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United States Department of the Interior This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines and areas of significance, enter only the calepories and subcalegories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property Adalbert Polish Catholic Church other names/site number St. Adalbert Parochial School 2. Location street & number 1511 Valley Street not for publication city, town state Ohio 3. Classification Ownership of Property Eprivate * building(s) public-State Name of related multiple property listing: Fastern European Ethnic Community, Dayton, OH: 1885-1966 listed in the National Register 4. State/Federal Agency Certification.
As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certity that this National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. 5. National Park Service Certification I, hereby, certify that this property is: Ventered in the National Register. -determined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the removed from the National Register. other, (explain:) - Date of Action 113 structure Dayton code site public-Federal REGISTER NATIONAL public-local object Noncontributing Total Registration Form National Register of Historic Places Number of contributing resources previously National Register. See continuation sheet.
historic name State or Federal agency and bureau National Park Service Category of Property Signature of cenitying official Signature of commenting or other official district vicinity Date Number of Resources within Property zip code 45404 for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering county Montgomery Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) RELIGION/Religious structure RELIGION/Church school RELIGION/Church-related residence 7. Description Late nineteetn & twentieth centuries/ walls - Other bays of the building housed the church and school. The rear section entrance inscribed in stone is "SZOLA - Sw. Wojiech - St. Adalbert." On the left and right front corners are square towers. The The towers are topped by eight-sided belfries. left side is a recessed porch.
X See continuation sheet brick Exterior: Architectural Classification roof (enter categories from instructions) Classical Revival composition shingle This brick Romanesque Revival style church/school/residence was Describe present and historic physical appearance. Current Functions (enter calegories from instructions) Materials (enter categories from instructions) Above is a grouping of four rectangular l/l double hung sash windows foundation sandstone and limestone The sides of the front section of the building have five bays, built in 1904. The front section of the building (the first five bays) is two-stories. served as a rectory and convent. the first bay being the towers. Each tower has a side entrance. The main facade is three bays wide. The double door entrance is The back windows have brick segmental arches.
The second bay on the continuous stone sills.The windows are arranged in recessed bays double hung sash windows with stone lintels with keystone.The semi-circular stone arch.Above the arch is a gable. with replacement stained glass and moided stone surround.The windows on.the towers are rectangular with 1/l double hung sash The back section of the building is three bays deep.The side The front section main round-arched entrance with replacement door.other bays are 1/1 The rear section is three-stories although it United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service The front entrance leads into a foyer. From the foyer, stairways on a center hall plan with two classrooms on each side of the hall. large multi-lite transoms. recreation hall after the new church was built in 1966.
Still, much of the earlier trim, the doors, and the oak balcony (some of which The congregation appreciates their building, however, and are presently planning its renovation. Interior: Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places On the second floor was the sanctuary.The and passage of time and is experiencing considerable:falling plaster. other appointments were removed when the sanctuary was converted to a At the rear of the building is the three-story rectory/ convent. many of the original window surrounds with corner blocks also remain. St. Adalbert's Polish Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County Section number - 7 - Page _ lead down into the old school cafeteria or up into the second story Doorways at the front and back of the hall and to each classroom have sanctuary.
The two rear rooms on the first story have early twentieth century Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance ARCHITECTURE Significant Person Frank Sutter St. Adalbert Polish Roman Catholic Church is eligible for the Criterion A of Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) . 1885-1915. These immigrants transformed the ethnic character of those which had the heaviest impact were the Poles, Hungarians, and Lithuanians, most of whom were Roman Catholic. While the first Poles arrived in Dayton in 1877, they were not a century. By 1902, Father Strzelczok, the Polish priest, reported Dayton neighborhood.
Significant Dates 1904-1941 Architect/Builder Most lived in north and east Dayton, although twenty-five families completed the formation of Dayton's white cultural mosaic.This "new" immigration contained numerous Eastern European groups, but State significance of property. and justity criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and poriods of significance noted above. adjustment to the sometimes bewildering and even hostile American noticeable presence until the very last years of the nineteenth National Register under Criteria A and C.It is also eligible under circa 1917,their numbers had increased to about 1,600 individuals.
St.Adalbert'sis one of five ethnic parishes in Dayton which Certitying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Lstatewido -locally NIHNIC HERITAGE/Other: Polish Cultural Affiliatior Germans, Irish, and English had blended to form a relatively document the immigration of Eastern Europeans into the city between large industrial district located just to the south of the North The "ethnic" or "nationality" parish was the most important States began to proliferate in the late nineteenth century and nationally homogeneous urban population.The coming of the Eastern Europeans resided in the West Side Colony.They found employment in the many institution for the preservation of Eastern European language and culture.Just as also eased the immigrants' See continuation sheet United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service St.
Adalbert's Polish Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County In Dayton, the oldest Eastern European ethnic parish was St. Adalbert's which was established as the ninth Catholic parish in priest, Father Boleslaus Strzelczok, to act as the pastor of Poles and complained to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati who then withdrew of Dayton's Polish community, the Archbishop asked Father Strzelczok stumbling block in their attempts to Americanize Eastern European National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet school,often viewed by the native-born citizenry as a primary the community.
they invited Polish-speaking priests from Cincinnati and Toledo to Perhaps the most powerful institution for the preservation of language and culture within the ethnic parish was the parochial Lipski of Polish men organized a society under the Father Strzelczok from Dayton..After considerable effort on behalf nineteenth century at first traveled to Polish churches in Section number Page - continued to increase in number until 1935-1940. The Polish parishes 760 in 1920. Peaking at approximately 800 in 1935, they declined Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland, and Detroit. Parish members worked to raise the funds needed for the construction of the church and prepared to Unfortunately, the territorial parish, Holy Rosary, to return to Dayton. The church was dedicated April 30, 1905. Emmanue1 Roman Catholic Church located in downtown Dayton. fall of 1905.
Lay teachers were employed until the coming of the Page He returned and plans proceeded for the designed by Frank Sutter. other Eastern European group, the parish was the cultural center of purchase a one and a half acre tract of land on the corner of Troy As they grew in number, On January 5,1903,Archbishop Elder authorized a young Polish United States Department of the Interior National Park Service St. Adalbert Polish Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County St. Adalbert's curriculum provides an example of how these youth in the customs and history of their new American home.
According to the oral history of North Dayton published by the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library (1988: 42): "The subjects taught were parallel: history, morning sessions were taught in Polish - the history and language of Poland was stressed, subjects were taught in English, and math added." A large number of societies organized within the church reinforced language and traditions and made the parish the cultural Drama Society, football, basketball and baseball teams, and the Father Rodac rarely conducts a Polish mass, the congregation has Commission. National Register of Historic Places Housewives Band. Continuation Sheet annual Polish Heritage Mass; the Resurrection Mass; and the singing Polish continued to be taught at St.Adalbert's until about 1960.
In congregation decided to construct a new church identified with this ethnic group-the other building is Sig's St.Adaibert's Catholic Church is the best reminder of the Polish Louis, Missouri in 1915. It was at that time that a new rectory was The sisters were installed in the old remained high throughout the 1920s and 1930s, but decreased dramatically after 1940. The school was discontinued in 1982. geography, language. The difference was that In the afternoon (1978) is filled with historic photographs of the Polish Dancers, the second story in particular has suffered from the passage of time, and immigration into Dayton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth schools worked to preserve Old World customs while also educating the congregation is presently planning its rehabilitation.
Although centuries.It is one of only two buildings which can be directly along with its geography. center of the Polish community.The history of St.Adalbert's parish 1966.The historic building is now used as the church hall.The of Polish hymns.The church also has an active Polish Heritage with the Kolendy; the Lamentations during Lent Zali);the United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service St. Adalbert Polish Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County Page _ 3 The building is architecturally significant for representing a common late 19th early 20th century church type characterized by the sanctuary being located above of arches and its somewhat squat proportions, it is primarily a vernacular style structure that borrows from classically inspired styles as well.
The classical pediment in the central facade bay, the dentil like brick corbeling on the towers, the flatened arch with articulated keystone lintels that mark the side elevation of historic integrity through the retention of its original dimensions, including height and depth, stylistic features, and fenestration pattern. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Dayton's history. Section number 8 influence can be seen in the cupolas located on the towers, the use of the windows, and the rusticated stone water table. The building exhibits a high level likely be the most visible reminder of this important segment of 1000 9.
Major Bibllographical References preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: State historic preservation office -previously listed in the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library, University of Dayton, Mont.Co.Historical Soc. 10. Geographical Data Avenue, proceed in a northeasterly direction along the west curbline of 11. Form Prepared By Claudia Watson, Director of Preservation Services organization - Montgomery County Historical Society _ date 7 North Main Street _ zip code45402 surrounding.
University Dayton Zone Local government Federal agency Northing other Specity repository: has been requested Boundary Justification UTM References Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/ A Other State agency Easting in a southeasterly direction 164'to the point of beginning. street & number - See continuation sheet Survey # previously determined eligible by the National Register Verbal Boundary Description Beginning on the NE corner of Valley St. and St. Adelbert direction for 164'. Then, turning 90 degrees, proceed in a southwesterly May 1, 1991 (513) 228-6271 city or town . state Doren, Alice. Saint Adalbert's Polish Roman Catholic Church. "Seventy-Fifth Community.
The boundary includes the church/school/rectory and the land immediately telephone name/title direction147'to the east curbline of St.Adelbert Avenue..Then proceed NPS Form 10-0004 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Continuation Sheet St. Adalbert Polish Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County Section number - PHOTOGRAPHS - St. Adalbert's 2. Main facade and west elevation. Looking northeast 4. Showing detail of center bay, main facade. 6. East and rear elevations. Looking southwest. entrance and transom at front of school hallway, first 14. Interior view showing staircase in rectory/convent. Looking convent. Looking southwest. 16. Interior view showing fireplace in rectory/convent. Looking St. Adalbert's. Page northeast. southwest. story.
National Register of Historic Places Church: 15.Interior view showing window and door trim in rectory/ sanctuary from the rectory/convent. 17.Interior view showing round-headed door leading into the 10.Interior view showing round arched transom over main The following photographs document St. Adalbert Polish Catholic 5. West and rear elevations. Looking southeast. 13. Interior view of classroom. 19. Streetscape. 8. Interior view showing front of sanctuary. Looking southwest. 12. Interior view of classroom. Looking southeast. Looking west. Interior view showing altar area of second story sanctuary. OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service European Ethnic Communities, Dayton MPS Montgomery County, OHIO 1. Holy Cross Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church.. -. 2. St.
Adalbert Polish Catholic Church Page COVER Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Section number Date Listed Substantive Reviev /5-/91 EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET St.
Adalbert Polish Catholic Church NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SIR Y@ 10/09/91 10/25/91 9/23/91 11/07/91 PROPERTY REJECT DATE DISCIPLINE REVIEWER ACCEPT RETURN PERIOD: OTHER: NATIONAL: PDIL: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: European Ethnic Communities, Dayton MPS MULTIPLE _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _historic _current _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception _other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _presentation FUNCTION materials DESCRIPTION context photographs BIBLIOGRAPHY Period SIGNIFICANCE Builder/Architect CLASSIFICATION Date architectural classification Signed Phone descriptive text Specific dates _count OTHER COMMENTS Areas of Significance--Check and justify below USGS maps Statement of Significance