Nicklas and Rodrick of Cleveland, two architects who somehow both lost the central vowels in their names, designed this Perpendicular Gothic church, which was built in 1926–1927. It is one of the two most magnificent churches in Sharon, its only rival being St. Joseph, which is in an entirely different style.
The education wing is well matched to the main church.
Now called Covenant Church, but still Presbyterian. As in most cities in western Pennsylvania, there were two First Presbyterians; the ones who built this church were the United Presbyterians, a Pittsburgh-based splinter group that reunited with the larger body of American Presbyterians in 1958, a century and two days after they had walked out. This church, built in 1908, was designed by Sharon’s own E. E. Clepper, who seems to have been the pull-out-all-the-stops type when it came to ornamenting a building.
