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Maria Stein Convent

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Mercer County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. St. John's and Rolfes Rd., Maria Stein
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
Also known as. Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR (AD); Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR
National Register reference number. 76001490 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maria Stein Convent: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bandwie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mercer County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1909 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS New Bremen quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Maria Stein Catholic Church and Rectory	0.6 miles	1979
Maria Stein Catholic Church and Rectory	0.6 miles	1979
Matthias Gast House and General Store	0.6 miles	1978
Chickasaw School and Rectory	1.6 miles	1979
Chickasaw School and Rectory	1.7 miles	1979
St. Rose Catholic Church Complex	2.1 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001490 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mercer County	All 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.