First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)

Coordinates: 41°30′8″N 81°40′1″W / 41.50222°N 81.66694°W / 41.50222; -81.66694
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First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) is located in Cleveland
First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) is located in Ohio
First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) is located in the United States
First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
Location3000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Coordinates41°30′8″N 81°40′1″W / 41.50222°N 81.66694°W / 41.50222; -81.66694
Arealess than one acre
Built1905
ArchitectDyer, J. Milton; Mueller, Paul
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
MPSUpper Prospect MRA
NRHP reference No.84003953[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 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 was put up for auction in 2018;[4] by 2023, it had been converted into a banquet hall.[5]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Two Cleveland United Methodist congregations merging; will worship at University Circle site". December 3, 2009.
  3. ^ "Euclid Ave. Congregational United Church finds new home after a fire destroyed church 4 years ago - newsnet5.com Cleveland". Archived from the original on October 30, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  4. ^ Jarboe, Michelle (February 21, 2018). "Historic Euclid Avenue church headed to auction, with minimum sale price of $250,000". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  5. ^ Kosich, John (August 1, 2023). "Historic Euclid Avenue church in Cleveland set to begin new life as one-of-a-kind banquet hall". WEWS-TV. Retrieved February 9, 2024.

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