St. James Meeting House prints for sale

Staff report

BOARDMAN

Boardman Park is selling lithographs of St. James Meeting House for $55 each.

Flo Hosa Dougherty, a retired art educator in the Boardman schools, recently donated 200 of the lithographs to the park.

The proceeds from their sale will fund special projects at the park.

The lithograph will be on display at the park office, where orders will be accepted.

Payment is due upon delivery. The park is located on U.S. Route 224.

The St. James Meeting House lithograph would make an ideal wedding or anniversary gift.

Many area couples have married at this former church, while others have renewed their vows or had their babies baptized or christened there.

St. James Meeting House, Boardman’s most prominent historical landmark, was formerly known as St. James Episcopal Church.

It was built in 1828 by Henry Mason Boardman, son of Elijah, founder of Boardman Township.

St. James was the first Episcopal Church in Ohio, and the first home of the oldest Episcopal parish in the Connecticut Western Reserve.

It was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Dougherty was active with the Water Color Society and Boardman High School before moving to Las Cruces, N.M., 20 years ago.

She is a regionally acclaimed mixed-media painter and book illustrator, founding president of the New Mexico Water Color Society-Southern Chapter, a promoter of art and owner of the Blue Gate Galley.

For information, call the park at 330-726-8107.