{"nrhp_refnum":"79002836","name":"St. Patrick Catholic Church and Rectory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hoying and Wright-Puthoff Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Patrick","county":"Shelby County","state":"OH","lat":40.37046402900006,"lon":-84.28853554099999,"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 brick Catholic church (built 1915-16) and an adjoining brick rectory (built 1919) at the intersection of Hoying and Wright-Puthoff Roads in St. Patrick, Shelby County, Ohio.","why_significant":"The church and rectory are part of a thematic group of cross-tipped churches in western Ohio and Indiana. They record the history of a parish founded in 1862 in a mostly German area, where Irish workers had come for the Miami-Erie Canal. The church is in a Transitional style with a square corner tower and Flemish bond brick, and the rectory is a Transitional Sears-style house.","narrative":"Two brick buildings on Hoying Road in St. Patrick, Shelby County, Ohio, form a parish complex: a Catholic church built in 1915-16 and a rectory completed in 1919. The church is a one-story Transitional building laid in Flemish bond, with a tile gable roof, a square tower at the southwest corner with an open belfry, and double semi-elliptical doors beneath a statue of St. Patrick. The interior was frescoed in 1925. The rectory is a two-story square brick house with a pyramid roof, a hipped dormer with a triple window, and a wraparound veranda on seven brick piers. It cost $6,975 and gave the parish its own resident pastor, replacing service from priests at St. Michael in Fort Loramie. The parish began in 1862, and Irish settlers who came to work on the Miami-Erie Canal in the 1840s helped shape it within a largely German area. Both buildings stand on land donated by Mrs. Anna Barhorst, and a parish cemetery lies to the east.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Church: architect/engineer given as Luthman; rectory: builder Louis Ley","architectural_style":"Transitional (church); Transitional Sears (rectory)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both buildings are in good exterior condition and in use as a church and a priest's house. The church interior has been remodeled.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.632383-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002836.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002836/fead9a6946-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002836/fead9a6946-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Site_of_St._Patrick_Catholic_Church_in_St._Patrick,_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Site_of_St._Patrick_Catholic_Church_in_St._Patrick,_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986180","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Catholic_Church_(St._Patrick,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7590916"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/shelby-county/st-patrick-catholic-church-and-rectory-79002836/"}