Holy Rosary Catholic Church (St. Marys, Ohio)
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Front of the present Holy Rosary Church
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Holy Rosary Catholic Church
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| 40°32′42″N 84°22′58″W / 40.54500°N 84.38278°WCoordinates: 40°32′42″N 84°22′58″W / 40.54500°N 84.38278°W | |
| Location | Junction of E. Spring and S. Pine Sts. in St. Marys, Ohio |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www.holyrosarychurch.us |
| History | |
| Founded | 1852 |
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| Deanery | St. Marys Deanery |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Cincinnati |
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| Pastor(s) |
Rev. Barry Stechschulte |
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Holy Rosary Catholic Church
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| Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1867 |
| Demolished | 1978 |
| MPS | Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 79003456 |
| Added to NRHP | July 26, 1979 |
Rev. Barry Stechschulte
Holy Rosary Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish on the east side of St. Marys, Ohio, United States. Established in 1852, the church has been recognized for its historic 1860s church building, which was demolished amid a period of growth in the 1970s and replaced with a modernist structure.
St. Marys' first Catholics settled in the community in 1831. Their numbers greatly increased in the 1840s with the construction of the Miami and Erie Canal and of Grand Lake St. Marys. At this time, large numbers of German Catholics were taking up residence in the plains of western Ohio near St. Marys, and priests of the Society of the Precious Blood became established in Minster, about 10 miles (16 km) to the south of St. Marys. For twenty years, the community's Catholics often travelled to Minster for Mass; this situation ended with the erection of Holy Rosary parish in 1852. In its early years, the parish was administered in conjunction with St. Thomas parish in nearby Six Mile, almost 5 miles (8.0 km) to the northeast.
By 1854, the parishioners built their first church, a log structure, and the parish's property was expanded with the purchase of land for a cemetery and a small rectory in 1861. By this time, growth in membership rendered the church too small for the numbers of worshippers, but the parish was too poor to erect a replacement. Under the leadership of Joseph Gregory Dwenger, the parish received encouragement from Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, and other churches in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati contributed significant amounts of money for construction; the parish finished its new church in 1867 at a cost of $12,000. Designed by Minster architect Anton Goehr, the new church was a simple rectangular brick structure with a bell tower, supported by a stone foundation. The original church was moved to the banks of the canal in downtown St. Marys.
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