Built in 1867 in the Romanesque Revival architecture. 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
“Rosa Church, is a Roman Catholic church located in Cincinnati, Ohio's East End neighborhood at 2501 Riverside Drive. Located near the banks of the Ohio River, the church has endured many floods as evidenced by a high water mark painted on the rear side.”
Wikipedia article St. Rose Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1867, Romanesque Revival architecture · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.82003587- 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 reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,590 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Rosa Church between 1819 and
1975: 3,457 Fungi, 1,746 Animalia, 938 Plantae, 398 Protozoa, 31 Unrecorded, 19 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of St. Rosa Church: 3 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Tin, Lead, Antimony, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
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From the nomination file
2,324 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
is a rectangular plan, asymmetrical,2 1/2 story Mansard-Italianate brick building.(Photo flanked by the rectory on the west and the school on the east.(Photo 1) ed by fire in 1968.On the south facade is painted a gage which has recorded the heighth clocks, the face of each measures 7 feet in diameter which was built in 1888 by Charles The church is $60,000. The church is 127 feet long and 57 feet wide with a tower 184 feet high. The cles; including a 19th century classroom.
_ good fair river steamboats were constructed all along the riverbank.Railroad tracks and remants the rectory was renovated and an addition was built at a cost of $932.A small front yard and tower clock.The church displays keystone hood molding over the windows and doors, incised and bracketed 1intels, bracketed lug sills and two corbelled chimneys.In 1902 lot 236 x 500 feet.This complex, through its cohesiveness, forms a strong focal point of the Fulton Station are located on the hillside north of Eastern Avenue.T The second floor of this building was destroy- End chimneys and a lightly bracketed cornice enhance the Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM St.
Rosa Church, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET Montessori pre-school. The windows are double hung, one over one, capped by a stationary window. The symmetrical fenestration displays a Romanesque door with classical middle of the building.Presently the school is being used as a FOR NPS USE ONLY shelf pediment and stone lintels and lug sills. St.Rose School to the east of the church was built in 1901 at a cost of $11,274.33.The 2 1/2 story school building is 59 x 39 (Hev.
(in one paragraph) nence of this church and its 190' steeple have assisted river pilots when navigating the the tower at night. Moreover, the tower's four sided clock was specifically designed to ben- The Chicago architect A. Druiding, who was responsible for numerous other church designs in school (1901), both of which through their similar textures, fenestration, and scale, contri- of the church, the rectory is a representative example of Italianate architecture with a with the Ohio River, especially during the 1913 flood when it was referred to as "St.
Rose 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 commerce economics education conservation Period engineering industry humanitarian literature invention In-The-Ohio." Builder/Architect communications 1900- River navigation Specific dates inspired front entrance. - communityplanning St.Rose'sis significant as a cohesive assemblage of nineteenth and early twentieth century in 1867,the church's interior space suffered extensive damage after a severe fire in 1894. landscape architecture - religion x architecture church architecture, and also as it embodies the traditional religious and educational ten- sharp bend in the Ohio River. Even today towboat pilots will project their spotlights on efit persons on both sides of the Ohio River.
The compact setting of the three buildings is essential to the integrity and aesthetic qual- ity of the church complex. Dominating the immediate environment is St. Rosa's Church, a sol- features include keystone hood moldings, corbelled machicolations, and broached spire. Built Cincinnati, was subsequently commissioned for interior plans. Very little if any of the exterior fenestration was altered by the fire. Flanking the church are the rectory (1880) and bute to the ecclesiastical quality of St. Rose. Physically attached to the northwest facade Although there are only 72 members, St. Rose has an active and devoted congregation, many of id interpretation of nineteenth century Romanesque architecture.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003587, 19 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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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