First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)

First Methodist Church is a historic church in the Central neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio.

First Methodist Church
Location3000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Coordinates41°30′8″N 81°40′1″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1905
ArchitectDyer, J. Milton; Mueller, Paul
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
MPSUpper Prospect MRA
NRHP reference No.84003953[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 01, 1995

Located on the southeast corner of E.30th Street and Euclid Avenue, the church was built in 1905 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. In 2010, The congregation left the Euclid Avenue building to merge with Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church to form University Circle United Methodist Church in Epworth-Euclid UMC's University Circle building.[2] Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, whose building in the Fairfax neighborhood was destroyed in a fire in 2010, occupied the former First Methodist building from 2010 until mid-2014 before moving to a permanent building in South Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland.[3] The former First Methodist building is currently unused, and was put up for auction in 2018.[4]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. http://www.cleveland.com/religion/index.ssf/2009/12/two_cleveland_united_methodist.html
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Jarboe, Michelle (February 21, 2018). "Historic Euclid Avenue church headed to auction, with minimum sale price of $250,000". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved February 21, 2018.


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