Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1986. 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
“Hamilton Catholic High School opened up in 1909 on Dayton Street in Hamilton, Ohio. The school originally served the young Catholic men of the area.”
Wikipedia article Hamilton Catholic High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 63 National Register listings in Butler County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1909 · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Butler County.
National Register reference number.86001917- 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.
William Carry, the only lawyer in the place, kept his office in the same building with the clerk of the court. Several other lawyers, however, regularly attended the courts at Hamilton. At that time, nearly all that part of Hamilton lying east of Front Street was an impenetrable thicket, covered with small, scrubby oaks, blackjacks, vines, and hazel bushes. True, paths and roads were in some places cut through them, to admit a free passage, but, aside from these, underbrush was so thick that it was only in some places a person could make his way through them, or see a rabbit at the distance of a few paces. This was then the case from Sutherland's Corner to the Hamilton Hotel, and eastwardly to where the canal now is, and southwardly as far as the town lots extend.
At that time it was common to meet with Indians in the streets of Hamilton almost every day, who came to trade their furs and peltries with the storekeepers. In 1808 a band of seventy or eighty Indians encamped in the lower part of Rossville, and remained more than a week. When they got liquor they frequently became intoxicated, and were then, very troublesome. One night, when a number of them were intoxicated, Mr. McBride took a seat on the bank of the river, concealed from their view, and remained a considerable time, watching the squaws taking the drunken Indians across the river, at the ford opposite the lower part of the town, to their camp, on the other side of the river. Two squaws would take hold of an Indian, one on each side, and conduct him across the stream, singing a slow, monotonous song as they waded through the water.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 467 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hamilton Catholic High School between 1835 and
1975: 405 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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
9 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton Catholic High School: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Hamilton, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 26 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 13 flash flood, 1 flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Street flooding occurred along Western Avenue and several other roadways in the Highland Park neighborhood of Hamilton. Water was as deep as 3 feet in some locations.
Hundreds of trees and some power lines were downed. Some of the trees fell across State Route 4, to the southeast of Hamilton. Power was out to around 30,000 customers shortly after the storm.
Flash flooding, several feet deep, occurred at several intersections in Hamilton, including Main St. and Lawn St., Franklin St. and Edgewood St., and Eaton St. and Rhea St.
1 paper 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
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
The Hamilton Catholic School is a two-story masonry structure which is first and second floors.Like the front facade, the first story windows are the city's central business district. lonic column.A small iron balcony is also located above the entrance.
-moveddate the design and materials of this southwest corner addition are virtually the visible above the entrance between the original portion and the 1930 addition; by late nineteenth and early twentieth century residences inhabited originally projections has a simple cement surround with a quoin motif.-Above the is capped by a hipped roof with a central tower.The square 1957 addition has the school is a double set of railroad tracks with define the eastern edge of side of the entrances is a bank of five windows with 6/6 sash on both the openings are outlined by a line of raised brick on the top and sides. The - ruins flat roof.
The earlier section of the building has concrete beam floors and The east and west sides of the building are identical, although the west side entrance are two narrow, round-arched openings supported by a single Roman side. and concrete slabs.All portions of the building are sheathed in tan brick. Italian influences and some elements of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. 1-1/2 story gabled projections which contain a double door entrance.
by both the industrialists and working class of Hamilton.Just to the west of of new wood and glass doors which lead into a vestibule.The entrance is The front facade has projecting corner pavilions with a long central flanked on both sides by a bank of four windows with 6/6 sash..These two identical east and west elevations.The earlier H section of the building of the building into an elongated "H" configuration and a 1957 addition,the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
(in one paragraph) industrial city, had several ethnic parishes with their own grade schools and example of the early-twentieth-century eclectic designsof the prominent local The entire Archdiocese of Cincinnati was involved in a construction boom at close of the high school in 1966,the school building was occupied as a grade school was one of the first of its kind in the country; according to some structures totalling over one million dollars in 1923.Although the new formal system of centralized high schools.In 1930,an addition to the children from several parishes to one central high school was unique in the Increasing enrolments in the early 1920's produced ...what may be determined Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the state of Ohio.The establishment of this as the biggest year in the history of the parochial schools in Hamilton ...
.communications -science - - prehistoric .law -_archeology-prehistoric - community planning art parishes in Hamilton. The school was operated throughout its history by the beautiful and restful surroundings ..."s1t At the time, the concept of sending The Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati, Ohio (1923) Files at Mt. St. Mary Academy Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio The Church of Cincinnati 1821-1971, Alfred G. Stritch, editor 10.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 86001917, 23 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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