{"nrhp_refnum":"85000074","name":"St. Patrick Cathedral Complex","other_names":["St. Patrick Church,St. Ignatius Academy,and St. Patrick Chur"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1206 Throckmorton","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.74907620700003,"lon":-97.32962651699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-building religious and educational complex at 1206 Throckmorton in downtown Fort Worth, Texas: St. Patrick Church (begun 1888, completed 1892), St. Ignatius Academy (begun 1888), and the St. Patrick Church Rectory (1908).","why_significant":"The complex is considered architecturally significant as locally noteworthy examples of Gothic Revival, Second Empire, and Prairie/Colonial Revival styles. St. Ignatius Academy is described as perhaps the major surviving Second Empire building in Fort Worth. The church has long been a leading parish in North Texas and became the cathedral of the Fort Worth diocese in 1969.","narrative":"Three buildings on a triangular downtown lot make up this Fort Worth church complex. St. Patrick Church, begun in 1888 and finished in 1892 under Father Jean Marie Guyot, is a limestone Gothic Revival building with buttressed towers, stained-glass windows imported from Munich, and granite interior columns. St. Ignatius Academy, designed by local architect James J. Kane and begun in 1888, is a three-story limestone Second Empire school with a mansard roof and central towers; it is described as perhaps the major surviving example of that style in the city. The 1908 rectory adds Prairie and Colonial Revival character. The academy housed the city's first parochial school until 1962 and now serves Sunday School classes. The church became a co-cathedral in 1953 and the cathedral of the Fort Worth diocese in 1969. Few exterior changes have occurred, and the group remains a downtown landmark.","period_of_significance":"1888-1892; 1888; 1908","architect_builder":"Father Jean Marie Guyot; J. J. Kane","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (church); Second Empire (academy); Prairie and Colonial Revival (rectory)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in religious use. The church is in excellent condition and unaltered apart from limited changes; the academy is used for Sunday School classes and the rectory for church offices and the rector's residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.861929-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/9734/40973466/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/85000074.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000074/d6d5e057e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000074/d6d5e057e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973466","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick_Cathedral_(Fort_Worth,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7590991"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/st-patrick-cathedral-complex-85000074/"}