The Church of the Covenant (Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church) is a historic

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on Euclid Avenue in

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. It is a Presbyterian congregation and a part of the Presbytery of the Western Reserve. It was built in 1911 to designs created by architects

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. In 1968, the McGaffin Carillonhttp://www.ucbells.org/carillon was created by the

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and added to the church's tower. In 1972, the church added an addition, designed by Richard Fleishman in a contemporary-brutalist style, to serve as a community education center. Church of the Covenant was added to the

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in 1980.

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