Title	Tallmadge Church spire
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Subject	Churches--Ohio Tallmadge Congregational Church, UCC (Tallmadge, Ohio)
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Tallmadge (Ohio) Summit County (Ohio)
Description	In 1804, the Congregationalist Church authorized Reverend David Bacon to establish the town of Tallmadge, Ohio. Tallmadge was to be the center of the Congregationalist Church and its missionary efforts in the Connecticut Western Reserve. The church building was to be located in the center of town with all roads radiating outward like the sun’s rays. A Tallmadge committee of seven men developed plans for building the church in 1819 and appointed one of their members, Lemuel Porter of Conneticut, as the architect and builder. Tallmadge Church raising began in July of 1822. It was dedicated on September 8, 1825. Reflecting Porter's design, the wood, brace-framed church features a Federal/Greek Revival style portico, supported by four large columns, and a dominant one hundred foot high steeple with a weathervane. The main building measured 44-feet wide by 56-feet long. The State of Ohio acquired the church in 1971, which is now managed by the Ohio Historical Society, and is used for weddings and other special events.
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B02F12_003.tif
Image Height	6072
Image Width	4912
File Size	89501812 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2009-08-11
Date modified	2010-06-21

Tallmadge Church spire

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