(formerly Emmanuel Church), 56 Seminary Street, on the campus of Baldwin Wallace College, Berea; constructed in 1872. Gothic.

Exterior: Gray-colored Berea Sandstone from the old Berea quarries, located to the south of the present campus (just south of Bridge Street in Berea) were used for this structure. Portions of the stone are reddish-brown; this coloration is, in part, due to weathering, since broken portions of the stone show that outer surfaces tend to be redder than the inner portions of the blocks. The stone is set in courses, and most blocks are rock-faced. Stone used at the base of the church, at the corners, piers, around windows, and for the top of the tower, however, is tooled. The band of stone running below the windows has drove-work dressing. Some stone has been exfoliated. This is particularly evident in tooled blocks. Some stone blocks, including certain tooled blocks on the corners of the back of the church, and especially on the upper portions of the front of the church, exhibit honeycomb weathering, a form of weathering characterized by a grouping of pits.

Remarks: The formal geological name of this stone is in honor of the once world-famous quarries of Berea. This building was one of the original buildings on the German-Wallace College (which merged with Baldwin College to become Baldwin-Wallace College in 1913) campus. Funds from the Berea Quarries, which were closed in the 1940s, were used to construct and support the college. The sandstone exterior of this church was chemically cleaned using muriatic acid and some stone patches were added in the winter of 1990-91 during renovation.

Detail of Lindsay-Crossman Chapel, showing honeycomb weathering.

 

 

 

 

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