Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
From the record
“The Twinsburg Congregational Church is a historic church building located on the southeast quadrant of the Twinsburg Public Square in Twinsburg, Ohio. It is a prominent and well-preserved local example of the Greek Revival style prevalent throughout the Western Reserve region during the mid-19th century.”
Wikipedia article Twinsburg Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 180 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001634- 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
1906 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The first settlement of Twinshurg Township was made in April, 1817, and the honor of being the first settler belongs to Ethan Ailing, who was then a mere boy of 17 years, sent on by his father to prepare for the later coming of the Ailing family. Moses Wilcox and Aaron Wilcox, twin brothers, were ako among the very earliest settlers. They were also among the original proprietors, as was Isaac Mills, who gave the township its first name "Millsville." The Wilcox twins afterwards persuaded the settlers to let them name the township, which they did, calling it Twinshurg in honor of their relationship. The township was organized in April, 1819. The first officials were Frederick Stanley, Lewis Ailing, Luman Lane, Samuel Vail, Elisha Loomis and Elijah Bronson. Ethan Ailing died in 1867, and by his will left eight shares of the stock of the Big Four Railroad Company to the mayor of the city of Akron for the purpose of having the dividends, declared thereon, being used to buy clothing, so that destitute children might be enabled to attend Sunday-school. These dividends are being used for this purpose at the present day, being turned over to the city poor director by the mayor upon their receipt. As early as 1822 both the Methodists and Congregationalists organized churches in Twinsburg. The latter built a church in 1823 and the present one in 1848. The Methodists built churches in 1832 and 1848. The Baptists organized in 1832 and built a church in 1841. In 1843 "The Twinsburg Institute" was opened by Samuel Bissell, which was one of the most successful educational institutions in the county. The beautiful soldiers' monument on the Public Square was dedicated July 4, 1867. One hundred and twentyeight men of Twinsburg went to the front during the Civil AVar. From 1856 to 1870 "The Twinsburg Fair" was one of the great features of agricultural life in this vicinity. At the present time, E. J. McCreery is town- .ship clerk, and A. J. Brown and Isaac Jayne are justices of the peace.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 606 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Twinsburg Congregational Church between 1877 and 1972: 584 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 11 Plantae.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Hall, Adams J. M. R., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Twinsburg Congregational Church: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. 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
Twinsburg, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to a rapid rise in the Cuyahoga River in Summit County which reached moderate flood stage at Old Portage. One to two inches of rainfall fell during the overnight hours of the 27th into the 28th, and combined with six to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground resulted in rapid runoff. Several people had be rescued from homes and vehicles as the water came up. One rescue worker suffered hypothermia rescuing a motorists floating away in flood waters in Northfield Center.
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
England meetinghouse adapted to the Greek Revival idiom, this church, which also stood on the Twinsburg Square, has been but whose steeple was different, burned in 1965. on the east side of the Square, and existed until 1948.? The at a cost of $210.
pilasters), and the proximity to Hudson, it has been suggested that the architect-builder was Simeon Porter, the Hudson master to those of the Streetsboro church, designed by James Clark, and the Twinsburg Methodist Church, built by William Clark, DEC 1 9 1973 Commerce Conservation SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Transportation Theater Communications Military Aboriginal REGISTER Religion/Phi Science Education Literature itarian NATIONAL Music Agriculture Political Industry Social/Human- .losophy Landscape Architecture destroyed;and the Brecksville church, whose facade was identical at Streetsboro has been removed to the Western Reserve Village The Twinsburg Congregational Church was organized in 1822.
near Peninsula;a Methodist church identical to the Streetsboro The steeple was destroyed in a windstorm of 1856 and replaced Sculpture building is very significant as the only one remaining on its that one of the Clarks seems equally likely as the builder. In addition to being a superior example of the late colonial New It used a log schoolhouse, and later a frame building on the present church building was erected in 1848 ata cost of $3,300. of the facade to that at Brecksville (Doric columns instead of Art The architect-builder is unknown. On the basis of the similarity AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001634, 10 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.
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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