Description: Portrait drawing of Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835-1923), known as a pastor, author, bishop and educator. Tanner (1835-1923) had a long career in the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a minister, school principal, bishop, and editor of the Christian Recorder and A.M.E. Church Review. In 1867, he published "An Apology for African Methodism," which traces the history of the denomination and defends both its split from the Methodist Church and its theology. In 1901, he became dean of Payne Theological Seminary at Wilberforce University. Wilberforce was established in 1856 in Greene County under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named for William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English abolitionist. The African Methodist Episcopal Church purchased the university in 1863, making it the first to be owned and run by African Americans. Payne Theological Seminary was named for Daniel A. Payne, who in 1863 became first African American president of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1277_781234_125
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Religion in Ohio; Universities and colleges; Education; Wilberforce University; African Methodist Episcopal Church;
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Old Mission Church in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The Wyandot Indians first encountered Methodism around 1816 when John Stewart came to the area of the present day Upper Sandusky. Stewart was a mulatto, probably of African and East Indian descent, with a beautiful singing voice. Word of his success came to the general Methodist church in 1819 and they formed a Methodist Missionary to support Stewart's work among the Wyandot Indians. This Wyandot Mission became the first church wide mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James B. Finley came to the mission in 1821. The following year, he and some Indian chiefs traveled to Washington to request government funds to build a church. This requested was granted and in 1827, the Old Mission Church was built for just over $1,000. The limestone meeting house was dedicated in 1824. The dimensions were thirty by forty feet and it was plainly furnished. The mission continued until 1843 when the Wyandot were forced to move to Kansas. The two acres of land where the church and cemetery stood were deeded to "the Methodists." The church was abandoned for about forty years and deteriorated badly. In 1889, using the original stones, it was rebuilt on the original site. In 1983 additional renovations were done. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_041
Subjects: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio); Methodist Church
Places: Upper Sandusky (ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated November 12, 1936, this photograph shows the Cameron Methodist Church entrance in Cincinnati, Ohio. Erected in 1818, Cameron Methodist Church had a congregation of deaf and mute parishioners. On October 10, 1910, a church for the deaf was organized at Trinity which moved into Asbury Chapel on Sycamore Street. Due to a fire, the Cameron congregation moved into the Walnut Hills/Avondale Church in 1982 where it continues to serve a deaf congregation. 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_B02F16_028_1
Subjects: Methodist Church; Deaf community; Cincinnati (Ohio); Religion in Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton (Ohio)
 

Description: Methodist Home for the Aged (Twin Towers) is located in Cincinnati at 5343 Hamilton Ave., College Hill. The institution was originally located at a former hotel in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which was destroyed by fire in 1902. The building was designed and supervised by architect, Samuel Hannaford. Hannaford designed the building to be fireproof with no wooded floors or stairways. The building is constructed of yellow buff-brick with Bedford stone trim, and stands seven stories high. It has a steel and concrete frame with tiled floors and a red tiled roof. The building also has two towers that stand 150 feet tall. L. P. Hazen & Co. was the contractor and construction began in June of 1903. The building was constructed in stages to avoid dept. The central building opened in 1908, the Wilson Chapel opened in 1909, and the south wing was not complete until 30 years later. The cost of the entire building was estimated around $220,000. The building was partly funded by Mr. and Mrs. Obed J. Wilson who donated the twenty acres of land in College Hill, $80,000, and their private art collection. Caption incorrectly reads: "The new dormitory, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Butler County, 1936." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F02_003_001
Subjects: Methodist Homes for the Aged; Twin Towers (Cincinnati, Ohio); Samuel Hannaford & Sons; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Wesley Chapel, Fifth Street between Broadway and Sycamore, demolished 1972. Red brick Georgian revival structure in imitation of John Wesley's original chapel in London. Once the largest meeting place west of the Allegheny Mountains, chapel held the funeral of William Henry Harrison. Marker in pediment reads: "Methodist Episcopal Church erected 18-1" Sign at right reads: "The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her lord 10:45 7:45" Reverse reads: "Cinci., O. Sept. 1937 Methodist Episcopal Church Wesley Chapel." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F15_033_1
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church; Church buildings--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Edward DuBois Washington, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church) and husband to Felma Harper Washington. This photograph is part of the Felma Harper Washington Collection. Felma Harper Washington was a leader, minister, musician, writer and historian in Bellfontaine, Ohio. Born in Bellefontaine in 1903, she traveled the country working with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church) and married Reverend Edward Washington. She founded the Harper Memorial Library and the Museum of African-American Historical Research. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2034_aaeo_90-18_020
Subjects: African Americans; Clergy; African Methodist Episcopal Church;
 

Description: Caption reads "First M. E. Church of Seven Gables, Jefferson County" Constructed in 1814, although services were held on the plot of land (an orchard) as early as 1810. Name later became Calvary Methodist Church. This property was sold in 1946 and became Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the first Greek church in Steubenville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_011_01
Subjects: revival--methodist--episcopal--greek orthodox--steubenville
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the John Stewart Methodist Church in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, ca. 1937. John Stewart founded the Wyandot Indian Mission in 1816 and the local American Indians worshiped at the old Mission Church until 1843. The cornerstone of the new church was positioned on October 8, 1899. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05387
Subjects: Wyandot County (Ohio); Churches--Ohio; Methodist Episcopal Church;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Methodist Home for the Aged, College Hill." Designed by architects Samuel Hannaford & Sons and built by Pennsylvania contractors L.P. Hazen & Co., the cornerstones were laid July 5th, 1905. The building has it's own steam and electric plants, and at one time at at least one hundred residents. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_025_1
Subjects: College Hill (Cincinnati, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Homes for the Aged; Methodist Homes for the Aged
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton 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: Dated 1937, this photograph shows the Allen Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, located on the southeast corner of Sixth and Broadway Streets. The Allen Temple was built by Robert Alexander Love from 1851-1853 for Cincinnati's oldest Jewish congregation, Bene Israel. The structure was sold in 1868 to the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati's oldest African American congregation. In 1979, the building was razed for the Procter and Gamble offices there today. The English inscription below the Hebrew reads "Ye shall make me a sanctuary that I may dwell in the midst of Beni Israel, nor will I ever forsake my people Israel saith the Lord. Erected A.M. 5612." 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_B02F15_030_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati; Love, Robert Alexander, 1814-1876
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "GRANT MEMORIAL CHURCH Grant Memorial Church of native rubble stone is of a design in keeping with the rugged character in whose memory it was dedicated. It was constructed by the Methodist Episcopal Congregation in Point Pleasant. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project #1 (Writers')" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_010_1
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Commemoration; Methodist Episcopal Church.
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Monroe Township (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)