It has Ionic columns in the Greek Revival style, Gothic Revival windows and details and a Victorian tower. For years, the beautiful facade was partly hidden behind a large tree. Now, the tree is gone and a circular drive exists in front. The Congregationalists used red brick for their Hudson church while Christ Church Episcopal, on the square in the northern Summit County city, is a white-painted frame beauty that could have been moved from New England. The March 17 Excursion dealt with Ohio's earliest Catholic churches St. Philip Neri in Dungannon, Columbiana County, and St. Joseph outside Somerset, Perry County.
Documentation exists that establishes that church as the first.
That log cabin at Dungannon pictured in your article was the private home of Daniel McAllister, not a church as such. Fenwick celebrated Mass in many homes in Ohio even as early as 1808. They were not churches but were called mission stations. St. Philip Neri Church was not the name of the first church in that location. It was St. Paul's, opened in 1820.