{"nrhp_refnum":"79002848","name":"Chickasaw School and Rectory","other_names":["Precious Blood Catholic Rectory"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Maple St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chickasaw","county":"Mercer County","state":"OH","lat":40.43624327500004,"lon":-84.49301721999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick public school built in 1908 in Chickasaw, Mercer County, Ohio, on the east side of Maple Street, together with the 1904 brick parish rectory (priest house) across the street.","why_significant":"The school and rectory were listed as part of a thematic group of cross-tipped churches and related buildings in Auglaize, Darke, Mercer and Shelby Counties, Ohio, and Jay County, Indiana. The rectory is tied to the founding of Precious Blood parish, separated from St. Sebastian's in 1903. The school is notable for its Italianate style with a Tuscan tower.","narrative":"Chickasaw School is a two-story brick building erected in 1908 on Maple Street in Chickasaw, Mercer County, Ohio. A square, projecting bell tower dominates the facade, with double doors under an elliptical fanlight and an inscription stone reading \"Chickasaw Public School Erected A.D. 1908.\" The hipped slate roof carries two corbelled chimneys, and the style combines Italianate and Tuscan tower elements. Across the street stands the Precious Blood rectory, a square brick priest house from 1904 with a pyramidal roof, gabled dormers and a lattice-skirted front porch. The parish was separated from St. Sebastian's in 1903, a contested split. The two buildings were listed together as part of a thematic group of cross-tipped churches and related structures in western Ohio and Indiana. When inventoried, the school was still used for classes, though a late-1950s state law requiring four years of high school had pushed Chickasaw into the Marion Local School District, and a new building nearby threatened it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Probably De Curtins (contractor/builder of the school); De Cuntins listed for the rectory","architectural_style":"School: Italianate with Tuscan tower; Rectory: Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"The school was still in use at the time of the inventory but was considered threatened by a new school building under construction; both buildings were in good exterior condition. The church was built in 1967 and is noted as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.244743-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002848.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002848/f61565af26-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002848/f61565af26-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Precious_Blood_Rectory_in_Chickasaw_front_and_southern_side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Precious_Blood_Rectory_in_Chickasaw_front_and_southern_side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985889","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_Blood_Catholic_Church_(Chickasaw,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7239433"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/mercer-county/chickasaw-school-and-rectory-79002848/"}