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Photograph of Holy Cross Monastery and Chapel
Photograph by Photo by Greg Hume ( Greg5030 ), CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Holy Cross Monastery and Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1055 St. Paul Pl., Cincinnati
  • When was it listed? September 1978
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 78002078 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holy Cross Monastery and Chapel: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, OhioTin, Lead, AntimonyUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Newspapers printed here

14 papers

14 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mount Adams Public School0.1 miles1980
Immaculate Conception Church, School, and Rectory0.2 miles1978
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church0.2 miles1980
Ida Street Viaduct0.3 miles1980
Times-Star Building0.4 miles1983
Taft Museum0.4 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002078 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 371 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.