Nomination for First Congregational Church of Cuyahoga Falls

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NDV 3 1975.

NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: 14 - John Seiberling (Check One) - Preservation work - Comments Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: AUG 19 1975 153 039 LOCATION Military Summit REGISTER Akron ACCESSIBLE STATE Government DATE Both CATEGORY Private Residence Private Cuyahoga Falls CLASSIFICATION Site Educational Transportation Unoccupied OWNERSHIP District Restricted Ohio COUNTY: Structure Park COMMON Agricultural STATUS Museum Scientific CODE Entertainment Yes: Public CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: DATA SHEET Being Considered First Congregational Church of Cuyahoga Falls Public Acquisition: Industrial Summit County Building 130 Broad Boulevard Object TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: Religious CITY OR TOWN: In Process NOV PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) ENTRY NUMBER Pilgrim United Church of Christ 72 South High Street DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered M Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

plastered, and because of documentary evidence discussed in (8). ior, the threesouthernmost bays show the Romanesque Revival windows facade pediment. divided chancel focussed on the communion table. Nevertheless, the library, a new office and storage space. A third addition was complet- a library, choir rehearsal rooms and twenty Church School rooms. CONDITION sanctuary. Moved Ruins The interior of the sanctuary retains the original woodwork carved Gothic pattern.

At the same time the earlier clear glass interior retains the character of a mid to late nineteenth century bly room in which several classes met simultaneously.On the exter- and quoins.A three-part Romanesque window was inserted in the that there was originally a recessed porch, because the interior wall block with four bays on the side elevations and three on the north This is a brick church built in the Greek Revival style and later original structure, consisting of a gymnasium with a stage, a small of this addition. At the same time the tower was altered so that the the church. It contained a study, a parlor and a Sunday school assem The three entrances are placed between brick piers.It seems certain sanctuary in 1892.In 1934 the center pulpit was replaced bya The exterior brick of the church has been painted white. casings with Greek eared"architraves.

In 1883 the gallery over the facade.On the sides shallow brick piers and pilasters stand in relief. (Check One) In 1869 a two-story addition was made directly to the south of ed in 1958 to the south and west of the church, including four offices, In l927 a second addition was made to the southeast of the narthex was extended by two feet and the front rail faced with a of the narthex appears to be an exterior brick wall which was never windows were replaced with colored "art" glass, and the box pews Excellent Fair Romanesque and Gothic Revivals.The basic form isa rectangular bya semi-circular pew arrangement ona sloping floor,in imitation Good T33HE ATAO X] . 19th .Century - Pre-Columbian| SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban P.lanning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Invention - Science - Theater STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

This is a well-preserved example of a church embodying the century. More important, it is credited with being the oldest church in continuous use in Summit County, now that the famous Tallmadge was a separate village on the Cuyahoga River, named because the created in 1840 from portions of three other counties, Cuyahoga 1846 and dedicated in 1847. Commerce Architecture Conservation Akron.

Transportation Communications SIGNIFICANCE losophy Aboriginal Education Literature itarian Engineering Industry Agriculture Military Religion/Phi Music Landscape Sculpture Political Social/Human- The power provided by this fall caused innumerable industries to Rosse Hall at Kenyon College in Gambier, contained a recessed porch with two columns.They were designed by Charles Romanoff from nearby Middlebury and Tallmadge.It met for several months Cuyahoga Falls, now virtually a part of metropolitan Akron, present building were commenced, the building was completed in ceed in installments because of limited means.He states that the pastors from Western Reserve College.In 1845 plans for the The Congregational Church stands on the proposed site of the in a schoolhouse and then in a public Lyceum, and was supplied by changes in architectural taste of the second half of the nineteenth 1869 and considerably remodeled in1883.After the gymnasium was Prczriminsky, a Polish teacher of languages at Kenyon in 1834-1835.

The merger as the United Church of Christ took place in 1957. chapel of Western Reserve Academy (l835),formerly Western Res- added in 1927, the church served as a community social center. erve College, in Hudson. In an existing letter dated August 4,1845,one of the members The Cuyahoga Falls church was enlarged and "improved"in similar to the Episcopal Church at Columbus."That Falls was a rival for the location of the county seat which went to river descends about 240 feet over a distance of only two miles. church 'is to be a brick building about 50 by 70 feet with a front PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) 1845-1847; 1869; 1883 (Check One or More as Appropriate) spring up by the middle of the century.

When Summit County was Art describes the beginning of construction, as well as the need to pro- AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE church of 1825 no longer has a congregation, and excepting only the first Trinity Episcopal, now gone) and another patterned after it,

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Antiques Journal, I, No. 9, Sept. 1946, 7-8. Archives, Pilgrim United Church of Christ, Cuyahoga Falls. 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES 17 459/340 East 4553/470 North APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Less than one AUG 19 1975> FORM PREPARED BY CITY OR TOWN: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nationa 1 Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society Date August 15, 1975 GPO 931-894 039 Local ORGANIZATION LATITUDE LONGITUDE Name Cleveland Title COUNTY REGISTER ATTEST: UTM Ohio CODE CORNER ATE Date Degrees Minutes Seconds National NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION February 1975 RECEIVED Western Reserve Historical Society NAME AND TITLE: LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES BOUNDARIES 10825 East Boulevard STREET AND NUMBER: 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Rev.T.B. Fairchild, A History of the Town of Cuyahoga Falls William H. Perrin, History of Summit County (Chicago, 1881), 485-486. (Address delivered July 4, 1876), 26-27. Richard G.

Salomon, "The Old Halls of Kenyon College,"The American ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR CO Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Degrees Less Letter,E.N.Sill to Wm.F.Sill, dated Aug.4,1845 Church) Photos _ Inventory - NOV 3 OTHER Entered Maps ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Re-submit HAER Property Review TECHNICAL CONTROL HISTORIAN Ohio National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry First Congregational Church of Cuyahoga Falls United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Cole State REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 10-20-75 Accept IN T : 2106-74 1975 KEEPER .2275 Summit Cor NPS Number _ PPOPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc Form No. 10-301 Rev. 7-72 (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G.S.

Hudson Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS AUG 1 9 1975 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. 1975 039 1970 Ohio Summit DATE COUNTY Cuyahoga Falls STATE COMMON: REQUIREMENTS CODE MAP REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER 1:24,000 SOURCE: 130 Broad Boulevard SCALE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PROP ERTY MAP FORM CITY OR TOWN: NAME 153 LOCATION REGISSTEIR 5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC RECEIVED 17 459/340 East GEOLOGICAL SURVEY HUDSON QUADRANGLE AUG 19 1975 UNITED STATES Cuyahoga Falls 4553/470 North Pilgrim United Church of Christ HUDSON, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Church of Date Entered MOV 3 Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Robert Tait, Jr. . Hon. J.

William Stanton PR MMOTT: p1 11.13.75 INT: 2950-75 Location STATE Name Also Notified OHIO Regional Director, Midwest Region ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER First Congregational Church of Cuyahoga Falls Harpersfield Covered Bridge Hon. John F. Seiberling Cuyahoga Falla Braceville vicinity Director, The Ohio Historical Society Trumbull County Aahtabula County Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Harperafleld vicinity Kirker,Governor Thonas, Homestead Surmit County Elvell, Augustus, House Adas County Hon. Willian B. Harsha - State iistoric Preservation Officer TATE ONPS REGION O deteriorated 17) features: Ounexposed - Unknown 2O NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access 21) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : CLAIMS: explain -ENGINEERING - 11 -RECREATION -28 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-?

- COMMERCE-6 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW -16 - RELIGION- 22 D SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS - 7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 - AGRICULTURE - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH -27 - MILITARY - 18 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL -30 'only' O - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 2 functions dates of initial construction ©landscape architect / garden designer: X interior decorator: Gartisan: 153 Midwest ASSOCIATION Summit historic events: INSTITUTIONAL: FEDERAL EVENTS: CURRENTLY: builder/contractor: Zoriginal site artist: ARCHITECTURE-4 vicinity of SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 Cuyahoga Falls URBAN PLANNING-31 Zaltered ADMINISTRATOR: Zexcellent county code: Dunexcavated NOT INTACT-O master builder: SAVED?YES WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: UNKNOWN-6 NAMES give role & date SOURCE Of NOMINATION Oruins Dmoved OTHER NAMES First Congregational Church of Cuyahoga Falls L130 Broad Blvd.

-good Oreconstructed ZYES -Restricted DYES -Unrestricted IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Dno Yfirst'O ARCHEOLOGY historic-1 -EXPLORATION -12 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) *engineer: PEDIMENTED M date. IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE T OWNER. ETHNIC GROUP PRIVATE CONDITION form architectural style(s): 1846 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET LOCAL city/town Dfair LOCATION street & number LOVVERFO