This undated sketch is said to accurately portray the first Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland built in Cleveland Centre, at the corner of Girard and Columbus Streets, in 1838. Its original parishioners were Irish and German immigrants, but later other immigrant groups worshiped there, including French, Bohemians and Poles. As Cleveland began to industrialize in the decades of the 1850s and 1860s, the residential population of Cleveland Centre shrank, and in 1879 St. Mary's on the Flats closed its doors for good. The church building was torn down in 1888. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections
