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Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church

Ohio, US

Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church

The Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church building in the Winton Place neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, that was constructed as the home of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the late nineteenth century. The congregation grew out of a group tha

t was founded in 1856; although the members erected their first building in 1860, they were not officially organized until 1872. Among the leading members of the congregation was Samuel Hannaford, a prominent Cincinnati architect. When the congregation chose to build a new church building in 1884, Hannaford was chosen as the architect for the project. At this time, Hannaford was near to the peak of his prestige: he had ended a partnership with another architect seven years before, and his reputation was growing with his designs of significant Cincinnati-area buildings such as the Cincinnati Music Hall. Hannaford's design was a stone building, one-and-one-half stories tall; its foundation is constructed of limestone, laid in ashlar blocks, while its roof is composed of slates. It is predominantly a Romanesque Revival structure, with certain elements that resemble the Richardsonian Romanesque...

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