bell tower and McCracken Library 02 - St Paul Episcopal Church - Euclid Golf Allotment - Cleveland Heights Ohio
Looking southeast at McCracken Library and the bell tower of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The church is located in the Euclid Golf Allotment -- a historic district roughly bounded by Cedar Road, Coventry Road, West St. James Parkway, and Ardleigh Drive in 1913. Every structure on the development was a single-family residential home, except for two. One was a medical office located near the allotment's entrance on Fairmount Blvd., and the other was St. Paul's.
St. Paul's was founded as St. Paul's Church of the City of Cleveland in 1846. In 1876, the congregation moved into a new building at E. 40th and Euclid Avenue. The congregation grew in size and wealth. As rich people abandoned Euclid Avenue for suburbs further east, St. Paul's moved with them.
In 1928, St. Martin's Episcopal Church (established in 1916) merged with St. Paul's, and the congregation changed its name to St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland Heights. The church purchased several lots at the intersection of Coventry Road and Fairmount Boulevard and hired architect J. Byers Hayes of the noted Cleveland architectural firm of Walker and Weeks to design the structure. Construction began on the parish hall in 1927, and services were first held there in April 1928. The bell tower was finished in 1929, but the Great Depression halted further construction for the next decade. Work began on the sanctuary in 1941, but World War II forced a halt for several years. After the war, the congregation was too middle-class to afford the grandiose sanctuary (narthex, nave, St. Martin's chapel, bema, sacristy, and apse) it had planned. Hayes revised his plans in 1947 to reduce costs, and construction began again in 1949. The sanctuary was finished in 1951. A small nursery school wing was added to the northwest end of the church hall in 1956.
In 1991, St. Paul's expanded for the first time in four decades when it built a "South Wing" -- a wing of classrooms extending south from the former main entrance of the church hall. The old narthex was closed and the steps turned into a terrace, while a new narthex was added at the south end of the new wing. A gallery connected the new narthex to the south end of the nave, creating a "cloister".
From 2010 to 2013, the church built an ADA-compliant entrance in the tower on the north side of the hall, and renovated the hall, nave, sacristy, and dining room and kitchen in the hall basement.
bell tower and McCracken Library 02 - St Paul Episcopal Church - Euclid Golf Allotment - Cleveland Heights Ohio
Looking southeast at McCracken Library and the bell tower of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The church is located in the Euclid Golf Allotment -- a historic district roughly bounded by Cedar Road, Coventry Road, West St. James Parkway, and Ardleigh Drive in 1913. Every structure on the development was a single-family residential home, except for two. One was a medical office located near the allotment's entrance on Fairmount Blvd., and the other was St. Paul's.
St. Paul's was founded as St. Paul's Church of the City of Cleveland in 1846. In 1876, the congregation moved into a new building at E. 40th and Euclid Avenue. The congregation grew in size and wealth. As rich people abandoned Euclid Avenue for suburbs further east, St. Paul's moved with them.
In 1928, St. Martin's Episcopal Church (established in 1916) merged with St. Paul's, and the congregation changed its name to St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland Heights. The church purchased several lots at the intersection of Coventry Road and Fairmount Boulevard and hired architect J. Byers Hayes of the noted Cleveland architectural firm of Walker and Weeks to design the structure. Construction began on the parish hall in 1927, and services were first held there in April 1928. The bell tower was finished in 1929, but the Great Depression halted further construction for the next decade. Work began on the sanctuary in 1941, but World War II forced a halt for several years. After the war, the congregation was too middle-class to afford the grandiose sanctuary (narthex, nave, St. Martin's chapel, bema, sacristy, and apse) it had planned. Hayes revised his plans in 1947 to reduce costs, and construction began again in 1949. The sanctuary was finished in 1951. A small nursery school wing was added to the northwest end of the church hall in 1956.
In 1991, St. Paul's expanded for the first time in four decades when it built a "South Wing" -- a wing of classrooms extending south from the former main entrance of the church hall. The old narthex was closed and the steps turned into a terrace, while a new narthex was added at the south end of the new wing. A gallery connected the new narthex to the south end of the nave, creating a "cloister".
From 2010 to 2013, the church built an ADA-compliant entrance in the tower on the north side of the hall, and renovated the hall, nave, sacristy, and dining room and kitchen in the hall basement.