(formerly St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church), Euclid Avenue and East 40th Street, Cleveland; completed in 1875. Victorian Gothic.

Exterior: Buff Amherst sandstone (Berea Sandstone), quarried just south of Amherst, Ohio, was used for this church. The stone at the base of the church is laid in courses; stone used for most of the remainder of the exterior is random coursed. Most of the stone has a rock faced finish. There are many finely carved sandstone details associated with columns and other features of this church. In general, the stone used for the exterior has held up very well, but the backsides of some of the columns have preferentially weathered.

Interior: Flooring in the narthex, nave, and aisles is terrazzo. Most of the terrazzo is composed of white and other very light-colored limestone chips imbedded in gray cement. The white limestone chips are fossiliferous. There are also strips and geometric designs made of orange-colored and very dark gray to black terrazzo. The orange terrazzo is composed of chips of red-orange limestone (Verona marble or a similar stone) set in a darker red-orange cement. The original main altar and the side altar are fashioned out of a beige limestone rich in fossil foraminiferans and also containing some stylolites. The statue bases on the flanks of the original altar are also made of this stone. Statues of angels on these two bases are carved from a fine-grained, uniformly white marble. (Other angels are plaster.) The platform beneath the side altar is composed of a different gray limestone. The new altar and the pulpit are marbleized wood (faux stone), painted to match the original altar

Remarks: A number of other churches in the Cleveland area were built using Buff Amherst stone, especially churches built around the turn of the century. Many of those existing in 1900 are listed in the 1900 catalog of the Cleveland Stone Company.

References: Payne, 1876, p. 140-142.

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