First Methodist Episcopal-Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is a historic Greek Orthodox church building near downtown Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Constructed for a large Methodist Episcopal congregation in the early twentieth century, it was acquired by the present occupants in 1945.”
Wikipedia article Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (Steubenville, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06000093- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1904 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
AWFUL ACCIDENT---One of the most horrible accidents on the Panhandle R.R. for some years occurred near Coshocton Tuesday evening. . . in which WHEELER BURGESS was fatally injured, JOHN CURN and ROBERT DAVIS of THOS. FRITH's crew of stone bridge builders from this city were killed. . . (men were riding on a hand car, overtaken by train, these three had no time to jump from car). The three bodies arrived in Steubenville Wednesday morning. Davis' body was taken t6 the residence of THOMAS ROBERTS on Eighth Street. Curn's body was taken to his late residence at the corner of Eighth and Adams Streets. The body of Burgess was taken to his late residence, a new house just completed last summer on South Fourth Street.
We are grieved to announce today the death of M. JENNIE, wife of FREDERICK FRIDE, which occurred this morning at her home on West Market Street, of inflammation of the bowels, aged 25 years. She was a daughter of GEORGE and ELIZABETH SHARLETT, and was born in Steubenville. She had been married less than a year. . . Her remains will be laid to rest in the Union Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 17 fires within 5 miles of First Methodist Episcopal-Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
between 1992 and 2017, burning about 87 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Smoking
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 504 specimens
collected within 10 miles of First Methodist Episcopal-Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church between 1836 and 1974: 281 Animalia, 183 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of First Methodist Episcopal-Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church: 2 producers, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Steubenville, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 46 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing) - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of -B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C 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 1914 - 1950 lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield Significant Dates 1914, 1945, 1946, ca. 1950 A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes.
(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. Cultural Affiliation - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. LG less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Unknown at present Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 06000093, 63 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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