Old Saint George Church is a historic Catholic church in the Corryville neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, near the University of Cincinnati. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 1980, as St. George Parish and Newman Center.
St. George Parish and Newman Center | |
 Facade prior to the fire | |
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| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 39°7′40.96″N 84°30′44.29″W / 39.1280444°N 84.5123028°W |
| Architect | Samuel Hannaford [1] |
| Architectural style | Romanesque[1] |
| MPS | Samuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County |
| NRHP reference No. | 80003088[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 3, 1980[1] |
The red brick church was designed by Samuel Hannaford in the Romanesque Revival style, and opened in 1873. Construction costs totaled $80,000.[2]
Declining attendance brought about by shifts in neighborhood demographics and worship habits in the 1970s and 1980s led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati to consolidate the parish with St. Monica's and close the church in 1993. The property was sold the following year to a group called the Christian Ministries Center, which operated a community and arts center out of it until 2004. St. George's two steeples caught fire and partially collapsed on February 1, 2008.[3]
In March 2015, Crossroads Church acquired the property from the Clifton Heights Community Urban Development Corporation and announced plans to renovate and occupy it as their fifth location in Ohio.[4]
In August 2016, the church reopened as a satellite campus for Crossroads.[5]
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. June 30, 2007.
- ^ History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio: Their Past and Present. S. B. Nelson. 1894. p. 767.
- ^ "History of St. George". University of Cincinnati. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ Weldon, Casey (March 8, 2015), Crossroads picks Old St. George Church for new Clifton Heights site, WCPO-TV News
- ^ Suess, Jeff (2016-09-16). "After the fire: Historic Corryville church resurrected". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
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