Description: Photograph of the the dilapidated exterior of Faith Baptist Fellowship Church in New Stark, Ohio, 1999. Beginning in 1878, this building was known as the Mennonite Chapel at New Stark. After joining with other local congregations, it operated under additional names including the New Stark Community Church, New Stark Federated Church, New Stark Presbyterian Church, and finally Faith Baptist Fellowship Church. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03653
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Religious facilities; Church buildings--Ohio; Religious denominations
Places: New Stark (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: Four images representing two postcards depict the interior of the Quaker Meeting House, also known as the Friends Yearly Meeting House, in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. The meeting house holds 2,000 worshippers and contains a mechanism that allowed a partition to be raised and lowered. The partition was used to separate men and women during some special meetings. The first postcard shows the partition partly raised. The second postcard shows the Spanish windlass and wheel that was used to raise and lower the partition. These postcards measure 3" by 5" (7.6 by 12.7 cm). The Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio was built in 1814 for the Ohio Yearly Meeting. This was the first yearly meeting house built west of the Alleghenies. This meeting was composed of quarterly meetings from Ohio as well as Pennsylvania and the Indiana Territory. The final yearly meeting was held at the meeting house in 1909. The Quakers of Mount Pleasant were well-known for their abolitionist activities. As early as the 1810s, there are reports that the Quakers were assisting escaped slaves. In 1817, Charles Osborn began publishing the Philanthropist, which is regarded as the first anti-slavery newspaper in the nation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3242_3832061_001
Subjects: Civil Liberties; Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Quakers; Society of Friends; Religious facilities; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 7 by 5 inch (17.8 by 12.7) photograph, which was taken in 1890, shows the Friends Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, the first yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies. The three-story brick building was completed in 1814 for the Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers. Members of five quarterly meetings in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana came together to worship and conduct business. The building's interior is dominated by a large auditorium with extensive galleries above. A retractable wooden partition divided the 2000-seat auditorium so that men and women could meet separately during some meetings. The building was in active use until 1909. It is now a state memorial and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om712_1008529_001
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Quakers; Society of Friends; Religious facilities; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a young woman identified as Margene Burkhead of Columbus, Ohio, admiring flowers in the garden of the 147-year-old home of Lucas Sullivant, the founder of Franklinton. A note on the reverse indicates that the home was part of the Convent of the Good Shepherd (located along West Broad Street) at the time the photograph was taken. Franklinton, immediately west of Columbus, was founded by Lucas Sullivant in 1797. Franklinton was eventually annexed by Columbus as the city grew larger, and is now a part of the city's West Side. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F06_03_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History; Religious facilities; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Flowers; Gardens; Historic houses;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the Jewish Synagogue located at the corner of Plum Street and Eighth in Cincinnati, from "Cincinnati, from 1800 to 1875, a condensed history of Cincinnati," by E. H. Austerlitz. The cornerstone for the Plum Street Temple was laid on May 12, 1865, and the completed building was dedicated on August 24, 1866. Designed by James Keyes Wilson, it is constructed in the Byzantine-Moorish style--one of only two such synagogues in the United States. The longtime leader of the synagogue was Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, and Plum Street Temple is closely associated with the founding of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873, the Hebrew Union College in 1875, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis in 1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04254
Subjects: Jews--Social life and customs; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Religious facilities; Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The first women's college chartered in the state of Ohio, Ursuline College opened in 1871 in downtown Cleveland as part of the educational mission of the Order of St. Ursula (O.S.U.). Founded in Italy in 1535 with an early presence in North America, this order established its first religious teaching community in Cleveland in 1850, led by foundress Mother Mary of the Annunciation Beaumont, O.S.U. The college's growth prompted four moves in Cleveland and subsequently to the Pepper Pike campus in 1966. Ursuline holds the distinction as one of the first catholic women's colleges in the United States organized and chartered explicitly for college education. This building served as the convent and college from 1893 to 1902. It was designed by Charles F. Schweinfurth, a well known architect in Cleveland, Ohio. The school was suspended from 1902 to 1922 to prepare more teachers for parochial school and they moved to a new location. This building has since been demolished. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07681
Subjects: Architecture; Universities and colleges; Religious facilities
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Established in 1849, Starling Medical College/St. Francis Hospital was significant as it was the first institution in the United States, governed by a single board of trustees, designed to combine patient care and clinical teaching in the same building. The Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis served the hospital during its existence. Starling Medical College was the forerunner of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and St. Francis Hospital continued as a teaching hospital until it closed in 1955 and was later razed in 1957. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07683
Subjects: Medicine; Universities and colleges; Hospitals; Religious facilities
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)