Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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
“Pius X Catholic Church is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on December 4, 1978. Located along Blue Rock Street, it was dedicated in 1879 to St.”
Wikipedia article St. Pius X Catholic Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.78002081- 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 6,151 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Patrick's Catholic Church between 1819 and
1975: 2,957 Fungi, 1,861 Animalia, 967 Plantae, 315 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
3 workings within 5 miles of St. Patrick's Catholic Church: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lead, Antimony. 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
1,981 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
is reached by stone arched windows, forming a trefoil. Above the entrance is a large pointed throughout the church. CONDITION DESCRIPTION tile. entrance. church styles. MOVEDDATE XGOOD gables supported by small columns that echo the design of the main The unique architectural character of St.Patrick's Church results side of the entrance.The double door is topped by a pair of pointed XUNALTERED XORIGINAL SITE from the unusual blending of elements derived from Romanesque and Gothic _EXCELLENT small gables and a pointed roof.All of the roofs are covered with red - UNEXPOSED a stone cross and the gable istrimmed with.carved stone.Stone buttresses The most outstanding feature of the church is the steeple rising from stairs.
The entrance consists of a pointed pie sections by mullions radiating from a central circle with a diamond A large rose window is set into this niche.The window is divided into gable with a rounded arch entrance.An engaged column flanks either Buttressing and pointed windows surrounded by rounded arches are used pattern inside of the circle. The gable of the facade roof is topped by St.Patrick's Roman Catholic Church was dedicated in l873.The structure arch recessed in the stone of the facade resulting in a shallow niche. DATE. -RUINS Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DEC 4 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED ST.
PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 From our inventory of the City of Cincinnati, St. Patrick's Church In close association with the church is found the parish house that A parish school, constructed c. 1905, was demolished in 1976, because PAGE rising from the center. the church no longer needed the building.
accomodate the growing population of Irish migrated to Originally Cumminsville was serviced by one Catholic Church, Saint 1600-1699 1873 ECONOMICS elements. 1400-1499 1700-1799 EDUCATION PERIOD ENGINEERING BUILDER/ARCHITECT TRANSPORTATION Unknown PHILOSOPHY SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW ART MILITARY AGRICULTURE INVENTION THEATER LITERATURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT MUSIC _COMMUNICATIONS 1900- _PREHISTORIC XRELIGION INDUSTRY _SCULPTURE the first merger of two Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
form shape and unusual blending of Romanesque and Gothic architectural _CONSERVATION _SCIENCE _1500-1599 St.Patrick's Church is built on land purchase from Jacob noted The St: Patrick's Roman Catholic,Church is distinguished by its.cruci- the area to work on the canal and railroad. -COMMERCE -COMMUNITY PLANNING philanthropist. The church was dedicated in 1873 and was built to St. Boniface. In 1969 the schools affiliated with each parish were ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC the German Catholics.The Irish built St.Patricks and the German's forced to consolidate;thus renewing their original unity. This was
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002081, 25 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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