{"nrhp_refnum":"79001890","name":"Old St. Patrick's Church","other_names":["Old North Primary School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"512 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wellington","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.17428614100004,"lon":-82.21645812699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick building at 512 North Main Street in Wellington, Ohio, built in 1875 as the North Primary School and later used as St. Patrick's Church. Calkins, Wood & Couch were the builders.","why_significant":"The building is presented as a community landmark because of its successive uses. It stands on the site of Wellington's first graded school and served as the North Primary School. It then housed the town's Catholic congregation from 1908, under the leadership of Father Peter Dietz of Oberlin. Its distinctive architecture also makes it a visual landmark of the town's north side.","narrative":"Built in the fall of 1875 for $2,000, this one-story brick building at 512 North Main Street in Wellington first served as the North Primary School. It replaced a small frame schoolhouse on the site where Mary Ann Adams had organized the town's first graded school. The new building has round-arched windows, a sandstone foundation, a bracketed wood entrance canopy and a wooden cupola that still holds the original school bell. In 1908 the Catholic congregation bought it at auction and converted it into St. Patrick's Church, with Father Peter Dietz of Oberlin leading the fundraising. The interior received stained glass, plaster figures and ornate plaster beams, and the building was extended to the rear in 1946. It served as a church until a new complex opened in 1977. The congregation hopes to see it reused for community purposes such as a meeting hall, theater or community center.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date 1875)","architect_builder":"Calkins, Wood & Couch, builders","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied at the time of the nomination; the congregation moved to a new church in 1977 and plans to keep ownership, hoping for a community use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.641782-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001890.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001890/7ecd6c02d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001890/7ecd6c02d6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_St_Patrick%27s,_Wellington.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_St_Patrick%27s,_Wellington.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989795","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Catholic_Church_(Wellington,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716768"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/old-st-patricks-church-79001890/"}