{"nrhp_refnum":"79002850","name":"Minster Elementary School","other_names":["St. Augustine Parochial School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Lincoln St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Minster","county":"Auglaize County","state":"OH","lat":40.395156832000055,"lon":-84.37884931799994,"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":"Minster Elementary School, originally St. Augustine Parochial School, is a 2½-story brick building with a stone foundation on Lincoln Street in Minster, Auglaize County, Ohio, dated to 1906 in the inventory form.","why_significant":"The property is listed under the architecture criterion at the state level for its elaborate Italian villa design. It is part of a thematic group of cross-tipped churches and related buildings. Minster was a headquarters for the Precious Blood and Catholic communities in the area, and few old schools like this one remain.","narrative":"Built in 1906 as St. Augustine Parochial School, this 2½-story brick building on Lincoln Street in Minster, Ohio, now serves as a public elementary school. It rests on a stone foundation and is designed in the Italian villa style. A three-story center tower with a louvered cupola rises from the front, and gabled dormers break the roofline. The central doorway is framed by white fluted columns with Ionic capitals, and pairs of decorated brackets sit under the boxed cornice at the corners, with dentils below the rooflines. Minster was a headquarters for the Precious Blood and Catholic communities in the area. A convent and a girls' school, St. Theresa, once stood beside the school, and the 1848 Catholic church occupies the same lot. The school was listed for its architecture as part of a group of related church properties, and the inventory notes that few old schools of this kind survive. Its interior and exterior were reported in good condition.","period_of_significance":"1900-1924","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian villa","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a public school; interior and exterior condition listed as good in the 1977 inventory.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.541095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002850.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002850/ebd1328008-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002850/ebd1328008-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minster_Elementary_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minster_Elementary_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984463","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minster_Elementary_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6869487"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/auglaize-county/minster-elementary-school-79002850/"}