Trinity Lutheran Church (Canton, Ohio)
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Trinity Lutheran Church is a historic former
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in downtown
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. Built in the 1880s for a flourishing congregation, it closed in the early 2010s, leaving behind a church building that has been named a
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. Canton's oldest Lutheran congregation, later designated First, was the parent congregation of Trinity; the pioneer members left First to organize a congregation to worship in English. Their new congregation was officially established in November 1838.Goshay, Charita.
Historic Trinity Lutheran Church To Shut Doors
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The church is primarily
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in style, reflecting the preferences of architect
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, but the wishes of the church's building committee prompted him to include
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elements. The appearance is dominated by the bell tower, tall, while other major elements include a porte-cochere and the ornate
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windows.Whitticar, Ruth, and Amy Shriver. '.
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, 1986-07.
Few Canton buildings exhibit Romanesque Revival architecture of comparable quality. Built in 1886, Trinity is the oldest of Tilden's surviving designs in Canton. Its foundation is stone, with an
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roof and
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walls. The bell tower, located on the left from the perspective of a viewer across the street, features an entrance in the base and tall
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windows that extend for the majority of the tower's height. Smaller ogive windows pierce the top section of the tower, which is crowned by a steep pyramidal roof. The main section of the church includes a street-facing
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at the center, while another entrance and the porte-cochere are located on the viewer's right. These components are designed in a manner reminiscent of the original Romanesque style, with elements such as the imitation cloister-style windows in the center of the facade and the increased thickness of the walls as one approaches the ground evoking the appearance of the original style. The building's overall footprint measures by . In 1985, Trinity was listed on the
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, qualifying both because of its important architecture and because of its place in community history. It was the first of several Tilden-designed buildings given this distinction; two years later, several others (including the downtown Bender's Restaurant) were also added to the Register through the
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process. However, landmark status was unable to preserve the congregation indefinitely: in late 2010, the members voted to disorganize their church, following a period of decline that resulted in average Sunday worship attendance of just thirty people. After the congregation closed, the building was purchased by a local developer with plans to convert it into a
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.Developer Gives Ohio Church a Second Life
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via the '' Daily Reporter'', 2012-04-02. Accessed 2015-07-01.


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