Holy Cross Monastery and Church
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Holy Cross Monastery and Church
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| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 39°6′26.75″N 84°29′54.64″W / 39.1074306°N 84.4985111°WCoordinates: 39°6′26.75″N 84°29′54.64″W / 39.1074306°N 84.4985111°W |
| Architect | John Foley and Louis Piket & Sons |
| Architectural style | Neo-romanesque |
| NRHP Reference # | 78002078 |
| Added to NRHP | September 13, 1978 |
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| Full name | Monastery of the Holy Cross |
| Order | Passionists |
| Established | 1873 |
| Disestablished | 1977 |
| Diocese | Cincinnati |
| Controlled churches | Church of the Holy Cross |
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| Founder(s) | The Rev. Father Guido Matassi, C.P. |
| Architecture | |
| Functional Status | closed |
| Architect | Louis Piket & Sons |
| Style | Italian Renaissance Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1843 (observatory), September 1899 (new monastery) |
| Completion date | June 1901 |
Holy Cross Monastery and Church is a registered historic building complex in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on September 13, 1978.
Between 1873 and 1977, the Holy Cross Monastery was a Roman Catholic monastery atop Mt. Adams in Cincinnati, which served a parish of the same name. It was founded by the Passionists, who were first brought to Mt. Adams in 1871 by John Baptist Purcell, the Archbishop of Cincinnati, to run Immaculata Church, founded in 1860.
The first Passionist pastor of Immaculata Parish, Guido Matassi, C.P., immediately saw that the rectory of the parish would be inadequate to their needs as a semi-monastic community. By chance, the building which used to house the Mitchel Observatory (later the Cincinnati Observatory), located only two blocks away from Immaculata Church, was being abandoned due to the effects of industrial pollution.
The terms of the will of the donor of the property which had housed the observatory, however, required the return of the property to his heirs. When Matassi approached them about purchasing the property, they demanded a price which he would not pay. With the encouragement and support of Sarah Peter, daughter of an early Governor of Ohio and a noted convert to Catholicism, the city stepped in and purchased the property from the heir. The following year Matassi signed a 99-year lease with the City of Cincinnati for a building and a property atop Mt. Adams. The Passionists remodeled the structure and added a third floor.
The first Church of the Holy Cross, made out of wood, was finished in 1873, standing next to the monastery, but in 1895 it was replaced by a large, permanent structure. It served mostly Irish immigrants.
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