Geographical Data ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED Acreage of nominated property less than 1 acre UMT References | |414|5/2/3/610/ _ state 11. Form Prepared By WOBC Historic Preservation Office date street & number St. Rt. 703 _ national X local State Historic Preservation Officer signature / Keeper of the National Register 5- 20.80 code county Easting organization Northing 11/79 feet. date Zone Celina Ohio name/title Shpo Jean Easton, Surveyor;and Mary Ann Brown, Regional Director 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Verbal boundary description and justification Begin at St. Peter's Road on the NE corner of the Interview with Miss Florence Klipstine, 10/79. Historical Sketch of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church,1954.
city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 90o to the west for 60 feet on a line which runs parallel with the rear of the church. Chief ot Registration For HCRS use only 9. Major Bibliographica References 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated GPO 938 835 telephone 419-586-2365, Ext. 53 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.
Versailles Attest: Quadrangle name Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 UTM NOT VERIFIED Inventory - - Send-back KEEPER OTHER HAER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL Maps HISTORIAN Re-submit Review 5.20.80 Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 2.3.81 Photos Working Number CHURCH Webster vic, Darke, Ohio Jean Easton, 10/79 Photog facing southwest Facade of tower and belfry St. Peter Church APR 1 5 1980 WOBC, No. 1/4 JUN 4 1980 Church APR 1 5 1980 Webster vic, Darke, Ohio Jean Easton, No. 2 | 4 WOBC, 10/79 Photog facing northeast St. Peter Church West side and rear of church Church JUN to Peter Church APR 1 5 1980 lebster vic, Darke, Ohio 41980 Photog facing west JOBC, No.
3/4 East side of church and tower Tean Easton,10/79 Church Darke County, Ohio Photo: Jean Easton, 10/79 St. Peter Church, Webster Vicinity, Negative:Ohio Historic Preservation Office from slide View of interior made from negative taken APR 1 5 1980 APR 1 5 1980 VERSAILLES, UNITED STATES VERSAILLES QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO REGISTER 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) RECEIVED DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Zone 16 715800, 4452360 St Peter Evangelical Lutheran FEB 20 1980 APR 1 5 1980 Columbus (Mrs.)Paul Lo Trittschun great deal to them. speaking English. It was Lutheran because they had been Lutheran and the sermons REGISTER Nearly every year a service is held in the fall.
You can go for an RECEIVED Ohio Historical Center NATIONAL Eamily who put in much money and much work and to other people who have Frederick Seibt that gave the land for the church was the maternal Dear Mr. Brook, been asked to write to you about why I feel that St. Peter's Evangelical for us. You nearly always meet a new cousin. Lutheran Church located on St.Peter's Road, about 2 miles southeast of Ohio 43211 I-7l and 17th Avenue The church was built of logs in the gear 1850.As I understand the 12l E. Wood St. members. I have hearå my late mother-in-law, Emma Lehman Trittschun January 19,7980 members to go into Versailles to church for the younger generation were ancestors in the old graveyard adjoining, the church has been preserved David L. Brook, hour and relax in the past century.It draws many relatives together. first settlers from Germany arrived in the late lg30ties.
Since there are so few of these structures left in such good great grandfather of my husband.also, the Trittschuh family were They held Sincerely, r these places. I also am much interested in marking the birth place of Annie There are other old homes and our old town hall which was they are getting mighty aged. Iam going to be gone from February l until sometime in March but Mr. Brook, down the road west and the Jamison Farm near webster are all old,old station and there is a hidden'stairs in it. Oakley. There are still a few people who can pinpoint this for you but STATE OHIO Huber, Dr. H., Block Honorable Delbert L. Latta Mr. David Brook 6/10/80 Location Byers/bjr Name Putnam County Ottawa Versailles vicinity State Historic Preservation Officer Also Notified Franklin County Honorable Thomas N.
Kindness Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Columbus For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Darke County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Near Northside Historic District St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Chalmers P. Wylie Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. By BILL FOX VERSAILLES - The sanctuary of St. knew about it. "Dr. Long's ideas were ahead of this time,"" Mr. Carl said. "He preached D hymn, "How Great Thou Art." tisms there over the years. Ng of the narrow county road. Many strolled On hand Sunday was Florence Klip pair of white shoes. He was against whose wife, Phebe, played the century stine, whose great-grandfather, John women with short hair, men with long church on St. Peters Rd.
four miles south- old organ for the service, agreed to pull hair, Masons, and all kinds of vaccina- east of Versailles. There, the very young the rope. fore going into the church, which still has Church in the Wildwood,"!What a a rich heritage that goes back to 1850 when the church was founded by Darke. mowed, including the cemetery. Y.A UC offeratory, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds.M Finally, it was time for the closing refathers worshipped," the Rev. Phillip hymns and Lord's Prayer. The congregar walked to church on cold Sunday ster is about a mile away. Services were 'ing, some prayers, some creed and a lot sound. Both men laughed. With You" of preaching," he told the congregation. MR. CARL PICKED for his sermon until, finally, In 1905, the church pecame Inactive and most of the congregation church, Mr.
Carl reflected on the singing "They sang out on every hymn, Didn't It sound wonderful?" he beamed. APR 1 5 1980 mornings. REGISTER Worshipers fill old German church with song: prayer County's German settlers. Sunday afternoon's is held at the church. RECEIVED with joy and fond memories Versailles, Lutheran worship and town meetings for through the small graveyard on the two- Crowd fills Versailles church overflowing Sunday.
More than 100 voices lifted in America's most popular acre church grounds, where tombstones passed they were switched to English tend an ice cream social prepared by the There have also been funerals and bap- last year because the bell was not rung It was a fitting opening to the hour- Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church was Dally News Staff Writer long service in the tiny white clapboard The service closed quietly with "God Be Before he went out on the lawn to at- Junior High Lutheran League of his own THE CONGREGATION SANG The den and the old hymn filled the church. An hour before the 2:30 p.m. service chandelier hangs in the sanctuary, and MR.
CARL WAS delighted at the turn-s Harold Kilipstine said he had complaints was sitting in the choir beind him in a I'm glad you are here where your fo- tion sang the bittersweet "In the Gar- Friend We Have in Jesus, and, for the Almost every year, a service similar to Sunday, cars began parking on both sides told the congregation. "This will not be a Went to Trinity Lutheran Church In Peter's - there was only a small turnout. see a different people:1 don't know as Adams Klipstine, was one of the founders and the very old -and ages in between sailles area. Others stood and chatted be- -gathered-to see old friends and renew Carl, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, 55 years. The tiny commmunity of Web- the community when she was a little girl, one - an eight-hour sermon - written said, "T've lived around here for 86 years. by Dr. Simon Peter Long, who was presi- out.
Last year - his first service at St. I come to the service regular. Each year I St. Peter's was flourishing. NATIONAL conducted in German,but as the years and brother Harold Klipstine look after the original logs beneath the clapboad from the church. She and sister Mabel dent of the Ohio Lutheran Synod when THE CHURCH WAS a center for I'm his namesake. He's buried in the At 2:30 p.m. Shumaker gave the bell his feet. The bell made only a mumbling of the church.His farm is across the road carry names still prominent in the Ver- a long list of German names common to tions."
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