First Methodist Church is a historic
church
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in the
Central neighborhood on the east side of
Cleveland
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,
Ohio
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.
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
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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.
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. The former First Methodist building was put up for auction in 2018; by 2023, it had been converted into a banquet hall.
References
External links
Official website
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Gothic Revival church buildings in Ohio
Churches completed in 1905
20th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
Methodist churches in Ohio
Churches in Cleveland
National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland, Ohio
Central, Cleveland
1905 establishments in Ohio
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