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Photograph of St. Anthony's Catholic Church
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St. Anthony Catholic Church, Padua

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 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

“Anthony's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Padua, an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Built in the late nineteenth century, it remains the home of a functioning congregation, and it has been recognized as a historically significant building because of its architecture.”

Wikipedia article St. Anthony's Catholic Church (Padua, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 28 National Register listings in Mercer County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Rt. 49 and St. Anthony Rd., St. Anthony, 45846
  • When was it listed? 1979-07-26
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR
  • Township. Washington township
  • Architect. Q5243880
  • National Register reference number. 79002821 - 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 ground it stands on

2,346 words

This property stands in Washington Township. History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - 2,346 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 195 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 195 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Anthony Catholic Church, Padua between 1840 and 1973: 193 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C. Clark, C. Clark & R. Rhoades 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
Specimen of Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)1944H. PriceWabash River
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1840J. Wolle, D. Blum
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888J. R. SlonakerFort Recovery
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891892Landis, H. A.Lake St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1909Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Grand Reservoir, St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 17921911L. L. WaltersFt Recovery, 4 mi SE
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1913Goodrich, CalvinMonterey
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1913Goodrich, CalvinFort Recovery(3 mi E)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1913Goodrich, CalvinSt Henry
A photograph of the species Orthotylus ramus, not of this specimenOrthotylus ramus Knight, 19271918R. Hussey[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Perlesta lagoi, not of this specimenPerlesta lagoi Stark, 19891918not recorded

All 195 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Map coverage status

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 pending.

From the nomination file

644 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 644 words, 5 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002821, 5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory4.5 miles1979
St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory4.5 miles1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory6.1 miles1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory6.1 miles1979
Fort Recovery Site6.6 miles1970
Philothea Catholic Church and Priest House7.9 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002821 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mercer CountyAll 28 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.
  • 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.