Superior Avenue and East 71st Street, Cleveland; built 1901-1903; dedicated 1904; and destroyed by fire in 1970. Gothic.

Exterior: Berea Sandstone (Buff Amherst stone), originally quarried in the Amherst area, was used for this church. The stone was set in stone-faced courses. This stone was recycled, however, from the 1901 demolition of the old post office on Superior Avenue and Public Square. This stone was hauled by the parishioners to the site of the church by horse-drawn wagon (Callahan, n.d., p. 6). Because of the origin of the stone, the church was said to have been called "the post office church" (Krumhansl, [circa 1987], p. 2).

References: Callahan, no date; Krumhansl, c. 1987.

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