St. John’s Episcopal Church of Worthington, ca. 1900

Construction of St. John’s Episcopal Church, located on the southwest quadrant of Worthington’s Village Green probably began in 1827; the first service was held in the church in 1831. The gifted brick mason and church trustee Arora Buttles, who was responsible for Worthington’s finest early brick buildings, almost certainly had a hand in the construction of St. John’s. The raw materials of the building