{"nrhp_refnum":"80003090","name":"Westwood United Methodist Church","other_names":["See Also:Westwood Town Center Historic District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Epworth and Edwiler Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.15105443500005,"lon":-84.59908352699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic-style church at the northeast corner of Epworth and Urwiler avenues in the Westwood neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, built in 1896 and designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons.","why_significant":"The church is significant as a work of Samuel Hannaford & Sons and is included in a thematic group of Hannaford buildings in Hamilton County. It has a corner steeple with a copper octagonal spire and many original stained glass windows. It also reflects the long history of the Westwood Methodist congregation, founded in 1838.","narrative":"Westwood United Methodist Church is a Gothic-style church at the northeast corner of Epworth and Urwiler avenues in Cincinnati. Samuel Hannaford & Sons designed it, and it was completed in 1896 for a congregation founded in 1838. That congregation met in members' homes for four years, then worshipped from 1842 to 1895 in a building at Cheviot and Gamble avenues. The two-and-a-half-story church is faced in ashlar limestone, with a slate cross-gable roof and arched Gothic windows with sandstone lintels. Its corner steeple, topped by crockets and a copper octagonal spire, has no entrance. Buttresses, sandstone trim, circular windows with quatrefoils and fleur-de-lis, and many original stained glass windows add detail. A sympathetic addition was built to the north in 1926, and a chapel was added later. The church sits on the northern edge of the Westwood Town Center Historic District and is part of a group of Hannaford works in Hamilton County. Its interior and exterior are in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford & Sons (architects); builder unknown","architectural_style":"Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a church; the inventory lists interior and exterior condition as excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.614518-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003090.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003090/9cef3d27b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003090/9cef3d27b5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westwood_United_Methodist_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westwood_United_Methodist_Church.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001515","name":"Westwood Town Center Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/westwood-town-center-historic-district-74001515/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985416","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_United_Methodist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7989917"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/westwood-united-methodist-church-80003090/"}