{"nrhp_refnum":"78002133","name":"York United Methodist Church","other_names":["Methodist Protestant Church at York Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Norwalk Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mallet Creek","county":"Medina County","state":"OH","lat":41.166912506000074,"lon":-81.92450404999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-02-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A medium-size brick Romanesque revival church on Norwalk Road in Mallet Creek (York Township), Medina County, Ohio, built in 1877 as the Methodist Protestant Church at York Center, also called Mary's Chapel.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an exceptionally fine example of Romanesque revival design, a style far less common in northeastern Ohio than Greek or Gothic churches, despite its late date. It also symbolizes the nineteenth-century religious life of the village, since it is the sole survivor of the community's two early churches.","narrative":"This brick church on Norwalk Road in Mallet Creek, Medina County, was built in 1877 for the Methodist Protestant congregation of York Center. Its design follows the Romanesque revival style, with round-arched windows, projecting brick hood moldings, corbeled cornices, corner buttresses, and a central tower topped by a tapering octagonal spire with slender dormers. A name stone over the rose window reads \"Mary's Chapel,\" honoring Mary Ford, who gave $3,000 of the $5,000 construction cost. Thomas Rogers, a carpenter, served as both architect and contractor. The congregation had earlier worshipped in a frame building from 1844, later used as a dwelling and torn down. The church is considered significant mainly for its architecture, since Romanesque revival buildings are much rarer in northeastern Ohio than Greek or Gothic ones. It also represents the village's religious life, as the Congregational church of 1852 was abandoned in the 1920s and razed. A late-1960s educational wing blends with the original.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Thomas Rogers, carpenter (architect and contractor)","architectural_style":"Romanesque revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition and altered; an educational wing was added in the late 1960s and the brick was cleaned and pointed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.016672-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002133.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002133/97a3636873-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002133/97a3636873-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Duds98","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRHP-York_United_Methodist_Church-Full.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Duds98</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:NRHP-York_United_Methodist_Church-Full.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_United_Methodist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8055590"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/medina-county/york-united-methodist-church-78002133/"}