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Decorative drawing: a plain country church with a tall steeple. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Cassella Catholic Church and Rectory

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 962 words across 7 pages, filed in 1979. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 79002822, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

The nomination, in full

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Columbus, Ohio 43211 4. Present Name(s) 9-14 1 County Other Name(s) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Carpella I. Location of Negatives I. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? Yes K 119, 1 mile east of t. 127 1858, 1888 1. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design Cassella 31. Wall Construction 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material RT 119 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays - CHURCH 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectangle GRUEN WALD 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition X Private X - Coordinates in #42) Moved O 24. Owner's Name & Address, if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference 25. Open to Preservation Site O Structure - Object O 39. Endangered? 26. Local Contact Person or Organization By What? 1. On National 27.

Other Surveys in Which Included 3. Part of Estab. Yes O District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 5. Name of Established District 41. Distance from and it stone was applied over the burnt walls by itinerant erman artisans around 1915. (Some say it is stucco.) Square :came priests from this parish and several girls became nuns. 5. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by ORC 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) ercer 2/77 Register? MAR91979 Cincinnati limestone Northing Lat. Ohio Historical Center Front Gothic Long. Underway? Interior_good The first Altered Cassella Catholic Church 30. Foundation Material Frontage on Road St. Marys Parish, Cassella, Sends Many to Priesthood," Eligible? Ohio Historic Preservation Office 47. Organization 4475580 eneration Catholic Church built in this county.

(Explain ishing to join with other settlers who desired a new church built one mile nw, ower with flared cupola over an arched tracery window is Public Road? 3.History and Significanceaccented by peaked doorway flanked by columns with white finia Mary Ann 'one O RECTORY TEN Date(s) or Period cut stone over brick Building X le four brick walls over which the new church was built. The convent, Gruenwald, was built in 1850 and still stands to the soutt. facade are immedistely to the south. listory of Cassella," Oscar Eifert, Feb., built at the turn of the century. Fire in 1888left arish at Cassella was formed in 1847. Miller, James, The Daily Standard, indow.

Easting Brown Side vo ene-room schoolhouses with double front doors and double round windows in Rev Vincent Parr 925-4630 The mission church or chapel (German- iterview with Father Vincent Parr, rock over brick 4.Description of Environment and Outbulldings There are seven Catholic Churches within a two- The parish house was built in 1904 with a palladian Exterior gcod Ohio Historic Preservation Office Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 2. County 5. Other Name(s) Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 6. Specific Location On St. Rt. 119 at the inter- E 29. Basement? Yes X section with Cassella - 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation MateriaA shlar 7. City or Town Stone Water Table If Rural, Township & Vicinity 31. Wall Construction B. Site Plan With Noth Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material Hip 20. Contractor or Builder 233. No. of Bays Front 4 21.

Original Use, if apparent Present Use 23. Ownership N36. Changes Addition O Private & Altered & 9. Coordinates in #42) Owner's Name & Address, Moved O if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference Cincinncti, Ohio 25. Open to Preservation Site C Structure D Building A Object D 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National Rev. Vincent Parr 925-4630 By What? No X 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes C District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and celebrate Forty Hours Devotions cach year. 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by 47. Organization 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1904 Register? Mer Side 8/77 Exterior Easting Long. Lat. Underway? .None Cassella Northing Priest House of ashlar. Zone Ohio Historical Center Archbishop Bernardin Interior Montezuma Road.

Cassella Catholic Rectory Frontage on Road To the west of the rectory stands the Catholic Church.To the south of the aspacious rectory was built.According to the present Asphalt Shingle SCHOOLS Brick gable over a plain doorway. The lintels and lug sills are 43.History and Significance For the first ten years the needs of this parish were a palladian window in the roof area and a two story Mary Niekamp Visual Inspection, August,l977. built in 185o and still standing today. Public Road? Common Bond WORC JGRKENWALD D.N,I Good MAR 1 9 1979 Wocation of Negatives ยก18. Style or Design ST. RT. 119 34. Wali Treatment 44 75620 Yes D Potent'? story veranda porch with an Imbricated shingle entrance attended to by traveline missionaries who staved for a few weeks or a few Miller, James church are two one-room schools. Farther to the south is the Gruenwald Convent features.

Priesthood" OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY 707920 months and resided at the nearby convents of Gruenwald and Maria Stein. In 19o Transitional / Gothic Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Rectory ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Rection Service KEEPER OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Entered Send-back Review Maps Re-submit HISTORIAN Photos Working Number3.19. 79. 591 State National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry TECHNICA 7. 25. 7 9 Cassella, Mercer, Ohio LAND/CROSS-TIPPED CHURCHES Cassella Rectory POE Mary Ann Brown, L 26 1979 Ohio 111111 WOBC, No.

13/25 MAR 1 9 1979 JUL 26 1979 Cassella Catholic Church LAND/CROSS-TIPPED CHURCHES Cassella, Mercer, Ohio Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000616 for this property Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet 79002822 have brutally altered What alrout Schoolo