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Ashland Avenue Baptist Church

Architect
David L. Stine
Style
Romanesque Revival
City
Toledo, OH
Ashland Avenue Baptist Church
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain
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Ashland Avenue Baptist Church was organized in 1886 by a group of Sunday School workers, and the congregation dedicated this building in 1896 to a design by architect David L. Stine. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 1980. In 2005 the congregation sold the building to Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church and relocated, eventually settling in Oregon, Ohio, where it continues today as Ashland Church.

the building

Romanesque Revival design. Stine gave the church a Romanesque Revival treatment, the round-arched, heavy-massed style favored for American churches of the period, lending the corner a strong civic presence downtown.

the style

The building is identified as Romanesque Revival architecture, a style built on rounded arches and solid masonry massing that reads as sober and permanent — an appropriate register for a congregation founded by Sunday School workers in 1886.

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the architect

David L. Stine was a locally notable architect who also designed the Lucas County Courthouse and Jail in downtown Toledo, placing this church among his documented civic and religious commissions in the city.

significance

The church was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 1980. After the original congregation departed in 2005, the building passed to Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, an afterlife that kept the structure in active religious use.

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