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PILGRIM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
2592 West 14th at Starkweather Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
Historical Statement:
"The Church was organized, by Council, November 13, 1859, in the brick
school-house on the site of the present Tremont school building, where
meetings were held for almost two years.  For four years thereafter the
meetings were held in the Institute building a part of which is still standing
on University street, near College street.
"The Church voted to unite with Cleveland Congregational Conference, March 30, 1862.

"A church building, corner of Jennings avenue and Howard street, was begun in 1865, and dedicated in 1870, at a cost of $16,000.  In 1877, the
building was enlarged by the addition of transepts and further remodeled to its present form, the cost of the changes being more than $20,000.  The
new building dedicated November 23, 1894, cost, including the site, about $150,000.  It was a complete equipment for institutional work."

Source:
Historical Sketches of our Twenty-Five Churches and Mission and their Work in Missions--Local Growth and Social Life with Full Directories of
Members to January 1, 1896, edited by Rev. A. B. Cristy, Pastor Lake View Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, The Williams Publishing and
Electric Company, 1896.
  • Leonard G. Foster of Brooklyn was one of the charter members of the present day Pilgrim Church.
Eileen Chervenka Moraghan wrote the definitive history on Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ when this church
celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1959.  Mrs. Moraghan was 12 years old on her initial visit to the Romanesque-style church, the first
building west of the Cuyahoga River to have electricity.  "For the next 70 years, she remained an active member, serving as a deaconess
and, from 1926 to 1990, as a Sunday school teacher.  Teaching was Mrs. Moraghan's profession, as well.  She spent 25 years in the
Cleveland school system, most of the time as a kindergarten teacher at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School."

Mrs. Moraghan passed away on November 24, 1992, at the age of 82.  Her history of Pilgrim Congregational Church was given for future
use in 1982, and it is presented here with permission of the current owner.
Under Construction
Pilgrim Congregational Church: 1859 - 1959.

Under Construction.
Cleveland's Southside
Today's Tremont
Neighborhood