Newport Churches, Newport, Kentucky


German Baptist Church Southwest corner, 6th & Columbia D. C. Reddington, photographer	Old Taylor Street Methodist Church Taylor Street was re-named Third Street Read more about it here.


St. Pauls Episcopal Church, 1912 "to Mr. Omer May, Cadillac, Michigan. Hello Dad, Am Hitting the high spots, will be there soon." from Fred.	St. Pauls 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, Newport, 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.
And notice they "photoshopped out" the courthouse in the pic on the far left, 100 years before Photoshop was created.


St. John's Altar		St. John's Rally Day, 1915
I find these a puzzle. There is a St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church in Newport, but not in 1915 (not until 1939 or so), the date on the pictures. There's a St. John's in Wilder, but that's a Catholic Church, and as Patty Ludwig Stanger has pointed out to me, Catholic's don't have Sunday Schools. Besides, it's too big to be the church on John's Hill Road, and it has a cross, not a crucifix. So where is this?

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Newport
The doors opened in 1897

Central Christian Church, Newport
constructed in 1894


First Baptist Church, Newport Eighth and York	United Hebrew Congregation, circa 1940, 117 5th Street An earlier synagogue, Ohave Sholom, was at 6th & Brighton, c. 1919 - c. 1925


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

“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 worshippers. They were finally ejected and warrants are out for their arrest.”
from the Covington Daily Commonwealth, November 11, 1879

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., 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


St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church 7th and Columbia Rev. Paul Reikow, Pastor	St. John's German Lutheran Church, 1909 7th & Columbia


Grace Methodist, East Sixth Street			The steeple came off in the Tornado of July 7, 1915


Salem M. E. Church 8th and York, Newport built in 1882	Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, 1938