{"nrhp_refnum":"79002835","name":"St. Louis Catholic Church and Rectory","other_names":["North Star Catholic Church and Rectory"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of U.S. 127","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Star","county":"Darke County","state":"OH","lat":40.32475217100006,"lon":-84.57023622299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1914 Catholic church and its companion rectory in North Star, Darke County, Ohio, standing on the road east of U.S. 127. The church is a one-story stucco building with French-influenced eclectic design, and the rectory is a two-story brick priest's house.","why_significant":"The inventory notes that there is no other Catholic church like this in the area, and its French influence reflects the French communities served by the Precious Blood priests. The parish was founded in 1892. The church and rectory were included in a thematic group of cross-tipped churches in western Ohio.","narrative":"In North Star, Darke County, Ohio, a Catholic church and its rectory, both built in 1914, serve the local parish founded in 1892. The church is a one-story stucco building with a concrete foundation, painted white, with a gable roof of asphalt. An off-center square tower with a bracketed cornice holds an open bell tower, and the main block has double doors under a gabled pediment and a large central rose window. Round-arched windows with dripstones flank the entrance. The surveyors observed that no other Catholic church in the area resembles it, and they attributed its French influence to the French communities served by the Precious Blood priests. The two-story brick rectory beside it has a hipped roof, a dormer with three square windows, a stone cross set in the second-story brick, and a gabled entrance with wooden fan detailing. Before it was built, the priest lived in a small wood house that was later moved to the north edge of town. Both buildings remain in use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Church: eclectic, French influence; Rectory: vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both buildings are in use: the church as a church (interior excellent, exterior good) and the rectory as a priest house (exterior good).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.750684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002835.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002835/8346ec0457-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002835/8346ec0457-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Louis_Catholic_Church,_North_Star.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Louis_Catholic_Church,_North_Star.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984716","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Catholic_Church_(North_Star,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7589543"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/darke-county/st-louis-catholic-church-and-rectory-79002835/"}