BlockFrom 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
St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory
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.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. St. Peter and Philothea Rds., St. Peter, 45846
- When was it listed? 1979-07-26
- Category. building
- Also known as. Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR
- Township. Recovery township
- National Register reference number. 79002831 - 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
838 wordsThis property stands in Recovery 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 Recovery Township - 838 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 234 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 234 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory between 1888 and 1973: 209 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K., C. Clark 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | unnamed | 1934 | P. P. Pirone | Coldwater |
 | Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842) | 1944 | H. Price | Wabash River |
 | Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Fort Recovery |
 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 | 1892 | Landis, H. A. | Lake St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA |
 | Podosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon | 1906 | Selby A. D. | Sharpsburg |
 | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1908 | Selby A. D. | Sharpsburg |
 | Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson | 1908 | Selby A. D. | Sharpsburg |
| Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis | 1908 | A. D. Selby | Sharpsburg. | |
 | Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1909 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Grand Reservoir, St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA |
 | Didelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 1792 | 1911 | L. L. Walters | Ft Recovery, 4 mi SE |
 | Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1913 | Goodrich, Calvin | Monterey |
 | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1913 | Goodrich, Calvin | Fort Recovery(3 mi E) |
All 234 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
1,206 words on recordWhen 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 - 1,206 words, 8 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002831, 8 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory | 1.6 miles | 1979 |
| St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory | 1.6 miles | 1979 |
 | Fort Recovery Site | 3.1 miles | 1970 |
 | St. Anthony Catholic Church, Padua | 4.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Philothea Catholic Church and Priest House | 4.8 miles | 1979 |
 | St. Paul's Catholic Church and Rectory | 6.1 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79002831 in Record Group 79. |
| Mercer County | All 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.