Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Paul's Sunday School and Parish House was erected at the corner of at East Market and Forge Streets in Akron, Ohio, for $35,000 in 1884-85 by the St. Paul's Episcopal Church located at 1361 West Market Street.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Sunday School and Parish House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.76001532- 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.
It is inaccurate to say that the Ohio Canal made Akron. The city as it stands today is the resultant of many causes. Many and different influences, and various men and measures, have co-operated toward the end now attained. The start was made long before the Ohio Canal was built. - Within the present limits of the city, settlements at two different points had been made, which antedate the canal by nearly two decades. In 1807 the first settlement had been made in Middlebury. In 1811 Miner Spicer had started "Spicertown." In the same year Paul Williams settled upon the lands immediately west of the Spicer settlement and adjoining the land of General Simon Perkins on the east. When the canal was opened in 1827 Middlebury was an important village. It had attracted many settlers from the East, principally from Connecticut, and boasted of half a dozen mills and factories, a dozen stores, three inns and about five hundred inhabitants. It certainly deserved a place on the maps of the time.
Let us search that we may find, if we can, the economic reasons for the existence of Akron. The sentence that begins this chapter contains the idea that is ordinarily advanced as the sole reason for the Akron of today. The unthinking man repeats: "The canal made Akron." The wTiter on Akron history records: "Dr. Eliakim G. Crosby made Akron."
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Paul's Sunday School and Parish House between
2014 and 2014, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 812 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Paul's Sunday School and Parish House between 1867 and
1975: 696 Animalia, 69 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. 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
11 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Sunday School and Parish House: 9 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Akron, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 38 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
On Wednesday afternoon, July 10, the City of Akron experienced 3 to 4 inches of rain in an hour and a half. Flooding occurred causing the closings of roadways and expressways. Along with the roadway flooding, the City received reports of nearly 200 flooded basements. Widespread flooding was reported throughout the city and numerous homes, businesses, and vehicles were inundated by the rain.
Weakened tree fell onto home in Akron and killed occupant. Thunderstorm was likely sub-severe per radar data. The nearby Akron-Fulton International Airport ASOS recorded a peak convective wind gust of 44 mph at 9:26 AM EST. No other reports of thunderstorm-related damage or severe convective weather were received as the cluster of storms moved through the Akron area.
A severe thunderstorm moved across Summit County and caused unprecedented damage. Hail as large as softballs fell across much of the county. Extensive damage was done to homes and vehicles in Akron and surrounding areas. Nearly 51,100 insurance claims were filed for damage in the county. The south side of Akron was the hardest hit.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees and limbs in the Akron and Stow areas resulting in scattered power outages. At the peak of the storm a few thousand customers were without power.
Route 8 northbound was closed from Perkins St to E. Tallmadge Avenue. Akron police reported traffic accidents and delays due to the high water conditions. Route 8 southbound closed at Seasons Rd in Hudson/Stow to flooding. Storm total rainfall from Hudson 4.75.
2 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
2,003 words on record
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
The plan is an irregular cross-shape, but it is not entirely symmetrical. construction. The woodwork of the west room is a dark oak, and the has also obscured a corner fireplace with a Gothic hood in the northeast corner of the large west room, which formed a sort of domestic CONDITION DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION UNALTERED XALTERED parish house.The main floor meeting room faces a proscenium platform FAIR room which has sloping ceilings under the roof.The west room is a tall constitute one structure, and only the building described is nominated. CHECK ONE The walls are constructed of coursed sandstone with corner buttresses.
with three Gothic lancet windows.Some of the windows on the west elev- tower on the north side, and above the crossing there was asmall The four main gables of the building are approximately equal in size a sort of plate tracery.Each side elevation of the east end has a dormer provide an office, so the door is not used. This temporary arrangement the balcony are a number of small classrooms nowwused as offices.On "inglenook." XEXCELLENT The interior arrangement is unusual. The east half is a two-story temporary wooden passageway, but they do not for this reason at the east end. The room is connected to the west part of the building This is a two-story Victorian Gothic structure with a basement.
it provides access to the upper east room.The balcony is supported pointed fleche, but they have been removed. the north side the balcony ends at the organ chamber;on the south side -GOOD _UNEXPOSED The building is connected to the later sanctuary(1909)bya -RUINS DATE by a large folding wooden door. The second floor contains one large on wooden posts which appear to have been added after the original ceiling consists of tongue-and-groove boards.
private homes and rooms, the congregation built a small frame building Edison, and later the co-founder of the widely influential Chautauqua 1884-1885 1700-1799 BUILDER/ARCHITECT ECONOMICS LAW PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SIGNIFICANCE ART TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE THEATER MILITARY PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT LITERATURE became increasingly concerned with the care and education of children, cultural institution at Chautauqua Lake, New York. In the latter part of the nineteenth century religious organizations passageway, but it does not have the architectural or historical distinction _COMMUNICATIONS INVENTION proper and supervised recreation, and social service.
The first building of the earlier building.Both buildings were acquired by the University to enlarge a conventional sanctuary. Miller's original Sunday School no as the Firestone Conservatory of Music. his graded classes, consisting of a semi-circular auditorium arranged and built the existing Sunday School and Parish House at a cost of $35,000. inventor and manufacturer of reapers, the father-in-law of Thomas A.
_PREHISTORIC -1600-1699 _RELIGION XEDUCATION of Akron in 1952 with funds from the Firestone Foundation and serve -1400-1499 - ENGINEERING This is an early building designed specifically asa Sunday school and In 1907-1909,the sanctuary of St.Paul's Episcopal Church was erected adjacent to the Sunday School and is connected to it by a wooden For the Sunday School Miller createda unique plan to accommodate _COMMERCE - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN - CONSERVATION parish house, and secondarily as a sanctuary.It is located in the city Methodist Church in Akron in 1868.It was conceived by Lewis Miller, an St.Paul's Episcopal Parish was formed in 1835.Meeting at first in where the Akron plan," of which it is an excellent example, was evolved.
- INDUSTRY -1900- -MUSIC church purchased the triangular lot at East Market, Forge and Fir Streets It was dedicated January 6, 1885.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001532, 16 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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