photographs of abandoned places #26

Immanuel Presbyterian

Immanuel Presbyterian began as a mission in 1903. Its first building came as a chapel in 1906. The English Gothic building began in 1924. The architect was Herman Maurer. Remodeling was done in 1961 with a new stained glass window. In 1993 the congregation became so small that the Presbytery of the Western Reserve had other plans.

 

foto by Thomas Lewis, possibly from the Cleveland Press, now in Cleveland State Archive

Most recently the congregation was Tabernacle Baptist Church. It has been vacant, and broken into, and is deteriorating. Same story again, congregation of a major denomination has a good building; then after some generations the number of people becomes reduced; it is sold to people who can not maintain the building; it becomes abandoned.

 

 

 

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