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Photograph of St. Rose Priory
Photograph by Bbadgett, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Rose Roman Catholic Church Complex

Built in 1852. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Rose Priory is a house of the Dominican Order located near Springfield, Kentucky. It is the first foundation of that Order in the United States, and the first Catholic educational institution west of the Allegheny Mountains.”

Wikipedia article St. Rose Priory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1852.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. W of Springfield off U.S. 150, Springfield, 40069
  • When was it listed? February 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Springfield
  • When was it built? 1852
  • National Register reference number. 78001413 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Rose Roman Catholic Church Complex: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nally & Gibson SpringfieldLimestone, GeneralProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002HailSpringfield3 hurt, $150,000Hail damaged many homes and vehicles.
May 2010FloodSpringfield$75,000Six to eight inches of rain across Spencer county May 1-2 led to areal flooding in spots across the county on the 2nd.
May 2017HailSpringfield$50,000Local broadcast media received multiple reports of golf ball sized hail.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$50,000A garage was damaged along Highway 152 east of Springfield. Numerous trees were downed in Springfield and elsewhere in Washington County. Power was out to much of the city of Springfield for two hours after the storm passed.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$20,000The roof was blown off a barn in Springfield.
March 1997Tornado (F0)Springfield$15,000no account filed
September 2024Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Trees were damaged and power lines were blown down in Springfield.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Structural damage occurred to the baseball field at Idle Hour Park. Scattered tree damage was observed throughout the park.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Three small trees fell down.
June 2020Flash FloodSpringfield-There were multiple reports of flooded roadways across the county including Lincoln Park Road and Highway 150 near Springfield.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-A tree was reported down on Maplewood Avenue in Springfield.
April 2015HailSpringfield-Social media pictures submitted showed tennis ball size hail fell in Springfield.
April 2011Flash FloodSpringfield-The emergency manager reported about 7-8 total road closures throughout the entire county that were closed for approximately 3-4 hours due to flowing water.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Several trees were downed along Depot Street and 150 Valley Hill Road in the town of Springfield.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-A tree was reported down and blocking a road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Power lines were downed off Lincoln Park Road just outside of Springfield.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-A tree and some large limbs were downed.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Trees and power lines were downed. Funnel clouds were spotted, but there was no indication of a tornado touchdown.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Trees were downed and electric power was knocked out.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-Sixty mph winds downed power lines.
March 2006HailSpringfield-no account filed
May 2006HailSpringfield-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
July 2004HailSpringfield-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
March 2002HailSpringfield-no account filed
May 2002HailSpringfield-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
June 1997FloodSpringfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Levi J. Smith House0.8 miles1989
Walton Manor Cottage0.9 miles1977
Clements House0.9 miles1989
St. Catherine of Sienna Convent1.0 miles1989
John R. Barber House1.4 miles1989
Thomas H. Hamilton House1.6 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001413 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 69 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.