Description: This photograph shows people leaving a Sunday meeting at Linworth Methodist Episcopal Church, likely in Worthington, Ohio. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F08_020_001
Subjects: Meetings; Worthington (Ohio)--History; Churches; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Worthington (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Red Oak Presbyterian Church in Red Oak, near Ripley, Ohio. The church was a center of anti-slavery activities in the first half of the 19th century, largely under the guidance of its pastor, Reverend James Gilliland, who served from 1805-1854. Located along the Ohio River in Brown County, the town of Ripley was an active location on the Underground Railroad, followed by fugitive slaves crossing the river from Kentucky on their journey to Canada. Because Ohio was a free state, communities like the one pictured here sprang up as homes for freed and formerly enslaved African Americans and their families. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC651_01
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Religion in Ohio; Churches--Ohio;
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of the interior of St Joseph's Catholic Church in Fremont, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_040_1
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Religion in Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of St Ann's Catholic Church located in Fremont, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_041_1
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Religion in Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: St Joseph's Church is located at 709 Crogan Street in Fremont, Ohio. It was founded in 1857 for the German-speaking people of Fremont. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_045_1
Subjects: Fremont (Ohio); Religion in Ohio; Churches--Ohio; Steeples
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph (ca. 1935-1947) is a detailed view of the steeple of Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, Ohio. The first church was built in 1846. In 1930, the old building was torn down and replaced. The original bell, pews and baptismal were preserved in the new building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_019
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio; Historic buildings--Ohio--Hudson--Pictorial works; Hudson (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works.
Places: Hudson (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Warren Co., Lebanon, O., Mar. 24, 1938. Old Cemetery and Church". The Pioneer Cemetery occupies one city block in Lebanon, Ohio and is bounded by West Main Street, South West Street, West Mulberry Street, and South Harrison Street. There is a wrought iron arch at the corner of West Main Street and South West Street that reads "Pioneer Cemetery 1799." The white church with Doric columns is located at the corner of West Mulberry Street and Ross Street. The graveyard used to be split into two halves, the north being the Baptist Cemetery and the south being the Methodist Cemetery. Because of this, it is sometimes called the Pioneer - Old Baptist - Old Methodist Cemetery. The large rounded gravestone on the right in the photograph reads "Sacred. To the memory of Ichabod Corwin. who departed this life Oct. 26th, 1834: Aged 67 years. The deceased was the settler in the place where Lebanon stands: March ? 1796. 'And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.'." The center gravestone of the three reads: "Sacred to the Memory of Sarah, Consort of Ichabod Corwin, Who departed this life on the 3rd day of May 1852. Aged 81 years. She was a member of the Baptist Church for 65 years her life was ? ? to the doctrine of Christ and her death that of a ? happy and consistent CHRISTIAN. Her remains sleep herein, Jesus ? the ? of her Savior. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, Amen. She ? nearly two hundred of her descendants for ? that they might follow her example as she followed Christ. What joyful meeting, that in the bright realms of..." The leftmost gravestone in the grouping of three reads, "In memory of Ichabod Corwin who was born March 30, 1808 and died October 2, 1843 aged 35 years." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F06_009_001
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Cemeteries--Ohio--Warren County
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a double exposure of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, ca. 1939. Joseph Smith Jr., author of the Book of Mormon, directed its construction after reporting having a revelation in 1831. Berea sandstone used was quarried from the base of Gildersleeve Mountain. Mixing Federal, Greek Revival and Gothic Revival architectural styles, it was dedicated on March 27, 1836. This temple is the first structure of its kind built by the Latter Day Saints. According to Leonard Arrington's economic history of the Latter Day Saint movement, Great Basin Kingdom, the completed temple cost $40,000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_001_007_001
Subjects: Mormon Church; Mormon temples; Religion in Ohio; Churches--Ohio
Places: Kirtland (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: St Ann's Catholic Church is located at 1021 West State Street in Fremont, Ohio. The church was founded in 1843, a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese, Toledo Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_035_1
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Religions in Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Gerard's Catholic School is an elementary located at 240 West Robb Avenue in Lima, Ohio and is part of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. It was started in 1916 as a church and school by the Redemptorist Priests and the Ursuline Sisters. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_027
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Catholic schools--United States--History--20th century; Catholic schools; Catholic Church; Religion in Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. John Catholic Church is located at 777 South Main Street in Lima, Ohio. The church began in 1899 when the Bishop gave permission for a parish in South Lima. Land was purchased for $6,200 and a school building was erected on the property in 1901 with Mass being held on the third floor of the building. By 1912, property adjoining the school had been purchased and a the basement for the new church was built. The parishioners worshiped there, in the basement, for 12 years before the church was completed in 1924. This red brick church has two symmetrical towers and a portico supported by 6 Corinthian columns. Above the portico stands a statue, presumably of St. John. Renovations on the church were completed in 1971 and 1990. A new school was built in 1958 (and closed in 1973), and the original demolished in 1959. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_006
Subjects: Catholic Church--Ohio; Churches; Religion in Ohio; Catholic Church; Lima (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pediment at side entrance reads "St. Rosa's." St. Rose is located in Lima, Ohio, on the corner of North West Street and McKibben Street. The parish was established in 1856, and the church (Lima's first Catholic church) built in 1858. It would undergo additional construction over the next several decades, and boasts the oldest and largest steeple in Lima. St. Rose Catholic School, built next door, was established in 1865 by the Sisters of Charity, and has been a primary school for six generations. A new first grade building was erected in 1952 and the original 3-story red brick building (shown in the picture) was demolished in 1955 to provide additional parking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_008
Subjects: Catholic Church--Ohio; Churches; Religion in Ohio; Lima (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)