{"nrhp_refnum":"79003456","name":"Holy Rosary Catholic Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"jct. E Spring and S Pine Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Marys","county":"Auglaize County","state":"OH","lat":40.54513231800007,"lon":-84.38269165599996,"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":"Holy Rosary Catholic Church is a brick church building at the southeast corner of E. Spring and S. Pine Streets in St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, dated to 1867 and described as the parish's second-generation church.","why_significant":"It is listed under architecture as part of the Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio thematic group, with significance at the state level. The inventory notes a frame louvered belfry with a small dome topped by a gold cross, set on a square tower with an octagonal superstructure. The parish dates to 1852 and reflects early Catholic settlement in the area.","narrative":"Holy Rosary Catholic Church is a brick church built in 1867 at the corner of East Spring and South Pine Streets in St. Marys, Ohio. It served as the second church of a parish established in 1852. The rectangular building has a gable roof of asphalt, stretcher-bond brick walls on a stone foundation, and a three-bay front. Its most distinctive feature is a frame louvered belfry with a small dome topped by a gold cross, rising from a square tower with an octagonal superstructure. Parish history traces Catholic presence in the area to the early nineteenth century, when priests ministered to settlers, canal workers and Native Americans attending a treaty assembly in 1818. A rectory built in 1883 lies to the east, and a brick parochial school from 1902 lies to the south. The church was listed for its architecture as one of Ohio's cross-tipped churches, and it remained in religious use with good condition reported.","period_of_significance":"1850-1874","architect_builder":"Anton Goehr (named on the inventory form as architect); the property report lists the architect/builder as unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Church in current religious use; interior and exterior condition listed as good. The inventory notes a new church was being planned and demolition was mentioned for summer 1978.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.446177-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79003456.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003456/b2d7acd228-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003456/b2d7acd228-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Holy Family Church by Nyttend This derivative work by Jovianeye (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Family_Church,_Frenchtown,_vertical.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Holy Family Church by Nyttend This derivative work by Jovianeye (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Family_Church,_Frenchtown,_vertical.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984459","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Rosary_Catholic_Church_(St._Marys,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5885994"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/auglaize-county/holy-rosary-catholic-church-79003456/"}