{"nrhp_refnum":"80002958","name":"Third Presbyterian Church","other_names":["Northminster Presbyterian Church","Church of God Sanctified"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"714 N. Limestone St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Clark County","state":"OH","lat":39.93287429700007,"lon":-83.80560955199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church building at 714 N. Limestone St. in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, built in 1893-94 as Third Presbyterian Church (later Northminster Presbyterian Church) to designs by local architect Charles A. Cregar.","why_significant":"The church is one of Springfield's major public buildings and one of the later works of architect Charles A. Cregar. Its clerestory and octagonal onion dome are unique, and it is the only dome Cregar is known to have designed. It also shows him adapting his usual Romanesque approach to the red brick and brownstone fashion of the day.","narrative":"Built in 1893-94 at 714 N. Limestone St. in Springfield, Ohio, this church was designed for Third Presbyterian Church, later called Northminster Presbyterian, by local architect Charles A. Cregar, with Russell Bros. as contractor. It is a rectangular building of dark red pressed brick on a rock-faced limestone foundation, trimmed in brownstone and roofed in slate. Square corner towers frame the street sides, and large stained glass window complexes fill two gabled wings. Its most distinctive feature is a central octagonal clerestory topped by an onion dome, the only dome Cregar is known to have designed and apparently inspired by the Mosque of the Rock in Jerusalem. The exterior is nearly unchanged, though the nave walls and dome were covered with pasteboard tiles around 1950 and the office wing was rebuilt. The church is valued as a late work by Cregar, who died in 1896, and as an 1890s Romanesque-style structure with notable Presbyterian associations. It is now used by the Church of God Sanctified.","period_of_significance":"1893-94","architect_builder":"Architect Charles A. Cregar; contractor Russell Bros.","architectural_style":"Romanesque revival (1890s) with Queen Anne influence in its red brick and brownstone","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and used for religious purposes by the Church of God Sanctified; exterior virtually unchanged, interior altered in the 1950s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.678886-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80002958.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002958/8fac8c1126-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002958/8fac8c1126-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Third_Presbyterian_Church_in_Springfield,_comprehensive.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Third_Presbyterian_Church_in_Springfield,_comprehensive.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987068","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Presbyterian_Church_(Springfield,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7784929"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clark-county/third-presbyterian-church-80002958/"}