{"nrhp_refnum":"93000880","name":"Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church and Cemetery","other_names":["Egbert Methodist Episcopal Church","Sen-756-3"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of OH 101 and Co. Rd. 38","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.16814952200008,"lon":-83.09939425699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick neo-Gothic rural church with an adjoining cemetery at State Route 101 and County Road 38 in Pleasant Township, northeast of Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. The church was built 1889-90 by builder Henry Pittman, and the cemetery dates to about 1842.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church and cemetery are excellent examples of a nineteenth-century rural country church and burial ground. The building reflects the shift from simple meetinghouses to stylistic churches shaped by denominational pluralism and published standard church plans. It combines neo-Gothic details, a cruciform plan and some Akron Plan influence. The cemetery is included for its association with the church.","narrative":"Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church, formerly Egbert Methodist Episcopal Church, and its cemetery sit at the crest of a sand ridge northeast of Tiffin in rural Seneca County, Ohio. The congregation grew from a Methodist class that first met at Uriah Egbert's farm in 1824. Egbert donated land in 1843 for a frame meetinghouse and cemetery. The present cross-shaped red brick church, built 1889-90 by Melmore builder Henry Pittman, has a rusticated stone foundation, a corner bell tower, pointed-arch stained glass windows and rose windows. Inside, a paneled ceiling of Georgia pine and black walnut survives. The nomination presents the church as a small example of nineteenth-century neo-Gothic rural church design, influenced by published standard plans and by the Akron Plan. The cemetery, begun about 1842, holds Victorian and twentieth-century markers and the graves of veterans from the Revolutionary War through Vietnam. The church also hosted community groups such as the Union Grange.","period_of_significance":"1889-90","architect_builder":"Pittman, Henry","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival (neo-Gothic)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are both religious facility and cemetery; the roof was replaced with asphalt shingles in 1974 and the basement was remodeled in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.03687-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/93000880.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000880/ce264bf8c5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000880/ce264bf8c5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_Ridge_Methodist_near_Tiffin.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_Ridge_Methodist_near_Tiffin.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991285","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Ridge_United_Methodist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7203943"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/pleasant-ridge-united-methodist-church-and-cemetery-93000880/"}