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First Methodist Episcopal Church (Canton, Ohio)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
79001948

Opened
  
1881

Added to NRHP
  
16 April 1979

Built
  
1881

Address
  
Canton, OH 44702, USA

Architectural style
  
Gothic architecture

First Methodist Episcopal Church (Canton, Ohio)

Location
  
120 Cleveland Ave., SW, Canton, Ohio

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First Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist church building at 120 Cleveland Ave., SW in Canton, Ohio. Renamed Church of the Savior United Methodist in 1968. Then in 2014, after its congregation was merged with Saint Paul's United Methodist Church, it was renamed Crossroads United Methodist Church.

William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, was an active member of the church. He served as a Trustee and Sunday School superintendent. His funeral was held here in 1901.

It was built in 1881 in a Gothic, Other, High Victorian Gothic style. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church (Canton, Ohio) Wikipedia