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St. Paul's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church and the oldest surviving religious structure in Put-in-Bay, Ohio. It is located at Catawba Ave and Lakeview Dr. Episcopal Church (United States). ==1865 Episcopal Congregation Established== St. Paul's Episcopal Church was built by the congregation formed on South Bass Island in 1864 with the assistance of Jay Cooke. St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the village of Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island in Lake Erie was established in the fall 1864 by The Rev. John Miles Kendrick and the local residents. They started out meeting in the school. Over the winter they raised funds to build a church building. In May 1865, at the close of the Civil War, philanthropist Jay Cooke purchased the property where the church sits and contributed to the building fund. The Carpenter Gothic church was completed in October 1865. It appears to have been built from a design in the book ''Rural Architecture'' by architect Richard Upjohn. The first service was attended by the new congregation and several guests including Salmon P. Chase, Jay Cooke, and the Rev Parvin, who was the first rector of St. Paul's, Elkins Park PA, where Jay Cooke was a vestry member.〔The York Road by Rev. S. F. Hotchkin pg 132 ISBN 1177279746〕 After serving the parish for three years Rev Kendrick moved to larger churches and became the Bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Diocese of Arizona and New Mexico in 1889. As the only church on the island, the parish served the entire community. Several years later a Roman Catholic congregation was established. Today there are two still churches on the island. St. Paul's Episcopal Church is one of the oldest churches in continuous use in Ohio. St. Paul's is believed to be the oldest wooden church in use as a church in Ohio. It is located just 3 blocks south of the downtown area of the village of Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, Ohio. Many of the churches Jay Cooke helped build in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan were named for Saint Paul, which was the name of the church he attended in Philadelphia. The rectory, known as "The Hartman House" is next door at 619 Catawba. The "Hartman House," was built in 1959-1963 replaced the original 1865 rectory. The Hartman house is named for Marylib Vrooman Hartman whose estate made a large contribution to build the house in the 1950s which was matched by the parishioners. The Vrooman family were some of the original merchants on Put-in-Bay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Paul's Episcopal Church, South Bass Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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