http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 XTF Search Results (docsPerPage=100;f76-subject=Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland.) http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f76-subject%3DChurches%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f76-subject=Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT Bethlehem Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio), 1938. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/data/rdf/VF_subject237.xml Miscellaneous materials relating to Bethlehem Congregational Church, including: fiftieth anniversary programs (x4) http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/data/rdf/VF_subject237.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1938 12:00:00 GMT First Methodist Episcopal Church Records. First Methodist Episcopal Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3362.xml The First Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1827, in Cleveland, Ohio The collection consists of letters, pamphlets, photographs, memorials, addresses, resolutions, receipts, newspaper clippings, a Methodist hymnal, and other material relating to the history of Methodism in Cleveland, and periodical articles about the First Methodist Episcopal Church. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3362.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Schifflein Christi Church Records. Schifflein Christi Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3737.xml Schifflein Christi was the the first German church in Cleveland, Ohio. It was organized in 1835 as the First Evangelical Protestant Church of Cleveland. The name was changed to Schifflein Christi in 1876. The church merged with Ebenezer Evangelical Church in 1923 to form the First Evangelical Church. In 1929 Evangelical Protestant Trinity Congregation merged with the church and took its name. After a 1953 merger with Glenville Evangelical and Reformed Church and a 1967 merger with the Fellowship Church in Wickliffe, Ohio, the name was changed to Fellowship United Church of Christ. The collection consists of minute books, reports, financial ledgers, subscription and dues ledgers, correspondence, church histories, programs, and pamphlets. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3737.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT All Saints Polish National Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio). All Saints Polish National Catholic Church (Cleveland, Ohio) http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/data/rdf/VF_subject30.xml Miscellaneous materials relating to All Saints Polish National Catholic Church (Cleveland, OH), including: handout with photos of the prime bishops. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/data/rdf/VF_subject30.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT Woodland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Record Book. Woodland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0415.xml The Woodland Avenue Methodist Episcopal was church founded in 1872 on Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of lists of names of pastors, members and probationers; and quarterly conference records. The membership records contained in this collection have been indexed. Click here to search the WRHS genealogy index. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0415.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT Trinity Congregational Church (Pepper Pike, Ohio) Records. Trinity Congregational Church, Pepper Pike, Ohio http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3046.xml Trinity Congregational Church was incorporated in 1894, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928 it moved to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. From 1946 to 1952 services were held in a school in Shaker Heights. In 1952 the congregation moved to Pepper Pike, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, treasurers' accounts, annual reports, and pamphlets, relating to the church and to the activities of various church-related organizations, including Christian Endeavor Society, Ladies Aid Society, Young Women's Missionary Society, Pastoral Committee, Founder's Circle, and Junior Fellowship. Includes church bulletins (1896-1909, 1918) and plans and accounts relating to construction of a new building. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3046.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT St. Paul's Episcopal Church Records. St. Paul's Episcopal Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3266.xml St. Paul's Episcopal Church was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1846 and moved to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1928. The collection consists of mortgage deeds, promissory notes, receipts, disbursements, treasurers' accounts, and a building committee report. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3266.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Records. Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3406.xml The Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland is an interdenominational organization founded in 1911 as the Federated Churches of Cleveland to coordinate the community welfare and education activities of 67 Cleveland, Ohio, churches. In 1934, a new constitution was adopted, which officially changed the name of the organization to the Cleveland Church Federation. A new constitution in 1958 changed the Federation's name to the Cleveland Area Church Federation. In 1965 the Cleveland Area Church Federation adopted another new constitution and new name, Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland, and in 1985, the Council adopted its present name, Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland. The collection consists of constitutions, amendments, histories, reports, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, bulletins, pamphlets, other publications, newspaper clippings, surveys, scrapbooks, and membership, personnel, and administrative records. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3406.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church Records. Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3417.xml Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church was founded in 1876, in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of one bound volume, copied by hand from the original in 1889, containing the Articles of Association (1876) and minutes of meetings. The minutes include results of vestry elections, treasurer's reports, and resolutions. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3417.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT East End Baptist Church Records. East End Baptist Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3434.xml The East End Baptist Church was founded in 1892, in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of reports of the pastor, deacons, and treasurer, and specifications and contracts for a new building to be built by Maurer & Mills, a Cleveland architectural firm. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3434.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Matthew Guhl Papers. Guhl, Matthew http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3659.xml Matthew Guhl (b. 1836) was the pastor of the Friedens Kirche Evangelical Church in Cleveland, Ohio (later the East 75th Street Evangelical Church). The collection consists of an autobiography, letters, sermons, a diary, and registers of church members and baptisms. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3659.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT East Madison Avenue Church Records. East Madison Avenue Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3849.xml East Madison Avenue Church was a Congregational church founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874 as a mission church of Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. The collection consists of four bound volumes and a baptismal certificate book. The first vol. contains lists of members and baptisms, and minutes of annual congregational meetings. The second vol. contains a constitution, articles of incorporation, and minutes of the Madison Avenue Congregational Church Society, the Board of Trustees, and the Building Committee. The third vol. contains a roll of new members. The fourth vol. contains revisions to the constitution, baptisms, and minutes of annual meetings. The baptismal certificate book contains record stubs of certificates issued. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3849.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Congregational Union of Cleveland Churches Records. Congregational Union of Cleveland Churches http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3857.xml The Congregational Union of Cleveland Churches was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, as the Cleveland Congregational Conference, to oversee the organization of new churches and the mergers of existing churches, and to provide financial assistance. In 1912 it merged with the City Missionary Society to form the Congregational Union of Cleveland. In 1963 the Union was merged into the Western Reserve Association of the United Church of Christ. The collection consists of governing board records, committee records, records of Congregational churches, and histories. Includes minutes, programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and four unpublished works by Reverend Karl O. Thompson. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3857.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Park Congregational Church Records. Park Congregational Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4619.xml Park Congregational Church was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1886 through a union Sunday school held by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Roberts. After several years of meeting in a union church on the corner of Doan Street and Crawford Road, the church was adopted by the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church in 1888 and was then known as the "North Branch." By 1890 the North Branch was recognized as an independent church and a new, more centrally-located church was built on the corner of Crawford Road and Cullison Street. The collection consists of a written history of the church, a list of church officials and donors, and a manual, including a history of the church, printed in 1902. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4619.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT St. John's Episcopal Church Records. St. John's Episcopal Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3066.xml St. John's Episcopal Church was founded in 1836, in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of articles of association (1836) and lists of communicants, burials, baptisms, and marriages. Portions of the collection are photocopies. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3066.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Euclid Avenue Congregational Church Records. Euclid Avenue Congregational Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3577.xml Euclid Avenue Congregational Church was founded in 1843, in Cleveland, Ohio. Until 1853 it had a Presbyterian form of government and was called the Presbyterian Church of East Cleveland. A Hough Avenue branch of the church existed from 1890 until 1934, under the name Hough Avenue Congregational Church. In 1934 it merged with the Euclid Avenue church. The Euclid Avenue Congregational Church was destroyed by fire on March 23, 2010. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, correspondence, membership and property records, baptismal and death records, and other records of Euclid Avenue and Hough Avenue Congregational churches, including marriage records of the Hough Avenue church. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3577.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT St. Paul's United Church of Christ Records. St. Paul's United Church of Christ http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3851.xml St. Paul's United Church of Christ was established in 1856 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Second German Evangelical Church. In 1858 it changed to St. Paul's Evangelical Church. The church was located at the intersection of Scovill Avenue and Greenwood Street. With the merger of the German Evangelical and German Reformed denominations the church became St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church. Since the 1961 merger with the Congregational Christian Church the denomination has been known as St. Paul's United Church of Christ. The collection consists of three bound volumes containing the registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths in the church, a bound volume of memorials of members, and additional, unbound memorials. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3851.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Glenville Evangelical and Reformed Church Records. Glenville Evangelical and Reformed Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3853.xml Glenville Evangelical and Reformed Church was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1897 by Henry Schmidt, the pastor of the Third German Reformed Church. The Glenville Church was also called the Tenth Evangelical and Reformed Church. The collection consists of two bound volumes of minutes of the Brotherhood (men's club), and unbound records of the church's Sunday School. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3853.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Highland United Church of Christ Records. Highland United Church of Christ http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3854.xml The Highland United Church of Christ was a Congregational church founded in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, in 1891. It was originally called the Lakewood Congregational Church but in 1902 the name was changed to Highland Congregational Church. The church relocated in Cleveland in 1915 and became Highland United Church of Christ in 1957. It disbanded in 1971. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes of governing boards, social club records, merger reports and related correspondence, general correspondence, publications, membership records, legal records, and financial records. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3854.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT First Congregational Church Records. First Congregational Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3855.xml The First Congregational Church was originally founded as a Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, Ohio, in 1834. In 1844 the church joined the Congregational denomination. Although it disbanded in 1954, marriages were held at the church until 1962. The collection consists of church registers, minutes, baptismal records, correspondence, memoranda, financial materials, directories, histories, and scrapbooks. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3855.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Collinwood United Church of Christ Records. Collinwood United Church of Christ http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3856.xml The Collinwood United Church of Christ was a Congregational church founded in 1876, in Cleveland, Ohio, as Collinwood Congregational Church. In 1965 it became the Collinwood United Church of Christ. It disbanded in 1967. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes of governing boards, social club records, correspondence, membership records, financial material, and material from a church scrapbook. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3856.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland Records. First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4140.xml The First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1833 as the First Baptist Church of Cleveland. In 1887 Idaka Memorial Baptist Church merged with First Baptist. In 1919 a group from First Baptist formed the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church. The two congregations merged in 1928 to form the First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, located in Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of church histories, constitutions, minutes, membership information, resolutions, reports, financial records, church bulletins, correspondence, information on the consolidation with Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, records of church organizations, records of other churches, and architectural drawings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4140.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Euclid Avenue Congregational Church Records, Series II. Euclid Avenue Congregational Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4615.xml The Euclid Avenue Congregational Church was founded in 1843, in Cleveland, Ohio. Until 1853 it had a Presbyterian form of government and was called the Presbyterian Church of East Cleveland. A Hough Avenue branch of the church existed from 1890 until 1934, under the name Hough Avenue Congregational Church. In 1934 it merged with the Euclid Avenue church. The Euclid Avenue Congregational Church was destroyed by fire on March 23, 2010. The collection consists of executive board minutes and business meeting minutes of the Women's Association of Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. The collection is arranged chronologically by sets of board minutes. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4615.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Josephus Hicks Collection of Church Records, Photographs, and Audio/Visual Materials. Hicks, Josephus http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5366.xml Josephus Hicks was an African American photographer and historian who lived in Cleveland from the mid-1930s until his death in 1998. In addition to photographing people and events in the Cleveland African American community, Mr. Hicks wrote the history of St. John A.M.E. Church, the Mount Zion Church and the Hough area of the city. The collection consists of church records, photographs, 16mm film, and audio LPs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5366.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT Fidelity Baptist Church Records. Fidelity Baptist Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3648.xml Fidelity Baptist Church is a Cleveland, Ohio, church organized in 1891, as Fidelity Free Will Baptist Church. In 1892 it became Fidelity Baptist Church. In answer to changing social conditions in the neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s the church became involved in several community welfare organizations. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, programs, membership records, constitutions, agreements, Sunday School records, legal records, baptism and death records (1892-1912), miscellaneous files, and records documenting the church's work with community welfare organizations, including records of the Cleveland Area Church Council and the Inner City Protestant Parish. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3648.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT St. James A M E Church Oral History Project Interviews. St. James A M E Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4536.xml The St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church Oral History Project Interviews was a venture of the church membership to conduct and transcribe oral history interviews with current and former members of the Cleveland, Ohio, church. It also included residents of the Fairfax community. It was sponsored by the church's Sadie J. Anderson Missionary Society and was funded in part by the Ohio Humanities Council. The goals of the project were to examine the role of the family and elderly in the African American community, the place of the church in the community and family life, and the function of the community over time. Forty-one men and women participated in the interview process. A public conference was held in 1986 as part of the project. The collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted with individuals who were or had been members of the congregation of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and/or residents of the Fairfax area; a final report on the project; publicati... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4536.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT John T. Weeden Sr. Family Papers. Weeden, John T. Family http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4789.xml John T. Weeden, Sr. was a prominent African-American Baptist minister in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Indiana Central College, Butler University, Moody Bible Institute, and Case Western Reserve University. He was ordained in 1928. Reverend Weeden married the former Gladys Mae Evans in 1922. After serving as pastor at two churches in Indianapolis, Indiana, he was called in 1948 to St. Timothy Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, remaining there until his death in 1988. In addition to his extensive involvement in a number of Baptist and religious organizations, Weeden was involved in civil rights and political issues, including service as co-chair of the clergy committee for Carl Stokes during the mayoral campaign of 1967. The collection consists of church programs, bulletins, brochures, bylaws, minutes, reports, sermons, certificates, cards, correspondence, memorabilia, datebooks, telegrams, financial and family records, registers, notes, speeches, lessons, postcards, passports, books, obituaries, and newspaper... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4789.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Records, Series II. Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4813.xml The Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland is interdenominational organization founded in 1911 as the Federated Churches of Cleveland to coordinate the community welfare and education activities of 67 Cleveland, Ohio, churches. In 1934, a new constitution was adopted, which officially changed the name of the organization to the Cleveland Church Federation. A new constitution in 1958 changed the Federation's name to the Cleveland Area Church Federation. In 1965 the Cleveland Area Church Federation adopted another new constitution and new name, Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland, and in 1985, the Council adopted its present name, Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland. The Metropolitan Affairs Commission was one of three commissions organized within the Council of Churches ca. 1965. It was responsible for issue-centered action programs during the 1960s in three areas; race, civil rights, and poverty. The collection consists of agendas, minutes, reports, memos, notes, corresponden... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4813.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church Records. Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3583.xml Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church was formed in 1973, in Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger of Hope United Methodist and Wesley Methodist churches. Hope United was formed in 1967 by the merger of Emanuel Evangelical United Brethren (est. 1865) and First Evangelical United Brethren (est. 1854), two early German churches. Wesley Methodist was formed in 1947 by the merger of St. Paul's (est. 1853) and Franklin Ave. (est. 1833) Methodist Episcopal churches. the collection consists of minutes, reports, financial records, legal documents, marriage licenses, guest books, transfers, correspondence, church histories, programs, bulletins, publications, and registers of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths of the five predecessor churches of Hope Wesley-United Methodist Church. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3583.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT John Frazier Papers. Frazier, John http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3593.xml John Frazier (born 1941) is a civil rights worker and Unitarian-Universalist minister. In 1969 he became the first pastor of the newly-formed Humanist Fellowship of Liberation in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, sermons, speeches, school records, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers, relating to Frazier's civil rights activities, his seminary years, racial issues in the Unitarian-Universalist church, and the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3593.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Karl F. Bruch, Jr. Papers. Bruch, Karl F., Jr. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4815.xml Karl F. Bruch Jr. was active in church, politics, and civil rights in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, particularly during the 1960s-1970s. He was president of Fair Housing Inc., a real estate company committed to integrating neighborhoods in the Cleveland area. He was also a member of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches and a director of its Metropolitan Affairs Commission, and the United Presbyterian Church's Synod of Ohio Evangelism and Social Witness and the Commission on Religion and Race. Bruch was also a member of the Fenn College Board of Trustees at the time it was incorporated into Cleveland State University. The collection consists of agendas, minutes of meetings, reports, a roster, newspaper clippings, newsletters, correspondence, announcements, legal documents, press releases, and financial documents. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4815.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Historic Sites of Cleveland Records. Works Progress Administration http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3675.xml The Historic Sites of Cleveland Project was funded through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which gathered data during the Great Depression (1930s) on historic sites and organizations in and around Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of real estate transfer records (1800-1885) for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and material relating to boardinghouses, bridges, buildings, canals, cemeteries, churches, civic and social institutions, dwellings, educational institutions, hospitals, hotels, military sites, manufacturing and commercial agents, public buildings, railroads, restaurants and saloons, roads, streets, theaters, and halls. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3675.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT