Detail View: Architecture and Urban Planning Collection: St. Paul German Evangelical Church

Work Record ID: 
704
Reproduction Record ID: 
704
Work Class: 
Architecture
Work Type: 
church
Title: 
St. Paul's Church
Title Type: 
preferred
Title: 
St. Paul German Evangelical Church
Title Type: 
former
Date: 
1850
Date Type: 
creation
Location: 
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Location Type: 
site
Location: 
15th and Race streets (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Style Period: 
Greek Revival
Culture: 
American
Culture: 
German
Subject: 
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Subject: 
central business districts
Subject: 
pilasters
Subject: 
clock towers
Subject: 
entablatures
Subject: 
church
Description: 
St. John's was Cincinnati's first German congregation, organized in 1814 by Joseph Zaeslin who gathered both German Protestants and Catholics as the German Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church. "The facade replicates a temple front. An unbroken entablature marks it; simple Doric pilasters define the clock tower. Gothic arches enliven Greek Revival severity in this massively proportionated edifice. The church never had a steeple." Underneath "1850" on the facade is engraved: "Wahrheit, Tugend, Freiheit" (truth, virtue, freedom)."
Information Source: 
Clubbe, John. Cincinnati Observed : Architecture and History. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992. 231.
Reproduction Creator: 
Cincinnati Preservation Association
Reproduction Creator Type: 
donor
Reproduction View: 
Stencil work
Reproduction View Type: 
detail view
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
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