historic District downtown.</p><br>
<p>Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant was named a National Historic Landmark District for its association with the antislavery movement in the years leading up to the American Civil War. It is home to five documented Underground Railroad "stations." The village celebrated its 200th anniversary with tours, special displays and programs on Saturday, Aug. 2 and Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 2, there was a special program in the 1814 Quaker Meeting House with The Hon. John D. Ong, former USA Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway and descendant of Jacob Ong (1760–1849), the Meeting House "carpenter" or in modern terms contractor. Jacob Ong was a minister and was remembered by a friend thus: He usually had a message for the people, his theme was always love. In the earnestness of his soul he would deliver the message, while tears would trickle down his furrowed cheeks. Trembling from head to foot, he would exhort young and old to love the Lord and one another."</p><br>
<p>The building is now owned by the Ohio Historical Society and managed by the Mount Pleasant Historical Society as the Quaker Yearly Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>The Christ Church at the Quarry is a historic church in Gambier, Ohio. It was built in 1863 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is a "beautiful stone chapel" with both Gothic and Celtic design influences, with exterior walls built of stone cut from a nearby quarry.</p><br>
<p>It derived from Kenyon College students&#39; starting a mission in Gambier and opening a Sunday School. Then participants in the mission sought to build a church. It is likely that the church was designed by architect William Tinsley. Tinsley designed Ascension Hall on the Kenyon College campus around that time.</p><br>
<p>Old South Church is a historic church at 9802 Chillicothe Road in Kirtland, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1859 with Romanesque and Carpenter Gothic elements and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>It was built on the site of the first church in Kirtland, which was a log cabin built by the first congregation, which formed in 1819.</p><br>
<p>It has a gable roof and a three-story tower topped by an octagonal spire.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>South LeRoy Meeting House  is a historic church in Leroy Township, Ohio The Greek Revival architecture church was started in 1822 and finished in 1832. Henry Brakeman and sons built the church from local lumber. It was placed on the National Register in 1979. As of the fall of 2015, the Leroy South Meetinghouse is undergoing renovations. The entire building has now been resided and painted.</p><br>
<p>The Macedonia Baptist Church is a historic former Baptist church building near the community of Burlington at the southern point of the USA state of Ohio. Constructed in the middle of the nineteenth century, it held a significant place in the culture of the local black population, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Situated at Ohios southernmost point, the Burlington vicinity saw large numbers of runaway slaves and free Negroes in the decades before the Civil War. Into such a context, a group of Baptists settled and founded a church at some point between 1811 and 1813; after a period of worshipping in their homes, the congregation constructed a small and primitive church building. Late 1849 was the churchs watershed moment: Virginia landowner James Twyman freed many of his slaves at his death and provided for them to be given land near Burlington, and thirty-two of them settled near the church on land that they officially owned, beginning at the end of October. Joining with the existing Baptist congregation, they helped build a replacement church building on Macedonia Ridge, from which the congregation took its name of "Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church". With such a large group of black immigrants, the church began to occupy a prominent place for local blacks, both religious and cultural, and as the years passed, numerous groups of members were sent out to found daughter churches; eight such churches, both in Ohio and in present-day West Virginia, remained active into the late twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>Macedonia Baptist Church is a simple building, constructed without an architectural style. Its plain gable-front plan features three side windows but no openings in the front gable per se; one enters through double doors at the base of a short bell tower, which is itself set into the front gable. Simple weatherboarding covers the walls, which rest on a stone foundation and are topped with a tin roof; the main body of the building has a plain roof with a steep pitch, although the tower&#39;s roughly square shape necessitates a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, Macedonia Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its important place in local history. It is one of four Register-listed locations in and around Burlington, along with the old county jail, the local black cemetery, and the William C. Johnston House and General Store, and one of nineteen countywide. The Ohio Historical Society placed a state historical marker at the church in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Pataskala United Methodist Church is a historic church building at 458 S. Main Street in Pataskala, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Circuit riders established the first regular services of the Pataskala United Methodist Church in 1853. Meetings were held in a schoolhouse located where the present Pataskala Town Hall now stands.</p><br>
<p>William H. Mead II raised funds to construct the current brick structure in 1896–1897. The church building was designed by Henry Brookes. Brookes and William Condit "hand hewed the rafters and siding," while the pulpit was hand carved by Julia Brookes. The bell was hung in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Remodels to the building since its initial construction include the addition of a basement in 1910 that was later enlarged in 1928, the installation of a pipe organ in 1928, "the remodeling of the choir loft and chancel area in 1964," and an education wing and social hall addition in 1971. In 1927, L. R. Moore designed and painted the portrait of Christ in the sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The building has elements of Gothic Revival styling. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Its history and significance was described in 1979 as:Pataskala United Methodist Church is significant to the religious history of the community. Architecturally the church is an example of late 19th Century Eccleastical style often found in small towns and rural areas. Architectural elements include the Gothic Revival inspired squat buttressed bell tower and pointed arched stain glass windows and the Stick style exposed truss in gable over the side entrance. Methodism came to Lima Township and Pataskala in 1853. One of the three most prominent religions established in Pataskala, the United Methodist congregation was comprised in part by local business leaders.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register as a follow-on to a 1980 study of historic resources in Pataskala.</p><br>
<p>The St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church in Granville, Ohio is a historic church located at 111 E. Broadway Street in Granville. The Greek Revival church building was constructed in 1837. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Its 1976 National Register nomination asserts flatly: "St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is one of the finest examples of Greek</p><br>
<p>revival architecture in the United States today," and notes that the building is in excellent condition, in its original form from 1837.</p><br>
<p>Its exterior was designed for Alfred Avery by England-born Benjamin Morgan (1808–1851), who also designed a Greek Revival home, the Avery-Hunter House, in Granville for the same client. "St. Luke&#39;s is his main claim to fame and he requested to be buried from this church. He also submitted plans for the State Capitol in Columbus and was a consultant in its building. The ceiling and all lathing and plastering was done by Orren Bryant of Alexandria, Ohio. He was a farmer and also very skilled plasterer. He worked during the winter of 1838 on the moldings and cornices of deep relief and rich design."</p><br>
<p>Its interior was designed by renowned New York-based architect Minard Lafever, who provided specific designs for this church, and also was widely influential through his publication of pattern books.</p><br>
<p>The bell tower design was an adaptation by Benjamin Morgan of works by Asher Benjamin in the Connecticut River Valley, derived from designs in Asher Benjamin&#39;s books for workmen and builders.</p><br>
<p>It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Baptist Church is a historic church at 25514 Royalton Road in Columbia Center, Ohio. The church was built in 1900 for the local Baptist congregation, which formed in 1832 and had previously used a wood-frame building for its church. The congregation built their church from locally quarried sandstone and gave it a design which combined the Stick Style and Queen Anne style. The church features an intersecting gable roof, a gothic arched stained glass window next to the main entrance, and several smaller stained glass windows illustrating Bible scenes. Its 77 ft bell tower has a bell-shaped roof and is the tallest structure in Columbia Center.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register on July 12, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Congregational Church of Christ  is a historic church at W. Lorain and N. Main Streets in Oberlin, Ohio. Currently the church is occupied by a United Church of Christ congregation. Richard Bond  did drawing for the church.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1842. For 37 years it was led by prominent abolitionist Charles Grandison Finney, who was also president of Oberlin College. Other abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson led meetings here. Prominent speakers have included Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain and President Woodrow Wilson. The Congregational Church of Christ was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>United Church of Huntington is a historic church in Wellington, Ohio.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was one of three churches in Huntington, Ohio at the time it was built in 1847. Originally a Methodist church it is now the United Church serving the reduced need for churches in the town. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 1979, as a part of the Wellington–Huntington Road multiple resource area.</p><br>
<p>St. Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church was a historic church at 2908 Wood Avenue in Lorain, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1904 and added to the National Register in 1982. The church was closed in 2010 along with other local churches as part of a "reconfiguration" by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Statues from the church were restored and later added to the Museum of Divine Statues in Lakewood, Ohio in April 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Helen Chapel is a historic chapel at the northwest corner of East Wood and Champion Streets in Youngstown, Ohio. It was completed in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Helen Chapel was built as the Sunday school of the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown. It was built with funds donated by Myron Converse Wick and Elizabeth (Bonnell) Wick in memory of their daughter, Helen, who had died at the age of four in 1888. Wick was a member of a regionally prominent family of industrialists, and was an elder brother of George Dennick Wick, a founder of Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Their ancestor, William Wick, had been the founding pastor of the Youngstown church in 1799. The new building was designed by Youngstown architect Adolph Kanengeiser in 1889 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building was dedicated May 4, 1890, and is still used for church purposes.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its historic architecture as well as its association with the regionally prominent Wick family.</p><br>
<p>The Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Catholic minor basilica in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. The parish was established in 1906 by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and local Italian immigrants, and the church was completed in 1913. The church was elevated to a minor basilica in 2014 by Pope Francis.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the parish was merged with St. Anthony of Padua parish. Each year, an Italian festival is held at the end of July, in the church&#39;s parking lot.</p><br>
<p>The Welsh Congregational Church was a historic church in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Built in 1861 by Youngstown&#39;s Welsh American community, it was once the center of Welsh life in Youngstown, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Despite efforts to preserve the church, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown demolished it in 2022 after decades of abandonment.</p><br>
<p>During the middle and late nineteenth century, Youngstown began to develop as an industrial powerhouse, and its population expanded with the arrival of thousands of Western European immigrants. The largest ethnic group was Welsh, many of whom came to work in coal mines at Brier Hill, west of the city. Major reconstruction was performed on the building in 1887, completely changing its architectural style. Few other alterations were made over the next century, and by the 1980s, it was Youngstown&#39;s oldest church and the only frame house of worship without recent modifications.</p><br>
<p>One and a half stories tall, the church was composed of weatherboarded and shingled walls and an asbestos roof, set upon a stone foundation. It was originally a Greek Revival structure, although the Queen Anne style has dominated since 1887. The floor plan was vaguely cruciform, with the arms placed so near the street that they appear to form the facade, and the top of the cross protrudes only a slight distance from the arms. All sections were gable-roofed. Small dormer windows were placed in the arm roofs, and a polygonal tower with a steep roof sat atop the facade.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the Welsh Congregational Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place in community history. It was part of a multiple property submission of downtown-area buildings, along with numerous commercial buildings, the Masonic Temple, and First Presbyterian Church. By this time, it was no longer occupied by its original owners, having become home instead to the Messiah Holiness Church.</p><br>
<p>By the late 2010s, the church had been left in a state of disrepair. Many efforts were made by locals to relocate the church to nearby sites such as Wick Park and "The Wedge" in downtown, however these efforts ultimately failed. Discouraged by the lengthy timeline of relocation and renovation plans, the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown decided to have the building demolished. On April 28, 2022, the church was demolished after standing for 161 years.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish in Medina, Ohio, United States. Formed in the 1810s as Medinas first church, it worships in a high Gothic Revival church building constructed in the 1880s, which has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>The first preacher in Medina Township was an Episcopal priest, R. Searle, who arrived from Connecticut in 1817; his first recorded sermon in the township was preached at the house of Zenas Hamilton on 11 March of that year. Before long, Searle organized a parish dedicated to St. Paul, and the first church building was constructed on 10 April; because of the scarcity of resources, this building was used for a time as a union church by both the Episcopalians and the Congregationalists. As Medina increased in population, the place of worship was moved there from its original remote location. During their earliest years in Medina, the parishioners worshipped in the courthouse; this condition endured until the construction of a frame church building, which was completed in an uncertain year during the episcopacy of Bishop McIlvaine. In the 1880s, the church decided to construct a replacement structure; it was consecrated in 1887, three years after construction was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The present church building is the 1887 structure, for which the parish solicited prominent architect Gordon W. Lloyd after learning of his previous commissions in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and other parts of Ohio. One of Lloyd&#39;s last church buildings, it demonstrates the influence of Richard Upjohn. The walls are sandstone, built on a stone foundation and covered with a slate roof. Its floor plan is reminiscent of many other Anglican churches, with the typical tower atop the narthex and the rectangular nave. In a similar manner, the building is constructed in the shape of a cross, due to the construction of transepts connected to the chancel. Even the tower is reminiscent of traditional Anglican churches, due to the presence of a belfry with a steep pyramid-shaped roof and louvred openings. The main body of the church features ogive windows and a gabled facade, while small cloverleaf-shaped windows are placed in the tower above the entrance and below the main windows.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, St. Pauls Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of ten Medina locations on the Register, it qualified because of its historically significant architecture, as it is Medina Countys best Gothic Revival church building.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s remains an active part of the Summit Mission Area of the Diocese of Ohio. The current rector is Kelly Aughenbaugh.</p><br>
<p>The Universalist Church of Westfield Center is a historic church in Westfield Center, Ohio, United States. One of Ohios oldest Universalist congregations, it has experienced a generally peaceful history since its establishment in the 1830s. Located on the village green, the congregations church building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Organic history</h2><br>
<p>Ninety Universalists organized their church in May 1839, holding their first worship services and business meetings in the Baptist church and the local schoolhouse; they were the second Universalist church organized anywhere in Ohio. In 1847, they paid $60 to purchase a piece of land on the public square in Westfield Center; one year later, the building operations began, and the dedication occurred on 16 June 1849. Comparatively few interpersonal difficulties appear in the church records; a schism occurred in 1853, but few members left, and the congregation was little affected. The original building remains in use, although expanded. Today, the congregation is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The congregation&#39;s church building is a weatherboarded structure with a foundation of stucco. Its main portion consists of a symmetrical gabled structure with a partial pediment, topped with a rectangular tower with a steep pyramidal roof. Double windows are placed on each side of the trabeated entryway. Despite the modifications of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the church retains much of its original Greek Revival appearance, including its general simplicity and symmetry, as well as individual elements such as pilasters and the belfry. Constructed in the late 19th century, the side addition features the substantially different architecture of the Stick style, but in a way that fits well with the original section of the church.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the Universalist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and its significant place in local history. As a longtime community landmark, it is one of 28 locations in Medina County on the Register, and the only one in Westfield Center.</p><br>
<p>The York United Methodist Church is a United Methodist congregation in Medina County, Ohio, United States. Formed during the middle of the 19th century, it worships in a prominent church building that has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1840s (perhaps in 1841, but the date is uncertain), a Methodist Protestant minister formed a small religious society that worshipped in an old log schoolhouse near York Center. Until 1844, the group met both in the schoolhouse and in a private residence, but in the latter year a decision was made to build a frame church building. Growth over the next thirty years prompted the construction of a larger building on 1877, at a cost of $5,000; fully $3,000 of this total was donated by one woman, Mary Ford, from whose name was derived the churchs nickname of "Marys Chapel". The previous building was sold and converted into a house, while a group of members later donated a separate house to the church for use as a parsonage. Into the early twentieth century, this congregation was one of only two churches in York Township, along with a Congregationalist congregation founded in 1833.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick, the church is a Romanesque Revival building divided into four bays on the sides and three on the front. Tall windows fill the side bays and the left and right bays on the front, while a tower projects forward from the middle bay. Windows and the main entrance pierce the ground floor of the tower, with a wheel window and normal windows on higher stories; thanks to its spire, the tower is the tallest section of the building. Aside from the tower, the building was historically an ordinary rectangle in its floor plan, but the southern side (rear end) of the building was modified in the 1960s by the construction of an addition for classroom space. Although it was erected in the late 1870s, the building displays the style of an older era: carpenter Thomas Rogers, who was both architect and general contractor, produced a building reminiscent of Romanesque Revival churches from the beginning of the 19th century, at which time the Greek Revival style was far more popular in Ohio.</p><br>
<p>In early 1978, the church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its important architecture and because of the place it has played in the history of Mallet Creek and the surrounding area. Today, the congregation remains an active part of the East Ohio Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church, also known as First Congregational United Church of Christ, is an historic church located at 431 Columbus Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, it was built in 1895 by Sandusky builder George Philip Feick . On October 20, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. First Congregational is still an active member of the United Church of Christ, though the congregation no longer worships at the First Congregational Church. The property was privately acquired in 2021 and after an estimated $425,000 overhaul, was converted to The Lost Sailor Inn, a multi-use AirBNB in September 2022</p><br>
<p>The Casstown Lutheran Stone Church is a historic former church building in the village of Casstown, Ohio, United States. Built in the late 1830s, it was home to one of the region&#39;s earliest Lutheran congregations for just a short time before being converted for profane use. Its solid stone construction has made it architecturally important, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>One story tall, the building is a simple stone structure with a basic gabled roofline; the sides are divided into four bays with windows, while the front has a central entrance with one window on each side. Unlike most other stone buildings, constructed of ashlar stone, the church in Casstown is built of rough, comparatively unworked stone. Its roof is of a rare form: the wooden beams supporting the roof form a fuller truss system than in many comparable buildings, and the complex system of pegs and mutually supporting beams enables the roof to stand without any interior load-bearing walls whatsoever.</p><br>
<p>Casstowns first Lutherans organized a church around 1835, just four years after the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio was formed. Composed largely of emigrants from Pennsylvania, the congregation had no church building in its earliest years, so the members worshipped in that of the villages Methodist Episcopal congregation. Construction of the present building began in 1839, and upon its completion in the following year, the Lutherans left the Methodist building and occupied their own edifice. It remained their home for little more than a quarter century, as the congregation erected a larger brick building and moved to it in 1867. Following this time, it was converted into a residence, with two of its more prominent inhabitants being C.R. and Eunice Randall.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the old church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for historic designation both because of its architecture and because of its place in the area&#39;s history, for it was considered to represent an important stage in the emigration of Pennsylvania Lutherans to western Ohio. One of more than forty National Register sites in Miami County, it is the only one in Casstown.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building in the city of Troy, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1860s, it was the third building used by a congregation formed nearly fifty years earlier. A high-quality example of period Romanesque Revival architecture, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Congregational history</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers came to Concord Township in 1804, although Troy itself was not platted until 1807. it required four years&#39; work for completion. At some point in 1863 or 1864, the two congregations chose to reunite, despite the remaining division between the Old and New School denominations on the national level, which was only resolved in 1870.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a brick building with stone elements, set on a stone foundation. Constructed by George R. Browning, its style is the Romanesque Revival and represents some of the best pre-Civil War architecture extant in Troy. The large sanctuary is simple, typical of traditional Presbyterianism, and its design demonstrates Browning&#39;s unusually high degree of skill. The overall plan is rectangular, although a tall flat-roofed tower sits at the front of the building, with an arched doorway set in its base and battlements at the top. Large arched windows, taller than the door, are placed on two levels of the tower, with an oculus between the levels on each side. Yet taller arch windows, nearly twice the height of the doors, are placed in the front (one on each side of the tower) and sides (six on each) of the building. The ends of the building rise to gables, which on the front is highlighted by a pediment behind the tower.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1976, First Presbyterian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place in local history. It is one of fifteen National Register-listed locations in Troy, and one of forty-four in Miami County. The congregation remains active, led by Rev. Dr. Frank T. Rupnik III as pastor. It is part of the Miami Valley Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA).</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ is a historic church in the village of Pleasant Hill in the western part of the USA state of Ohio. Built in the early twentieth century, it was the fourth building used as the home of one of the area&#39;s oldest congregations, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Founded in 1843, Pleasant Hill was originally called "Newton" in honor of Isaac Newton, after whom the surrounding township was also named. By the time it was incorporated in 1866 it had changed its name to "Pleasant Hill&quot the establishment of a post office in the community led locals to wonder if their mail would be misaddressed, so a new name was chosen. The area&#39;s first residents were Quakers; they organized in 1813 and built their first church building in 1820. A Christian Connexion-affiliated group founded a church two years after the Quakers; it was called "Hopewell" following a naming discussion at the original meeting, in which one of the charter members said she "hoped the church might do well". The earliest structure, a log building, was built in 1820 out of town, and it was later removed and replaced by a frame structure on the same site. It in turn was replaced by a brick building in Pleasant Hill; according to a congregation historian, this change was the result of an 1868 storm that virtually destroyed the old building. Following the service of 10 April 1910, it was taken down to allow the construction of another building on the same site. In the 20th century the congregation became a part of the United Church of Christ, within which it remains.</p><br>
<p>The church is a Gothic Revival structure built with an Akron Plan interior. The structure relies on limestone for its foundation and walls, with a roof of ceramic tile and occasional elements of wood. Located on a corner lot, the building features a tower on the corner facing the intersection; worshippers can enter by climbing a small flight of stairs to the base of the tower. Large gabled sections with fat ogee-arched windows face both streets, with a functional addition to the rear.</p><br>
<p>In late 2002 the Pleasant Hill UCC was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of more than forty such locations in Miami County and the only one in the village of Pleasant Hill, it qualified for listing because of its historically significant architecture.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church is a historic church in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Built in 1914 by Lithuanian immigrants, the church has been a fixture in the community since then. The church has ornate Lithuanian folk art stained glass windows depicting religious symbolism and the life of Jesus Christ.</p><br>
<p>An annual, popular fundraiser is the turtle soup and kugelis sale each November. Though turtle soup is not a traditional Lithuanian dish, it was made popular by the Old North Dayton Lithuanian community during World War II when other meats were scarce.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Jonas Mulokas, it was built in 1965 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church building in an eastern neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, United States. Constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, it remains home to an active parish. Its grand architecture has made it an aviators landmark, and it has been named a historic site by the federal government.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>Emanuel Church, the first Catholic parish in Dayton, was formed in 1837. Many English-speaking families left to form a separate parish in 1846, but Emanuel continued growing to the point that division was necessary by the end of the 1850s. Accordingly, land was chosen on Xenia Avenue at the Allen Street intersection in one of the citys eastern neighborhoods, and the owner donated enough property to permit the construction of a church, rectory, and school. Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati laid the cornerstone in April 1859, and the finished building was consecrated by Purcell and Henry Damian Juncker, the Bishop of Alton, in August of the following year. The building measured 110 x, but by the opening years of the twentieth century, the parish had outgrown it, and construction began on a new building; Archbishop Moeller laid the cornerstone in July 1905 and consecrated it in November 1906. Growth continued, and St. Anthonys Church was established in 1913 by families coming out of St. Mary&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s remains an active part of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to the present day. Masses are celebrated both in English and in Spanish.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The current St. Mary&#39;s Church is a Romanesque Revival structure built in a mix of brick and stone. Constructed according to a design by John B. Vermont, the design features two massive clock towers on the three-bay facade. Three large doorways piece the facade at the top of a staircase, with occasional large windows and numerous pairs of narrower windows on higher levels. Each window is topped with a dormered dome above the clock. Built at a cost of $125,000 (or $ in 2013 dollars), the church is a landmark because of the twin towers; during World War II, Army aviators used it as a waypoint when navigating to the runways at Wright Field.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In April 1983, St. Marys Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although as a religious property it would not normally be considered eligible for designation, it nevertheless qualified because of its distinctive historic architecture. It is one of five Dayton churches on the Register, along with Sacred Heart, St. Adalberts, and Holy Cross Catholic Churches and First Lutheran Church.</p><br>
