Nomination for St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior received SEP 2 0 1984 1. Name Saint Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland and/or common 2. Location street & number 15837 Euclid Avenue _ not for publication city, town - vicinity of Ohio 44112 3. Classification - unoccupied - agriculture _ museum _ commercial - Structure - work in progress X religious in process X yes: restricted - government - yes: unrestricted 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Ohio 44113 has this property been determined eligible? - yes .

_ local Ohio 43211 039 Category both date Accessible entertainment educational code transportation Ownership Same site district historic object Columbus Status industrial park public Public Acquisition other: private residence being considered title Inventory-Nomination Form Type all entries-complete applicable sections Present Use National Park Service Janury 1977 Ohio Historic Inventory National Register of Historic Places East Cleveland Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office 6. Representation in Existing Surveys See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1219 Ontario Street For NPS use only military 4.

Owner of Property scientific -Xstate - county X building(s) X private - federal X state depository for survey records Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Center date entered OCT | 8 1984 Ohio (3-82) -excellent X original site X altered _moved X fair church, now used as a parlor, constructed by parishioners over a fourteen-year period from 1846 to 1860, is of ashlar construction with half-timbered gable and three pointed arch windows facing the street, 2) the present church, built in 1896, a Gothic eclectic The nave, based on the English Gothic, has five bays with memorial stained glass windows It is a pointed arch divided into three lights, with art nouveau plant forms with offices was added in 1900, when a window also replaced the original south door.

The The parish hall(1922) was designed by Harman Maurer and consists of offices, classrooms Condition unexposed ruins founders of the parish;these windows are diamond pattered with painted symbolic figures unidentified figures.In this window, several pieces of stained glass have been replaced glass and red glass are outlinedby narrow gold bands.The vestibule connecting the 7. Description by clear glass. Inside, the proportions of the 1896 church continue to suggest an English village church.

and a large hall with stage and central skylight and basement rooms.There is an under- contains a small baptistry, with font and contemporary stained glass window by Rudolph The old building comprises a parlor with a wide ogee arched ceiling.A mezzanine floor structure of ashlar construction, has facing Euclid Avenue a wide gable with a central and a wooden hammerbeam roof of quarter-cut oak stained dark brown; the spandrels have The present church property includes three interconnected buildings:1)the original mezzanine was built across the top third of the stained glass windows.on the Euclid Avenue quatrefoil designs, probably dating from the remodeling in 1885.One corner has been has a wooden roof and nine stained glass lights in shades of red.The 1950 vestibule Check one pointed arch window and surmounted by a cross;a small conical steeple;buttresses along less compatible but is located to the rear of the complex.

parish hall of brick was built in 1922 immediately behind the 1860 structure.The original church and the 1895 church present a very harmonious design, the 1922 parish hall is much Center window in the Euclid Avenue wall dates from the remodeling in 19o0 and shows two croft below the sanctuary of the church. church with the 1860 building was built in 19ll. _ unaltered foils with crosses, and trefoils are cut in the spandrels of the bays. The pews, choir The polygonal apse (foliage and pomegranates) in the smaller lights above, a cross with crown in the central side and thus obscures them. It does not touch the windows, however, which remain in replaced with opalescent glass. and rail are by George Faulhaber; with the altar, they are of oak and date from the con- dates from c. 1890. Its two lights show figures of Christ and of the Angel Gabriel.

The date deteriorated The Smyth memorial window of painted and stained glass four memorial windows date from the remodeling of the church in 1885,commemorating the Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

free-standing column with foliated capital supports each corner. light and insignia (Alpha and Omega and IHS) in the other two.Wide borders of opalescent structionof the church.The altar has three panels with a quatrefoil in the center;a the side walls and a polygonal apse.A low front vestibule was added in 1950,and3)a Areas of Significance-Check and justify below X architecture X art _ music X_ 1800-1899 - philosophy other (specify) 1860; 1895 Statement of

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(in one paragraph) the late nineteenth century artist John LaFarge. The parish of St. Paul's, organized in 1843, is the second oldest Episcopal congregation of Coburn, Barnum, and Benes in 1895-96, is an excellent example of the adaptation of of Cleveland Square, and incorporated the following month; in 1845, parishioners began repairs were made, including the installation of memorial stained glass windows honoring the 1860 building, on a site then occupied by the rectory, built in 1865. The parish The foundation was laid on 2 July 1896 and the building consecrated 18 April 1897.

glass in about 1876, is a particularly striking example of color and design, using opal- escent glass borders and art nouveau plant forms, including deep rose-colored pomegranates, that would prove the attribution no longer exist, but later correspondence with LeFarge's grandson and the independent analysis of art historians, including Elizabeth Breckenridge, Reserve Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, strongly support the tradi- choir, rail, and altar, all of oak.

The dark hammerbeam roof also creates a feeling of 1500-1599 commerce 1600-1699 1700-1799 conservation communications 1400-1499 education economics industry invention archeology-historic humanitarian engineering transportation military theater exploration/settlement Period agriculture science literature Specific dates social/ to draw upon English Gothic parish churches for the design was thus singularly appropriate. is a particularly striking example of art nouveau stained glass and is almost certainly Criterion C 1900- icate and beautiful and generally well-preserved. In 1895,the nationally recognized Professor of Art History at the Cleveland Institute of Art and President of the Western 8.

Significance diminutive scale and the stained glass windows of which one set has been attributed to completed in 1860,is still standing in its original location and is now used as a church parlor;its windows contain interesting examples of painted glass dating from -politics/government by John LaFarge. -prehistoric intimacy and repeats the arch forms of the windows. sculpture _law - archeology-prehistoric landscape architecture - religion in the Cleveland area. The first church building, begun by parishioners in 1845 and The parish first met on Christmas Day, 1843, in the hamlet of Collamer, six miles east consecrated.

In 1871, this building was enlarged and repaired, and in 1885, extensive firm of Coburn, Barnum and Benes began to draw up plans for a new church next door to The Adams memorial window, attributed to John LaFarge, who began working in Builder Architect 1860: unknown; 1895: Coburn, Barnum, Benes vocabulary. symbols of the resurrection.In the center is a simple cross and crown.Church records The building is distinguished by its harmonious and intimate proportions within the Gothic The St.Paul's Episcopal Church derives its primary significance from architectural and the intimate and harmonious proportions of the English village church to an American heritage was primarily English (most parishioners were of English stock) and the decision a church building at the present site; it was not finished until1860,when it was --communityplanning 9.

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Major Bibliographical References Kelly, History of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, E. Cleve., (1945) Price, History of East Cleveland (1970), P. 44. 3. Cleveland City Directories and Atlases 10. Geographical Data UT M References map, Plat Book of Cuyahoga County. Vol. 1, Plate 41, Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins, Civil Engineer: - State 11. Form Prepared By April 6, 1984 15837 Euclid Avenue street & number Ohio 44112 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 State Historic Preservation Officer signature SHPO 451-8115 county code date Zone Northing Attest: telephone name/title national Verbal boundary description and justification local 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries East Cleveland The boundary of the St.Paul's Episcopal Church is shown as the red line on the accompanying The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Chief of Registration Zone Easting city or town National Registen For NPS use only Quadrangle name - Quadrangle scale 1:24000 415 918|8610 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, Acreage of nominated property East Cleveland 1914.,and drawn toa scale of 300 feet to the inch. NPS Form10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.

10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior For NPS use only dale entered Saint Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohto Item number 8 Page l In 1911, a vestibule connecting the two buildings was built. In the 1950's and 60's finished in the undercroft, and a new vestibule and entrance into the nave from Euclid a small jewel of architecture, beautifully suited to its function, and the Adams window is one of the few examples of art nouveau stained glass in the city of Cleveland.

Inventory-Nomination Form Avenue was constructed with a small baptistry containing a font and contemporary stained (3-82) Continuation sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service glass windows depicting the life and ministry of Christ and of St.Paul were installed received glass window by Rudolph Sandow showing the baptism of Christ.New traditional stained Plat Book of Cuyahoga County, Vol. 1, Civil Engineer, 1914. Vol 300 feet - 1 inch From: Scale: