The design of the Cleveland Heights Methodist Episcopal Church may be distinctive in Cleveland Heights, but it was one that the architectural firm of Badgley & Nicklas used with minor variations in a number of other churches. One of these was Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church, designed about the same time as its Cleveland Heights counterpart. It was located at Detroit and Summit Avenues in Lakewood. When the congregation opted in 1913 to build a larger church, the original structure was dismantled, shipped via Lake Erie, and reconstructed as Collinwood M. E. Church at 15228 St. Clair Avenue. A newspaper description of the interior might have been applied to the Cleveland Heights church as well: "The pews will be of veneered oak, and the floor gradually will slope toward the pulpit. An accordion-folding door with separate the Sunday school from the auditorium..." | Date: March 25, 1905 | Source: Cleveland LeaderDownload Original File
