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St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 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 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 15837 Euclid Ave., East Cleveland, 44112
  • When was it listed? 1984-10-18
  • Category. building
  • Township. East Cleveland city
  • National Register reference number. 84000130 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 4,021 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,021 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland between 1850 and 1975: 3,595 Animalia, 219 Fungi, 127 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Hall, A. Newhall 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
Specimen of Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 18951894F. WebsterEuclid
Specimen of Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1897Winkler, H.J.Woods, Cleveland.
Boraginaceae1850not recordedCleveland.
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1850Illegible collector nameCleveland.
A photograph of the species Catillaria tricolor, not of this specimenCatillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr.1854G. DixonCleveland, Bousdale Hill
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1854Robert KennicottCleveland
A photograph of the species Abrothallus parmeliarum, not of this specimenAbrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 18691860Mudd Wm.Cleveland
A photograph of the species Thryothorus ludovicianus, not of this specimenThryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790)1860not recordedCleveland
A photograph of the species Villosa iris, not of this specimenVillosa iris (I.Lea, 1829)1863H. Elliott
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981871Collector(s): unknownCleveland
A photograph of the species Timmia megapolitana, not of this specimenTimmia megapolitana Hedw.1871E. N. Claassen

All 4,021 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 St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. 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
Amax Rolling Mill/ Cleveland, OhioZirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, MolybdenumUnknown
General Electric/ Euclid, OhioTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 waterspout, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Flash FloodEast Cleveland$35,000Road eroded by flood waters on Superior Ave and South Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$25,000Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of these trees fell through a house.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$25,000Many trees down in Cleveland Heights with some falling on homes and cars. The AWOS at Cuyahoga County Airport reported a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$10,000Several trees were reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$3,000Local law enforcement reported trees down in Cleveland Heights. Streets impacted include Euclid Avenue, Yellowstone Road, and Hampshire Road.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$3,000Thunderstorm winds snapped a pine tree along Wyatt Road near Forest Hill Park. A couple trees nearby were also downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Tree downed in South Euclid.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Three trees downed in Cleveland Heights. Another tree was downed near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Richmond Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Numerous trees downed in and near Cleveland Heights.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Two trees downed in Cleveland Heights. One of the trees broke through the roof of a garage.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Two trees downed along Taylor Road, between East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Large tree snapped about one-mile west of Lyndhurst.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-A tree was blown down on Fairmount Blvd.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-There were several trees snapped and uprooted.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Cleveland-Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across the northern portion of the county.
August 1997WaterspoutEast Cleveland-A waterspout was reported on Lake Erie near Burke Lakefront Airport. It dissipated without coming ashore and no damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

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.

NewspaperPublished
East Cleveland Leader1942 to 1970
The East Clevelander1933 to 19??

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

1,653 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

free-standing column with foliated capital supports each corner. light and insignia (Alpha and Omega and IHS) in the other two.Wide borders of opalescent structionof the church.The altar has three panels with a quatrefoil in the center;a the side walls and a polygonal apse.A low front vestibule was added in 1950,and3)a Areas of Significance-Check and justify below X architecture X art _ music X_ 1800-1899 - philosophy other (specify) 1860; 1895 Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) the late nineteenth century artist John LaFarge. The parish of St. Paul's, organized in 1843, is the second oldest Episcopal congregation of Coburn, Barnum, and Benes in 1895-96, is an excellent example of the adaptation of of Cleveland Square, and incorporated the following month; in 1845, parishioners began repairs were made, including the installation of memorial stained glass windows honoring the 1860 building, on a site then occupied by the rectory, built in 1865. The parish The foundation was laid on 2 July 1896 and the building consecrated 18 April 1897.

glass in about 1876, is a particularly striking example of color and design, using opal- escent glass borders and art nouveau plant forms, including deep rose-colored pomegranates, that would prove the attribution no longer exist, but later correspondence with LeFarge's grandson and the independent analysis of art historians, including Elizabeth Breckenridge, Reserve Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, strongly support the tradi- choir, rail, and altar, all of oak.

The dark hammerbeam roof also creates a feeling of 1500-1599 commerce 1600-1699 1700-1799 conservation communications 1400-1499 education economics industry invention archeology-historic humanitarian engineering transportation military theater exploration/settlement Period agriculture science literature Specific dates social/ to draw upon English Gothic parish churches for the design was thus singularly appropriate. is a particularly striking example of art nouveau stained glass and is almost certainly Criterion C 1900- icate and beautiful and generally well-preserved. In 1895,the nationally recognized Professor of Art History at the Cleveland Institute of Art and President of the Western 8.

Read the complete 1,653-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 1,653 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 84000130, 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
First Church of Christ in Euclid0.3 miles1978
Forest Hill Realty Sales Office1.6 miles2007
Garfield Terrace Apartments1.7 miles2021
Heights Rockfeller Building1.8 miles1986
Temple on the Heights1.8 miles1984
Gwinn Estate2.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000130 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 338 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.
  • 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.