Built in 1971. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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
“Chatfield College was a private Catholic college in St. Martin and Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.”
Wikipedia article Chatfield College, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 21 National Register listings in Brown County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1971 · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Brown County.
National Register reference number.76001372- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 144 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 144 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ursuline Center between 1916 and
1973: 91 Fungi, 52 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Seymour, Arden R. Gaufin, Braun, E. Lucy 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 National Weather Service names
Fayetteville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
The tornado began near U.S. Route 68, just to the northeast of Fayetteville, where a barn was destroyed. Barn debris was thrown into a field just to the northeast. Numerous trees were knocked over, snapped or uprooted on the Chatfield College property and trees were also downed along Brown County Inn Road. The tornado then entered Highland County at 0020EST, just north of Brown County Inn Road. From here, the tornado continued across Highland County, into Clinton County and then back into Highland County, before ending near Lynchburg at 0024EST.
Numerous trees were damaged, a few trees were uprooted, and some trees were snapped in Fayetteville. In addition, roofing material was ripped off of a building and siding was torn off of another building.
Water was completely covering State Route 251 just north of U.S. Route 50 east of Fayetteville. A car was submerged and three individuals were rescued with no injuries.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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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
4,847 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
pediment rested on the top of the pillars, but this has been removed. distinguished by a large bay window on the right side, a paneled door CONDITION UNALTERED FAIR DESCRIPTION XALTERED interior chimneys with corbeled caps have also been removed.The The Cottage windows and rear door have decorative mouldings identical to those this wing is a rounded arch entrance springing from square columns. Seminary building original porch was more ornate but this has been replaced.Two tall intersecting gabled roofs on the south and east sides..The facade is _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE The Priest's House tive woodwork that was originally used on the front porch.
XEXCELLENT surrounded by a wide, wooded molded architrave that widens and forms The door is capped with a rounded rectangular fanlight with decorative _DETERIORATED window and consists of simple wood pillars anda railing.The LRUINS and H-shaped in plan. Originally a mullions. To either side of the door are narrow side lights, rounded On either side of This small house was also built in 1863 and is also Italianate in flanked at either end by wings that extend beyond the facade. In the hung, four-over-four with the same semi-circular transoms and brick brick voussoirs create 90° degree angles at the end and form "ears" voussoirs. style. The first floor windows do not have the transoms and the The central rectangular block of the house is bracketing has since disappeared.
The entrance is composed of a double door with rounded arch panels. projects from the central section of the house. The building is one story high, rectangular in plan and of square pillars on either side of the entrance steps. strips under the eaves gives some indication of the type of decora- The foundation is of stone. entrance and a window on the left side. -GOOD Form No.
/ARCHITECT unknown STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Building, the cupola of the Commencement Hall, the steeply pitched roof and handcarved chapel, provides a pleasant contrasting opulence when 1600-1699 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC 1700-1799 ART AGRICULTURE PERIOD RELIGION PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE X1800-1899 SCIENCE ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT THEATER XARCHITECTURE INVENTION tures in their severity, express the functional and practical aspects Such architectural details as the classical portico of the Academy _COMMUNICATIONS The Ursuline Center Historic District consists of a cluster of seven nineteenth century.
comprehensive architectural survey of convent and academic life in mid- _TRANSPORTATION The Priest's House is an excellent example of Italianate architecture PHILOSOPHY- - CONSERVATION - EDUCATION plan is unusual in this area for use with the Italianate Style.The compared to the severe exterior. buildings constructed between 1840 and 1885.The struc- _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _MILITARY _ECONOMICS -COMMERCE _INDUSTRY -_1400-1499 -1900- - LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING As a district, these buildings present a The Ursuline Center was founded in 1845 by a colony of French nuns from faith, who had entered the community of Boulogne. and in 1867 a Music Hall.
their overall appearance, they well express the functional and practical of the Seminary Building, and the stone sills and lintels, does much Academy Building with its original woodwork, brass, Victorian furnishings, by Mother Julia Chatfield, an English lady and convert to the Catholic took up residence in the brick building that had been erected as the ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC aspects of convent life in the early nineteenth century wilderness. for the priesthood.The institution was known as the Brown County styles of architecture.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001372, 39 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
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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