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Brooklyn Memorial United Methodist Church

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Address: Brooklyn Memorial United Methodist Church
2607 Archwood Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
Phone: 216/459-1450
Affiliation: Methodist
Organized: 1818
Pastor: Rev. Jennifer Brown Steinfurth
Neighborhood: Archwood / W25th St.
Lat:41N27 08
Long: 081W42 09

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History

Founded by Ebenezer Fish, Ozias Sylvanus, and Seth Brainard. All early settlers in Brooklyn, Ohio.


Locations

  • Earliest meeting site -
    • (1814) - Home of Oziah Brainard.
  • Next meeting site -
    • (between 1814 and 1827) - Northeast corner of West 25th Street and Denison Ave. at the Brooklyn Town Hall which was nothing more than a log cabin
  • Church building #1 -
    • (1827) - Northeast corner of West 25th Street and Denison Ave.. First permanent home of the church was a frame building built in front of the log cabin.
Painting, by Mrs. Carrie Burlingame Wolbert, of the Brooklyn Village Methodist Episcopal Church of 1880 (done from memory).
Painting, by Mrs. Carrie Burlingame Wolbert, of the Brooklyn Village Methodist Episcopal Church of 1880 (done from memory).
  • Church building #2 -
    • (1848) - Frame building which in 1882 was destroyed by fire.
A news article found for a large fire on March 23, 1886[1] that caused the steeple to collapse. The building was not insured. Had it already been abandoned by the time of the 1886 fire, or is the 1882 date a mistake?
  • Church building #3 -
  • Church building #4 -
    • (1911) - 2607 Archwood Ave. - Present location of the Gothic style church.


References

  1. "A Night of Terror", Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 23, 1886, pg 1, col. 3


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