Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati
The front entryway of the abandoned St. Paul's Church. It was a German Evangelical church, founded in 1850 by northern Germans who spoke the Low German dialect. These northern Germans broke away from St. John's German Protestant Church because they felt that the southern Germans were trying to exert too much influence over the services. This building's design is a mixture of Greek Revival and Gothic. It never had a steeple, though at one point a clock sat on the top where the present-day cupola now sits. The abandoned drugstore on the lower level is not a modern-day intrusion; it was established when the church was founded to help provide financial security to the congregation and help pay off building costs. Good German practicality! This sits at 15th and Race Streets in Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. See the next photo in this set to see the German sign marker on the front.
Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati
The front entryway of the abandoned St. Paul's Church. It was a German Evangelical church, founded in 1850 by northern Germans who spoke the Low German dialect. These northern Germans broke away from St. John's German Protestant Church because they felt that the southern Germans were trying to exert too much influence over the services. This building's design is a mixture of Greek Revival and Gothic. It never had a steeple, though at one point a clock sat on the top where the present-day cupola now sits. The abandoned drugstore on the lower level is not a modern-day intrusion; it was established when the church was founded to help provide financial security to the congregation and help pay off building costs. Good German practicality! This sits at 15th and Race Streets in Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. See the next photo in this set to see the German sign marker on the front.