When First Christian Church was at 1325 Hayes Avenue

 

Local historian Helen Hansen took the picture above of the First Christian Church in the early 1950s, when it was located at 1325 Hayes Avenue. She took another photo of the same church in 1957.

The First Christian Church was chartered in 1915, with its original church on E. Adams Street, between Perry and Meigs Streets. The building at 1325 Hayes Avenue opened in 1916. A commemorative plate from this church is in the collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center.

 A brief history (up to 1987) of the church is located on the back of the plate.

In April of 1995, First Christian Church celebrated a ground breaking on a 17 acre plot in Perkins Township, at 3410 Hayes Avenue. The church dedicated the new church building on September 29, 1996.

If you would like to learn more about the history of area churches, visit the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. A finding aid contains details about the historical items held in the files for several different local congregations.