First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)

First Methodist Church
Location 3000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Coordinates 41°30′8″N 81°40′1″W / 41.50222°N 81.66694°W / 41.50222; -81.66694Coordinates: 41°30′8″N 81°40′1″W / 41.50222°N 81.66694°W / 41.50222; -81.66694
Area less than one acre
Built 1905
Architect Dyer, J. Milton; Mueller, Paul
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
MPS Upper Prospect MRA
NRHP Reference # 84003953[1]
Added to NRHP September 01, 1995

First Methodist Church is a historic church in the Central neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio.

Located on the southeast corner of E.30th Street and Euclid Avenue, the church was built in 1905 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. In 2010, The congregation left the Euclid Avenue building to merge with Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church to form University Circle United Methodist Church in Epworth-Euclid UMC's University Circle building.[2] Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, whose building in the Fairfax neighborhood was destroyed in a fire in 2010, occupied the former First Methodist building from 2010 until mid-2014 before moving to a permanent building in South Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland.[3] The former First Methodist building is currently unused.

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  1. ↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ http://www.cleveland.com/religion/index.ssf/2009/12/two_cleveland_united_methodist.html
  3. ↑ http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/members-of-fire-which-destroyed-historic-cleveland-church-building-4-years-ago-move-into-new-church

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