Photograph of St. Wendelin's Catholic Church — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Wendelin Catholic Church, School, and Rectory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Mercer County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Ft. Recovery-Minster Rd. and Township Line, Wendelin
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR
National Register reference number. 79002885 - 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.

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1908 USGS St. Henry quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Coldwater quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Paul's Catholic Church and Rectory	2.6 miles	1979
St. Paul's Catholic Church and Rectory	2.6 miles	1979
St. Henry Catholic Church	3.0 miles	1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory	3.2 miles	1979
St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory	3.2 miles	1979
Philothea Catholic Church and Priest House	3.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002885 in Record Group 79.
Mercer County	All 37 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.