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Photograph of Canal Winchester Methodist Church
Photograph by Wdzinc, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Canal Winchester Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 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

one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S. Columbus and High St., Canal Winchester, 43110
  • When was it listed? 1982-03-15
  • Category. building
  • Township. Madison township
  • National Register reference number. 82003567 - 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.

The ground it stands on

792 words

This property stands in Madison Township. History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Madison Township - 792 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Canal Winchester Methodist Church between 2010 and 2010, burning about 1 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
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 713 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 713 specimens collected within 10 miles of Canal Winchester Methodist Church between 1895 and 1975: 702 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R., Caldwell 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1895F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Allocapnia vivipara, not of this specimenAllocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)1896not recorded
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus diogenes, not of this specimenCambarus diogenes Girard, 18521897R.C.O. et al.Lockbourne
A photograph of the species Cambarus robustus, not of this specimenCambarus robustus Girard, 18521897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Big Walnut Creek, near confluence with Alum and Blacklick Creeks, 2.0 miles NW of Groveport OH, NW Madison Township
Etheostoma sciotense Osburn & Williamson, 18981897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, tributary of Scioto River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
Hybopsis dissimilis (Kirtland, 1840)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonScioto Big Run, Franklin County, Ohio

All 713 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Canal Winchester Methodist Church: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Map coverage status

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 pending.

From the nomination file

1,515 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

A one story wing was added to the rear of the building in 1920 and another larger windows above the paneled door entrances. wing was added in 1958.The building was rehabilitated on the exterior and interior The original Canal Winchester Methodist Church structure is a 1y story 4 bay by _moved date X good ruins arched stained glass windows) and a 2-story square bell tower with brick corbeling 8.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) In 1969 when the worldwide Evangelical United Bretheran Church merged with the Methodist Church, Canal Winchester needed to distinguish between its two United 1600-1699 1800-1899 1700-1799 1500-1599 education conservation economics engineering transportation industry communications humanitarian science Period invention music 1400-1499 Canal Winchester Methodist Church is an excellent example of ecclesiastical Late was completed in July,1904ata cost of almost $6,400.The pointed-arched stained A complete rehabilitation of the property in 1978 costing the church $55,000. - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - landscape architecture. - religion Gothic Revival Architecture in Canal Winchester. Designed by J.C. Gault, the style in the area.

illustrates the congregation's interest in the preservation of the building. Specific dates 1902-1904 Faith United Methodist Church and the other was named Hope United Methodist Church.

The whole case file for this property - 1,515 words, 15 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 82003567, 15 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Arendt--Seymour House0.1 miles1989
Times Building--Lodge Hall0.1 miles1989
Epley, Henry J., House0.1 miles1989
Methodist Church Parsonage0.1 miles1989
David's Reformed Church0.1 miles1989
Bruns--Wynkoop House0.1 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003567 in Record Group 79.
Franklin CountyAll 295 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.