Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1988. 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
“Mary's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopalian parish in the city of Hillsboro, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the middle of the 19th century, this Gothic Revival church building has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Saint Mary's Episcopal Church (Hillsboro, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 14 National Register listings in Highland County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88001421- 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
2 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and Parish House between
2006 and 2007, burning about 11 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
Debris and open burning
2
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 754 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and Parish House between 1894 and
1973: 532 Animalia, 156 Fungi, 53 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, A. 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and Parish House: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 41 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
A brief tornado moved along a half mile path just north of Rocky Fork Lake. A restaurant along North Shore Road sustained minor siding damage. A real estate office along North Beach Road had portions of its aluminum roof peeled back or completely ripped off. The most extensive damage occurred to a residence about a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast of the real estate office. The home sustained major roof damage, and had an enclosed patio on its front porch completed removed and strewn behind the home. The majority of the patio was deposited into a deck and above ground pool behind the house, causing additional damage. A few trees between six and twelve inches in diameter were snapped between the real estate office and the residence.
Numerous trees were downed onto several houses along Ivy Hill Road. A garage door and wall were damaged at one residence. A few homes also had shingle and siding damage.
A roof was blown off a mobile home and several trees up to two feet in diameter were snapped near the base of the trunk along Dade Road. A storm survey determined the damage was caused by straight line winds, with gusts estimated up to 70 MPH.
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.
Statement of significance
Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria Period of Significance 1854-1855, 190Z Significant Person Architect/Builder J.R. Hamilton, Architect (Cincinnati) Charles Henning & Shinn Bros, (Hillsbero) (local contractors) Saint Mary's Episcopal Church with its connecting parish house is being nominated to the Brothers, the church is one of three late nineteenth and early twentieth century religious vaulted ceiling, six arched stained glass windows, the original oak pews, marble wainscoting, The architect for Saint Mary's Episcopal Church was J.R. Hamilton, a native of England. Before immigrating to the United States in 1851, Hamilton made his reputation designing churches and asylums.
In 1853 he moved to Cincinnati where he practiced alone and as a career. Other buildings attributed to Hamilton, including the Hillsboro Female College as well as several residences and commercial buildings in Cincinnati, have been demolished. to Saint Mary's Epsicopal Church include the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Columbus (NR artist responsible for the Saint Cecilia window, Charles J. Connick, also created windows for the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. Saint Mary's Episcopal Church was the first of two religious buildings in Hillsboro designed Victorian Gothic style utilizing sandstone. The oiner nineteenth century church is the Methodist Episcopal (Greek Revival, 1853).
Saint Mary's Catholic Church was built in 1902 and, while it displays some Gothic Revival elements, its brick walls have been stuccoed. X See continuation sheet 1907 Architecture 1855 Significant Dates Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) partner in the firm Hamilton and Rankin.Little documentation is available on Hamilton's architect J.R.Hamilton and the Hillsboro contracting firm of Charles Henning and Shinn Cultural Afiliation structures in Hillsboro still being used for its original purpose.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 88001421, 24 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.
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.
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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