Description: The First United Methodist Church in Mansfield. The history of the Methodist Church goes as far back as the first half of the 18th Century. The driving force behind its founding and philosophy was a man named John Wesley, who was a student at Oxford at the time when the ideas of the Methodist Church were being formed by students interested in religious study. The church became relatively popular in the early days of the United States among those living in the rugged lands being settled. It would come to be widespread throughout the state of Ohio, drawing people in with its idea that all people may go to heaven. Controversy within the Church occurred over divisions about the teachings of John Wesley and the increasingly divisive issue of whether or not it was immoral to keep slaves. This caused multiple divisions within the church and it splintered into numerous separate Methodist denominations. After over 100 years of a divided church, the various Methodist churches joined together and eventually the United Methodist Church was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06732
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph ca. 1935-1943 is of Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Parish, located at 1175 Overlook Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45238, in the community of Price Hill. The original church was dedicated in 1916. The photograph shows a cornerstone with the date 1922, which indicates an addition or renovation. The building appears to be stucco with terracotta roof tiles with a keyhole shaped opening in the bell tower. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_030
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Catholic churches
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Saint Lawrence Church is located at 3680 Warsaw Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio in the community of Price Hill, and was built on one of the highest hilltops in the city. Building began on this Gothic structure with the laying of the cornerstone in 1886 and was completed and dedicated by Archbishop William Henry Alder in 1894. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_031
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Catholic churches
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This elevated view of the town of Fostoria, in Seneca County, Ohio, shows a general view of the houses and businesses of the town. Streets, public buildings and churches are labelled. Bird's eye view drawings like this one were popular in late-19th century America. As the country became increasingly urbanized, many towns had pictures such as this one drawn as an expression of civic pride. Also note the plumes of smoke rising from small manufacturing plants and the three railroads running through this rural-seeming town. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4163
Subjects: Cities and towns--Ohio; Aerial photographs; Streets -- Ohio; Churches;
Places: Fostoria (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows the front of Saint Raphael Church with several automobiles parked out front. The church has two large bell towers, with one being significantly taller than the other. Saint Raphael Church is located at 225 East High Street, at the corner of Spring Street, in Springfield. Designed by architect Charles A. Cregar, construction on this Gothic style brick building began in 1848. Construction on a very large addition began in 1892, and was officially completed with the dedication in 1898. This historic Roman Catholic church has a 184 foot tower, and a somewhat smaller one holding a 16, 000 pound bell. The stained glass windows, created by Mayer of Munich, were designed in the twelfth-century manner. In 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F05_029_001
Subjects: Churches; Catholic Church; Bell towers; Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Churches--Ohio; Roman Catholic Church; Mayer & Co; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photo taken by Works Progress Administration sometime between 1936-1943. Located at 301 North 4th Street in Steubenville, it now bears the name Sycamore Tree Church. In 1803 Bishop Frances Asbury, one of the fathers of Methodism visited Steubenville and in 1810 the first “Methodist Society” or church was organized in Steubenville. It wasn’t until 1826 that Edwin M. Stanton was converted and became a member. In 1830 South Street Church experienced their first division. By 1847 the new brick facility, able to hold 500 persons, was completed. This offshoot of the South Street Church took the name of “Hamline”. In 1851 gas lines were installed in both the South Street and Hamline churches, and in 1852 Hamline left the security of South Street Church and became fully independent. 1888 Christmas Service was delivered by Rev. Dr. Youmans View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_019_001
Subjects: Churches; Methodist; Episcopal; New Deal; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Tiffin. This church was home to early electrical illumination with an electric, brass chandelier. The history of the Methodist Church goes as far back as the first half of the 18th Century. The driving force behind its founding and philosophy was a man named John Wesley, who was a student at Oxford at the time when the ideas of the Methodist Church were being formed by students interested in religious study. The church became relatively popular in the early days of the United States among those living in the rugged lands being settled. It would come to be widespread throughout the state of Ohio, drawing people in with its idea that all people may go to heaven. Controversy within the Church occurred over divisions about the teachings of John Wesley and the increasingly divisive issue of whether or not it was immoral to keep slaves. This caused multiple divisions within the church and it splintered into numerous separate Methodist denominations. After over 100 years of a divided church, the various Methodist churches joined together and eventually the United Methodist Church was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06787
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: These two photographs are views of the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, Ohio. The Church of the Covenant, a Presbyterian church, located at 11205 Euclid Ave. in University Circle, was established in 1920 as a result of mergers of three churches. The Euclid St. (United) Presbyterian Church was originally located at Euclid and E. 14th St., and was organized in 1853. Known as the Euclid Ave. Church after 1880, it merged in 1906 with Beckwith Memorial Presbyterian Church (organized in 1885), located at Fairmount (E. 107th) St. and Deering St., and became the Euclid Ave. Presbyterian Church. In 1909 this church constructed an English Gothic building on land adjacent to Women's College of Western Reserve University. Designed by Cram and Ferguson, the building featured a rose window and a 140 foot tower between the parish house and sanctuary. In 1920 the Second Presbyterian Church (chartered in 1837), located at the corner of Prospect St. and E. 30th St., joined the Euclid Ave. Presbyterian Church at its Euclid Ave. location. The name was then changed to Church of the Covenant. The photographs are 5" x 7" (12.7 x 17.78 cm). The photographs were taken by Ihna Thayer Frary. The Ihna Thayer Frary Audiovisual Collection was given to the Ohio Historical Society by Mr. Frary in two sections. One was in March of 1963 and the remainder in May of 1965 by his sons, Dr. Spencer G. and Allen T. Frary following their father's death. I.T. Frary (1873-1965) was the publicity and membership secretary for the Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. He taught for many years at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University's School of Architecture. He did much research of Ohio and American architecture and was the author of seven major works and numerous scholarly articles on architectural and art history. One of his major works was Early Homes of Ohio published in 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3374_5971294_001
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Churches
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated December 13, 1929, this photograph shows a building identified as First Congregational Church in an unidentified location in Ohio. Congregationalist churches are categorized as a movement rather than a denomination, and are characterized by autonomous operation in the Protestant tradition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P51_B01F05_01
Subjects: Churches; Religion in Ohio; Historic buildings; Architecture
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1935, this photograph shows Tallmadge Church, also referred to as the First Congregational Church, in Summit County, Ohio. The church's construction, led by architect Lemuel Porter, was completed in 1825, and features a two-story portico and a one hundred foot-high steeple with a weathervane. The church is an example of Federal-style architecture with its roots in New England, a reminder of northeastern Ohio's New England heritage. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_4080_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Architecture; Churches; First Congregational Church (Tallmadge, Ohio)
Places: Tallmadge (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of St. Dominic's School at the corner of 20th and Devoise. The St. Dominic Catholic Church in Columbus, Ohio, was established in 1889, and the St. Dominic's parochial school opened September 9, 1889. In the early 1940s, St. Dominic Catholic Church became one of the first Catholic churches in Columbus to have a primarily African American congregation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07049
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; Churches; Columbus (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Second United Presbyterian Church. La Bell View. Steubenville, O. Miller and Son, 436 Market St., Steubenville, Ohio." Sign at the front of the church reads: "Rev. Dr. Mo George D. D. 11am Aaron & Modern Leaders; 7:30pm Hills & Valleys." This is a photograph of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Steubenville, Ohio. It began as Second United Presbyterian Church and was incorporated in 1911. The brick building is located at 1443 Belleview Boulevard and Ohio Street. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_048_001
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Presbyterian Church--Ohio; Steubenville (Ohio)--Church history; Churches; Church Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)