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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

Contents

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.
  • 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.


Pastors

The following list is not complete.

  • Badgley, O.
  • Barnett, E.D.
  • Baxter, J.
  • Graham, P.
  • Hunter, A.A.
  • Knapp, A.D.
  • Mullen, S.H.
  • Smith, E.S.
  • Smith, W.A.
  • VanCamp, A.
  • Warner, E.H.
  • White, G.L.
  • Winters, W.B.


Gallery

Brooklyn Village Methodist Episcopal Church of 1880. Painting done from memory by Mrs. Carrie Burlingame Wolbert in 1948.

Brooklyn Memorial Methodist Church
3rd building (front).

1896 Sanborn map showing the location of the 3rd church building that fronted on Pearl Street (later called West 25th).

Snowstorm on West 25th St.
Aftermath of snowstorm (possibly 1913). Looking northwest probably from the bank building at the corner of Denison Ave. and W.25th St.) First tall building is the Kerns Building on the NW corner of Garden Ave. and W.25th St. with the Brooklyn Memorial Methodist Church (3rd church that was built) partially visible just behind it and set back from the street almost half the length of the Kerns Building.

Brooklyn Memorial Methodist Church
3rd building vacant.

Front sign
(Archwood building)

Corner stone (north view)
(Archwood building)

Corner stone (west view)
(Archwood building)

Corner stone from previous church building. Now used in the current building.
(Archwood building)

South facing window on west wall
(Archwood building)

Chancel, pulpit, and choir loft
(Archwood building)

Chancel area
(Archwood building)

Choir
(note organ pipes on either side)

Choir loft
(note organ pipes have been removed
(Archwood building)

Stained glass at rear of choir loft
(Archwood building)

Nave area
(Archwood building)

Pews at rear of nave
(Archwood building)

Stained glass at rear of nave area
(Archwood building)

Stained glass window in memory of Ebenezer Foster (right rear of nave area)
(Archwood building)

Stained glass window in memory of Jennie Bartlett Forbes (left rear of nave area)
(Archwood building)

Pulpit in Chancel area
(Archwood building)

Altar table in Chancel area

Small railing and steps
(Archwood building)

Baptismal font
(Archwood building)

Ceiling detail with skylight
(Archwood building)

Ceiling and arch detail
(Archwood building)

Wall detail
Archwood building)

Upper balcony
(Archwood building)

Upper balcony
(Archwood building)

Wicker bench at back of Nave balcony
(Archwood building)

Door detail
Note studding pattern
(Archwood building)

Guest book
(Archwood building)

Typical staircase
(Archwood building)

Another staircase
(Archwood building)

Hallway
(Archwood building)

Stained glass window in stairwell
(Archwood building)

Old wicker furniture
(Archwood building)

Bell rope and ladder
(Archwood building)

Meeting room
(Archwood building)

Meeting room (rear)
(Archwood building)

Meeting room upper level
(Archwood building)

Meeting room upper level (rear)
(Archwood building)

Small stage at southeast corner of meeting room
(Archwood building)

Chair and windows in upper display room
(Archwood building)

Display case
(Archwood building)

Child's high chair
(Archwood building)

References

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


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