{"nrhp_refnum":"78002044","name":"First Church of Christ in Euclid","other_names":["First United Presbyterian Church of East Cleveland"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"16200 Euclid Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.544578784000066,"lon":-81.56669808999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rectangular sandstone church with an attached educational and administrative wing at 16200 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio, built 1893-1895 to designs by Cleveland architect William Warren Sabin.","why_significant":"The congregation is described as the oldest religious institution in Greater Cleveland and one of the first churches in the Connecticut Western Reserve, tied to the early settlement of Euclid Township. The building also combines Richardson Romanesque massing with English Gothic detail. The church has met continuously for 170 years and is considered a local landmark.","narrative":"Built between 1893 and 1895 on Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland, this sandstone church was designed by Cleveland architect William Warren Sabin at a cost of about $36,000. Although drawn in the English Perpendicular Gothic mode, its bulky forms and simplified ashlar walls recall Richardson Romanesque work. The facade has a gabled parapet, three pointed-arch windows and two flanking entrance towers with buttresses, crenellated parapets and pinnacles. Inside, the nave has arcaded trusses, curved pews and a sloping floor, and the chancel is lit by a stained-glass skylight. The congregation traces its origins to 1807, when Presbyterians and Congregationalists in Euclid Township formed a church, followed by a log building in 1810 and a frame church in 1816. Its members included early settlers and later the inventor Charles F. Brush. Later remodelings and a 1962 wing, built over the cemetery, left the original character largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1893-1895","architect_builder":"Willaim Warren Sabin","architectural_style":"English Perpendicular Gothic with Richardson Romanesque massing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in religious use; altered by remodelings and additions, but the original architectural character is stated to remain intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.644049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002044.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002044/651f25d2eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002044/651f25d2eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ponceesponce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1010768_-_First_United_Presbyterian_Church_of_East_Cleveland.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ponceesponce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1010768_-_First_United_Presbyterian_Church_of_East_Cleveland.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987687","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Church_of_Christ_in_Euclid","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5452722"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/first-church-of-christ-in-euclid-78002044/"}