The First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, Ohio is the oldest church in the Connecticut Western Reserve.  It was founded September 1, 1799, under the leadership of the Reverend William Wick.  A log cabin church was built diagonally across from the location of our present church.

A new and bigger white frame meeting house, forty by sixty feet, was built in 1832 at about 250 East Federal Street.  The third church building, a red-brick Norman Sanctuary, was erected on our present site.  Begun in 1866 and completed in 1868, it was not dedicated until 1871 when it became debt-free.  In April 1959, it was demolished to make way for the construction of the present Sanctuary.

In 1889 another building, named Helen Chapel, was built on the First Presbyterian Church grounds.  This red brick building of Italian Renaissance design differed from the Gothic structure of the Sanctuary and was built on Wood Street rather than Wick Avenue, with the entrance to the chapel facing south overlooking downtown Youngstown.  Mr. and Mrs. Myron C. Wick financed the chapel as a memorial to their daughter, Helen, who had died when she was four years and six months old on October 24, 1888.  This building was to be used for Sunday School rooms and other church functions, and was dedicated May 4, 1890.

In 1934, Hudnut Hall was built and dedicated, replacing the run-down structure which had previously linked the Helen Chapel and the Sanctuary.

In May, 1959, under the pastorate of Dr. W. Frederic Miller, First Presbyterian re-committed itself to a life of worship and witness as a downtown church and began construction of the present American Georgian Sanctuary and Chapel.  The building was dedicated September 25, 1960, and includes classrooms, a music room, and large fellowship hall.