The Protestant Churches
and a Synagogue
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| German Baptist Church Southwest corner, 6th & Columbia D. C. Reddington, photographer |
Old Taylor Street Methodist Church.
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| In 1865, they hired a Confederate preacher. All hell breaks loose. |
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| St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1912 “to Mr. Omer May, Cadillac, Michigan. Hello Dad, Am Hitting the high spots, will be there soon.” from Fred. |
St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Court House,Newport, 1910 to Miss Margaret Seidlitz, 500 East College Street, Iowa City, Iowa, “ Dear Young Friend, By this simple means I beg to show my appreciation of the cooperation of teachers in the S School and with all best wishes for your class and yourself, I am, yours truly, D. D. William” |
St. Paul Episcopal Church, 1910 Unlike most church steeples, note that St. Paul's steeple is built up stone by stone. It's a very unusual architectural feature. Also, unlike most other Newport churches, St. Paul's steeple hasn't been blown down by high winds. |
This building is from 1872. The church was formed on April 11, 1844, and this is the third building of the church on this site. |
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| The church, “St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church,” was formally incorporated in 1845. | ||
And notice they “photoshopped out” the courthouse in the pic on the far left, 100 years before Photoshop was created. |
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| St. Paul's Episcopal Church is on the National Register of Historic Places. The application (pdf) contains lots of images, history, and architectural details. | ||
Frances Keller Barr's history of St. Paul's is here (pdf). |
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The organ at St. John's
From a Facebook post by Jeanne Greiser
The organ at St. John's, c. 1920
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| St. John's Altar | St. John's Rally Day, 1915 | |
| The postcards above are interior shots of the old St. John's
Evangelical (or Lutheran) Church on 7th and Columbia in Newport, which endured a fire on January 10, 1939. Thanks to Tom Nordberg for helping me identify these. |
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| St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church 7th and Columbia Rev. Paul Reikow, Pastor |
St. John's German Lutheran Church, 1909 7th & Columbia |
| St. John's was organized on April 26, 1847. They dedicated their new church, shown here, on January 30, 1859. | |
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| Central Christian Church, dedicated on October 19, 1879. The church began on August 20, 1871 at Hayman's Hall, but didn't organize as the First Christian Church until April 21, 1872. A second Christian Church, the Washington Avenue Christian Church, was dedicated at 6th and Monroe on October 3, 1897. They merged, and became the Central Christian Church, on December 13, 1903, which held its last service on January 31, 1988. | |
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| St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Newport The doors opened in 1897 |
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| Short history of St. Marks is here. (pdf) | |
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First Presbyterian Church,1909
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| First Baptist Church, Eighth and York First Baptist is on the web here. There's no history of this 200 year old church there, but there's a nice section explaining all the stained glass windows. |
United Hebrew Congregation, circa 1940, 117 5th Street An earlier synagogue, Ohave Sholom, was at 6th & Brighton, c. 1919 - c. 1925 |
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| Torah presented to synagogue. | ||
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| From a Facebook post by J. E. Venneman | ||
| The steeple came off in the Tornado of July 7, 1915 | ||
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| Grace Methodist, East Sixth Street | 1911 from a Facebook post of the Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society | |||
Grace merged with Bellevue's Calvary Tower, and Southgate UMC's in 2000 to form New Hope United Methodist Church in Southgate
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| York Street Congregational Church | Brighton Street Baptist |
Corinthian Baptist Church
520 Columbia Street
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| Architect Samuel Hannaford's original drawing of Salem |
Salem M. E. Church 8th and York, Newport built in 1882 |
Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, 1938 |
Salem Methodist was founded as a German language church. The Salem Methodist Church is on the National Register of Historic Places. The application (pdf) contains lots of images, history, and architectural details. |
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| Interior, Salem Methodist, 1938 |
First Home of Salem Methodist Church. Originally on Todd Street (later renamed 6th) |
The Second Home of Salem Methodist, corner of Mayo (ie. 7th Street) and Orchard |
| The German Lutheran Presbyterian Church was established in 1851. | Protestant preachers endorse the KKK, 1923. |
| “A religious meeting at the colored Baptist Church, between Mayo and Ringgold streets, was disturbed and broken up Saturday night by a party of white roughs, who ridiculed the congregation and finally kicked up a row with one of the worshipers. They were finally ejected and warrants are out for their arrest.”from the Covington Daily Commonwealth, November 11, 1879 | |
| Trinity Baptist Church traces its roots to a Baptist Church founded by Rev. Leo Drake on February 18, 1940 at 21 East Fifth, before becoming Trinity and moving to 5th and Park. | |
| History of Newport's First Church of Christ is here; the Newport Central Church of Christ history is here. | In 1926, the US Census Bureau counted church denominations and their members. The Newport results are here. |
| “The President of the Newport Scientific Association has been sent, from Atlanta, Ga., a very scientifically wrought pint flask. It looks like a silk handkerchief when in hand and held at the nose. At the mouth is a sucking apparatus by which a big swill can be taken at one suck. It can even be used in church without detection." from Newport's Kentucky State Journal, June 16, 1887 | |
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1935 tent revival in Newport, under the direction of Rev. Wade House. The story is here. |
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