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Show and early English period, with heavily buttressed walls and romid headed doors mid windows. Thero are two towers, tho main. 0110 of which at the Ontario street comer rises in a spii e 213 feet high. Th intei-'or is f-escoed in neutral tints 0,t flie coning Ts a groined, arch m the center with semi -arches at the sides. To the roar is a eonunedioua Sabbath school room and chapel and Use pastors study. The audience room h8 a seatinf? capacity if 1 ,200. Besides the old stone church the First Church society directs the Calvarv church, at tho corner of Euclid and East Madison avenues, where a beautiful new stone church has recently been dedicated, and a chapel still further out in the East End, on Bolton avenue. It may be called the mother of Cleveland Presbyterian-ism, Presbyterian-ism, nearly every other society of that church in the city having started as chapels and missions of the old stone church. It is the largest Presbyterian churchin northern Ohio, having over 1,000 members. The pastors are Rev. H. 0. Hadyn, D. D., and Rev. J. H. Bheltlen. Iff OP Clli aJ Claims This Titlo by Eight of pact-Six Elegant Edifices. Edi-fices. V lTy OF CHUE0H-G0EES. jrespondent Describes Some of the 4 Beautiful Churches in the Big Town on Erie's Shore. -LEVEUSIJ.O Aug.lT-The title "t 'it v of Churches" a Clevelamler will tell tho visitor visi-tor can 110 longer be given ex-,.liwelv ex-,.liwelv to Brooklyn. lour r five other American cities ran claim it as justly as JNew A'ork's big annex, and among A them Cleveland. The oldest and largest Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church in the city is the First church, at tho corner of Erie and Euclid avenne. It is built of Sandusky limestone, lime-stone, is Gothic in design and is generally considered one of the finest Methodist Episcopal church edifices in northern north-ern Ohio. Tho present building was dedicated in 1874. Tho sealing capacity is about 1,500. The chapel is to the rear and on tho second floor. What Bishop Bedell, of this Protestant Episcopal diocese, now retired, is reported report-ed to have pronounced "the most church-ly church-ly building in northern Ohio" is the i Church of Unity, on Bolivar street junt ; oil Prospect. It is of Amherst sand-j sand-j Btono' and is Gothic in style, with low rr-isfrAT-jr. :.L!'l.ll.'l.':",".-:.,.,i,.' .TOIH ifei rr raoxESTsT prtscorAL cbi-ech. ? beauty of Kuclid avenue as a resi-street resi-street is scarcely less notable than nuber of splendid, church btruct-tbat btruct-tbat line that incomparablo tlior-urp. tlior-urp. Within a distance of three are nine fine churches, six of them ne. A tenth is building, and 1 will soon bo broken for tho ',th. They are only a fow of the larches of the city. Many of the ifat and most beautiful are on less :is streets. - first church organization of the dates from early iu tha second ie of this century, and strangely j'n was neither Congregational nor THB C'HCRCH OF t'NITY. walls and projecting porches. The tower is at tho northeast comer, and a gable projects at the east side. The entrance to tho parlors and Sunday school room is nt the re ar. The interior is finished in oak with butternut pews, and the hammered ham-mered glass windows are in soft tones. It has a oeatiug capacity of about (500, and a congregational membership' member-ship' of 300 or 400. The pastor is Rev. F. L. Hosmer. It was bnilt in 1879-80, and isone of the most harmonious and beautiful beauti-ful church structures in tho city. No -church edifice in Ohio is morecom- ;ph)to ill all its appointments than that of tho now First . Baptist church.at . -the... comer of Prospect and Kennard streets. It ia of light, undressed stone, after the early English order of architecture, and is at onco unique and imposing. There is but ono other church of similar design in the country and that is a chapel in Maine. Tho great square tower at the northeast corner is its most striking feature, fea-ture, and its ljeanty grows upon tho observer ob-server as he studies it. Tho roof rises in four wide gables, each facing one of the cardinal points. Thero are magnificent cathedral windows at tho east and west sides and beautiful rose windows at tho north and south ends. Tho 'principal entrance in from Prospect street by pass-iug pass-iug through an arcade supported by four , massive columns with beautifully carve 1 fL 8 mi JmA am j 'IEST FKF.SBYTERIAN CHL'RCh! J.rterian, nor indeed a branch of 'iKsenting church, but of the Church agland. e Trinity Protestant Episcopal par-' par-' as organized iu 1817 and the society porated eleven years later. The 'at chnroh building on Superior Uwr Bond, is the second in tha 7 of the church and was dedicated fusion day, 1853. It is among the Picturesque of Cleveland churches, Asmoke darkened stone front is ,f the notable features of that j business street. In general style j ; wrly English, though the front wated somewhat after the mau-,f mau-,f ine decorated period. Thotowpr lmf a Aime of nine bells the only !B the city, ''top Leonard has made this his ""al church, and it is considered ing Episcopal society of the city, , St. Paul's is housed in a much "wantifulchnrch edifice. Thebusi- j Part of the city is fast encroaching ! 1 1nnity, however, and each year . Bmonablo congregation is further i FIRST BAPTIST CTHOiCH. capitals. In the rear is the stone chap.1 with its smaller spire, all in harmony with the main structure. The interior . is beautifully finished in red oak and , furnished in delicate and harmonious colors. The main auditorium will seat 1 000. Tho cost of the bpilding and sits was $l.r)0,000. It was dedicated last year. Eev. E. A. Woods, D. D., is the pastor. The oldest and moat venerable Roman Catholic church in the city is St. John s cathedral, at the corner f Superior ami Erie streets, it was begun by Bisncp Bappe, the first bishop of this diocese, , in 1643 and completed in 1852. It is of, brick with stone trimmings and resembles resem-bles the Gothic stylo of architecture. The interior is in pure Gothic style, ono Cf the most perfect in the Jntr.T- as without a epive until 18TS. neu ono vasbuilt and the interior wasrefurnished and beautified so that it is now second to . rone in the city. The pas tor is h, v. r. ; T Thon, under whose charge thepan--h CtSSo-lon-ized churches representing nearly every shade of belief, besides some thirty or 1 t ' "RST METHODIST CHUECH." , L to its house of worship. In ears the old church will be a thing t.rj.art" Tlle society has long owned f e on Euclid avenue at the corner ,1 ' 311,1 a handsome new structure p;nnse there. The rector is Rev. Morgan. 1 n historic interest as well as -bnl AM Riona vitahty the First crin koci,ity ranks foremost ctCVIand churcnes- ,,The ld P3V; rCU'" ns it3 orae structrire on ej !:c Tiare is called, occupies the Hani T1 PresbI"terian chrrrch in it in present structure waa t. xh' an1 rebuilt three-years ii.-a't 'lrcnitecture has many of L'intti,-3 0f t,,e Gorman. WOOtLA-P AVE. PHBVTUt.UV cm-BCr, |
