Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Paul Church is a former Roman Catholic church located on the southeastern corner of Twelfth and Spring Streets in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, in the city's Pendleton neighborhood.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul Church (Over the Rhine), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1974 · category: District · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.74001513- 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.
The reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,822 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Paul Church Historic District between 1819 and
1975: 2,855 Fungi, 1,699 Animalia, 919 Plantae, 298 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul Church Historic District: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
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From the nomination file
3,043 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
Rectory, Boys' School, Girls! School and Sisters' Convent. bove this is a large recessed round arched window which is surmounted dition with round arched windows. entry on each side is a large statue of St. Peter on the left and St. areas flanking the coffered arch are frescoed with scenes from the life CONDITION a dome surmounted by a cross. Church: the full development of a Catholic parish.It includes the Church, and carved plaster crucifixion group.Flanking this above a round arch garlands which flank a coffered area with five rosettes.The garlands console supporting curved ribs with classical details.The moulding of rounds the entire church is a false parapet which supports the roof.
On February 15, 1848 a group of Catholics under the direction of Vicar- William Henry Harrison, a friend of Pendleton, had addressed a group On June 26, 1848 Bishop Purcell headed a procession from St. Mary Church to a site, at Spring and Abigail Street. (now 12th Street) to lay ¿the cornerstone of Saint Paul Church, the ninth Catholic Church in Decoration and additions, to the church continued after the initial new, taller steeple was added in 1873. In 1882, to accommodate increas- Commerce 1848-50 Communications Conservation Architecture Engineering Military Landscape losophy Aboriginal itarian Education Industry Invention Music Literature age settlement.
They also agreed to subdivide the land and sell lots to cover the General Joseph Ferneding, purchased six acres of land from Nathaniel refused and when the church subsequently was In June,1848 the building committee agreed to build a church without signer, was installed in 1895 to commemorate the death of the pastor, Father Herman Ferneding. gift of Mr.& Mrs.Henry Hemmelgarn to celebrate their golden wedding ofsettlers from the rear of the Pendleton house when he ran for pres- other religious prelates from neighboring states on January 20,1850.
ed school and meeting room story addition was made to the Pendelton's Woods" and included in the sale was the two story ident.when it became known that Catholics had bought the land a group rectory and church was built in 1889. In 1893 a stained glass window, church also built and sold a single and double house in 1851 to encour construction.In 187o the apse and the areas flanking the arch of the feet feet and 48 feet high with a gallery. donated S1,oo0 toit even though he was an Episcopalian. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001513, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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