Saint Paul's Sunday School and Parish House, East Market and South Forge Streets, Akron, Summit County, OH

2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry

Significance: St. Paul's Episcopal Church was built in 1885 and is designed in the Akron Plan Style which was popular during the late eighteenth century because of the advent of children's bible studies. The classrooms wrapped around the sanctuary in a semicircular fashion that helped to facilitate this new form of Christian education known as Sunday School.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2208

Survey number: HABS OH-709

Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76001532

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1933 - 1970

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