Nomination for First Reformed and First Lutheran Churches

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OMB No.1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common First United Church of Christ and First Lutheran Church street & number 901 and 909 East Tuscarawas Street - not for publication city, town - vicinity of , 151 county - 3. Classification - public -unoccupied - agriculture _ museum X building(s) X private - structure _entertainment X religious _object X yes: restricted - government - yes: unrestricted _military Paul G. Carmony, Pastor Rev. Richard Findlay street & number901 E. Tuscarawas St. Ohio 44707 5.

Location of Legal Description street & number - yes x no - local depository for survey records 039 1976 both Category Accessible code date transportation Ownership title site commercial historic educational other: Public Acquisition industrial Status district Canton Columbus, being considered park (3-82) Ohio Stark 2. Location scientific Inventory-Nomination Form date entered First Lutheran Church private residence 6. Representation in Existing Surveys First United Church Present Use Type all entries-complete applicable sections Ohio Historical Center work in progress First Reformed and First Lutheran Churches National Register of Historic Places Ohio Historic Inventory 209 E. Tuscarawas St. in process Xstate For NPS use only has this property been determined eligible? NPS Form 10-900 4. Owner of Property courthouse, registry of deeds, etc.

_federal X state Stark County Office Building 7. Description - deteriorated . unaltered X original site X altered -moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

The nominated area consists of a Viewed from the street, both the First Reformed and First Lutheran Churches are Gothic Revival structures of red brick featuring pointed-arched windows and doors, anterior towers modifications and additions over time. step buttresses featuring trefoil carving, eave-level brick arcading with corbelled elements, of a spire and features four corner minaret-like elements with conical tent roofs and finials. A 3-story brick classroom and office addition was erected at the rear of the church in 1926. at the first floor level, paired6/6 sash windows at the second floor, and a pair of round arched windows at the top level. Each floor is separated by a variety of decorative tile and addition is attached to the rear of the church through a single story hallway.

addition was built at the northwest corner of the church in the 1950s for additional classrooms nomination however, they lend support to the historical continuity of the cooperation between unexposed Condition Check one and offices. Between the churches facing Tuscarawas Street are parsonage structures and one garage for both the two congregations.A small garage is at the rear of the Lutheran parsonage. rising over central entries and steeply gabled roofs.Both have seen exterior and interior and westerly additions of 1899 emphasize the Gothic Revival mode with corner and frontispiece plan church with classrooms ringing the sanctuary.

The belfry windows have been louvered and the entire structure has been sheltered inwood shape features a nave intersected by cross-gabled transcepts and poly- proper-replicates the Gothic Revival buttressing and window treatment of the 1899 facade;its The Lutheran Church dating from 1869-70,presents a slightly earlier mein with its dentilled as a home for the caretaker. The building is divided into vertical bays each of which has a large segmental arched opening Atwo-story frame house dating from c.1900 islocated at the northeast corner of the block. Xexcellent While the core of the Reformed Church dates from 1862(and its five-bay east elevation presents and stained glass windows with tracery.The belfry has been altered by the removal The interior of the addition is arranged like a Akron caretaker for the Lutheran Church.

the 2 churches: the First Reformed on the west, and the First Lutheran Church on the east. congregations, and at the rear corner behind the Lutheran Church is a frame residence used The brick parsonages are simple unadorned 2-story gable roofed residences. Both were built irregularity of fenestration and details typical of this era.

It historically housed the ruins fair gonal tent-roofed spire is topped bya cross with trefoil elements.A rectangular two-story glazed brickwork.A decorative tile mansard rings the building at the cornice line.The city block located near a major railroad crossing on Tuscarawas Street in the eastern portion coursed rock-faced ashlar water table.T It has a hipped roof covered with slate and although relatively simple in design features the in194land thus should be technically considered as intrusions.Taken as a part of the whole Areas of Significance-Check and justify below landscape architecture_X religion . archeology-historic _ science - sculpture _ education - social/ -engineering X1800-1899 - exploration/settlement . theater .

industry .politics/government _transportation _ invention - other (specify) Specific dates 1862; 1869-1870 as they jointly accommodated to early nineteenth century frontier life and, later, as they German-born and descended members of Lutheran and Reformed congregations worshipped together depending, as they did, upon the only occasional ministrations from circuit-riding preachers, first shared building (1810) occupied the only site set aside by the founder of the city, Benza leel Wells, for a "House of Worship"; the second was erected in 1823 on the present site More alike than different, each congregation used both English and German in worship, & each eventually becoming Capital University in Columbus, the Reformed being relocated to Tiffin as all, in three counties, Stark, Columbiana and Carroll-all served by Canton's third Pastor, were by then having in doing just that.

occurred within Ohio Lutheranism, such strains within the Reformed Church, reflected in contro- versies over language, over temperance and over the enthusiasms of "new measure" revivalism, had by 1855 became too disruptive to ignore. the East Tuscarawas site. Much emotional and legal strife later, the two congregations had settled in buildings only a few feet apart in what would become a continuing physical proximity structures they built to sustain faith and culture. 1700-1799 1400-1499 communications commerce 1600-1699 economics military humanitarian literature conservation Builder/Architect music unknown Period prehistoric 1500-1599 law 1900- 8.

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Significance The issues which eventually divided them were both micro-and macro-cosmic.Whatever strains philosophy -architecture that today represents the history of German Protestants in east central Ohio through the The nineteenth century history of the First Lutheran Church-either because a number of short- group countered with an independent decision to build a separate church on the west portion of East Tuscarawas St.,at that time a state road linking.New Lisbon with the Canal at Massillon.

-agriculture by l822,under a formal arrangement framed as the Articles of Union and Association."The Reformed congregations shared both church and records(until 1829) at first out of necessity &, from their they used church buildings in common and were preached toby _archeology-prehistoric - community planning are significant in that they represent a long standing common history of association, both physical and spiritual, of their own and similar congregations in east central Ohio. In their either Reformed or Lutheran preachers, sometimes on alternate Sundays. Canton's Lutheran & lier (and aborted) efforts between 1830 and 1840 to merge completely. term ministers served it or reflected in this turn-over - tended to show a Canton focus. It extended far beyond the limits of the city.

With Herbruck's help, in fact, new state legisla- attempted to establish a seminary in Canton only to be disappointed - the Lutheran seminary eventually divided into two Canton congregations, one German-one English speaking. The First Reformed Church, however, became the center of a system of associated congregations - eight in Peter Herbruck, whose pastorate lasted 50 years from 1834 on. Thus, a sidelight of the history The Lutherans made the first move, setting up a committee to study separation. The Reformed art present proximity they symbolize the intertwined development of two German Protestant groups of the two principle congregations is the fact that the influence of Canton's Reformed Church forged separate adaptations for dealing with the stresses of diversity.

tion was passed in the 1860's dealing with the problems Canton's Lutheran and Reformed Churches Heidelberg.Not until the late 1850's did a division of property occur - and this after ear- UT M References Parcels 80437 and 80444 of the City of Canton, Ohio. State name/title Mary L. Reeb, Regional Preservation Officer street & number Ohio 44702 _ local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 code county date Easting Northing Zone national Attest: title Verbal boundary description and justification Co., Cleveland, date unkown) Schneider, Paul, et. al., Fifteen Decades of Kingdom Service, 516085 Quadrangle scale 1: 24, 000 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Bolliger, Theodore, History of the First Reformed Church of Canton, Ohio (Central Publishing List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 9. Major Bibliographical References Canton East 11. Form Prepared By State Historic Preservation Officer signature Chief of Registration 528 Stark County Office Building Quadrangle name I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Keeper of the National Register city or town 10. Geographical Data (privately published,1960).

Bischoff, Wilbur, et.al.,The Story of the First Lutheran, The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: For NPs use only 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. organization Society, Cant949) telephone (216) 454-5651, ext. 264 Stark County Regional Planning Commission date January, 1981 * 1041 STREE T L1040g N 413,610.780 SUL -STATION X1039.4 X1037 1038.5 TUSCARAWAS 1042.5 1039.9 1044.5 1043 4037. 2 ND E 2,314,001.370 x First Reformed and First Lutheran Churches, Canton, AREA PARKING RAILROAD 040.5 1869 STERLING Stark County, OH Xi042.5 1036. C104650 Fed. Reg. Date - RETURN Federal Agency: _ Recom. / Criteria - Nomination returned for: - technical corrections cited below 1. Name 2. Location 3.

Classification Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description Condition Check one . excellent -altered boundary selection resubmission dates completeness REJECT Discipline Category Working No. summary paragraph clarity Action: unexposed ruins Status nomination by person or local government owner objection see continuation sheet deteriorated alterations/integrity National Park Service United States Department of the Interior _substantive reasons discussed below good First Reformed and First Lutheran Churches, Accessible Substantive Review Date Due: Stark County, OHIO, Ownership original site Reviewer - hat this property been determined eligible? -moved Substantive sample fair Present Use - Yes - nº 8. Significance relationship of integrity 9. Major Bibliographical References 10.

Geographical Data Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification - state State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date . Signed completeness checked context Maps Photographs Other clarity summary paragraph applicable criteria Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to justification of areas netional the resource Specific dates Builder

Statement of significance

:Architect Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: - loca: relating significance to Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet UMT Reterences Canton, Stark, Ohio Date: 1979 Photo: Don Long First Reformed Church CANTON, Onio CANTON, OHIO Photo: Don Long Date: 1979 First Reformed Church Canton, Stark, Ohio CANTON, OHIO Interior Date: 1979 Canton, Stark, Ohio First Reformed Church Photo: Don Long CANITON DON LONG STUDIO Date: 1980 Looking north Churches Photo: M. Reeb First Lutheran Canton, Stark, Ohio First Reformed and First Lutheran Church Canton, Stark, Ohio Date: 1980 Photo: M.

Reeb Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office First Reformed G First Lutheran Churches, Canton, Stark County, Ohio View of caretaker's house from northwest Photo: Jeff Brown, Canton, Stark County, Ohio Photo: Jeff Brown, 1982 First Reformed G First Lutheran Churches, Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office View of First Reformed Church from west Canton, Stark County, Ohio Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office First Reformed & First Lutheran Churches, View of First Reformed Church from southwest Photo: Jeff Brown, 1982 First Reformed G First Lutheran Churches, View of First Reformed Church from northeast Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Canton, Stark County,Ohio CHURCH FIRST LUTHERAN Canton, Stark County,Ohio First Reformed G First Lutheran Churches, Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office View of eastern elevation of Lutheran Chruch 1978 DO NOT ENTER Canton, Stark County, Ohio Photo: Jeff Brown Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office First Reformed G First Lutheran Churches, View of Lutheran Church from northwest Canton, Stark County, Ohio Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office First Reformed g First Lutheran Churches, View of steeple of Lutheran Church Photo: Jeff Brown Photo: Jeff Brown, '982 Church First Reformed & First Lutheran Chruches, Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Canton, Stark County, Ohio View of rear(northern elevation) of Lutheran Photo: Jeff Brown,1982 View of parsonage houses from southwest Negative: Ohio Historic Preservation Office First Reformed & First Lutheran Churches, Canton, Stark County, Chio Ms.

Carol Shull 440 G Street, NW Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed are ten new National Register nominations and one resbumission. We are recommending that four of the nominations receive a substantive County; the Wright House, Hamilton County; and the Ropes Building, eligibility on a signed continuation sheet that is enclosed with the Miller, Orlando, House AUG 1 6 1932 First Reformed & First Lutheran Ratterman, Bernard, House Please let me know if you have any other questions. Sincerely Ropes Building Hamilton Cuyahoga Clermont County Franklin Portage Roas-Ihhardt Farm and Winery Churches Resubmission NATIONAL Name Stark Wright House YWCA August 10, 1982 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Diver House and Storebuilding Chief of Registration RECEIVED Washington, D.C.

20240 New Submissions Grace Church Krumm House Department of the Interior Snow Houses National Register of Historic Places Hamilton County. Questions arose on the Krumm House, Ropes Buildings, we feel have been addressed in the nomination form. The Miller House and Wright House during the ERTA Part 1 certification process which was approved by the state review board but I have questioned its basic form. All the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the