2592 West 14th Street, Cleveland; built 1893-1894. Richardsonian Romanesque.

Exterior: Most of the church is composed of a medium-grained brownish-red quartz sandstone. The architect (Badgley, 1899, p. 9) referred to this material simply as "brown stone." It is one of the types of stone traditionally referred to as brownstone, and may have been quarried in Michigan. The use of brownstone was very prevalent in Richardsonian Romanesque structures. This brownstone contains occasional concretions. This stone is covered with a dark coating, probably the result of pollutants. The front porch and the stairways leading from them to the main part of the church, as well as the stone at the base of the doorway and former doorway on the north side, are probably made of Portage Entry Red sandstone (Jacobsville Sandstone), quarried in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. (The front stairs were covered with a concrete-like material in the 1990s.) This orange-red stone is finer-grained than the other sandstone and contains gray reduction spots. The stone blocks are rock-faced and set in courses, for the most part in alternating thicker and thinner layers. The main type of red sandstone has generally held up well, but there has been some deterioration of stone at the main entranceway and some blocks have split. Some blocks here exhibit honeycomb weathering. The Portage Entry Red sandstone has not held up as well. Some sandstone walkways, made of Euclid bluestone or Berea Sandstone, remain in front of the church.

Interior: The 1894 baptismal font is light colored onyx marble.

References: Badgley, 1899.

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