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Photograph of St. Mary's Catholic Church
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Philothea Catholic Church and Priest House

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

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

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Philothea Rd. between St. Henry and Coldwater, Philothea, 45828
  • When was it listed? 1979-07-26
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR
  • Township. Butler township
  • National Register reference number. 79002823 - 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 284 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Philothea Catholic Church and Priest House between 1886 and 1975: 257 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K. 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 Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1920R. RhoadesSt. Marys Lake at Celina
Specimen of unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
Specimen of Lestes rectangularis Say, 1840Lestes rectangularis Say, 18401942H. PriceGrand Lake
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1886Meek and HarrisMontezuma
A photograph of the species Ardea alba, not of this specimenArdea alba egretta Gmelin, 17891888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Ceryle alcyon, not of this specimenCeryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 17581888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Cistothorus palustris, not of this specimenCistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 19021888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Gallinago gallinago, not of this specimenGallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina
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 Porzana carolina, not of this specimenPorzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1888J.R.S.Celina

All 284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Philothea, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011FloodPhilothea$100,000Flooding is a continuation from earlier flash flooding. Several roads were impassible, evacuations occurred in a trailer park, and basements were flooded due to the precipitation. Flooding began around 0645 EST on February 28th and continued until around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates during March were around one-hundred thousand dollars.
March 2011FloodPhilothea$100,000Flooding is a continuation from earlier flash flooding on February 28th. Several roads were impassible, evacuations occurred in a trailer park, and basements were flooded due to the precipitation. Flooding began around 0645 EST on February 28th and continued until around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates during February were around one-hundred thousand dollars.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPhilothea$7,000A box truck was blown over.
September 2020FloodPhilothea$5,000Coldwater Elementary School was flooded.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPhilothea$3,000A wooden patio structure was destroyed due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2023FloodPhilothea-High water was reported at the intersection of Philothea and Wessel Roads.
September 2020Flash FloodPhilothea-High water was reported flowing across several roads in the Coldwater area.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindPhilothea-Several large limbs were downed.
July 2012HailPhilothea-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer County

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

929 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 - 929 words, 9 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002823, 9 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. Aloysius Catholic Church4.6 miles1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory4.7 miles1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory4.7 miles1979
St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory4.8 miles1979
St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory4.8 miles1979
St. Francis Catholic Church and Rectory5.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002823 in Record Group 79.
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.
  • 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.