{"nrhp_refnum":"83001963","name":"Sts. Peter & Paul Church and Rectory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Columbus Ave. at E. Jefferson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandusky","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.45230260100004,"lon":-82.70879563199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Victorian Gothic limestone church (1865) and an adjoining Italianate limestone rectory (1871) at 510 Columbus Avenue and Columbus Avenue at East Jefferson Street in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. The church is attributed to architect Patrick Charles Keely.","why_significant":"The church is described as significant for its role in the history of the Irish in Sandusky, where it was known as 'the Irish church', and for its design by Patrick Charles Keely, called one of the foremost church architects of the Victorian era. The rectory housed the Irish priests who served the church and was judged eligible as part of the church.","narrative":"Sts. Peter & Paul Church and its rectory stand together on Columbus Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio. The church, dated 1865 and attributed to Patrick Charles Keely, is a rock-faced limestone building in the Victorian Gothic mode. Its triple tower window and three front doors reflect a Trinitarian theme often used by Keely, and arched stone window and door caps, buttresses and stone-capped piers add to its Gothic character. A painted and stained glass crucifixion scene above the main altar survives. The battlement steeple roof was added in the 1910s. The Italianate rectory, built in 1871 for $5,000, is also of cut limestone, with roof brackets, gable returns and original wood porch trim. It housed the Irish priests who served the church, long known as the Irish church, until a pastor of non-Irish descent arrived in 1970. Additions in the late 1940s and 1950s joined the two buildings. Together they represent Irish immigrant history and Victorian church design in Sandusky.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Church attributed to Patrick Charles Keely; rectory architect listed as Jefferson Sr. (OCR partly garbled)","architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic (church); Italianate (rectory)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Church condition listed as exterior very good and interior fair; rectory exterior and interior excellent. The rectory is in use as a rectory and was connected to the church by later additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.089116-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83001963.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001963/7667d0fc95-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001963/7667d0fc95-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Peter_and_Paul_in_Sandusky.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Peter_and_Paul_in_Sandusky.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984964","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Peter_and_Paul_Catholic_Church_(Sandusky,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7402418"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/sts-peter-and-paul-church-and-rectory-83001963/"}