Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. 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
“Henry's Catholic Church is a historic Catholic parish in the rural community of Harriettsville in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Established for German settlers in the 1860s, it worships in a landmark church building constructed in the 1890s.”
Wikipedia article St. Henry's Catholic Church (Harriettsville, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 8 National Register listings in Noble County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82001485- 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.
Fires near this property
6 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Henry Roman Catholic Church and Rectory between
2013 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Debris and open burning
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 53 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Henry Roman Catholic Church and Rectory between 1853 and
1974: 45 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adams, W., Albert Hazen Wright, Barnes, R.C. 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.
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
1,637 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
St.Henry's is a Gothic Revival church constructed of stone laid in random ashlar The church and Rectory are located just south of the Noble County village of Harriettsville, feature moulded partial returns, typical of the Greek Revival.On the west side of the facade with a gable roof. While not of high-style architectire per se, the Rectory does exhibit elevations of the church are defined by a series of buttresses which separate these windows of stained glass. The facade has a large, broad, lancet-arched window centered a transom into which is set a trefoil, typical of the style of architecture. The facade bay near the northwest corner.
The gable roof of the church, as well as that of the board, characteristic of the eclecticism of the late nineteenth century:Finally,the sawn ornament, and spindlework reminiscent of Eastlake architectural ornamentation._A1l - good The Rectory is a wood frame house, built on a foundation of coursed rubble and capped Rectory within sight of the still-operating general store.Sited on a hillside overlooking Duck spire.The tower is roughly divided into informal stages through the use of horizontal 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) Areas of Significance-Check and justify below made a mission of St.Henry's.In 1894,a tract of land was purchased from Phillip was selected to design the church.The cornerstone was laid in the spring of 1894 by law to the site free of charge by parisioners.Dedicated in the fall of 1894,the church _ archeology-prehistoric - community planning X architecture Bishop Watterson. The limestone was quarried from land east of the village and was hauled Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. St. Henry's parish apparently commissioned him to prepare the plans in the surmer of 1893, since Inland Architect carried the following notice construction, having plain pine interior finish, pews, stained glass.
Inland Architect and News Record, he prepared plans for churches in many parts of ohio, 1600-1699 windows, slate roof, gas fixtures, heating, etc." "History of St. Henry's Parish," n.d., n.p. Inland Architect and News Record, XXI:5, (June, 1893), p. 65.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82001485, 10 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
2 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
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