Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Columbia Baptist Church is a historic church at 25514 Royalton Road in Columbia Station, Ohio. The church was built in 1900 for the local Baptist congregation, which formed in 1832 and had previously used a wood-frame building for its church.”
Wikipedia article Columbia Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 121 National Register listings published here for Lorain County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001466- 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
1902 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 551 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Columbia Baptist Church between 1888 and 1975: 509 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 4 Protozoa.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, BJ Zahuranec & party 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.
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.
Description of the property
lancet window of stained glass. The tower is decorated by small, triangular windows faced sandstone cap. Above the arch of the large window the gable is covered with 1/1, plain windows are placed across this face. The rear gable end of the N-S ridgeline The west side shows only one gable end. It too has wood siding high in the gable which has a 3-part window. The lower portion has two, 1/1 pane windows and a single-paned tall chimney. One each side of the N-S ridgeline, toward the center, are gablets, the pulpit platform. The choir loft has three elevations and is immediately north of mullioned in a triangular pattem on the south and east sides and a smooth stone belt belltower.T door is protectedbya gable-roofedentance porch of frame construction.
stained glass windows matching those in the facade.Beside the gable end is a large, course.The tower is completed by a bell-shaped roof above which there is an open -RUINS Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER in a circular pattern so that all occupants face the pulpit. Installation of modern heating and lighting and the replacement of slate roofing with asphalt shingles are the only changes made to the building. GPO 892 455 PAGE Columbia Baptist Church JUL 121976 DATE ENTERED MAY 271976 upward from the pulpit, diagonally across the santuary. The pews are arranged RECEIVED AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Columbia Baptist Church is an excellent example of a transitional style church building, having elements of both the Stick and Queen Anne styles. It is lively roofline provided by intersecting gables and the whimsical outline of the two remaining structures in the township built of local Columbia sandstone. When built it was the largest church in the area.
Many of the original members established in 1832 and they worshiped in a frame church until this building was It is significant to note that it is still used by the denomination which founded the Baptist faith in this township and that four generations of local families have 1900 1500-1599 1400-1499 ECONOMICS ART ENGINEERING PERIOD EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE RELIGION SCIENCE TRANSPORTATION THEATER MILITARY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCULPTURE _COMMUNICATIONS _COMMERCE _PHILOSOPHY and then dressed and squared on the site.Stained glass windows were donated by INDUSTRY parishoners and depict biblical scenes in delicate shades of colored glass.The steeple is the tallest structure in Columbia Station.
LITERATURE particularly interesting for its combined use of stone and wood and for the _1600-1699 -1800-1899 - CONSERVATION - 1700-1799 - MUSIC - LAW bell-shaped roof of the tower and the open work of the belfry. It is one of only complete in 1900. The sandstone was hauled from the quarries of the Forrest City worshipped there. The building is used by many other community groups. INVENTION Stone Company in Columbia Station.It was hauled in farm wagons as rough ashlar had come from surrounding areas; the Baptist church in Columbia Center was
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001466, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
5 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.
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