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RECEIVED 2280 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service DEC 2 3 2011 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Completethe National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NPS Form 10-900a). 1. Name of Property other names/site number 2. Location street & number 323 Wick Avenue not for publication city or town state Ohio - county Mahoning 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended I hereby certify that this X nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. does not meet the National Register Criteria.I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: _national X local December 14,2011 Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government Signature of commenting official 4.

National Park Service Certification I hereby gertify that this property is: entered in the National Register - determined not eligible for the National Register _removed from the National Register -other (explain:) Zi 3.12 Signature of the Keeper Date of Action Code Youngstown vicinity Date 1093 Registration Form National Register of Historic Places Title "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the historic name St. John's Episcopal Church for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. 099 Ohio United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) public - Local public - State public - Federal Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Current Functions RELIGION/religious facility 7. Description LATE 19" and 20" CENTURY REVIVALS Foundation: limestone veneer, stucco Slate, viny!

object site structure district private Total building(s) Materials Architectural Classification Jacobethan Revival Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) Tudor Revival Category of Property Saint John's Episcopal Church (Expires 5/31/2012) (Check only one box.) other: roof: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Summary Paragraph St. John's Episcopal Church, located at 323 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, is home to a congregation founded in 1859. The large and imposing English, Arts and Crafts Jacobethan Style church, constructed between 1897 and 1901, has a rear 3-1/2-story Tudor Revival parish house, the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, masonry bearing walls.

The church nave, transepts, chancel, apse and center tower have wooden roof structure supported support the steel floor of the bridge. Its gabled roof is constructed of wooden rafters covered in slate shingles. The building complex occupies a 1.768-acre site with a north side parish yard and parking lot. Narrative Description St. John's is located on the east side of Wick Avenue, a street of mixed institutional and cultural buildings. South of the church site is the Classical Revival Style Reuben McMillan Free Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County (1910) (NR, 1986) (photo 15). To the north of the church parking lot is the large Modern Style Meshel Hall and a Brutalist concrete parking deck for Youngstown State University (photo 17).

Across Wick Avenue to the southwest, on the corner of Lincoln Avenue, is the First Reformed Church (aka Pilgrim Collegiate Church, 1921-1922), a cream brick and sandstone Second Gothic Revival Style church (eligible for the NR, 1986). On the northwest corner of Wick and The church complex is sited as the focal point at the east end of Lincoln Avenue where it terminates at Wick Avenue (photo 1). The streets above the river bank "hill" of the Mahoning River were, from the 1870s until the late 1940s, a neighborhood of upper middle class family residences and the houses of Youngstown's most prominent citizens. After Youngstown State University (1967) resulted in the transition of the area from primarily residential to a mix of university buildings, social and institutional uses.

The church site slopes steeply to the east from Wick Avenue, accommodating a 50-foot turf front yard edged with a concrete and sandstone curb with center entry walk. The exterior of the church articulates all of the interior spaces of a with western narthex. The exterior of the church building is rough-faced, random-coursed limestone with cut, molded limestone belt courses. At its eastern end, one story below the sanctuary, the church ground floor houses the 14). The 3-1/2-story parish house of smooth, cut, semi-coursed limestone veneer, has a north-south gable roof (photo 8). The parish house main entrance, on the west side of the building, is under the span of the bridge.

On the north side of the church complex site, north of the church between Wick Avenue and the rear property line, is a churchyard (photo 17) and east sides, a rubble stone partial retaining wall on the west, against the churchyard. 1985) (photo 16). NPS Form 10-900 "Undercroft,"with Chapel of the Good Shepherd and Sunday school classrooms.A sub-basement holds the heating (Expires 5/31/2012) on limestone arches and wooden timber trusses with gabled, slate shingle roofs. The parish house masonry bearing walls Lincoln Avenues is the Collegiate Gothic original building of Youngstown State University, Jones Hall (1931) (NR, Latin cross floor plan of a nave with clerestory, side aisles, transepts, square crossing tower, and eastern hemisphere apse plant and ductwork.

The half-timber and stucco bridge joins the church building main floor to the parish house main floor, spanning an early, auto porte-cochere that covers the entries to the ground floor of both buildings (photos 4, 13, finished in 1929. An elevated Tudor Revival Style bridge, 1929, connects the two buildings. The church has limestone Youngstown College became a university in 1955, the school expanded its campus. The growth and expansion of and, further east, a parking lot directly north of the parish house. The parking lot has a concrete block wall on its north United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Exterior Features: The Church St.

John's Episcopal Church, designed by William Halsey Wood, was constructed between 1897 and 1899 of rock-faced random-coursed Pennsylvania limestone in an English-based, Arts and Crafts or Jacobethan Style heavily dependent on and early twentieth centuries: exterior articulation of all interior spaces, bold massing, a huddled overall form, crenellated tower, rough stone exterior, clerestory windows, strap buttresses, and timber roof. The Latin cross plan rises in a 1-1/2-story church with four steeply pitched slate covered, gable roofs around a center square tower. The gable ends face west, north, and south, with a half-conical apse roof completing the eastern chancel gable roof. The square, crenellated, limestone tower covers the central crossing of the arms of the Latin cross.

West Elevation narthex has a taller center doorway bay and side bays on north and south, each with end double lancet doorways. All the narthex doorways and windows are flanked by strap buttresses of rough-faced stone. The narthex has a smooth water table and low, battered base. The front doorway and window openings are lancet-arched with smooth dripstone with label stops. Side doorway openings have rough-faced keystones and voussoirs. All narthex doors are vertical-board distinguishing feature of Episcopal churches. The front and north doors have decorative, "medieval", foliate tracery rectangular window with smooth drip mold and labels is above the front doorway. The narthex roof parapet has smooth, cut and molded limestone coping and belt course. Stone gargoyle gutter spouts are above the front doorway and at each corner of the taller center doorway bay.

The west end of the nave is a gabled parapet wall that is also a buttress to the clerestory wall of the west end of the nave. It has a smooth, molded coping with a stone Latin cross at the apex of the gable. The west gable's principal adornment is a large lancet stained glass window with smooth dripstone with label stops. Among the first stained glass in the church, the window was installed in 1901. Side Elevations The nave of the church is five bays long; each bay marked by a lancet double window or a doorway in the ground floor, a lancet opening with double window of stained glass in the first floor nave aisle wall and a circular clerestory window of Similar to the west elevation, the gable ends of both north and south transepts are parapet walls with cut stone coping and are supported by strap buttresses on the sidewalls at the outer corners of the transepts (photos 3, 5).

Both north and south transept lancet openings. The west side of the north and south transepts each has two lancet stained glass windows on the has two lancet stained glass windows that are taller than the lancet windows in the sidewalls. The placement of ground floor doors varies on the north and south side elevations and on the north and south transepts. On the northeast corner of the church is a two-story bay that houses the organ loft and, on the ground floor, once a single room, now two service rooms. The north side of this bay is an extension of the north transept parapet endwall with gable, corner. The north side of the bay has one lancet window opening with yellow glass window on the ground floor, two lancet window openings and one tall lancet window in the organ loft on the first floor. The east side of the bay has two organ loft.

Below this corner bay is the furnace room, in the sub-basement (exterior access). A rough, coursed stone chimney is on the northeast corner of this bay rising about five feet above the apex of the gable roof (photo 3). first floor.The east side of the south transept also has two lancet stained glass windows.Each transept gable endwall (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form English Norman Revival architecture. The building exhibits many elements of this style popular in the late nineteenth added to the strap hinges (photo 2). Narthex windows retain their original 3-part wooden windows with Gothic wooden transept gable walls also have two strap buttresses near their outer corners.

The buttresses rise to the tops of the side lancet window openings with yellow glass on the ground floor, one lancet window opening with yellow glass in the The west elevation is symmetric with a flat-roof, 3-part narthex projecting from the west gable nave end (photo 1). The tracery and leaded yellow glass. The large, double front doorway retains its original yellow glass transom. A 3-light stained glass (photos 2, 6). Rough stone strap buttresses mark the bays of the nave on the sides of the aisle walls. stone coping, a buttress shared with the north transept, and buttresses on both the north and east side of the northeast United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State has a parapet wall with smooth stone coping and a cut stone belt course to define the base of the parapet. The bay has a west-facing door in a lancet opening on the ground floor, a south-facing window in lancet opening on the ground floor, another lancet window on the first floor of the south facing wall. The north elevation differs from the south elevation in the fenestration of its ground story (photo 2). In the western first bay of the north elevation is a door in a lancet opening accessible by sunken stairwell. The north end of the north transept on the ground floor has four lancet openings accommodating three paired windows and one doorway. The west side of the north transept has two ground-story lancet window openings. opening; other bays have lancet window openings with paired windows.

The ground floor of the west side of the south transept has a double door in a lancet opening. The gable of the south transept has two lancet window openings on the ground floor. The massive, square, crenellated tower is located over the intersection of the west nave, north and south transepts, and the chancel. Each of the four walls of the tower is pierced with large lancet arch openings containing louvers with windows below them. The lancet arches have smooth, cut stone drip moldings with label stops. Below the wooden louvers in the arches are five-part yellow glass windows. Two strap buttresses support each side of the tower, located next to each corner of the tower. The tower has smooth, cut stone coping on the crenellated parapet. The cut stone belt course at the base of the parapet is composed of one continuous course with a segmented course below it.

Another smooth, cut stone belt course defines the "sill" of the lancet louver-and-window openings. Another belt course is below the windowsills (photo 5). East Elevation The hemisphere east end of St. John's church articulates the apse of the main church sanctuary and the apse of the ground floor chapel (photo 3). The Chapel of the Good Shepherd has three lancet window openings, now filled with semicircular conical slate roof that completes the gable roof over the chancel. A copper finial highlights the conical top of the apse roof. Exterior Church Windows and Doorway Openings All windows and doorway openings, other than those on the narthex, are lancet-shaped. They have rough stone jambs with a rough-stone keystone, rough-stone voussoirs. Windows have smooth, flush sawn lug sills. All stonework is limestone. Most windows are coupled within the lancet opening.

Each couple has a diamond-shaped windowpane between the paired windows, below the keystone. Window frames, muntins and most door frames are original wood. All first-story and some ground floor windows originally had pale yellow leaded windows, some with rose center details. celebrate friends and relatives. The replacement of the early glass began in 1901 and continues today. Most Church doors are original, tongue-and-groove wooden boards doors of double construction with black-painted, to the black, strap hinges. Many doors are double doors. The main doors, the north and south narthex doors are painted red. Other doors are painted grey. The exterior of the church survives with little change.It had ivy removed, but has not been washed or cleaned. Some slate has been replaced.

Windows and doors, all exterior openings are original with stained glass added as parishioners stained glass.The sanctuary apse and chancel have three lancet window openings with stained glass.The apse has a (Expires 5/31/2012) On the southeast corner of the church, the space between the south transept and the chancel and apse has a flat roof, North and south transept stained glass windows retain their original wooden Gothic tracery in the lancets. wrought iron " medieval" strap hinges.

Important doors, the west and north narthex doors, have tracery decoration added In the south elevation, below the nave on the ground floor, the most eastern bay has a double door placed in a lancet These windows were intended to be filled with commemorative stained glass as parishioners gave memorial gifts to United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State could afford to celebrate relatives with the purchase of memorial windows that have slowly replaced the earlier yellow Exterior Features: Connecting Bridge A Tudor Revival Style stucco and half-timber bridge with leaded, diamond-pane casement windows connects the church building to the parish house (photos 4, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14).

Built at the same time as the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, the bridge and the stairwell at its west end were designed by the firm of Cram and Ferguson in 1928. Two sets of smooth, dressed limestone pointed arches support the bridge on the north and the south, forming a porte-cochere for the doorway to the ground floor of the church and the main entrance to the parish house. The corners of the arch bases have conical limestone "fenders" to protect the bases from damage from automobiles. Two sets of the arches provided passage for automobiles and pedestrians to the brick driveway on the south side of the church and south brick courtyard (1918) parish house. The bridge overhangs the limestone arcade, supported on paired limestone corbels on both the north and the south. On the church side, the bridge passageway entrance is located on the south side of the chancel and apse.

The building. The bridge has a steeply pitched slate roof with the gable ends connected to the church and the parish house at the first floor level. Between the sacristy bay and the bridge is a stairwell of terra cotta tile construction, faced in smooth, semi-course limestone, a part of the construction of the parish house bridge. The stairwell has a shed roof with shed roof dormer to accommodate a stained glass window on the landing of the staircase. East of the stairwell is an exterior metal ladder leading to a metal staircase to the top of the tower. Exterior Features: Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House The Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House is a 3-1/2-story limestone-veneer, terracotta-tile bearing wall building with north-south gable roof, designed by the firm of Cram and Ferguson.

It has Tudor Revival detailing, including wall dormers and gabled, half-timber-and-stucco dormers, north end strap buttresses, and a large circular north gable window. It was dedicated in 1929. It is located at the east side of the church site, connected to the church building by an enclosed coursing. The main structure is ten bays long, three bays wide. A 2-1/2-story, two-bay, west wing houses the front entry, the doors to the bridge and the main circulation stairwell. A two-bay, 3-story elevator tower is just south of the entry- the north end. The parish house has a steeply pitched slate roof with three wall dormers on the east side and two wall dormers on the west side. Three half-timber-and-stucco dormers are on the south end of the roof. tower (photos 8, 12).

On the ground floor, west façade windows vary with three bays of round arch windows at the north end, three lancet-shaped, three-part windows with three-part, glazed transoms next to the entrance doorway. The ground ground, first, and second floors of the parish house are similar, three-part, double, or single casement windows. On the east side, the second bay from the north is an original hip roof fire stairwell with the casement windows on each landing, and a fire exit door at grade level (photo 10). Both west and east sides have gabled wall dormers with parapet walls (photos 8, 10). On each side, two wall dormers have tall three-part windows. In between the wall dormers are standard stucco gable double casement windows, two on the east side, one on the west. The north elevation shows a strap buttress at each side of the facade, each has two flat stone amortizements.

The ground floor windows have round tops, like those on the ground floor of the west elevation. The first-story windows are two glass. Elevations NPS Form 10-900 (photo 13). The third arch is under a gabled two-bay wing of the parish house and shelters the entry doorway to the half-timber-and-stucco bridge. The parish house is covered in smooth dressed light grey limestone laid in random floor north façade and ground floor entry wing also have round arch windows. Most of the rest of the windows on the main stair wing, added in the mid-1950s. A hip roof, 2-1/2-story fire stair bay projects to the east in the second bay from three-part windows, as seen on the first floor. At the south end of the roof are three Tudor Revival Style half-timber-and- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property at the north end of the 1-1/2-story timbered Great Dining Hall. On the south elevation, the end wall has a massive chimney that extends to the gable peak. The east side of the parish house extends one bay beyond the west side, with a gabled roof and no windows on east or west. The south gable end has neither parapet wall, nor strap buttresses. South fenestration on the bay that extends beyond the chimney has a three- part window on each of three floors. A one-bay elevator tower occupies the bay on the west side of the parish house just south of the entrance and stair wing. The elevator housing rises to a flat roof, one floor above the second floor, constructed of terra cotta covered in smooth dressed light grey limestone laid in random coursing, matching the rest of the parish house.

This 1950s addition has south-facing two-part steel casement windows on the first and second floor, a red wooden 6-panel door on the ground floor to represent the "Red Door Café", the Sunday soup kitchen run by St. John's since 1983. All windows in the parish house are the original metal casements with steel muntins, rectangular panes of glass, 6 to 8 panes to a casement, except for the two paired, steel, casement windows in the elevator tower. All of the window surrounds on the parish house are of smooth sawn limestone, flush with the wall of the building. Windowsills also are smooth sawn stone, flush with the wall of the building. Most two- and three-part windows have lintels, sloping lug sills, quoined jamb stones. Round-top windows have the entire top of the opening cut from one stone with quoined jambs. Window sash is recessed.

Three-part windows have stationery center sash with operable casements on each side. single, operable casements. The Tudor Revival Style dormers have paired casement windows. The windows at the south end of the elevator tower were added in the 1950s. Interior Features: St. John's Church, on the first floor rooms are rock-faced random coursed limestone. The narthex is symmetric: three rooms with rock-faced, random coursed limestone bearing walls for each of the rooms. The ceiling has exposed, chamfered Southern yellow pine rafters with beaded, Southern yellow pine ceiling boards. bluestone pieces, like the nave center aisle. Narthex doorways have oak jambs of a 1" bead. The open doorways from the center bay to the side coatrooms have pointed arches with blind transoms, filled with oak, pointed-arch panels.

The coatrooms are separated from the center entry room by wrought iron gates added in 1999. The double doorways from the narthex to the side aisles of the nave have pointed openings with the same blind Gothic panels. The doorway to the center aisle of the nave has double doors, pointed arch and yellow glass glazing in the Gothic arches of the transom. Doors from the narthex to the nave have vertical, chamfered oak boards and "medieval" strap hinges. Each coatroom also has a double door to the churchyard. The plan of the sanctuary of St. John's Episcopal Church is a Latin cross with a five-bay nave, one-bay transepts, one- bay chancel with hemisphere apse and a square crossing tower. The nave has a center aisle, with clerestory walls. Rough-faced pillars, without capitals and composed of massive stones, mark each bay of the nave (photos 20, 21, 22).

The pillars support low, rough-stone pointed arches that separate the nave clerestory wall from the aisles. Above the arcade of pillars and arches, the wall is random coursed, rough limestone with cut-stone truss supports at each bay The aisle limestone bearing walls have lancet recesses that are pierced by lancet window openings. The nave, transepts, Windows Sanctuary Narthex County and State (Expires 5/31/2012) The interior walls of the nave, transepts, chancel, tower, narthex, hall to the bridge, and outside walls of the sacristy division (photo 18). The clerestory wall has shallow lancet recesses for each clerestory window in each bay (photo 20). double and one three-part windows, as seen elsewhere on the parish house. The third-story window is large and circular, Double windows have two operable casements; single windows have one operable casement.

Round-top windows are United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State arches are supported on four massive rough stone pillars with cut stone capitals. The east end of the chancel/apse junction has a wooden truss supported on cut stone supports. Both transept and chancel bearing walls have shallow lancet recesses for each lancet window opening, filled with stained glass windows (photos 24, 25). The chancel is raised two steps from the floor of the nave and transepts. An oak partial rood screen separates the chancel and choir from the rail, altar, reredos and piscine (photo 26). original Gothic Revival Style reredos made of Caen stone.

Before his death, church architect William Halsey Wood provided sketches for both altar and reredos. The reredos has five niches adorned with statures of the four Evangelists and Jesus carved by sculptor John Angel, added in 1952. To the right of the altar is a Gothic Revival Style wall-mounted piscine, original to the church building, that once drained to the outside, used to dispose of excess consecrated wine and water. Left of the altar, added in 2009, is a brass wall-mounted aumbry or tabernacle to hold consecrated wine and wafers, together with a wall-mounted sanctuary candleholder. The northeast corner between the north transept and the chancel is the organ loft.

It houses most of the organ pipes, organ loft has two doorways within lancet openings, from the north side of the chancel and from the east side of the north hall, a complement to the organ loft doorway on the north side of the chancel. organ pipes. The nave roof of five bays is supported by fairly simple timber trusses of arch and side chord with a king post between the chords near the apex and one tie above the king post. The dark stained trusses have chamfered members. One of these trusses also supports the east end of the chancel at its joint with the apse. The gabled roofs of the nave, each transept, and the chancel have exposed chamfered rafters. The load of each rafter is distributed to two exposed, dark-stained wooden purlins. The roof deck is exposed, dark-stained, chamfered wooden boards (photo 23).

The apse has a similar structure of rafters radiating from the apex, joined by two rings of purlins with decking in between. Both the narthex and the sacristy have Southern yellow pine chamfered rafters that support Southern yellow pine beaded board ceiling decks. The entire flooring of the first-floor church space was removed to place steel support under the floor in 1953-1954. The narthex floor, the floor of the center aisle and side aisles, the floor in front of the chancel and in the hall to the parish house were replaced with bluestone pavers with textured rough surface, colored grey to dark red. Nave space that receives less traffic is oak tongue-and-groove flooring. The sacristy has linoleum tile flooring. The chancel retains the original white marble floor of rectangular pavers. Steps to the chancel and the step surrounding the altar are the original marble steps.

The floor of the entire sanctuary is supported by steel beams. Doors and Windows First-story doors are original, made of chamfered vertical oak boards. Hardware appears "hammered". Most principal doors have strap hinges that appear to be "medieval" wrought iron often with rose-head studded nails showing doorways off the transepts, have elaborate flourishes of ironwork to further enhance the "medieval" character of the Floor Roof building (photo 27). In the corner between the south transept and the chancel is a hall to the parish house and the two-room sacristy.The The apse has the original Caen stone altar at its east end raised on three graduated marble steps.Behind the altar is the crossing.

The chancel, which holds the choir pews and organ console, ends with a semi-circular apse with Communion The roof of the entire church, on the first floor, is original and exposed, except in the organ loft, where it is hidden by showing some pipes at two large lancet openings in the north wall of the chancel and in the east wall of the transept. The sacristy has a sink, storage for vestments and linens. A lancet doorway leads from the south side of the chancel to the prominently on the backs of the doors. The most important doors, at the west center entry of the narthex, at the side transept. United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State openings in the exterior limestone bearing walls, letting the windows appear slightly recessed from the interior walls.

Originally all first-story glazing but for two windows had pale yellow glass. The early stained glass windows are two in bay of the south aisles--the Rudge windows, the Resurrection Angel that was moved from the north transept endwall, and the large, focal point west wall "Te Deum" window were placed in the sanctuary walls. As congregation members could afford to commemorate their relatives with stained glass windows, parishioners paid for memorial windows that replaced the yellow glass. Each sanctuary window opening has a wooden window frame holding stained glass. Side aisle windows and the north and south wall transept windows have operable hatches at the bottom of each window (photos 20, 32, 33). The aisle windows have sloping wooden sills. Clerestory windows are round and inoperable. Side aisle windows are paired with a stained glass.

The apse and chancel windows have three-parts, set into lancet-shaped recesses. The sacristy windows and the organ loft windows are similar in appearance to the side aisle windows, but retain their original sash with yellow The design, donor, maker, and date of installation of stained glass windows are detailed in the Addendum 2. and the most western pews. The font was relocated in 1999, from its off-center location to the north of the narthex doors at the rear of the nave, returning it to its original 1900 location. The font is three feet tall and 3-1/2 feet in diameter. It has its original heavy, flat, cast brass cover for the original recessed marble basin. The original pulpit of Caen stone, designed by Henry Baechlin after the death of church architect Wood, is at the corner of the north transept and the chancel, just west of the rood screen.

It has a hexagonal plan with Gothic, blind arches carved on its outside. Once reached by three marble steps, the pulpit was moved in 1954 to be closer to the northeast support pillar, connected to the oak rood screen, and is now entered from the chancel. Complementing the pulpit on the north, the lectern is on the right near the pillar supporting the south transept and chancel, at the western base of the rood screen. The lectern survives from the earlier church on Wood Street. It is a dark oak pillar with an eagle with outstretched wings that hold the open Bible. The lectern pillar, turned and embellished with sawn details, reflects the Queen Anne or Eastlake Style. support pillars and arches complements the historic lighting.

The back hall, organ loft and sacristy rooms all have In the 1953-1954 renovation of the church complex, the original dark-stained oak pews with narrow seats and straight tall backs were removed.The replacement pews are blond oak, with deep seat and sloping backs, bookracks on the back and hinged kneelers. The choir also received new pews. Two of the original high-back, oak pews remain on the bridge In the mid-1980s, the women of the Church appliqued banners showing the days of creation described in the Book of Genesis, designed by local graphic artist Susan Russo. The verso of each banner is the Episcopal shield. The banners hang at each bay of the nave with two banners displayed in the chancel showing a phoenix and grapes with wheat. Furnishings glass. (photo 27). modern lighting.

NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form All first-story window openings at St. John's are original with lancet-shaped recessed spaces for the lancet window small piece of glazing at the top of the lancet. Transept windows are lancet shaped with Gothic wood tracery filled with The original freestanding, rock-faced limestone octagonal baptismal font is located on axis, between the narthex doors The sanctuary, soon after its completion, had electric lighting, hanging hexagonal fixtures of "wrought" iron with art glass panes and fleur-de-lis finials. Two lights hang above each bay of the nave, two lights illuminate each transept and the choir in the chancel. Three of these fixtures hang in the narthex and each coatroom.

In the apse, electric lights are behind metal shields that show eagles, symbols of the Evangelist St. John. Modern spotlighting mounted on the main United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State In the 1990s, the congregation installed a columbarium designed by architect and member Paul Ricciuti and made by Sharp Lumber Co. The oak cabinet with bronze doors has a Gothic top. It is against the west wall of the nave, just south of the Gothic west entry doors. In 2008, a second columbarium of the same design was made by woodworker David White and installed to the north of the entry doors (photo 19). statues, given by the congregation of St. Rocco's, were placed in the north transept. The statures are of the Virgin Mary with Christ Child and St. Rocco.

Between the two statues is the 1874, Queen Anne Style, brass altar cross from the Wood Street St. John's (photo 24). The church has plaques commemorating members of the congregation killed or wounded or serving in American wars. John A. Logan, killed in the Spanish-American War. Next to it is a plaque honoring men killed in World War I. Interior Features: St. John's Church, on the ground floor Always called "The Undercroft," this floor extends from the east wall of the narthex under all the first-story spaces of the church. Further, a sub-basement with concrete floor extends under this entire ground floor, containing the furnace and ductwork. The Undercroft was completely remodeled in the 1953-1954 renovation of the St. John's complex. The concrete floors were retained and covered in linoleum tile. Rubber baseboards were added.

Steel ceiling beams were added to support the church sanctuary floor. They are hidden beneath a dropped ceiling, largely covered in acoustic tile. Walls gained replacement lath and plaster. Double windows in the lancet openings likely retained deep travertine sills. The wooden windows were repaired, not replaced. The walls of the halls received glazed terra cotta tiles to a height of school rooms may have been reconfigured. Chapel of the Good Shepherd This chapel, installed in 1954, occupies the space of an earlier chapel. The floor is concrete with a carpet covering. The 8" baseboard is dark-stained wood. The walls are very rough plaster. The ceiling has dark-stained plywood concealing the steel beams with chamfered dark-stained rafters between, at 24" centers. The space between rafters is smooth plaster. Baptismal font from the Wood Street church occupies a lancet niche.

Pews have dark-stained ends, white-painted seats boards, strap hinges, rose-head nails on the interior side. The chapel doors on the west match the doors of the renovated Undercroft: eight-panel oak doors in mitered oak frames. The chapel sacristy, north of the chapel, retains its historic yellow glass double window. The Sacristy has a sink and storage cupboard, linoleum tile floor, wooden baseboards, plaster ceiling. The room beyond the sacristy to the north retains its two yellow glass windows, a blocked-in limestone fireplace, concrete floor, plaster ceiling, and wooden Interior Features: The Bridge, on the first floor The bridge and the stairwell to the Undercroft, built in 1928-1929, retain original terrazzo floors and baseboards. The bridge walls are plaster with exposed roof rafters, a gabled wooden ceiling.

Casement windows with leaded diamond- panes line both north and south sides of the bridge. Two historic original pews from the church sanctuary line the north side of the bridge (photo 28). The stairwell to the Undercroft has a stained glass window above the landing, added in 1999, see Addendum 2. baseboards. National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form In 2000, following the closing of St. Rocco's Episcopal Church on Youngstown's north side, two Italian carved wooden In the narthex is a plaque for those serving in World War I, in the south transept is a marble plaque dedicated to Major 39". Doors and doorway were replaced with oak facings, mitered at the corners and eight-panel oak doors. Sunday Three lancet windows of stained glass, installed in 1967, occupy the original lancet window openings. The marble and backs.

The chapel doors, on south and north, date to 1898, matching those in the first floor church with vertical oak United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Interior Features: Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, on the ground floor The Parish House retains most of its historic 1929 plan on the ground floor with concrete floors covered in linoleum tile, smooth plaster walls, and ceilings. A hallway runs east from the entry double doors, turning north to the choir room at the north end. Doorways have their original dark-stained oak frames with three beads and mitered corners, dark-stained eight-panel oak doors, plain oak baseboards.

The parlor, once the billiard room for entertaining the choirboys, has a limestone mantle added in the 1953-1954 church renovation. The double entrance doorway to the parlor likely also was added in 1953-1954; it has oak blind Gothic arches on either side of the doors. The acolyte room, once a furnace room, has 1960s storage closets lining the walls. The original fire stair is in the hip-roofed east wing east off the choir room, connecting to the first and second floors, with plaster walls, terrazzo risers and baseboards. The main stairwell, adjacent to the entry doors, retains its original plaster walls and terrazzo floor and baseboards. These Added in the 1953-1954 church renovation, the elevator serves the ground, first, and second floors. Interior Features: Edward L.

Ford Memorial Parish House, on the first floor The main, first floor of the parish house has the offices, library, Sunday school of St. John's Church. Like the ground floor, the main hall runs east, turning north as a double-loaded corridor through the center of the building, see floor plan, Addendum 1.The hall has a terrazzo floor, plaster walls and ceilings and the same oak doorways and doors as the ground floor. Offices have oak floors, chair rail and baseboards; plaster walls and ceilings. The plan of the rooms has been little altered since 1929, excepting the original guildhall on the west side of the main hall was divided into three (head minister's) office also has a fireplace (photo 29). Interior Features: Edward L.

Ford Memorial Parish House, on the second floor The second floor of the parish house has a two-bay commercial kitchen on its south, a one-story, two-bay service area across from the main staircase and a 1-1/2-story Great Dining Hall with north end stage (photo 30). The floors are linoleum (kitchen) or oak; walls and ceilings are plaster. The dining hall and stage occupy seven bays, with four tall wall dormers illuminating the room. The ceiling is plaster with exposed massive dark-stained oak timber trusses, rafters with purlins, exposed timber dormer framing in five of the seven bays. The raised stage has the circular endwall window. Doorways and doors are the same as those on other floors of the parish house. Interior Features: Edward L.

Ford Memorial Parish House, on the third floor This floor, above the kitchen and dining hall service area, hold a projection room for the Great Dining Hall and the sexton's apartment. The floors and baseboards are oak, walls and ceilings are plaster, doorways the same as throughout the building. The apartment has a limestone mantle and fireplace, above the rector's fireplace. Site Features Sidewalks for the church building are concrete, with poured concrete steps to the west entry doorways (photo 1). Front step balustrades are black-painted iron with plain iron balusters. The parish house entry has a poured concrete handicap stairs are under the arches of the bridge, next to the wall of the main parish house stairwell. A lawn is on the north side of the narthex and nave (photo 17).

The original church driveway is red paving brick, one lane wide, installed on the south side of the church in 1918, circling the apse on the east with a tall, undulating brick retaining wall on the south side of the parish house, bridge, Undercroft stairwell and sacristy. Most of the north side driveway, first installed in 1923, has been covered in asphalt, widened to two-car widths. The parking lot, north of the chancel and apse, the bridge and the parish house, is covered in National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form offices. The northern most of the offices made from the guildhall retains a limestone fireplace at its north end; the rector's stairs service the entire height of the building. Extending south of the stairwell access is the entrance to the elevator.

ramp with open black iron balustrade running west along the west side of the parish house (photo 8). Original brick asphalt. The parking lot is surrounded on the north and east by a concrete block wall 4' high. An opening in the wall near United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State the norh end of the parish house gives access to the rear lot, on Webb Street, the play area, and an unpaved walkway into Smoky Hollow. Saint John's Episcopal Church retains the majority of its original architectural and decorative character from 1901 and 1929. Those parts that have been added or modified usually date from the renovation of 1953-1954. The sanctuary of St.

John's church retains its original interior (1901) excepting the replacement of the original wooden nave flooring (1953-1954), a wooden chancel screen (1953-1954), replacement of the second organ (1966). Since 1901, according to the original intent, all original sanctuary window openings have been filled with stained glass commemorative windows designed by nationally prominent firms. The Undercroft gained new flooring, doorways, ceilings, possibly new walls in 1953-1954; original windows were retained. The parish house gained an elevator tower (1953-1954), the parlor fireplace and entry doorway (1953-1954) and three offices made from the guildhall space (1953-1954). (Expires 5/31/2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

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for National Register listing.) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property is associated with the lives of persons Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Owned by a religious institution or used for religious removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. William Halsey Wood F a commemorative property.

Ralph Adams Cram less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. The period of significance; 1897-1961 begins with the construction of the church. The closing date; 1961 reflects the cultural, artistic and social welfare leadership associated with St. John's congregation which continues into the twenty-first of time. 1954 1929 1897-1961 RELIGION history. Criteria Considerations ARCHITECTURE Architect/Builder Significant Dates Significant Person Property is: ARTS/decorative arts (Enter categories from instructions.) Period of Significance Areas of Significance Period of Significance (justification) NPS Form 10-900 Applicable National Register Criteria County and State (Expires 5/31/2012) individual distinction. significant in our past. Cultural Affiliation (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property purposes.

United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) institution, because it derives its primary significance from architectural and artistic distinction and from its historic importance through its association with the social development of the community. applicable criteria.) St. John's Episcopal Church is eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places under criterion A and C. It is nominated under Criteria Consideration A, as a religious property that derives its primary significance from architectural distinction and historic importance. It is eligible under Criterion A for its association with the social and community development of Youngstown.

As the parishioners, and funds to establish new parishes and provide social support to new neighborhoods that were created in residents through community service work at the church and in nearby neighborhoods. Parishioners provided leadership in Youngstown's large community organizations as fundraisers and philanthropists, board members and founders of civic It is also eligible for inclusion on the National Register under Criterion C as an outstanding example of English-influence glass from the design studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Charles J. Connick Studio, and Willet Studio. St. John's Episcopal Church, through its continuing social commitment to the Mahoning Valley and its architectural and decorative contribution to Youngstown retains a significant place within the community. Significance: Criterion A St.

John's Episcopal Church is eligible for the National Register under Criterion A, for its leadership in the greater and churches, and through a program of social services in an effort to stabilize and support the rapidly expanding population of the city. St. John's participated with other established Protestant congregations to expand the number of Protestant parish churches as the city grew beyond the densely settled downtown area. largely English-or German-speaking, with Welsh, Scottish and Irish enclaves or neighborhoods in both the village and accounted for four more furnaces and another two rolling mills (Williams). Between 1860 and 1910, the population just about doubled each decade, reaching about 80,000 in 1910 (Butler).

Most of this population growth was, by 1910, first- or second- generation European immigrants, non-English speakers or persons recently introduced to English as their By the 1870s, the village of Brier Hill, upstream on the Mahoning River more than two miles from the center of Youngstown village, had schools, churches, commerce, three blast furnaces, a rolling mill. At the same time, another village, Haselton, grew two miles downstream on the Mahoning with two blast furnaces and the village of Struthers was services. second language. (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Arts and Crafts, a Jacobethan Style. The building is an important work of architect William Halsey Wood. The Edward L.

its interior decorative arts, represents an important blend of high style Arts and Craft decoration, particularly in its stained Youngstown community in establishment of Episcopal missions (congregations that cannot financially support a minister) Youngstown Township. Blast furnaces and rolling mills for iron making and coal mining to fuel the furnaces rapidly the years 1860 to 1875, greater Youngstown added six blast furnaces and four rolling mills, adjoining townships Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (Provide a summary paragraph that includes level of significance and and near the city.

The congregation continued to play an important role in service to the needs of Mahoning Valley Ford Memorial Parish House is equally valued as a complement to the church in the Tudor Revival Style, a fine example of the work of the nationally prominent architectural firm of Cram and Ferguson. St. John's, in both its architecture and The year following its founding in 1859, Youngstown was a village with 2,759 residents. At the time, the population was were becoming the principal industries, responding to the demand for iron rails for the national railroad system. During United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State another mile downstream from Haselton. In 1899, a bridge and viaduct spanned the bluff south of the Mahoning River to open the South Side for residential housing.

After the Ohio Works began making steel in 1892, the West Side opened to worker housing. While many workers walked to work, the region added a trolley system and interurban lines to tie the brought Italians, Hungarians, Swedes, both Austrian and Russian Poles, Slovaks, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians, Carpatho- Russians, Serbs, Croatians, Romanians, Lebanese into the dense center city before World War I. industrial economy than residents who owned yards and could grow their own food. Many residents needed to be assisted Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant or Jewish, provided charity, sponsored job training and citizenship classes. The downtown Library Association was founded in 1880. City residents founded the YMCA in 1882, where citizenship classes were inexpensive meals and recreation for women.

After Cleveland's Collinwood School fire disaster in 1908, the school board fresh air camp were located just above the most densely populated edges of the Mahoning River. Youngstown Township neighborhoods. In all these enterprises, the leaders of the city, who often were members of St. John's Episcopal congregation, were central initiators, fundraisers and leaders. distance from the St. John's church building: St. James's Chapel on the east side, St. Mary's and St. Andrew's on the south side, St. Rocco's for Italian-Americans in Brier Hill, St. Augustine's for African-Americans, St. Paul's for Struthers. All young congregations, often from different ethnic and social groups, sought a Christian home that that they could little accrued from the sale of the first mission church, helped finance purchase of land and construction of church buildings, parish halls, and rectories. St.

John's staff, both Vestrymen, the Rector (head minister) and, most often, the Curate (assistant minister) supplied leadership in weekly services and in supplying sacraments. Before the establishment of these parishes, Episcopalians had had to travel either to St. James' in Boardman or to St. John's in downtown Youngstown. Often the mission parishes gathered congregation that had difficulty walking the distance to the Wood Street or Wick Avenue churches because of impassible roads or lack of bridges. St. Andrew's Church fulfilled the need of families that had moved to the rapidly growing south side. St. Rocco's Church on Calvin Street and its parish hall served a congregation of Italian-Americans in the neighborhood of Brier Hill. Further, the parish house on West Federal Street was church served an African-American congregation just northwest of the city center. St.

Paul's, a Struthers mission church, responded to the new neighborhoods of Youngstown Sheet and Tube workers. offices. They complained to their ministers and congregations that they had nowhere to eat lunch as they could little afford many restaurants and eating alone was inappropriate. Women of St. John's responded, helping sponsor the formation of the YWCA in 1904. Dorothy Ford (wife of John W. Ford, a major financier of St. John's parish and son of E. L. Ford, donor of the Parish House) held the first formative meeting in 1903 to organize the YWCA in Youngstown. lunchroom, cafeteria, living room, and gymnasium (Butler). The YWCA grew rapidly under the leadership of Street. Again, St.

John's parishioners participated in raising the $183,000 used to provide recreation space and, most NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form The residents of the cramped housing close to the new factories had greater difficulty responding to swings in the with citizenship and language classes. They needed exercise and education. Churches and synagogues, whether Roman for African-Americans and Italian-Americans. As Youngstown grew, St. John's sponsored the new congregations at a afford without greater financial help and established leadership. The St. James' Chapel Fund, begun from the money As Youngstown grew at the turn of the twentieth century, many young, single women came into to the city to work in taught; about 1900, the Rescue Mission grew from the Human Society.

The YWCA, founded in 1904, provided housing, immediately built the newest, most modern schools in all the growing neighborhoods of the city. Two hospitals and a had the first big city park in the state, founded in 1891; the city established large parks adjacent to many of the oldest commitment, and financial support for new Episcopal churches on the East and South Sides, for Struthers and Brier Hill, The next, much larger meeting was held at E. L. Ford's residence. St. John'sparishioners and congregation provided Youngstown women. In 1910, a campaign began for the five-story building on Rayen Avenue at the corner of Phelps importantly, modest rental rooms for single women. (NR 1986) (Butler, Vindicator), 1938, MVHS). St. John's continued United States Department of the Interior OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State to have close ties to the YWCA; several other women of the parish served on the board. When St. John's Sunday school served as president of the board during one building expansion campaign (MVHS). In 1910, evangelist Billy Sunday asked the established downtown churches of Youngstown to participate in the growth of (Aley). Members of St. John's were among the builders. From this cooperative beginning, The Youngtown Federation of Presbyterian, Trinity Methodist, Westminster Presbyterian. The Federation helped organize new parishes in developing residential neighborhoods of the city. This program, much like the earlier missions work for Episcopal churches and missions, had leadership from St. John's rector and board members from St. John's congregation.

Neighborhood parish ceased to grow larger (MVHS). The Rector and Vestry of St. John'swere central in creation and financing ofan on-campus Protestant chaplaincy at Campus Co-operative Ministry, continuing the tradition of partial financing by St. John's. as well as a site for meetings and financial support for activities into the 1950s for neighborhood children and youth. Social activities such as these were seen as an investment in future community leaders and a means of insuring social Another ministry looked to the "backyard" of the church, as parishioners provided after-school and summer activities to the neighborhood (St. John's, 2009; Jones). In 1967, together with the parishioners from St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, St. John's opened a coffee house, The focused on Youngstown University students, with frequent evenings and afternoons of music.

The coffee house closed in In 1971, St. John's parishioners were founders and early volunteers for HelpHotline, originally a suicide prevention call-in counseling service operated 24 hours a day. In 2010, HelpHotline answered 14,000 calls a month, St. John's parishioners continue to volunteer and serve on the board (Farragher). St. John's also was a founding sponsor of Greater Youngstown Point, a drop-in center for homeless. And, since 1989 Habitat for Humanity continues to depend on St. John's parish for financial and board member support in sponsoring new house construction and leadership (Farragher). After Youngstown Sheet & Tube closed in 1977 and US Steel Ohio Works closed its Youngstown plants in 1979 and 1980, members of the St. John's congregation counseled unemployed men looking for work, helping write resumes, teaching job interview techniques.

Generally, help was given one-on-one. Led by members of the church Vestry, the congregation of St. John's decided to offer a free meal at Sunday lunch in the Great Dining Hall on the second floor of the parish hall.Since January1983, the Sunday soup kitchen, now called the Red Door Café, has served a hot, home-cooked meal to any who come to the door of the parish house. The "Red Door" is the recognized symbol of the Episcopal 1970 (Farragher). stability. NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Churches was established by the main downtown Youngstown congregations, including St.

John's Episcopal, First expansion continued from the founding of the federation in 1916 until the Depression, when Youngstown neighborhoods helped finance such a minister for many years until 1970, when the Protestant Chaplaincy was funded through the St. John's continued to lead in community service and civic development. In 1920, St. John's sponsored a Boy Scout Church-sponsored softball and basketball teams, begun during the Depression, continued into the 1950s (St. John's, 2009). the children of Smoky Hollow, the worker housing neighborhood just east of the church. This neighborhood ministry began in 1961. Eventually, the height of the parking lot wall was lowered and a gate way was added.

The church purchased a lot in 1964 at the far west end of Webb Street, to provide a play ground for children of both the church and outgrew the Undercroft, expansion space was found at the YWCA in September 1925 (St. John's, 1934). Nearby, the the Christian faith by construction of a tabernacle under the Market Street viaduct, an easily accessible, central location. Gates of Paradise, on the second floor of a building on the corner of Rayen and Phelps. The establishment particularly United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Church; originally it was a sign that the church was a refuge. The patrons of the dinners chose the name. Since the founding, St. John's has asked other churches and community groups to prepare the meal, while St.

John's still cooks an endowment for the soup kitchen, which is celebrated in one of the stained glass windows in the south transept. The Red Door Café also sponsors a coat and blanket give-way in November and a monthly give-away of a bag of groceries. Significance: Criterion C St. John's Episcopal Church is eligible for the National Register under criterion C, for the architectural significance of the church and parish house and the decorative arts significance of the stained glass windows and furnishings of the sanctuary. Church architects William Halsey Wood and Ralph Adams Cram each has a national reputation. St. John's is designed by the architect. The church and its sanctuary are fine examples of the Arts and Crafts Period in Youngstown, displaying English Aesthetic-derived Jacobethan Style.

The rough, coursed, rubble limestone of the exterior and the exterior articulation of interior spaces influenced the design of a number of later Youngstown buildings. Ralph Adams Cram, designer of the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, showed his skill in complementing the work of an architect Cram much admired with the Collegiate Gothic, Tudor Revival parish hall building design. The Tiffany Studio provided the design for other window at St. John's. Making the Tiffany windows at St. John's more valuable to the decorative arts in Youngstown has been the loss of Youngstown Tiffany windows from the Renner House (NR 1976), the Myron C. Arms house at 820 Wick Avenue (later Rossi Brother's Funeral Home, now demolished), and Memorial Presbyterian Church at 801 Wick Avenue. All the Connick Studio stained glass windows at St. John's are fine example of the important Boston Craftsman workshop.

With the burning of the first St. John's New England style meetinghouse church on Wood Street, the congregation of the works of Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) of Boston and William Halsey Wood (1840-1897) of Newark, New Jersey. Richardson had died while the Allegheny Court House was under construction, so he was not available to suit high-style Youngstown tastes attentive to the emerging interest in handcrafted materials and English medieval the St. John's design taste: rough semi-coursed stonework, Romanesque Revival detailing, a tower and huddled forms that express interior spaces. It shows off a strong English Aesthetic design that would be found again in Wood's Arts and Crafts medieval-inspired design for St. John's.

Wealthy Youngstowners probably also appreciated Wood's more conventional Gothic Revival design for the Episcopal Church of the Ascension on the western edge of Shadyside, attended by Pittsburgh's most prominent Episcopalians. Clearly much appreciated in Pittsburgh, Wood had entered the competition for the Carnegie Library and a library for Allegheny City, the part of Pittsburgh north of the Allegheny River Wood's design for a Jacobethan Style St. John's shows a bold understanding of the English late medieval and the nineteenth century Aesthetic architectural vocabulary in the low, pointed-arch arcades where the pillars have no capitals innovator, chose the unusual rough stone interior walls for all sacred spaces: narthex, nave, transepts, chancel and apse. Youngstown. Many of these buildings reflect the rapid growth of the city and affluence of its industrialists between 1890 Valley.

(PHLF). National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form the only Ohio design undertaken by Wood; the structure is an important, late contribution to the small group of buildings especially from Pittsburgh. That city had trend-setting architecture and decorative arts admired by America's new rich: Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in 1891in Hazelwood, Pittsburgh. This small limestone church has much to suit (photo 20) and in the four massive stone arches that support the tower (photo 23). Wood, who is particularly noted as an At its completion, St. John's Episcopal Church joined a large family of ecclesiastical buildings in the center of about 15 times a year. Someone plays the piano to entertain the diners. St.

John's applies for grants and has established windows in Youngstown, but no window was more important in Youngstown buildings of 1900-1910 than the Te Deum church took inspiration from neighboring Episcopalians in the prosperous industrialized cities of wealth and commerce, architectural design elements. Wood had designed the first Carnegie Library in 1888 in Braddock in a Romanesque Revival Style that many thought to be a work by H. H. Richardson. Wood had also designed the English medieval style The"steel"windows are particularly notable as they represent an artistic expression of the unique history of the Mahoning United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State important church buildings favored a Romanesque Revival Style, as seen at Helen Chapel (NR-1986, a part of First Cyril & Methodius Roman Catholic Church (1900) at 250 East Wood Street. These are brick buildings with sandstone or St. John's Episcopal, many churches constructed after 1900 used rough, coursed limestone with smooth, sawn detailing: Memorial Presbyterian Church (1903-1905) at 801 Wick Avenue, Magyar Evangelical Reformed Church (1904-1905) at Catholic Church (1909) at 400 Lincoln Park Drive. The rough, handmade character of these church exteriors suggests the example of St. John's. Wood's St.

John's, in its hand-crafted rough stone exterior and interior, reflects another Youngstown site that used English Aesthetic and Medieval Revival styles: Mill Creek Park (NR 2005), where the stone bridges, stone landscape detailing, by Boston architect Julius Schweinfurth and at Greystones, the residence of Olive and Wilford Arms (1904) (NR 1976) by Meade and Garfield with Olive Arms providing most of the design details and inspiration. Ohio River cities. After the Civil War, when Youngstown worked to become a leader in iron and steel production, residents naturally continued to look to Pittsburgh and the Ohio River cities where Youngstown leaders socialized as well as shared ideas and industrial know-how. wanted a fashionable men and boy's choir. Throughout his entire career, Woods excelled as a vocal musician, always directing the boys' choir at his Newark church.

He had chosen architecture instead of studying the organ at Trinity Church, in New York City (Wood). He especially designed church space to show off fine Anglican music. St. John's parishioner Sallie Tod traveled to New Jersey to experience a Wood church before helping select Wood as the architect Woods came from a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition (that is, the more Roman Catholic liturgical traditions of the Episcopal and Anglican Churches) that also was much in vogue in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The next architect to work at Ralph Adams Cram. Cram's first church design in Pittsburgh came in 1906, one of the most impressive churches for the engaged to design for St. John's, he was also building Holy Rosary Church, a Roman Catholic Church, also in Pittsburgh (Toker).

Cram, a great admirer of Wood, probably was particularly interested in adding a parish house to a mature Wood church design at St. John's Youngstown (Wood). Cram also worked energetically to have a church complex include other arts that suited his liturgical designs, likely suggesting the Connick Studio for future stained glass windows and John Angel for sculpture, which eventually filled the reredos (Cram). At the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, Cram employed a most restrained Tudor Revival Style, using only three windows on the choir room and first-story entry hall. The smooth surfaces of limestone-covered terra cotta walls, window steeply peaked wall dormers that balance with the two-story apse and tall, crenellated tower. The buildings are further St.

John's was even more swept up in the Anglican-Catholic architectural traditions and the arts of Pittsburgh:Bostonian be a part of the new church's religious experience; later, at her death, she endowed the music program. (Expires 5/31/2012) (1910) and Parapet Bridge (1913) at Mill Creek Park, Tod Homestead Cemetery Office and Chapel (1917) (NR 1976) all very wealthy of Shadyside, Calvary Episcopal, a Second Gothic Revival design. Twenty-two years later, when Cram was surrounds, lintels and sills speak of the emerging Art Moderne Style. The 3-1/2-story parish hall building complements the rough limestone church in mass, colors and materials, in scale of all window openings, in prominence of the five Presbyterian Church, 201 Wick Avenue), Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church (1893) at 126 East Wood Street and limestone trim, showing bold articulation of the interior spaces.

Following the example of construction material used at 745 Mahoning Avenue, Richard Brown Memorial Chapel (1905, NR-1986) at 1205 Elm Street, and Sacred Heart Roman local interest in the Arts and Crafts design vocabulary; their exterior material, limestone, may have been prompted by the trying to get goods to market or the wish to buy luxury goods in the nearest towns to Youngstown: Pittsburgh and other United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State bridge, through the limestone porte cochere arches to the tall, undulating brick retaining wall with brick-paved "courtyard" of the circular driveway. The Tiffany windows at St. John's emerged from the desire to have the most fashionable decorative arts as furnishings in the new St.

John's Church as Youngstown became one of the most important industrial cities of Ohio. For Youngstown's wealthy, who sponsored local William McKinley for the Presidency, collected art with the Fricks and Mellons, and rode façade large window of "Te Deum", Christ in Glory, displays all the finest characteristics of the very best that the Tiffany Studio produced: rich, dark, and mellow reds and purples with ranges of yellows, peaches, to greens and blues (photo 31). The much cut down Resurrection Angel window, once in the north transept, still displays the movement and color of the best of Art Nouveau. The little Tiffany angels in the south double aisle windows have the rich Tiffany blue and yellows, the cherubic modeling of angels that was developed by the Tiffany Studio.

windows, a more purely medieval style that had replaced Tiffany in popularity as the Second Gothic Revival became more fashionable. Like Cram, Charles J. Connick had both strong Pittsburgh and Boston ties. In 1937, one member of the congregation, William Hitchcock III, a local philanthropist, memorialized relatives with two fine, medieval Connick in production of steel, incorporate modern daily life and work the way that Gothic church portal stone carvers used images of contemporary craftsmen as models for the portal's sculpture. St. John's "steel" windows soon became the prototype for work by the Connick Associates Studios in the 1950s and 1960s. More traditional Connick stained glass filled the openings in the chancel and apse windows, the double windows of the side nave aisles, and the windows of the north transept endwall (photo 32).

Statues of Jesus and his Evangelists carved by the English-American sculptor John Angel were added to the reredos in 1952, perhaps at the suggestion of Ralph Adams Cram, who frequently used Angel for similar sculptures in other church In 1999, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of St. John's being on Wick Avenue, the congregation asked Willet Studio to design two windows that would celebrate recent community out-reach projects at St. John's: the Boar's Head Festival and the Sunday Soup Kitchen (photo 34). Those windows are in the west side of the south transept. The same year, Willet Studio installed a St. Francis double window on the landing of the stairwell to the Undercroft, the Sunday school classrooms. Willet followed the tradition of Gothic Revival stained glass with French medieval roots; they continued making glass after the Connick Associates Studio closed in 1986.

furnishing (Cram). (Expires 5/31/2012) NPS Form 10-900 National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form beautifully married by the Tudor Revival bridge with its ribbon of leaded diamond-pane windows and the view under the the Titanic, Tiffany Studio windows were appropriate. Wick Avenue and Wick Park residences also had them. The west Ralph Adams Cram probably suggested that the St. John's congregation include Charles J. Connick Studio stained glass windows in the south transept ( photo 33) (Vindicator, 1937). Hitchcock also suggested the more famous "steel windows" in the circular clerestory openings,installed in1955 (photos windows, that celebrate the work involved United States Department of the Interior National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Architects, Artists, and Craftsmen Sculptor of the reredos statues, Angel was born in Devonshire and apprenticed at nineteen to a wood carver in Exeter. Angel (1881-1960) studied woodcarving in the Gothic manner both in Exeter and London. He married an American, reredos sculptures of Christ and the Evangelists were installed in 1952 (Cram, devonheritage.com). Charles J. Connick Studio Charles Connick (1874-1945), founder of this Arts and Craft studio, was born in Springboro, Pennsylvania, in nearby Mercer County. His family moved to Pittsburgh where he worked as a newspaper illustrator for The Pittsburgh Press after only three months of high school. The Rudy Brothers stained glass business hired him from 1894 to1897.

He Europe, especially studying medieval English and French windows and their glass. Upon his return to the U. S. in 1913, he established an Arts and Crafts-type studio in Back Bay, Boston where he and his craftsmen and craftswomen produced linear design and pure, intense color. After Connick died in 1945, the studio changed its name to Charles J. Connick Associates Studio, continuing production until 1986. Connick windows are found in over 5000 churches, schools, and hospitals (Tannler). By the 1930s, the Charles J. Connick Studio was considered a good example of Arts and Crafts work ethic with many Connick clearly became the first choice for the St. John's Vestry, whenever parishioners could afford memorial gifts of stained glass windows in the years after Ralph Adams Cram designed the parish house. St.

John's parishioners purchased two windows for the south end of the south transept that were installed in 1937. Beginning in the early 1950s, the church Vestry selected themes for Connick Studio windows for the chancel and apse and for the side aisles. In 1955, the installation of the ten now famous clerestory windows depicting the steel industry of the Valley took place. William J. Hitchcock, a Vestryman long concerned with the decorative arts in St. John's, conceived the idea of depicting scenes that show the relation of God to man's daily work in the steel industry. Connick Associates Studio sent a craftsman/designer to Youngstown to discuss with Hitchcock the steel making themes and inscriptions from the Psalms. Scores of newspapers and journals in this country and abroad wrote of these windows (St. John, 1958). Architect for the Edward L.

Ford Memorial Parish Hall was Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942); partner Frank Ferguson (1861-1926) had died two years before the commission. The completed architectural drawings are now housed in the church library. Cram, son of a Unitarian minister from New Hampshire, attended Exeter before taking a tour in Europe. Upon his return, he apprenticed with the Boston architectural firm of Rotch and Tilden in Boston. In 1886, he again returned to Europe to study, in particular, Gothic church architecture. He had a conversion experience Christmas Eve in Rome, when he became a staunch Anglo-Catholic. Returning to Boston, he opened a design firm that soon became Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson. After great success, largely in church and chapel design, Goodhue left in 1913. The continuing many churches and cathedrals including work at St. John the Devine in New York (Cram).

Regionally, the firm designed three Pittsburgh churches in or near Shadyside: Calvary Episcopal (Henry Clay Frick's parish church), Holy Rosary John Angel Cram and Ferguson (Expires 5/31/2012) emigrating in 1928 after becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Very soon, Ralph Adams Cram had him moved to Boston where he found the stained glass business no further advanced than in Pittsburgh. In 1903, he returned firm of Cram and Ferguson produced designs for many American churches. Cram also became the most influential 1927 to the 1940s. Cram's most significant works include the chapel at West Point and Princeton Graduate School, and carving New York Dutch burgers for a chapel in St. John the Devine in New York. He continued to be one of Cram's to Conroy, Prugh and Company in Pittsburgh.

Moving back to the Rudy Brothers shop, Connick became the manager in craftspersons creating stained glass work.The studio did much work in Cram and Ferguson churches and chapels (Cram). United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Catholic Church, dated 1928, the same time Cram was designing the Ford Memorial Parish House, and Liberty Presbyterian (1931-1935), the Mellon's parish home. (Toker). Europe in his autobiography. He also celebrated the decorative artists whose work was integral to the success of his church. St. John's Episcopal relied on several of the Cram recommended: Charles J. Connick Studio and Willet Studio stained glass windows, reredos sculptures of English transplant John Angel (Cram).

William Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was born inNewYork City where his father owned the jewelry store,Tiffany & Co. opened his glass works at Corona, Queens, New York. Tiffany also studied with painter/interior designer Samuel Colman, with whom he, Lockwood Deforest III, and Candice Wheeler formed Associated Artists in 1881. Through this group, Tiffany acknowledged the interrelation of all decorative arts in the expression of an interior, whether domestic or religious. In the 1890s, he became the leading stained glass producer, calling his glassworks Tiffany Studios in 1900. Tiffany is famous for his experiments and creation of different types of stained glass.

Allying with the Parisian gallery owner Siegfried Bing, Tiffany's work became closely associated with and often defining the term "Art Nouveau." Tiffany, individually known for the work they contributed to the oevres of the Tiffany Studio: mosaics, decorating, pottery, glass, and design. In St. John's stained glass windows, he likely relied on one of his most respected designers, Englishman Frederick Wilson, for the design compositions and the looks of the characters in each of the three church windows. (Raguin; Heilbrunn, Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC). Willet Studio William Willet (1869-1921) was born in New York, raised in Brooklyn, attended the Cooper Union, and studied privately with William Merritt Chase. He apprenticed in stained glass making with John LaFarge in Brooklyn, 1885-1887. Moving to Pittsburgh in 1897, he was art director of L.

Grosse Art Glass Company. The company made at least one window for a William Halsey Wood church in 1892. In 1898, Willet opened Willet Studios, maker of murals and stained glass. Most remembered for stained glass that followed a Gothic medieval character, Willet and his wife moved the studio to Philadelphia in 1912. In 1921, with the death of the founder, son Henry Lee Willet assumed leadership. Both father and son worked frequently with Ralph Adams Cram in Pittsburgh and other regional sites. (Tannler, Willet Hauser). When St. John's chose Willet Studio in 1999 to make windows for the church, the company was a division of Hauser Art Glass Company, headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Perhaps this company was chosen because neither Connick nor Tiffany studios were still in business, yet Willet continued the traditions of Cram and Connick, understanding Gothic medieval stained glass.

William Halsey Wood William Halsey Wood (1855-1897) was born near the Finger Lakes, in Danville, New York. His family moved to designs and musical interpretation. Wood was raised in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Episcopal Church. Working in the Gothic Style, he apprenticed with a New York architect John F. Miller, instead of studying music with Arthur Messiter, the organist at Trinity Church, New York. He joined the firm of Newark architect Thomas A. Roberts. Soon the firm became Taylor, Roberts and Wood, as Wood became a partner at the age of twenty. Halsey Wood established his own firm a short time later. In Newark, he always was choirmaster of the boys' choir of his church.

He traveled and studied in Great Britain when he was young and again in the 1880s, exploring both English Gothic Revival architecture and the Aesthetic Movement with its craft emphasis in textiles and interior decoration (Wood, Newark Daily). NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form differentiated his designs by the regional sources that inspired him, mentioning many cities and regions of Western like the skilled craftsmen/creators of his generation, relied upon a studio of highly trained makers and designers who are Young Tiffany studied painting with prominent landscape painter George Inness. In the study of stained glass, Tiffany new ways of making and coloring glass, each experimenting broadly while developing many forms. In 1878, Tiffany Newark, New Jersey when Halsey was a young boy.

His wife described her husband having two great gifts: creative United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Episcopal churches. From 1885 until 1897, his firm produced drawings for more than forty churches and parish houses. His designs vary widely from the use of wood frame and local boulders (Church of St. John the Evangelist, Tannersville, NY, 1885) to Richardson Romanesque (the Free Carnegie Library, Braddock, PA, 1888) to High Gothic Revival (Church of the Assumption, Shadyside, Pittsburgh, 1896) (Toker). Wood also designed nearby St. Peter's Episcopal, Butler, PA The-Devine in New York City in 1889, when he was in his mid-30s. His design was the runner-up, much publicized, but finally not chosen (Wood).

Urban historian Lewis Mumford saw Wood as one of the finest practitioners of the English Aesthetic design in the U. S., or "Richardsonian Romanesque" (Mumford, 1930). Ralph Adams Cram, designer of the St. John's parish house, admired like no others. (Cram, 1936). Because he died at age 41, Wood's career was cut short, his potential unfulfilled. In Youngstown, St. John's church relied on the perseverance of Senior Warden Edward L. Ford to have the church building construction carefully follow the design Wood had provided. Developmental history/additional historic context information History of Congregation St. John's began as a Sunday school organized by Mrs. Jesse Thornton, sister of composer Stephen Foster, in her living room on West Federal Street. In December 1859 the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio received a petition to form the parish of Youngstown.

Some of these founding members continued in congregation leadership during the construction of the By 1861, the first Rector was called and the building committee formed. The wood-frame New England style River. In 1863, the new church was consecrated (i.e. the construction debt retired). In December of 1895, the wooden building burned, severely damaging the church sanctuary and basement (St. John's, 1898). The congregation had purchased a lot on Wick Avenue in 1891 (Vindicator, 1897), a street that was rapidly becoming the entertainment. With the condemnation of the Wood Street church building, the Vestry chose a Building Committee: James Mackey, a well known surveyor, James L. Botsford, treasurer of Mahoning Valley Iron Company, William J. Hitchcock, Jr., a coal and iron magnate, and Henry Tod, bank executive and son of Ohio's Civil War governor (Sanderson, Butler II & III).

The Building Committee asked Senior Warden Edward L. Ford, a metallurgist and general manager of Botsford considered themselves too old for the job (Butler, II & III, St. John's, 1898). The building committee investigated Newark, New Jersey architect William Halsey Wood (Vindicator, 1897). Wood was well known and admired for his proficiency in his Pittsburgh building designs and architectural competitions (PHLF). Members of the congregation, including Ford and Tod's sister Sallie, traveled to North Bloomfield, New Jersey to experience Wood's John's Church, Wood died of consumption in 1897, at the age of 41. The Senior Warden Edward L. Ford acted on behalf of the Vestry to oversee construction of the building; Heller Brothers of Youngstown was the contractor of record. The completed building differed only slightly from the original plans (St. John's, 1934).

The new church boasted two windows salvaged after the fire that had destroyed the first St. John's: the two windows on the east wall of the south transept (see Addendum 2) (St. John's, 1934). The original altar cross, lectern, and Baptismal font also found new homes in the new church. NPS Form 10-900 National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form named St. John's (St. John's, 1898). Signers of the petition were prominent men of commerce and industry in the Village most prominent residential area in the city, as the wealthy migrated north leaving the city-center to banks, commerce, and the Youngstown Steel Company, and Junior Warden Joseph M. Butler, a writer, to join the committee as Mackey and work at Christ Episcopal Church. The committee chose Wood to be the architect. Having completed the design for St.

Wood's work, noting in the early 1930s, Cram's great respect for Wood's skill shown in his very original designs, truly meetinghouse was on the southeast corner of Wood and Champion Streets, at the top of the steep bank of the Mahoning United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State English architects and followers of H. H. Richardson. At this church building, Wood used rough, "hand-made" materials of undressed, random coursed limestone, massive stone arches, a stone nave arcade without capitals, and wood timber roof trusses to introduce the Arts and Crafts aesthetic of "Craft" into the architecture of Youngstown.

Wood, a skilled choirmaster and musician, included the large, tall tower at the center of the church to enhance the music of both organ and the church's men and boy's choir (Wood). As the church was being designed, perhaps at the suggestion of Wood, the building committee and parishioners contracted for three windows from the Tiffany Studio of New York City. The Rudge double window in the south aisle was installed about 1901, as was the Resurrection Angel commemorating James Botsford, originally installed in a larger north transept window. The children of Maria Tod (Mrs. David Tod) celebrated their mother with the gift of the large and elaborate Te Deum window (photo 30) in the west wall of the nave, the Wick leaded, yellow glass, awaiting more expensive commemorative stained glass. The ground floor or Undercroft windows were, and remain, plain glass.

Maria Tod was the widow of prominent lawyer, Civil War governor of Ohio and coal and iron baron, David Tod. She and to Harriet Taylor Upton, Maria's maternal Grandfather Rowe had been lost at sea when sent to Edinburgh, Scotland to and William Tod, and daughters Grace Tod Arrel and Sallie Tod, were very committed and influential in the construction of the new church, development of the liturgical character of services and, at their deaths, provided a large endowment for the new church building. Wishing for greater manifestations of the Anglo-Catholic tradition that was then currently popular in many wealthy American Episcopal churches, Sallie Tod increased her gift for the music program to pay for a choir director skilled at training a men and boys choir (St. John's, 1934). The all-male choir continued until 1964, when women joined.

The new church building was first used for Sunday service in May 1898. The church was consecrated in 1900 with the earliest stained glass windows installed in 1901(St. John's, 1934). about 44,000, and the whole city, practically was situated on the north side of the Mahoning River... within a few years of the beginning of the century, Youngstown became one of the largest cities of Ohio with an industrial development second to none in the state." members of the Vestry of St. John's served the mission as it continued to flourish for more than two decades. Finally Fund, to assist other congregations to establish or help missions (St. John's 1834). St. Mary's on Mahoning Avenue between Mill Creek and Spring Common began with a parishioner giving a vacant lot. A small church building in Tiffin, Oho was purchased, disassembled, and reassembled in Youngtown in 1887 (St. John's, 1934).

The mission closed and the building was sold in 1898, after the new St. John's building came into use. John's met with them, often having services at St. John's. With the help of the St. James Chapel Fund, the group purchased a lot on Parmelee Avenue, adapting the residence on the lot to a chapel with social hall. In 1912, the Rector of St. John's found a mission priest, financed by St. John's and the Diocese of Ohio. Plans for the mission church were partially funded by St. John's, with Vestry member William H. Cook, an architect in the The Owlsey Company NPS Form 10-900 National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form her children were highly supportive members of St. John's congregation, providing significant lay leadership. According become the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America (Upton, 256).

The family, especially sons Henry, George, Christian duty with care of the poor and needy and providing gathering space for Episcopalians living too far from St. Chapel opened in 1883 to better service those parishioners living east of Crab Creek (St. John's 1898). The Curate and closing in 1919, St. John's sold the building to an AME parish for S6,500. The money became the St. James's Chapel In 1904 and 1905, a group of African-American residents began meeting as a Sunday school. In 1907, the Rector of St. Wood, in his design for St. John's Episcopal Church, followed the English Aesthetic tradition that was so popular with Long before the construction of the church on Wick Avenue, the congregation of St. John's committed to fulfilling its United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State architectural firm, designing the church building and helping supervise construction. The cornerstone and undercroft were completed enough for worship services in 1921; the old residence in the rear became the parish hall. In 1927, the nave was completed, with the Undercroft becoming the social hall. Through all this construction, St. John's Senior Warden and Rector often were the celebrants, the St. James Chapel Fund paying many building costs. After the completion of the Market Street Viaduct in 1899, south side residents began meeting as a Sunday school. In Brotherhood of St. Andrew, became active in the establishment of the mission. The Curate of St. John's served as the rectory, and church on Oak Hill Avenue at Chalmers in 1916-1917.

When the mission became a parish in 1917, the congregation called the Curate from St. John's to be the Rector of St. Andrew's Church. "After a long period of inactivity," the Italian-American parish of St. Rocco's, once a Roman Catholic congregation in Brier Hill, began working with the Curate of St. John's (St. John's, 1934). The parish was received into the Diocese of Diocese of Ohio funds bought a lot on Midlothian Boulevard at Erie Street for a larger church building. By this time, the funds from selling the Bridge Street lot and building went to the Diocese of Ohio. Financial hard times of the 1930s caused the new church for the St. Paul's congregation never to be constructed (St. John's, 1934). The 1930 census saw In 1920, St. John's began a Boy Scout troop, supporting the troop for neighborhood boys into the 1950s. In the parish hall at St. Rocco's on West Federal Street, St.

Rocco's, St. John's and First Presbyterian Church established the Youngstown Free Kindergarten for Brier Hill children. In the fall of 1918, the south brick driveway and curving brick retaining wall repaired the erosion of the of the south side lot into the church Undercroft. The north driveway, with parking east of the church apse, came in 1923 (St. John's 1934). From 1900 until 1928, the congregation used a converted residence north of the church as the parish house. The directions were constructed into the rough limestone building. With the probate of the will of Edward L. Ford, the Vestryman who had supervised the construction of the church building, funds became available for construction of a new parish house. Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram, of Cram and Ferguson, visited the site in June 1928, sending drawings for the 3-1/2-story parish house that same year.

Architect and sometimes Vestryman William H. Cook, a member of The Owsley Company, became the associate architect, that is, the on-site construction supervisor and modifier of plans. Youngstown's most noted construction firm, Heller-Murray Co. built the building. Surviving plans show the parish house, bridge, and staircase to the Undercroft. The Vestry and Cook modified the plans by converting a third west to the north side of his office (Cram and Ferguson). The building was competed in 1929 with Mr. Ford's two House. The 1929 construction also included up-dating and repair of the Undercroft (St. John's, 1934). church building was razed (St. John's, 1934). The north lot became the churchyard. power were turned off from Sunday through Wednesday from at least 1932--1934.

The congregation was much stressed National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Vestry member William H.Cook. In Struthers, Episcopalians gathered in a school for weekly services, with the Rector or 1908, the members approached St. John's seeking a mission for the south side. The men's groups at St. John's, The Ohio in December 1918. Soon there after, The St. James Chapel Fund paid S4000 for a parish hall, designed by St. John's Curate of St. John's conducting services. The St. James Chapel Fund paid for a lot on Bridge Street, moving a building to the lot. The new mission, St. Paul's, established a Sunday school in the new Undercroft. As the congregation grew, Youngstown's population to be its largest; the city needed no new Episcopal parishes. congregation and Vestry continued to want a new and larger parish house.

William Halsey Wood design sketches staircase south of the church office into the present back office and by moving the rector's lavatory and closet from the children paying for the construction cost over-run. The Vestry named the building the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish After the completion of the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, the residence-turned-to-parish-hall next door to the student from Bexley Hall in Gambier, Ohio. The Rector's and sexton's salaries were reduced twice; the lights, heat and United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State for capital, as the endowment brought very little income because Youngstown banks closed and reorganized, steel mills and other local industries closed or dramatically reduced production.

The parishioners collected food and clothing, participated in community service organizations away from the church. Church activities were compressed into the few days from Thursday until Sunday morning. In 1937 the parish gained funds by selling the lot south of the church for a commercial building next to the library, for the south wall of the south transept, installed in October 1937 (photo 33). In 1939, the north transept gained a repaired slate roof while a new parking lot was constructed on the north side of church, behind the site of the earlier parish house. As soon as a new Rector was installed in 1942, the church remained continuously open for community access for daily prayer, likely as a response to the World War.

During the war, parishioners, especially women and children spent much brought together the four Wick Avenue Churches: First Presbyterian Church, First Christian Church, and Pilgrim Collegiate Church, in four mid-week evening services during the Lenten Season. In 1947, the Rector cajoled his His persistence encouraged St. John's congregation to assume a portion of a Protestant chaplain's salary. Since the initial commitment, St. John's has continued support of a campus Protestant minister. In 1952, the five statues of the Evangelists and Christ, sculpted by English-born John Angel, were place in the reredos behind the altar. Angel's sculpture was much favored and recommended by Ralph Adams Cram. (St. John's, 1958, Cram). The second half of the twentieth century at St.

John's opened with the church having had little interior repair or refurbishing because of the financial constraints of both the Depression and World War II. During the five decades since completion of the church building, downtown Youngstown was nearly as famous as Pittsburgh for its dirty air, filled with the grit, ash, and corrosive fumes of coke production, iron making, and the outdoor pollution of the Bessemer converter. After choosing a new young Rector, the Vestry planned a capital campaign to refurbish both floors of the church building, hiring local Youngstown architects Kling and Frost and the contracting firm of Adolph Johnson & Son. The renovation of the sanctuary included removal of the old wooden floor to add structural steel to support the building. The interior walls of the sanctuary were sandblasted clean. The sanctuary wooden floor was replaced with oak and bluestone.

A wood screen designed by ecclesiastical designer Leslie Nobbs of New York City replaced the stone rood screen. Twenty-five stained glass windows designed by the Charles J. Connick Associates Studios of Boston were chosen. The chancel and apse "prophet" windows were purchased before the interior renovation in 1951. The rest were planned but not installed until later in the 1950s. The sacristy gained new storage cupboards and sink. The Undercroft walls had their lath and plaster, doors and doorways replaced. The chapel and its sacristy were refurbished with doors to the west hall added. In the parish house, an elevator was added next to the main staircase, the Guild Hall on the first floor was divided into three offices, and the ground floor billiard room became a church parlor with a limestone fireplace added (St. John's, 1958). St.

John's congregation traditionally relied on men for Senior and Junior Wardens (the two leaders of the congregation), most serving ten or more years (one served thirty years) with other men rotating on and off Vestry so that nearly the same twenty-five men supplied much of the leadership. However, throughout the 1950s, St. John's brought a series of services for Youngstown University students, offered women an opportunity to sing in the Canterbury choir. The clerestory windows, designed and made by the Charles J. Connick Associates Studios, were installed and dedicated in 1955. The south and north aisle windows; were dedicated in 1957 and 1958 (St. John's, 1958). (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form replaced the St. John's parking lot. (Razed in the 1990s, now a parking lot for the library).

In the same year, sketches were approved for two stained glass windows from the Charles J. Connick Studio. The first Connick windows were planned innovations to augment the regular traditions of the parish: a rotating vestry that at last really rotated, Holy Baptism as a part of the regular Sunday service, summer vacation Bible school. The Vestry added an annual Feast of Lights Service United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Recognizing that ivy covering the exterior of St. John's trapped moisture and loosened mortar, the exterior walls were cleaned of ivy in the early 1960s. In the same decade, Plexiglas covers were affixed to the outside of each stained glass window to protect the stained glass windows (St. John's, 2000, 2001).

These storm windows were replaced between 2005 & 2008. longest continuously running Boar's Head Festivals in the country. the last of the Connick studio windows was installed in the north transept. In 1967 Margaret Kennedy of Oberlin, Ohio, designed three stained glass windows for the Chapel of the Good Shepherd (St. John's, 1986). The Boar's Head Festival inspired parishioners to make medieval banners. Other banners enliven the nave, two for each bay and two in the chancel. The banners, representing the theme "From Creation to Resurrection," were appliqued by members of the congregation and designed by Youngstown State Professor Susan Russo (St. John's, 1986). In the early 1990s, an oak and bronze columbarium (burial site for ashes) was placed next to the west nave entry doors. A second columbarium was placed on the north side of the entry doors in 2008 (photo 19).

As part of the celebration of 100 years on Wick Avenue, the congregation agreed to buy two stained glass windows to celebrated recent "accomplishments" of St. John's. The Willet Studio windows, placed in the west side of the south transept, recognize the Sunday soup kitchen with one window that shows the loaves and fishes; the Boar's Head Festival window depicts the popular Epiphany pageant (photo 33). Another gift to the church from the 100 years on Wick Avenue west end of the nave, above the entry door and columbaria (photo 19). It includes a Spanish-style trumpet. The architecture, decorative arts, structural materials and historic integrity exhibited by St.

John's Episcopal Church is representative of the social stature and tastes of its congregation, including many prominent and wealthy industrialists development that transformed the village of Youngstown into a major industrial city. St. John's Episcopal Church (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form In 1961, soon after the hiring of organist and choir director Dr. Ronald Gould, the congregation began celebrating Epiphany with a Boar's Head Festival--a pageant--staged twice for members of the Mahoning Valley community on the Sunday closest to January 6. The germ of the festival came from a church in Cincinnati. Parishioners made the costumes and participated as most of the characters in the pageant (St. John's, 1986). The annual pageant continues, one of the In 1966, a Schlicker organ replaced the 1920s, second, Skinner organ.

The new organ has a Great, Swell, Positiv and Pedal divisions; it has the capacity for forty-six independent registers, sixty-four ranks, and 3577 pipes. The same year, program was adding an antiphonal division for the Schlicker organ, built by Tim Hemry, Novelty, Ohio. Located at the who were members during the period of significance; 1897-1961. This period of significance mirrors the era of physically represents this period of great economic growth and prosperity. United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property

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Major Bibliographical References Aley, Howard C. A Heritage to Share, The Bicentennial History of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio. Youngstown: The Bicentennial Commission of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 1975. Brenner, William A. Downtown and the University: Youngstown, Ohio. Architecture + Environmental Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. 1976. Butler, Joseph G. History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio. 3 volumes. New York: American Historical Society, 1921. [Butler, Joseph M.] History of St. John's Episcopal Church, Youngstown, Ohio: With Part of the History of St. James Church, Boardman, The Pioneer Parish of Ohio. Youngstown, Ohio: Greenwood School Supply Co., 1898. Cram, Ralph Adams. My Life in Architecture. New York: Little Brown & Company, 1936. DeCicco, William. Conversation concerning the 1953-1954 Undercroft renovation. Farragher, William.

Conversation concerning community social commitments of the congregation of St. John's Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney and Monica Olsniski. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010. www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/.tiff/hd_tiff.htm Gordon, Stephen C. How to Complete the Ohio Historic Inventory. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1992. Harris, Cyril M. Harris, ed. Iustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1977. History of St. John's Episcopal Church, Youngstown, Ohio A.D. 1898- A.D.1934: Seventy Fifth Anniversary. Youngstown, Ohio: 1934. History of St. John's Episcopal Church, Youngstown, Ohio, 1934-1958. Youngstown, Ohio: 1958. Jones, Emma. Conversation concerning architectural changes in the parish house, 1940-1970. Kidney, Walter C.

Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture, The Historic Buildings f Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1995. Mahoning County Auditor's website: Mahoning Valley Historical Society Archives. YMCA, YWCA, Protestant Family Services, Church Women United, Youngstown Federation of Churches. Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades, 1865-1895, A Study of the Arts in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1931. B9E674886B823A467BBD8327C http://ohmahoningpropertymax.governmaxa.com/propertymax/agency/ohmahoning/mahoning_home.asp?sid=B8E4DD5 Episcopal Church. devonheritage.org/Places/Exeter/JohnAngelF.R.B.S.htm County and State (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Cram and Ferguson. Architectural blue prints for the parish house for St. John's Episcopal Church, 1928.

United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property Newark Daily. Obituary of William Halsey Wood, Newark, NJ, March14, 1897. found at www.Smethporthistory. Raguin, Virginia Chieffo. Stained Glass: From Its Origins to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. Roth, Leland M. A Concise History of American Architecture. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press, 1998. Sanderson, Thomas W. Twentieth Century History of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1907. St. John's Stained Glass Windows Pamphlet. Youngstown: St. John's Episcopal Church, 2000. Wrona, during the year 2009. Shuttleworth, Earle G., Jr., transcriber. Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947. American Art Annual.

Society of Architectural Historians. found at www.sah.org/indexphp?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitects&Catagories=Resources : Connick Smithsonian Institutional Research Information System. Charles J. Connick Papers, 1901-1949. found at www.siris- Tannler, Albert M. Charles J. Connick, His Education and His Windows In and Near Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 2008. Toker, Franklin. Buildings of Pittsburgh. Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians, 2007. Upton, Harriet Taylor. Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company. 1909. The Vindicator. Youngstown, Ohio. Wikipedia: Church_of_St._John_the_Evangelist_(Hunter,_New_York), Angel, Cram, Tiffany, Willet for birth & death Willet Hauser Architectural Glass. "Willet Studio--A Short History", Philadelphia: 2010. Williams Bros.

History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bros. 1882. Wood, Mrs. William Halsey (Florence Hemsley). Memories of William Halsey Wood By His Wife. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, [1937 John's Episcopal Church, 2006-2007. dates. org/mainwest/600.block/st.lukes/w.halsey%20wood.html (Expires 5/31/2012) St.John's Episcopal Church newsletter,monthly,2000-2011.A history of the church,1859-2009,written by M. E. County and State National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form St. John's Episcopal Church Brief History Pamphlet. Youngstown: St. John's Episcopal Church, 1986. Youngstown State University Preservation Program, rough draft of Sections 7 & 8, National Register nomination for St.

archives.si.ed/ipac/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001-1209376!0 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67 has been State Historic Preservation Office Other State agency previously listed in the National Register Local government designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Name of repository: St. John's Episcopal Church recorded by Historic American Landscape Survey # Historic Resources Survey Number (if 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of Property 1.768 (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 529 713 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property.) Youngstown City Lots- 53-017-0-114.00-0, 53-018-0-153.00-0, See Mahoning County Auditors Map (Appendix 3) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected.) The nominated property includes the two parcels associated with St. John's Episcopal Church, including the Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House and bridge. 11.

Form Prepared By date June 15, 2011 street & number 44 Audubon Road state Oh zip code 44514-1925 4550085 Easting Northing Zone University Other telephone e-mail requested) assigned): UTM References County and State Federal agency city or town Youngstown Primary location of additional data: Previous documentation on file (NPS): previously determined eligible by the National Register organization Rebecca M. Rogers United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Submit the following items with the completed form: Addendum 2: Stained glass windows, noting location, maker, donors, date of installation Addendum 3: Auditor's Map - Additional items: (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items.) Submit clear and descriptive photographs.

The size of each image must be 1600x1200 pixels at 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or larger. Key all photographs to the sketch map. Name of Property: St. John's Episcopal Church City or Vicinity: Youngstown County: Mahoning State: Ohio Photographer: Rebecca M. Rogers and Eleanor A. Congdon Date Photographed: March, 2011 and May 2011 Description of Photograph(s) and number: 1. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0001 west elevation, Rogers, photographer 3. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0003 apse, organ pipe loft, north transept with tower, looking southwest, Rogers, photographer 9. OH_Mahoning_St.

John's Episcopal Church_0009 north elevation of parish house with bridge, east end of church, Rogers, photographer Photographs: Additional Documentation (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form - Maps: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. photographs to this map. - Continuation Sheets: Addendum 1: First Floor plan of church, bridge and parish house 6. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0006 south elevation of narthex, nave and aisle, Rogers, photographer United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State 10. OH_Mahoning_St.

John's Episcopal Church_0010 hip-roof fire stairs wing, north elevation of parish house, west gabled entry wing and bridge, Rogers, photographer elevator tower, Rogers, photographer Congdon, photographer 15. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0015 St. John's Episcopal Church and the Reuben McMillan Free Public Library, looking southeast from the Lincoln Avenue/Wick Avenue intersection, Rogers, photographer 16. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0016 Pilgrim Collegiate Church and Jones Hall, looking northwest front the St. John's front lawn, Rogers, photographer deck from St. John's front lawn, Rogers, photographer 23. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0023 crossing tower, Congdon, photographer 24. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0024 north transept, Congdon, photographer 26. OH_Mahoning_St.

John's Episcopal Church_0026 chancel with altar, reredos, piscine, Congdon, photographer 29. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0029 Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, Rector's office, photographer 30. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0029 Edward L. Ford Memorial Parish House, Great Hall, Congdon, 13. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0013 south side of bridge from the library parking lot, Congdon, (Expires 5/31/2012) 17. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0017 St. John's north churchyard, Meshel Hall and the YSU parking 22. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0022 south aisle and clerestory, southwest side, Congdon, photographer 25. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0025 south transept, Congdon, photographer 12. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0012 south end of parish house, south four bays of west façade with 14. OH_Mahoning_St.

John's Episcopal Church_0014 tower, apse, south side of bridge from the library parking lot, 28. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0028 bridge, looking northeast, Congdon, photographer United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio County and State photographer 5 (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) street & number 323 Wick Avenue telephone 330-743-3175 city or town Youngstown zip code 44503 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.460 et seq.).

instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of name Property Owner: Name of Property NPS Form 10-900 37.OH_Mahoning_St.John's Episcopal Church_0037 clerestory window, Connick Associates Studio, Congdon, state Ohio 32. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0032 north transept windows, Connick Studio, Congdon, photographer 34. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0034 south transept windows, Willet Studios, Congdon, photographer 31. OH_Mahoning_St. John's Episcopal Church_0031 Te Deum window, Tiffany Studios, Congdon, photographer properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a this form to the Office of Planning and Performance Management. U.S. Dept.

of the Interior, 1849 C. Street, NW, Washington, DC United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Appendix 1: (Expires 5/31/2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Appendix 2: Stained Glass Windows, noting makers, donors, and date of installation The window over the front, west, entry, Tiffany Studio.

The window has five large stained glass sections in the lowest register, five stained glass sections in the second register, ten stained glass sections in the third register, and nine stained the King of Glory.' In memory of Mrs. David Tod. Died April 3, 1901." Aisle Windows. Ten double windows with a small pane in the apex of the lancet. Charles J. Connick Associates Studio, excepting the most southeast window. On the south side of the nave, beginning at the west end: The Calling of the Disciples; inscription: "*Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.' Given in memory of George Robert Roden III." Installed in 1957. - memory of James Thomas Colwell, 1883-1952, and Angelo DeCicco, 1882-1954," Installed in 1958. Lucy Myra Chadwick, 1863-1930; Frederick William Chadwick, 1899-1901; Eleazer Chadwick, 1865- 1901." Installed in 1957.

The Nativity; inscription: "Unto you is born this day a saviour which is Christ the Lord.' Given in memory of William Edward Manning, 1870-1923." Installed in 1957. crown of life.' In memory of James Rudge, 1826-1900." Tiffany Studio, maker. Installed ca. 1901.

On the north side of the nave beginning at the west end: Christ Blessing the Little Children; inscription: ''He took them up in his arms and blessed them.' Given in memory of Ralph Wellington McGinnis, 1886-1942 and Yeadon McGinnis, 1890-1956." Installed in The Triumphant Entry; inscription: "*Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord.' Given in memory of George Plant, 1870-1943 and Margaret Ann Plant, 1872-1956." Installed in 1958 memory of Greenaway and Blakely Families." Installed in 1957 Logan Shaw, 1865-1932 and Mary Smith Logan, 1868-1947." Installed in 1957 The Resurrection; inscription: "The angel of the Lord said fear not ye, for He has risen? Given in memory of John William Smith, 1894-1953." Installed in 1957. The clerestory windows. Charles J. Connick Associates Studio, ca. 1955.

On the south side of the clerestory, beginning at the east end, the windows are: Iron Ore Mining; inscription: "The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof" Transporting Iron Ore; inscription: "The voice of the Lord is upon the waters" Making Steel; inscription: "God hath showed He is voice and the earth shall melt away" On the north side of the clerestory, beginning at the west end, the windows are: Testing the Molten Metal; inscription: "Oh Lord great are Thy wondrous works" 1958 OMB No.

1024-0018 Collective Bargaining;inscription:"We took counsel together and walked in the house of God as friends" The Crucifixion;inscription:Father,into thy hands I commend my spirit.Given in memory of Carrie Transporting Coal;inscription:"There is a river the streams thereof make glad the city of God" Planning to Build;inscription:"Oh Lord establish thou the work of our hands" The Last Supper;inscription:This is my blood which is shed for the remission of sins.'Given in Mining Coal: inscription:"He layeth up the deep as in a treasure house" Shaping Steel;inscription:"The voice of the Lord is mighty in operation" (Expires 5/31/2012) glass sections in the top register. The inscription reads: We praise thee oh God. Thou art the everlasting Son Who art Sermon on the Mount; inscription: "Blessed are the pure in heart.

Ye are the light of the world.' Given in The Baptism; inscription: "'This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.' Given in memory of Angels Revelation to St. John; inscription: "Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Building a Skyscraper; inscription: "Except the Lord build the house their labor is but lost that build it" United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State South Transept Windows: The west wall of the south transept, Willet Studio: - Feeding the Five Thousand; inscription: "In memory of John Mackey Morris who initiated the soup kitchen at St. John's, 1920-1997." Installed in 1999.

- Boar's Head Festival Epiphany; inscription: "Gift of Virginia and George Pugh, 1999." Installed in 1999. The south wall of the south transept, Charles J. Connick Studio: - The Archangel Michael; " 'Qui ut Deus.' In memory of William James Hitchcock, 1846-1936." Installed - Madonna With Child; ''Gratia Plena.' In memory of Frank Hitchcock, 1862-1936." Installed ca. 1940. The east wall of the south transept, makers unknown: - Christ; "I am the light of the world. Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and sup with him and he with me. John 8:12. In memory of Mrs. Eliza Lynn Botsford, died May 2, 1881, and of Henry Scott born May 1878, died March 1880." Saved the Wood Street church, installed ca. 1900. - St.

John the Beloved Disciple; "I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me Blessed are the dead who are in the Lord.' Revelation 14:13.In memory of Thomas Grant Botsford who departed this life September 1882." Saved from the Wood Street church, installed ca. 1900. North Transept Windows: The west wall of the north transept: The Resurrection Angel; inscription: "'For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead Christ will rise first.' In memory of James Lawrence Botsford, April 16, 1834-October 6, 1898." Tiffany Studio, originally in north transept endwall, made ca. 1900. Creation window: "Psalm 42:1, 'As the deer longs for water, So my soul longs for you, O God,' In Honor of Their Daughters Jennifer & Pamela, Albert & Suzanne Cinelli, 2005, designer, Susan Russo. The north wall of the north transept, Charles J.

Connick Associates Studio: given by Elizabeth Hine Cates." Installed in 1957. Jones, 1896-1965." Chancel windows, Charles J. Connick Associates Studio: The south side of the chancel, west to east: - Jeremiah; "'God is Mercy.' Given in memory of Frederick Henry and Ella Botsford Wick." Installed 1951. - The north side of the chancel: - Hosea; "'God is Love.' Given in memory of John Edwin James, 1863-1947." Installed in 1951. Stairwell to the Undercroft, Willet Studio: - St. Francis of Assisi: In loving memory of Jennifer Rumberg VanScoter by the Rumberg family, 1999 The Undercroft, Chapel of the Good Shepherd windows, designed by Margaret Kennedy, Richmond, IN, 1967.

- Incarnation: Annunciation, Nativity, Magi, in memory of Phoebe Trigg Koehler, 1895-1965 Atonement: Money changers, Crucifixion, Resurrection, in memory of William Cutler, 1890-1959 red window: in memory of William John Glantz, 1889-1955 (Expires 5/31/2012) ca. 1940. - St. Paul the Apostle; inscription: *I have kept the faith.' The gift of many friends in memory of Pauline - Amos; "'God is Justice.' In memoriam Clara Harmon Smith, 1867-1954." Installed in 1951. - St. John the Evangelist; inscription: "In primo est verbum.' In loving memory of Elizabeth Woodruff United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Mahoning Co., Ohio Name of Property County and State Appendix 3 Mahoning County Auditor's Map Mahoning County, Ohio LINCOLN AVE (Expires 5/31/2012) National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form WEBB ST GROVEST 17-25) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: OTHER : N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE REJECT DATE MULTIPLE REVIEWER DISCIPLINE RETURN Historic Places 2/03/12 12/23/11 The National Register 2/07/12 RECOM./CRITERIA PDIL: Entered in REASONS FOR REVIEW: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR APPEAL: N DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Mahoning SAMPLE: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs.

0019 0021 OH_Mahoning Co_St.lohsEpisc C0024 LAYETH DEEP THE HOUSE A RIVER : GL ADY THE STREAMS WHE REOF MAKE THE I CITY OF GOD THERE IS ( THE LORD WATERS VOICE OF THE UPON YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO UNITED STATES YOUNGSTOWN QUADRANGLE UTM GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 4550085 OHIO - MAHONING CO. Episcopul Chunel $ 2.50 5110700052 NAT. REGISTEF H. TORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE December 19, 2011 Ms. Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 Eye Street, NW (2280) Washington DC 20005 Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations for Ohio. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the new nomination submission.

NEW NOMINATION Downtown Mount Vernon Historic District If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. Executive Director and CEO State Historic Preservation Officer 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY Enclosures www.ohiohistory.org Mahoning Sincerely, Knox Burt Logan National Register OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dear Ms. Shull: RECEIVED 2280 Ohio Historic Preservation Office St. John's Episcopal Church DEC 23 2011 HISTORY OHIO